COURSE DURATION: 4 days

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LEVEL. Skill

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How will this Training Course be presented?

Course will be presented using properly designed slides, some with animation and several videos on relevant issues.

Teaching methods include also calculations on related issues. E-mails with questions related to the program of the day,
will be sent daily to the course attendants that will answer by return e-mail.

 

BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING

By the end of the course you will feel confident in your understanding several main areas of Production Operations.

 

DAILY AGENDA

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Day 1:

      Cementing:

• Cementing Introduction and Calculations

• Two Stage and Liner Cementing

• Cement Additives

• Cement Rheology

• Cement Job Evaluation

• Squeeze Cementing

• Special Cement Systems

• Annular Gas Migration

• Casing Hardware

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      Stimulation:

• Carbonates and Sandstones

• Candidate selection

• Damage and Skin

• Acid Formulations

• Acid Placement (importance of Coiled Tubing)

• Coiled Tubing Operations in a nutshell/

• Introduction to Fracturing.

 

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Day 2:

      Flow Assurance:

• Flow Assurance Challenges

• Water Shut off

• Solids deposition from completions

• Mitigation and remediation of asphaltene deposition

• Asphaltene management strategies

• Management of Annulus Pressures.

• Sand Control in a nutshell.

 

      Debottlenecking:

• Debottlenecking existing Production Facilities

• Debottlenecking by compact separation

• Considerations on Nodal Analysis

• QLT Multilaterals

 

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Day 3:

      Reservoir Inflow/Outflow characterization

• Five reservoir fluids

• Inflow performance

• Outflow performance

• Inflow performance

 

       Well Testing:

• Multiphase Metering:

• Well testing with MFM

• Data from Well Tests

• Equipment required for well tests

• DST Tests (Tools and Gauges).

• DST Packers

• Perforating guns.

• Well control valves

• Data Capture

• Surface Equipment

• Separator

• Basic well test interpretation 

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Day 4:

      Production Operations and Field Management:

• Field Development Plan (overview).

• Sidetracking in Brown Fields.

• Captured CO2 and its applications.

 

       Well Integrity:

• Constructing a well with Integrity

• Well with poor integrity

• Technical Integrity Design

• Problematic wells management and Control

• Well Barrier philosophy

• Well Head completion equipment

• WIMS: well integrity management system

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INSTRUCTORS:

Antonio Abreu is a Senior Petroleum Engineer with a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Antonio has over 40 years’ experience in oilfield production technology. He performed extensive work in the areas cementing, stimulation, well integrity, CT operations, well testing, slickline operations, wireline operations, reservoir monitoring and optimization, gas lift operations, production logging, perforation operations, sand control, water and gas shut off, etc. He started his career in April 1979 with Dowell Schlumberger in France. Further assignments included positions as Assistant to Technical and Marketing Manager (DS/Singapore), Offshore Manager / Cementing Services (DS/Libya), General Services Supervisor (DS/Algeria), Assistant Operations Manager/Aktau/Kazakhstan (Partex), Senior Petroleum Engineer (ADCO/Bu-Hasa Field) and Senior Petroleum Engineer (Dragon Oil Dubai and Turkmenistan).Antonio is an experienced lecturer of many industry training courses in the areas of Petroleum and Production Engineering and was also assigned during several years as instructor at BTC (Dowell Schlumberger Training Centre, Santa Cruz de la Sierra/Bolivia). The last four years he was working as Training Consultant in UAE. He is a Partner Founder of OGExperts.

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Luis Remisio: Mining Engineer (IST, Lisboa), Petroleum Engineer (IFP, Paris), Leadership Certificate in (Ashridge, UK). 43 years of experience in the industry of Oil and Gas in 7 countries (Angola, Reino Unido, Austrália, Zaire, Portugal, Emirados Árabes Unidos e Kazaquistão) in the areas of Safety of Operations, Technology of Production, Surveys, Conceptual Project of Surface Instalations, Development/Training of Technitians and Technical and Finance Management.He teaches Oil, HSE and Leadership courses. He is a Partner Founder of OGExperts.

 

Cipriano Costa: Masters in Chemical Engineering  –  Petroleum Refining & Petrochemistry-FEUP Porto, (1978). Worked in the Lubricants refining plant of Petrogal and in several countries around the world (Libya, Algeria, United States, Middle East, North Sea and Central Africa) with Halliburton Corporation, having performed several duties in almost all technical areas of the Oilfield both Onshore and Offshore and also PDC (Personal Development Coordinator), BDM (Business Development Manager) and Technical Advisor for Completions.Has post-Graduation in Petroleum Engineering by University of Texas – Austin.He is a specialist in Fracturing, Chemical Stimulation, Cementing and Completions.He is a Partner founder of OGExperts.