Operations Geology
Details :
At the end of
this integrated course, participants will be able to contribute effectively to
the preparation of planned wells and their concurrent operations during the
exploration, appraisal, and development phases. As geoscientists, petroleum
engineers, well engineers, and production technologists are increasingly
assembled in asset, project, or operational teams they must not only understand
each other in technical matters, but should also contribute to each other's
efforts in these aspects: a driller should know why it is important to cut a
core or log a particular interval despite potential drilling problems, and geoscientists
should understand drilling operations and their inherent hazards and problems.
All should be able to understand and prepare daily drilling reports with a full
appreciation of the various subjects. Cuttings, cores, logs, and well tests
should be analysed, cross-correlated, and compiled to mesh with prognoses and
existing data to effectively manage the impact on the field development plan.
Correct
procedures in tendering and contracting should be followed to minimize the duration
of the operations and to maximize the quality of the operations services
provided. Understanding of all operations should greatly improve the
effectiveness of the Operations Geologist. Note: A basic knowledge of geology and/or
petroleum geology is advisable if not required to fully appreciate the course
contents.
• Plan and
prepare for a drilling location and for geological services
• Identify
drilling operations and geological drilling hazards
• Understand
and apply logging services
• Understand
well testing services
• Evaluate
drilling reports
• Describe
drilling cuttings and cores
• Evaluate the
impact on the field development plan
• Prepare and
compile operations reports
All geoscientists, petroleum engineers, well engineers, and technical personnel, who in the course of their career will attend or direct subsurface and wellsite operations.
·
Petroleum
geology and its systems
·
Operations
geology: prospect to well planning, provision of geological services
·
Wellsite
geology: geological sampling, sample analysis, and well stratigraphy, cutting,
and core description
·
Structural
geology: fractures, faults, borehole geology
·
Drilling
Operations: bits, fluids, casing and cement, drilling problems and well
control, directional drilling, geosteering
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Logging
operations: acquisition, tools, quick look interpretation, MWD/LWD, geosteering
·
Well
testing and fluids: reservoir properties, rock and fluid interaction,
permeability, averaging, data gathering and interpretation
·
Impact
on FDP: case histories
·
Tendering
and contracting
·
Reporting:
geological data, petrophysical data, pressure data
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Exercises:
cores, cuttings, quick look, pressures, daily drilling report
- All lectures are in colorful presentation
- All lectures are interspersed with interactive discussion
- All lectures include group discussion, case history and exercises
- Actual major incidents as well as industry experience are reviewed
- Participants receive a multicolor course manual
- Pictures of real incidents and case history are shown
- Videos on the subject are shown
Daily from 08:30 to 14:00