Petroleum school training courses in Austin, TX (public, in-house or online)

Petroleum Engineering involves the technology of economically developing and producing subterranean reservoirs of oil, gas, steam, and hot water and designing underground waste disposal facilities. This technology relies on basic concepts of physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and economics. Because more than 300 products are derived from petroleum, it has become a vital part of our everyday life. The petroleum industry is one of the largest and most promin...

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When you complete this lesson, you will be able to discuss the molecular structure, physical properties, naming conventions, and commercial uses of several common hydrocarbons.

YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

How to use the fundamental exponential, hyperbolic and harmonic decline curve equations

How reservoir properties and drive mechanisms influence decline curve shape

Why forecasting transient production can lead to severe overestimates of remaining reserves

How to constrain a transient forecast to avoid overestimating reserves

Techniques to forecast production in displacement projects such as water floods

How to make better forecasts ...

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Why would any company expend hundreds of thousands of dollars to seek, recruit, and hire the best employees then leave their development and performance to "lucky chance" through ineffective supervision/management? Unfortunately that "chance" occurs every time an employee is promoted to a supervisory/managerial position without training in the techniques and practices of effective supervision/management.

How can we "assume" that because one is an excellent en...

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DESIGNED FOR

Drilling, production and operations engineers, field supervisors, tool-pushers and managers with a good understanding of classic well control procedures



YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

Properly design surface equipment

Apply classic pressure control procedures (Wait & Weight and Driller’s Method)

Recognize causes and indications of a kick

Apply pressure control procedures while tripping

Recognize non-classic well control probl...

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