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Petroleum Industry Overview
Overview of Heavy Oil Resources
An introductory but wide-ranging look at the heavy oil business, suitable for technical and non-technical audiences alike. It explains why heavy oil matters in the global resource base and covers the geological, engineering and environmental challenges of finding, developing and producing it through mining and thermal methods.
- Discipline
- Petroleum Industry Overview
- Level
- Foundation
- Duration
- Flexible length
- Formats
- Classroom, In-house
Every course can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation.
Who should attend
Anyone, from any discipline, who needs a better understanding of heavy oil resources.
What participants will be able to do
- Explain the importance of heavy oil in world energy supply
- Describe the geological and engineering challenges of heavy oil
- Compare heavy oil with conventional and other unconventional resources
- Assess options for reducing the environmental footprint
- Outline how heavy oil developments are planned
Topics covered
- Heavy oil resources
- Surface mining
- Thermal recovery
- Environmental footprint
- Development planning
- Heavy oil economics