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Production and Completions

Production Operations 1

This foundation course grounds participants in both established production practice and recent technology for maximising oil and gas output and overall recovery. It builds safe, cost-effective and integrated analytical skills for defining and managing production operations. Topics range from reservoir geology and well inflow to completion design, fracturing, cementing and artificial lift.

Discipline
Production and Completions
Level
Foundation
Duration
10 days
Formats
Classroom, Live online, In-house, Blended
Every course can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation.

Who should attend

Petroleum and production engineers, reservoir, facilities and drilling staff, geologists, supervisors and technicians who need a broad grounding in production operations.

What participants will be able to do

  • Recognise geological settings for conventional and unconventional resources
  • Build nodal analysis models for tubing selection and problem wells
  • Design completion tubing, packers and downhole equipment
  • Plan advanced completions such as multilateral and intelligent wells
  • Apply primary and remedial cementing techniques

Topics covered

  • Reservoir geology basics
  • Well inflow and outflow
  • Nodal analysis modelling
  • Completion equipment design
  • Advanced well completions
  • Multistage fractured horizontals
  • Cementing practices
  • Artificial lift selection