E-031 - Exploration-Production Overview

5 days

GEN/DECOUVEP

Sessions

Dates	Location	Tuition	Register
Dec 10 - 14, 2018	Rueil	3,570 €	Online By email

Who should attend?

Audience

- Professionals of the Oil & Gas industry looking to acquire a broad knowledge of the E&P industry in order to efficiently interact with specialists of the various segments it comprises.

Level

This course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the various steps and techniques involved in Field Development Projects, from exploration and prospect evaluation to production and through HSE issues. It covers the achievements and challenges of today’s Exploration & Production industry and also provides a comprehensive introduction to economics and legal framework in the E&P industry.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
explain the various phases of Oil & Gas development projects,
identify the contribution of all experts and technologies involved through a field development project,
understand the E&P value chain from prospect to market and associated contractual framework,
describe techniques involved in field development in order to efficiently interact with technical teams.

Course Content

INTRODUCTION TO THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY

0.25 day

Introduction to the energy business: energy resources; energy demand and supply.
Scope of the Oil & Gas industry:
Brief history of the Oil & Gas industry. Stakeholders: producer and consumer countries; national/ independent/ international oil companies; international organizations.
Oil & Gas development projects and introduction to project activities.

1.25 days

Introduction to petroleum geology:
Geodynamics of the earth. Sedimentary basins.
Structural styles, folds & faults.
Clastic and carbonate depositional environments and reservoirs.
Elements and processes of the petroleum system (source, reservoir, seal, traps).
Subsurface models, inputs data and concepts:
Seismic data gathering, processing and interpretation.
Well data acquisition and analysis.
Formation evaluation and sampling (logs and cores).
Reservoir characterization and modeling:
Data integration; introduction to reservoir modeling.
Management of subsurface uncertainties.
Volumetrics (in-place hydrocarbon estimation).
Subsurface Development Options: reservoir engineering:
Field development planning.
Drainage mechanisms: introduction to EOR.
Different types of reservoir effluents and their behavior.

2 days

Drilling:
Well architecture/design.
Drilling techniques, drilling rigs (onshore/ offshore) and operations.
Well completion:
Reservoir/wellbore interface; basics of well performance; artificial lift techniques.
Well equipment and well intervention.
Field architecture:
Surface development options; study of various existing fields.
Case of offshore developments.
Surface facilities:
Well effluent gathering network.
Oil, gas and water processing.
Metering, storage and export.
Oil & Gas transport through pipelines and tankers.
Offshore installations: from shallow water to deep offshore technology.
HSE in field development:
Main hazards in hydrocarbon exploration & production operations.
Overview of safety engineering and environmental impact assessment studies throughout Oil & Gas project lifecycle.
Introduction to unconventional developments:
Heavy oil fields.
Tight & shale Oil & Gas fields.

1 day

Legal framework in E&P: oil contracts and principle of the oil rent sharing.
Project profitability evaluation:
Oil & Gas project economics and financial performance indicators.
Reserve evaluation. Impact of subsurface uncertainty on project economics.
Field development process:
Decision making process: preliminary studies. Conceptual studies. Pre-project studies.
Execution phases: basic engineering or FEED. Detailed engineering. Procurement. Construction. Commissioning.
Technical service contracts.
Project control:
Scheduling and planning control.
Cost estimation and control.

SERIOUS GAME: OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 0.5 day

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