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Mature Fields - Surface Production Issues

MATURE-EN-P
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Who should attend?

  • This course aims to provide an overview of field aging effects on production and of the solutions to maintain the production in mature fields.
Public :
  • Field, process or project engineers involved in mature oil field development/sales/take-over projects.

Level :Skilled

Prerequisite :
  • Engineer degree or equivalent experience in Oil & Gas field treatment.

Course Content

  • INTRODUCTION TO MATURE FIELD DEVELOPMENTS CHALLENGES

  • DRIVE MECHANISM & ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Concept selection of an EOR technique.
      • Validation process of an EOR technique.
      • Introduction to chemical EOR techniques.

  • RESERVOIR PRESSURE MAINTENANCE TECHNIQUES

  • WELL ACTIVATION - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Gas lift.
      • Use of PCP, beam pump and ESPs.

  • WELL PRODUCTIVITY - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Identifying a low well productivity.
      • Root causes and remediation.

  • TROUBLESHOOTING OF MATURE WELLS - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Identifying problems of each well and associated remediation.
      • Strategy for optimized remediation integration at the level of a field.
      • Integrity of mature wells.

  • ADAPTATION OF OIL TREATMENT TO PRODUCTION AGING - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Evolution of emulsion quality over time.
      • Evaluation of separators water handling capacity (design case/current operating conditions).
      • Examples of process adaptation to field aging.

  • ADAPTATION OF WATER TREATMENT - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Evolution of water production over time.
      • Adaptation of production water treatment capacities.

  • ADAPTATION OF GAS TREATMENT - Duration : 0.25 Day

      • Evolution of associated gas flowrate over time.
      • Evolution of gas quality.
      • Gas recompression needs and adaptation of the gas compression package.
      • Condensate recovery.

  • ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN MATURE FIELD - Duration : 0.25 Day

      • Equipment performances.
      • Process optimization.
      • Fuel gas requirements vs. available associated gas.

  • EXAMPLES OF MATURE FIELD DEVELOPMENTS - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Example of Gabon and Cameroon mature fields developments.

  • CORROSION MANAGEMENT IN MATURE FIELD - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Corrosion mechanism.
      • Integrity of wells and flow line.

Learning Objectives

  • Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
  • Understand the specificities of mature field developments,
  • Maintain well productivity,
  • Compensate production decline,
  • Adapt surface facilities to field aging.

Ways & Means

  • Highly interactive training by industry-specialist lecturers.
  • Numerous applications and illustrations.

Learning assessment

  • Assessment by test at the end of the course.

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Coordinator :IFP Training instructors, with expertise in the field and trained in modern teaching methods adapted to the specific needs of learners from the professional world.

To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding. Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com