Training Courses

Instructors: Matt Raglin and Kenneth B. (Ken) Nolen 

Disciplines: Production and Operations

This course offers real-world training by industry experts for optimization, design, and best practices. The training course will take your tech to the next level for all major rod design software, SCADA system and pump-off controllers.

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Instructor: John Sheldon

Disciplines: Production and Operations

Course Description:

This course is designed to give attendees a better understanding of the steps to take and considerations to keep in mind when conducting an artificial lift reliability performance analysis. This course covers the typically analysis life-cycle of defining an appropriate problem statement, collecting and cleaning required field and equipment data, selecting the appropriate analysis metrics, performing the analysis, and finally reviewing and interpreting the analysis results. Case studies and examples will be provided to help illustrate and support the course material.
Topics covered include:
-    Defining a good reliability analysis problem statement;
-    Considerations for collecting and cleaning artificial lift production, equipment, and failure data;
-    Review of important reliability theory as it applies to artificial lift systems;
-    Discussion of common metrics used for estimating artificial lift run-life performance; and
-    Discussion of data analysis considerations and common analysis biases and pitfalls.
This course is based on knowledge, information and experience gained through two major joint industry projects conducted over the last 25 years.

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Instructor: Lawrence Camilleri 

Disciplines: Production and Operations

Course Description:

This course provides the production engineer with the physics and petroleum engineering tools to understand the how and why of both ESP design and production optimization:

• Design: The engineer will acquire the engineering tools to forecast production with ESP simulations and generate cumulative production curves for a range of IPR curves and rising GOR which capture the effect of depletion over time.
   
• Production optimization: Utilizing real-time gauge data and production rate measurements to select the optimum frequency and choke settings to maximize drawdown, while managing the impact of gas.

With the increase in wells operating in saturated conditions, such as unconventional wells, the agenda provides a focus on ESP behavior in high GVF (gas void fractions) environments i.e. two-phase flow (liquid and gas) with an explanation of both the physics and a detailed review of five case studies, which cover both “gas locking” and slugging effects.

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Instructor: Ozan Sayman

Disciplines: Production and Operations | Data Science and Engineering Analytics

Course Description:

The course provides a comprehensive overview of artificial lift methods to remediate liquid loading for unconventional wells, with a particular focus on plunger lift and PAGL/GAPL applications. Understanding the plunger lift hydrodynamics is vital to designing and optimizing plunger lift wells. Instead of relying on the rule of thumbs, engineers are encouraged to design and optimize plunger-lifted wells based on mechanistic and data-driven models. Understanding continuous gas lift, determining when to deploy plungers, the transition of gas lift, PAGL and GAPL, surveillance and automation topics are explored. 

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