Training Courses

Enhance your conference journey by enrolling in a pre-event training course. Choose from a diverse array of courses listed below, ensuring you align your selection with your unique learning and professional growth requirements. SPE collaborates with esteemed industry experts to curate training programs that span a broad spectrum of relevant subjects. Participants can earn 0.8 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for one-day courses and 1.6 CEUs for two-day courses, further enriching your educational experience.

Pre-show courses are scheduled for Sunday, February 4th, and Monday, February 5th, both taking place conveniently at the conference venue.

Training courses are not included with the purchase of conference registration and must be purchased separately during the registration process.

Fees

Length	By 8 January	9 January-4 February	5-8 February
1 Day Technical Courses (In-Person)	USD 550 Member USD 750 Nonmember	USD 650 Member USD 850 Nonmember	USD 750 Member USD 950 Nonmember
2 Day Technical Courses (In-Person)	USD 1000 Member USD 1400 Nonmember	USD 1200 Member USD 1600 Nonmember	USD 1400 Member USD 1800 Nonmember
2 Day Virtual Course (Microsoft Teams)	USD 400 Member USD 600 Nonmember	USD 450 Member USD 650 Nonmember	USD 500 Member USD 700 Nonmember

Two-Day Course on Sunday, 4 February – Monday, 5 February

Hydraulic Fracture Simulation and Optimization - Conventionals, Shale, and Geothermal

Instructors: Mark McClure and Garrett Fowler

This course is designed as both an introduction and a refresher on the topic of hydraulic fracture modeling. It includes both theoretical fundamentals and practical applications. The course focuses on topics that help engineers drive practical value. Lectures are interspersed with hands-on examples using a commercial fracturing simulator.
Topics include:
- Objectives and types of hydraulic fracturing treatments
- Types of hydraulic fracturing models
- Key physical processes, such as fracture propagation, proppant transport, and limited-entry
- Strategies for practical optimization of fracturing design, including: conventionals, unconventionals, and Enhanced Geothermal Systems
- Thermoelastic fracturing during long-term water or CO2 injection

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One Day Training Courses on Monday, 5 February

Casing Deformation Associated with Multi-fracturing - Causes and Methods of Reducing the Damage

Instructor: George E. King

Hydraulic fracturing places both static and dynamic stresses on casing and completion components that may not be apparent in conventional design programs. Non-uniform loading of formations, casing and cement may be driven by cyclic pressures of several thousand psi, temperature swings of over 100o F, erosion by proppant, and shock loading of the completed well. These problems can result in both temporary and permanent deformation or even well failure in rare cases. This course examines real-world case histories of casing deformation and isolation failure linked directly or indirectly to fracturing-induced stresses and covers the design and operational changes necessary to mitigate these problems. This 1-day course is example based and delivered as a lecture with videos, downhole measurements, and case histories.

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Application of Machine Learning in the Unconventional Tight/Shale Reservoir Development

Instructor: Shengnan (Nancy) Chen

achine learning has been successfully used in various engineering disciplines. Nowadays, large amount of data related to reservoir properties, drilling, completion, and production is routinely collected in the upstream oil and gas operation, which can be further analyzed to optimize the field operations and improve the reservoir performance. This course starts with the basic Machine Learning concepts, application workflows and the supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. The commonly....

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