Development Planning For Mature Fields

Date: 13 - 15 May 2024
Location: Stavanger
Instructors:  Mark Bentley, Mark Cook, Jerry Hadwin

This multidisciplinary course is designed to give participants a broad appreciation of the evaluation and planning activities associated with incremental development planning. This course takes groups through a wide range of associated issues, fills any knowledge gaps in the essential technical fundamentals required for mature field development planning and uses a case-based exercise which will run through the whole course.

Business Impact: This course equips participants with the knowledge and decision-making skills to create a robust development plan for mature fields.

Participants will learn to:

• Characterise the overall challenges associated with mature field developments.
• Evaluate critical insights from subsurface data and apply this to modelling options and recovery methods.
• Assess associated well data, typical late life issues and drilling and completion options for mature developments.
• Manage the role of risk and uncertainty when making mature field development planning decisions.
• Prepare a strategy and implementation plan.

The course is designed for mid-career subsurface professionals, specifically petroleum engineers and geoscientists who play a part in evaluating, screening and maturing oil and gas field development opportunities in mature fields. Participation would also benefit technical team leaders and managers who want to gain an insight into the challenges, uncertainties and preparations involved in development planning for mature fields.

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Modern Completion and Production Enhancement Techniques

Date: 3 - 7 June 2024
Location: Stavanger
Instructor: Jonathan Bellarby

Participants on this course will derive an understanding of wells and completions, allowing for more accurate production performance assessments, as well as better risk mitigation and management. Key topics include the completions scope and types, inflow performance, perforating, stimulation and sand controls, vertical and artificial lift, production chemistry, well integration and completion equipment and installation.

Participants will learn to:

1. Characterise the causes of formation damage.
2. Be able to produce an optimum perforating strategy (perforation charges, interval and deployment method).
3. Predict the types of well completion that benefit from matrix and fracture stimulation and the types of fluids that are used.
4. Propose the optimum sand control method accounting for the geology, well management, and surface facilities.
5. Integrate vertical lift performance into reservoir performance analysis.
6. Assess where production chemistry problems can pose a major threat to productivity and propose mitigations.
7. Evaluate the risks to well integrity in order to ensure the threat to safety and productivity is managed.
8. Review the types of completion equipment commonly used and where/why they are used.

This course is primarily aimed at intermediate level petroleum and reservoir engineers. The course will also benefit geologists, petrophysicists, and production engineers who need to deepen their understanding of completion and production enhancement techniques.

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