Production Technology (Advanced)

Business Context

An essential part of any field development or well test is the design and installation of a well completion. A good design allows efficient and safe production from reservoir to surface during a long time. In that sense potential well problems should be catered for, e.g. vertical lift at increasing water-cuts or decreasing reservoir pressures, sand production and corrosion by reservoir fluids.

A large variety of operational well interventions should be allowed for: BHP surveys, stimulation, removal of deposits, well control by safety valve or killing and wire-line/coiled tubing operations in general. The analysis of well and reservoir performances needs to be integrated to arrive at the best drilling, recompletion and repair decisions.

Who Should Attend

Petroleum engineers with moderate field experience specifically production technologists, reservoir engineers and senior production supervisors.

What You Will Learn

Course Content

• Production processes in well. 
• Production process in reservoir. 
• Production processes at surface. 
• Well design philosophy. 
• Well completion operations. 
• Physics of natural production. 
• Physics of artificial lifting. 
• Well pressure analysis. 
• Well production performance analysis. 
• Integrated well / reservoir performance analysis. 
• Field management. 
• Selection of work-over candidates.

What You Will Know After Attending 

At the end of the course the participants should be able to propose a well design, define the selection parameters for completion components and prepare well completion or production operations programs.

During the course data gathering, data interpretation and production planning are highlighted. Special attention is given to integrated field operations in order to achieve a balanced reservoir- - wells - surface facilities interplay aiming to assure an efficient reservoir drainage, optimum well performance and efficient separation of gas, oil and water.

Course Venue

Grand, yet inviting, The Ritz-Carlton, Doha is an exceptional Qatar hotel that combines extravagant elegance with the warmth of a traditional Arabian welcome.

The very definition of an opulent Middle Eastern paradise, and an idyllic setting for business or leisure travelers alike, The Ritz-Carlton, Doha hotel's accommodations feature:

• 374 well-appointed guestrooms, each with sea or golf course views

• 61 suites and 42 club rooms with free internet connection

• Eight exceptional restaurants and bars featuring fine local and international cuisine

• A world-class Spa and modern fitness center

• Indoor and outdoor swimming pools

• Two ballrooms, seven meeting rooms and a fully equipped business center

• A 235-slip marina with club house for boats and 8 slip marina for jet-ski

About the Presenter

Bert Dijkhuis graduated as mining engineer at the Delft Technical University. He worked initially for Esso as process engineer at the refinery in Rotterdam. Thereafter he joined Shell as well-site petroleum engineer and as, operations /production engineer in Nigeria, the Netherlands and Trinidad. Thereafter he held many different positions in Nigeria, the Netherland, Venezuela and Brunei, concluding his Shell career as Engineering Manager in 1991.

Since the end of 1992 he has been part-time associate professor at the petroleum engineering department of the Technical University Delft; in that time he has also performed consulting jobs in Sarawak, Siberia, Lithuania and Tadjikistan. In addition he is active as workgroup convenor in the International Standards Organisation (ISO).

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