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CANCELED
Complex Well - Core Competency - An Asset Team Program

INSTRUCTOR :

Robert G. (Bob) Knoll, H-Tech. Petroleum Consulting Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada

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DATES:

July 26 - 30, 2010

LOCATION:

Dallas, TX

TUITION:

Member: $1,595.00 • Nonmember $1,695.00
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(increases to $1695/$1795 after 6/27/2010); includes course notes and refreshments.
No refunds for cancellations after 6/27/2010.

LIMIT:

24 people

CONTENT:

3.5 CEU What is a CEU?

Who Should Attend

The program will benefit managers, geologists, geophysicists, engineers (drilling, completion, production and reservoir internal staff and key service providers), technicians, and others involved with modern exploitation technology applications.

Learning Outcomes

Participants with no horizontal/ complex well experience will get a good feel for the potential of this technology and learn what analytical tools are available to them to screen, design, and implement this exploitation process in an optimal manner. Participants with horizontal well experience will broaden their interdisciplinary knowledge and learn some of the latest technical breakthroughs and design options in respect to complex/smart completion technologies, MPD, CT and CBM applications, as well as the latest field experience do’s and don’ts.

Objectives and Content

The primary objective of this intense, five-day program is to provide students (operator asset team, D&C operational staff, management & support staff, key service providers and regulators) with an appreciation of the crucial multidiscipline aspect of optimized horizontal and more complex development well applications. The program provides a practical-based “big picture” of all the disciplines, issues, and team functions inherent in basic screening, assessing value-added and implementation; and then addresses the advanced technical options of horizontal well design, construction, intervention and production including multi-branch, MPD (managed pressure drilling), CBM, UTG, SAGD, advanced stimulation/intervention options, etc. In addition, the course will:

• Review successful and unsuccessful complex well technology applications
• Expose common failure reasons and provide practical solutions
• Review well design attributes and competing completion options
• Foster multidisciplinary approach to horizontal & complex wells
• Enhance awareness of advanced exploitation operational risks vs. geological risks

The program features hands-on training with computer models utilizing actual field data. Class exercises walk through the “decision-making” process from candidate screening through multi-well development and work-over operations. Additionally the school reviews the latest technical developments and novel applications. This multidiscipline program covers:

• Horizontal/Complex Well Applications
• Completion Technology
• Well Design, Multi-branch
• Geological Considerations
• Production Engineering
• Drilling Technology, CT, ERD, MPD
• Reservoir Engineering Principles
• Field Execution
• Field Case Studies
• Candidate Screening and Prioritization
• PC Program Examples
• Problem Identification and Avoidance

Some of the elements which make the program a truly unique technical cross-training experience within our global industry are summarized as follows:

1. The course is constantly up-dated with relevant real field data and experience, and has unique capability to be customized to the specific asset setting of the local industry.
2. The mandate and focus of the program is to effectively deliver all the asset team core competencies utilizing actual field data, supported by daily quizzes, current asset specific field examples, and detailed exploitation project simulations, and the resulting practical tools and methodologies delivered related to optimized complex well asset-specific/site-specific NPV & EUR goals, design, construction and operation.
3. The asset team approach utilized in course format, material and delivery is unique. This program is the only course designed specifically to deal with the reality of asset team dynamics, to expose the numerous miss-conceptions of complex well design and application, and to address the un-avoidable disconnect, which always exists to varying degree, between the various technical disciplines and filed operations supervisors. The program dramatically exposes the fundamental need of the team to find the balance between the various discipline-specific wants, the true value-added project site-specific needs, and the realistic capabilities and limitations facing field operations staff related to all aspects of well construction, stimulation, intervention and production.