Introduction to Oil and Gas Industry Training

This course will show participants a broad overview of the technology and activities in the oil and gas Industry.

At the end of the course, the participants should be able to know the basics of the processes in the petroleum industry which include: Geology, Exploration, Drilling, Reservoir, Completion and Workover, Production, Pipelines and Distribution Operations and Economics.

Course Outline

Oil and gas resources; who owns them, who use them?

• Main producing countries and regions
• Main consumers; established and emergent
• OPEC vs. non-OPEC, NOC vs. IOC
• The exploration and production value chain

The petroleum field life cycle

• Gaining entry: exploration licence types and agreements
• Exploration and appraisal
• Development and production
• Abandonment

Exploration and Appraisal methods

• Gravity and magnetic
• Seismic – 2D and 3D
• Drilling, logging and testing

Reserves and resources description

• Reservoir rock types
• Structures – faults, folds, fractures
• Reservoir fluids and composition
• Drive mechanisms – how does a well flow
• Volumetric estimates and reserves classification
• Field development concepts and planning
  • From reservoir to surface – well completions and artificial lift
  • Basic processing equipment and flow scheme
  • Facilities options and concepts – onshore/offshore
  • Evacuation options

  Oil and gas production

  • Managing the reservoir and wells – workovers / infill wells / EOR
  • Managing and maintaining surface facilities
  • Managing the export process to refinery

  Decommissioning and Abandonment

  • Legislation
  • Environment
  • Decommissioning methods

  Who Should Attend?

  This Course is good for Scientists and Non-Petroleum Engineers Working in the oil and gas Industry, Technicians, Institutions financing Oil Exploration, and Representatives of Oil Producing Communities etc.