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Fundamental principles underlying casing, tubing, and cementing design, packers, well completion and planning of vertical, horizontal and multilateral wells.

Fundamental principles underlying casing, tubing, and cementing design, packers, well completion and planning of vertical, horizontal and multilateral wells.

The course enables the audience to gain expertise in diagnosing all types of hazardous faults of a variety of engineering related operations including: storage and transportation of oil and gas, gas flaring, drilling and completion of oil wells, and safe production of hydrocarbon reservoirs. The course emphasizes the various techniques for controlling various hazardous situations and teaches the audience skills for designing inherently safe plants, and proposing changes to existing ones.

Introduction to offshore operations, procedure for the design and construction of the equipment and facilities of offshore operations, selection of offshore equipment.

Methods of crude oil and gas transportation, types of storage tanks and pressure vessels, design and selection of storage tanks according to API standards, maintenance of storage tanks.

Theories of corrosion, causes of corrosion in drill strings, casing, tubing and production equipment, evaluation of corrosion, methods of detecting corrosion, preventive measures.

Economics of the upstream sector in all its aspects: reserves, players (international oil companies, national oil companies, service companies), investments, costs and benchmarking, certainty economics applied to petroleum projects cash flow including taxation, decline curve analysis and oil and gas reserve estimate, application of uncertainty analysis and the use of statistical and probabilistic properties of reservoir description, standard methods of investment analysis when risk has to be coped with.

The purpose of this field training is to acquaint the student with the various petroleum industry disciplines structured for characterization and exploitation of oil and gas fields. Such disciplines may include core analysis and interpretation of well tests and well logs, geology and subsurface mapping, design of drilling and production facilities, the use of reservoir simulators for the design and prediction of reservoir performance. Students spend a period of six weeks (minimum of 200 hours) on work training with an oil company operating in Kuwait, or in the Gulf area. Each student presents a comprehensive report of his/her training activities and assignments upon completion of the training period

Development of the general material balance equation, solution of PDE using numerical methods, prediction of reservoir performance.

Application of chemical thermodynamics to the behavior of reservoir fluids, with emphasis on phase behavior of multi-component mixtures.

Geological aspects, well testing and well log analysis of naturally fractured reservoirs, reservoir performance.

Momentum, energy and mass balances as applied to the field of transport phenomena and their implications on the fluid flow in porous media .

Mechanical behavior of rocks with application to petroleum exploration, drilling, production, and stimulation.

Planning and calculating directional well trajectory, survey calculation techniques, equipment and bottomhole assembly used in directional drilling operations, torque and drag problems in directional wells.

Horizontal well applications and limitations. Geology and drilling considerations in horizontal wells. Different types of horizontal wells based on build rate and radius of curvature. Mud logs used during drilling horizontal wells. Hole cleaning and cuttings transportation. Drainage area estimation in horizontal wells. Oil and gas steady state productivity for horizontal wells.