Course Overview

What is crude oil? Where we can find it? And is it actually flowing in underground seas? Maybe you have had these questions before if you were working close to petroleum industry environment and maybe not if you were one of the technical teams, our course will answer these questions and much more, we’ll help you shed some light on this industry to understand the petroleum journey from the exploration phase to the end-user phase, which is a long detailed journey that we will make sure you get its big picture, this course is intended for non-technical personnel’s who work with or help petroleum engineers/technicians. We’ll foster organizational workflow by delivering easily made general knowledge covering most of this industry.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the trainees will be aware and understanding of the following:

• a comprehensive understanding of most aspects of the petroleum industry
• the required confidence to deal with logistics related to the petroleum industry
• complete clarity on various important aspects and concepts related to oil exploration, drilling wells, and producing crude oil
• detailed knowledge and understanding of how a well is drilled and the various ways to complete wells and produce oil
• the necessary confidence and knowledge to understand the bigger picture of petroleum industry aspects
• the awareness and understanding to identify the role and position of each aspect of the oil industry
• the ability and potential to promote organisational growth and development by fostering better communication between technical and non-technical personnel

Who Should Attend?

• All non-technical personnel who are related in a way or another to the petroleum industry
• Technical personnel who want to get an overview knowledge about the petroleum industry
• Engineers that are not petroleum engineers who want to expand their knowledge about the petroleum industry

Course Contents

Module (01) Overview

• What is crude oil?
• How is it formed?
• Where to find crude oil?
• How to find crude oil?
• How to deliver crude oil to the surface?
• What are other means of oil delivery to the surface?
• Are there any problems?
• What about petroleum products?

Module (02) Crude Oil Formation & Reservoir Rocks

• Oil origin & source rock
• Primary & secondary migration
• Types of reservoir rocks
• Porosity, Permeability, and water saturation
• Driving mechanisms

Module (03) How to find Crude Oil?

• Oil traps (structural, stratigraphic, and combination)
• Geological shapes of reservoir rocks
• Exploration methods

Module (04) Drilling Rigs

• Overview
• Onshore & Offshore
• Rotary system
• Drilling bits
• Circulation system
• Drilling mud
• Hoisting system
• Blow out preventor

Module (05) How a Wellbore is Drilled?

• Drilling stem
• Drilling operation
• RSS drilling
• Horizontal wells
• Casing & cementing

Module (06) Well Completion

• Types of completion
• Completion accessories
• Wireline services
• Logging and perforation
• Slickline services
• Coiled tubing unit

Module (07) Artificial Lift Systems

• Why to artificially lift the well?
• ALS selection criteria discussion
• SRP (components, idea, installation, and operation)

Module (08) Artificial Lift Systems Continued

• ESP (components, idea, installation, and operation)
• Gas injection overview
• Other artificial lift systems

Module (09) Production Phase

• Flow lines and manifolds
• Initial processing
• Separators (components and operation)
• Heater treaters
• Storage and shipping