Managing Innovation and New Technologies in the Upstream Oil & Gas Industry

This 2-day course gives participants an awareness of how innovation and R&D happen within the sector and shows them how they can get better results from their organisation’s innovation-related activities through the application of a broad range of tools.

HSE in Oil & Gas Drilling Operations

This 3-day course presents all associated risks to rig equipment and drilling operations.

Advanced Well Integrity Management

This intensive five-day course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management, and skills for designing, operating, and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimize productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

Drilling Essentials for New Engineers and Non-Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas

Drilling Essentials will help you de-mystify activities around the rig and well planning. It will explain the fundamentals of drilling with an emphasis on key areas such as logistical considerations, costing, and analysis of drilling contracts. Understand the urgency of drilling requests, know more about the cost implications of drilling-related problems, and understand the risks involved in a drilling contract.

Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping

This 5-day course focuses on the fundamental principles and methodologies of accurately conveying critical data and information via subsurface mapping.

Subsurface Studies for Field Development Planning

This course has been designed with the aim of showing the type of studies required in developing an offshore petroleum discovery, from field appraisal to development. The course gives an account of the studies carried out by the four subsurface disciplines: development geophysics, development geology, petrophysics and reservoir engineering, including a comprehensive account of the methodology, processes and techniques.

Offshore Gas Field Development Planning and Reservoir Management

This 3-day course has been designed with the aim of showing the diversity of offshore gas field situations, their development and related management issues. The emphasis is on ‘green fields’ situations.

Petroleum Engineering for Non-Technical Professionals

As Petroleum Engineering (PE) activities continue to increase, professionals like you must grasp the language and technology of PE operations in order to maximise expenditures throughout the producing life of a well.

LNG Purchasing & Transportation - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5-day VILT will enable participants to gain an in-depth understanding of LNG supply, transportation and regasification.

AVO, Attributes and Inversion: Principles and Applications

This course provides an understanding of the evolving role of seismic petrophysics through the use of amplitude variations with offset or angle (AVO/AVA), attributes, and inversion techniques.

Competency Management & Assurance in the Energy Industry - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This VILT will focus on Competence Management Systems (CMS) which are typically in use within the Energy Industry, their structure and process development requirements.

Advanced Well Integrity Management

This intensive five-day course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management, and skills for designing, operating, and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimize productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

Advanced Casing Design

This 5-day training course reviews the fundamentals of Casing Design and builds on them to address well design challenges associated with deep, extended reach, HPHT and deepwater wells.

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD)

This 5-day course will focus on equipment and procedures required to deliver the full range of different MPD techniques as well as the integration training required to maintain appropriate well integrity and well control barriers throughout the operation.

Introduction to Exploration and Production for New Engineers and Non-Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas

Explore the multi-disciplinary nature of Oil & Gas exploration & production by examining the process, technology and technical terminology used during operations in an upstream business.

Applied E&P Economics - Commercial Decisions & Fiscal Systems

This training course aims to provide a solid and incisive foundation to appreciate the essentials of building typical Economic Evaluations to support both National and Company decisions with particular focus on the many potential deductions and charges levied on the pre-tax ‘Technical Case’. We will touch on many critical aspects of these post-tax / contract decisions, such as balancing scope for value-generation and efficiency – which measures are employed, how national agencies might b...

Petroleum Risk Analysis & Portfolio Management

The Petroleum Risk Analysis and Portfolio Management course offers tools and practical techniques to identify, analyse and manage uncertainties and risk in exploration and production projects. Learning is reinforced by working on case material to explore uncertainties and risks in the context of production forecasting, cash-flow management, incremental projects and asset portfolio manipulation. Monte Carlo modelling and Decision Tree analysis software are employed during the course to dev...

Seismic Data Processing and Reprocessing

This 5-day course has been designed to introduce key concepts, principles and practicalities that form the technical basis for value added seismic applications in exploration, field appraisal and reservoir management to seismic interpreters and geophysicists.

Fundamentals of LNG Shipping and Operations

This 4-day course will provide an informed insight in choices and limitations of containment systems and how advances in propulsion technology, coupled with environmental legislation, are narrowing the parameters of asset operability and commercial viability.

LNG Production Business Economics

Learn how an LNG project is set-up and its economics and success factors in this 4-day course.

Data Science and Machine Learning for Upstream Professionals - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) aims to provide upstream professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the main machine learning methods and equip them with the hands-on experience in data science and machine learning.

Advanced HPHT Well Engineering

By attending this 5-day course, participants will gain critical knowledge and will be able to develop essential skills relating to HPHT Well Engineering. The course focuses on key characteristics and challenges of HPHT wells from well design, planning, engineering and operational perspectives.

Exploration Project Management

This 3-day course will be conducted in an interactive manner and will include presentations by the course leader, syndicate and plenary exercises, and (optional) assessment of selected participants’ projects. Industry case studies will be integrated into all the presentations.

Technical Presentation Skills for Oil & Gas Engineers and Technical Professionals – ILM Recognised Course Provider

This course will demonstrate how technical professionals can use their technical knowledge and logical edge to persuasively communicate for buy-in purposes.

Critical Thinking In Geoscience - The Value of Integrated Data Interpretation and the Skills Required to Frame and Solve the Problems

This data driven training course aims to provide a mechanism to overcome barriers and facilitate collaboration, coordination, cooperation and co-creation between the disciplines. We need to step back and rediscover the analytical methods at our disposal and learn how they can be used to solve the problems that we face in exploration and production studies through critical thinking.

Technical Report Writing and Presentation Skills for Oil & Gas Engineers and Technical Professionals - ILM Recognised Course Provider

This separately bookable course will demonstrate how technical professionals can use their technical knowledge and logical edge to write in a reader-friendly style, produce grammatically accurate reports and persuasively communicate for buy-in purposes.

Completion Design

This comprehensive training course will concentrate on the important aspects of completion design and what makes a safe and efficient well, using practical examples, presentations, videos, and animations.

Technical Report Writing Skills for Oil & Gas Engineers and Technical Professionals - ILM Recognised Course Provider

This separately bookable course will demonstrate how technical professionals can use their technical knowledge and logical edge to write in a reader-friendly style and produce grammatically accurate reports for buy-in purposes.

Upstream Oil & Gas Development Lifecycle Costing

The lifecycle costs of an upstream oil & gas development are typically very high and subject to great uncertainty. However, it is crucial to be able to generate reliable cost estimates, covering the full lifecycle, at every stage. Costing is particularly challenging during the early lifecycle stages, when uncertainty is at a maximum, and information is limited and often unavailable. It is during the early (front-end) stages of exploration and development that reliable costs are crucial to ...

Predicting Reservoir Distribution, Geometry & Quality

This 5-day course aims at improving the conceptual geological understanding behind predicting presence and quality distribution of potential reservoirs./p>

Intermediate to Advanced Level Training Course - Pumps, Compressors, Turbines & Troubleshooting

This 3-day intermediate to advanced level training course has been designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of the fluid mechanic fundamentals and operating practice of pumps, compressors and gas and steam turbines.

Introduction to Subsea Inspection, Maintenance & Repairs

This 3-day course provides an introduction to Subsea Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) as it is practiced in the offshore oil & gas industry. It will include IMR fundamentals, planning and implementation.

Introduction To Data Analytics & Visualization

This training course aims to give an overview of what Data Analytics or Data Science is and demystify the common terms used in the industry as well as showcase its applications. The applications are to help participants understand better where the possible use of data analytics can be applied in their respective field of work or discipline.

Production Technology for Other Disciplines

This course covers a general introduction to two aspects of the Production Technology discipline: 1. The technical aspects such as reservoir drive mechanisms, drilling methods, well and completion types, hydrocarbon in- and outflow performance, formation damage and cleaning mechanisms, well life-cycle, production surveillance, production chemistry and the latest state of the art technologies. 2. The organizational aspects of the roles and responsibilities in the interface and coordination...

Advanced Carbonate Reservoir Geology for the Middle East

Using a combination of short lecture modules, group exercises, discussions and longer workshops based on Middle Eastern examples, this 5-day course will build on the existing knowledge of participants to create a detailed understanding of carbonate exploration and reservoir development.

Petroleum Fiscal Regimes and Applied Finance For Oil & Gas Industry Professionals

This course is not designed to skill Oil & Gas engineers to be accountants, but to give participants the confidence and ability to communicate with accountants and finance managers and to improve their own financial decision making.

Finance for Non-Finance for Oil & Gas Professionals

This course is not designed to skill Oil & Gas engineers to be accountants, but to give participants the confidence and ability to communicate with accountants and finance managers and to improve their own financial decision making.

Advanced Well Engineering - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This 5-day course aims to develop and assess the knowledge and skills required to meet the Well Control Assurance targets laid down in IOGP Report 476 which states that an Engineer needs to have the necessary depth and breadth of knowledge to be considered technically competent to authorise a Well Delivery program as fit for purpose.

Prospect, Risks & Volumes Assessment

The prospect maturation process, from a lead to a drillable prospect, is at the heart of the exploration business. This 5-day course will cover all aspects of the prospect maturation process: play understanding in the context of regional geological understanding; detailed prospect evaluation; realistic risk & volume assessment consistent with the play understanding and prospect details, and an introduction to exploration economics.

Finance for Non-Finance Professionals in Oil & Gas & Petroleum Fiscal Regimes and Applied Finance for Non-Finance Oil & Gas Professionals

This separately bookable course has been designed to equip participants with an understanding of financial information and management, and an awareness of the economic theory that drives value creation

Advanced Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management (SMRP Approved Course Provider)

Master the critical skills in managing a world-class plant Turnaround project by acquiring the following:A reprise of basic plant Turnaround – just like a refresher course,the ability to fine tune the approach to Turnarounds,a fundamental understanding of excellent Turnaround Team design,strategies for ensuring your company gets value for money from Contractors, experience in the latest cutting edge approach to planning and scheduling,understanding of the “Centre of Excellence” concept to ...

Masterclass in Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

This 2-day course covers basic and more advanced methodology of LOPA and the detailed stages of its application.

Drilling Essentials for New Engineers and Non-Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas

Drilling Essentials will help you de-mystify activities around the rig and well planning. It will explain the fundamentals of drilling with an emphasis on key areas such as logistical considerations, costing, and analysis of drilling contracts. Understand the urgency of drilling requests, know more about the cost implications of drilling-related problems, and understand the risks involved in a drilling contract.

Introduction to Exploration and Production for New Engineers and Non-Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas

Explore the multi-disciplinary nature of Oil & Gas exploration & production by examining the process, technology and technical terminology used during operations in an upstream business.

Coiled Tubing Operations - The Equipment, The Applications, Well Control & HSE, Emerging Technologies

This course covers the surface and pressure control equipment, the bottom-hole assembly components, the details of the different types of interventions performed with Coiled Tubing and how to deal with fatigue and corrosion.

Reservoir Engineering for Geosciences Professionals and Other Disciplines (4-Day Course)

This 4-day course addresses reservoir engineering concepts and methods to enable cross-disciplinary team work and the smooth exchange of ideas and experience.

Advanced Carbonate Reservoir Engineering

Reservoir engineering methods as practised in carbonate fields will be addressed in this 5-day training course. Practical and actual carbonate reservoir problems and examples will be used to illustrate relevant subjects. Specific reservoir engineering problems related to the heterogeneity, fluid-rock interaction and the often fractured nature of carbonate rocks will be examined.

Trap, Top - and Fault Seal Analysis

In this 5-day course, the main aspects that need to be considered for trap and seal analysis will be discussed, including understanding and identifying spill and potential leak points of traps, theoretical aspects of seals and sealing capacity,methods to assess the sealing potential of seals,trap identification and analysis in a variety of extensional and in compressional settings, unusual traps, such as basement traps,sealing mechanisms and reasons of seal failure; permeability seals and...

Basin Analysis - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This VILT will focus on the geological fundamentals such as how different basin types differ in subsidence mechanisms, basin cycles, heat flow through time, depositional systems, structural styles and their type of petroleum systems.

Deepwater Drilling Operations

This 5-day course provides participants with a wealth of practical and operationally focused knowledge, while building critical skills in well delivery with an emphasis on the operational aspects of well delivery in deepwater.

Petroleum Fiscal Regimes and Applied Finance For Oil & Gas Industry Professionals

This course is not designed to skill Oil & Gas engineers to be accountants, but to give participants the confidence and ability to communicate with accountants and finance managers and to improve their own financial decision making.

Human Competency & Capability Development in Oil & Gas - Building Capability & Optimising Impact (2-Day Course) - ILM Recognised Course Provider

This ILM approved 2-day course provides an excellent opportunity for Learning & Development professionals in the oil & gas sector to learn from strategic learning & development practitioners with extensive experience in the oil & gas sector and from each other.

Human Competency & Capability Development in Oil & Gas - Foundations for Success & Building Competency (2-Day Course) - ILM Recognised Course Provider

This ILM approved 2-day course provides an excellent opportunity for Learning & Development professionals in the oil & gas sector to learn from strategic learning & development practitioners with extensive experience in the oil & gas sector and from each other.

Deepwater Turbidites

The course provides an opportunity to examine analogue data from turbidite reservoirs. This course will review the depositional setting, sequences that are associated with clastic deepwater systems, review the geological controls on reservoir quality and architecture, and put the environment into context of the petroleum system.

LNG Fundamentals

The course contrasts the technical and commercial differences between LNG and natural gas to point out benefits and constraints that arise from the LNG option. A description is given of the elements in the “gas chain” which apply to LNG and of drivers that would lead to optimisation of design and commercial operation. The range and role of relevant parties to a successful LNG project are described. Regulatory authorities are also concerned with LNG safety, which is covered in detail. Ways ...

Technical Report Writing Skills for Oil & Gas Engineers and Technical Professionals - ILM Recognised Course Provider

This separately bookable course will demonstrate how technical professionals can use their technical knowledge and logical edge to write in a reader-friendly style and produce grammatically accurate reports for buy-in purposes.

Moving From Engineer To Manager In The Oil & Gas Industry

By the end of this course, participants will understand and use personality styles to enhance communication and cooperation. Be able to improve organisational performance in the oil & gas industry. Be able to build and maintain high performing teams. Be able to develop problem solving and decision-making abilities. Learn how to set priorities, plan and delegate.Be able to enhance workplace performance by leveraging motivation. Be able to manage and lead technical and professional employees...

Financial Reporting & Compliance for International E&P (IFRS)

This 4-day advanced-level course aims to provide those already familiar with accounting for E&P activities, with a thorough understanding of international financial reporting standards and disclosure requirements necessary for listed and large private companies with government or institutional investors.

Petroleum Geology for Non-Geologists - Featuring Virtual Reality Field Trips

Course facilitator has delivered petroleum geology training to many companies over the years,facilitator is also a professionally trained teacher and former university lecturer who is experienced in communicating with people at all levels of technical knowledge, practical exercises, experiments, examination of real rocks, a virtual reality field trip and case study are used to clarify and reinforce important concepts.

Well Intervention And Productivity School

This course is designed to make those that attend aware of how their job can directly impact the productivity. Early identification of problems in wells and effective interventions to fix problems can have a significant impact by minimising lost oil through formation damage and non productive time.

Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) For Process Plants/ Safeguarding

The design of this course is such that all learning styles are catered for in a participative, friendly environment. This is a highly interactive course. Theory, techniques and principles are presented via lecture, video, and practical case studies, then reinforced with individual and syndicate exercises. It is our goal to ensure the subject matter is relevant to all and participants will be encouraged to share experiences and give their own personal insights into the subject matter. Quest...

Human Competency & Capability Development in Oil & Gas (4-Day Course) - ILM Recognised Course Provider

This ILM approved course with separately bookable sessions provides an excellent opportunity for Learning & Development professionals in the oil & gas sector to learn from strategic learning & development practitioners with extensive experience in the oil & gas sector and from each other.

Fundamentals of Seismic for Non-Geophysicists

Covers the entire seismic process from acquisition, through processing to interpretation and in doing so shows how each relates to and impacts the other, presenter is actively consulting to one of the world’s largest seismic companies. Course is essentially non-mathematical and makes wide use of diagrams, pictures, demonstrations and short videos to explain complex concepts.Numerous hands-on exercises and case studies are used to clarify and reinforce learnings. As much as possible, studen...

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD)

This 5-day course will focus on equipment and procedures required to deliver the full range of different MPD techniques as well as the integration training required to maintain appropriate well integrity and well control barriers throughout the operation.

Subsea Well Intervention

This 3-day intermediate level course focuses on areas of interest unique to the subsea environment, such as subsea trees and wellheads, intervention riser systems and riserless subsea interventions.

Accounting for International E&P

This 4-day intermediate-level course aims to provide a deeper knowledge and understanding of E&P accounting, finance principles and concepts for those who have already been working in the sector for several years and are ready to improve their understanding to support career aspirations.

Exploration & Production Data Management and Physical Asset Management (5-Day Course)

This separately bookable 5-day training course is designed to present the principles of efficient management of E & P Data and physical assets.

Rigless Interventions: Slickline, Coiled Tubing, Hydraulic Workover & New Technologies

This 3-day course is designed to provide you with a thorough knowledge and understanding of the surface equipment, downhole tools, applications and operational contingencies for most Rigless Interventions techniques used in Oil & Gas wells worldwide.

Technical Presentation Skills for Oil & Gas Engineers and Technical Professionals – ILM Recognised Course Provider

This course will demonstrate how technical professionals can use their technical knowledge and logical edge to persuasively communicate for buy-in purposes.

Technical Report Writing and Presentation Skills for Oil & Gas Engineers and Technical Professionals - ILM Recognised Course Provider

This separately bookable course will demonstrate how technical professionals can use their technical knowledge and logical edge to write in a reader-friendly style, produce grammatically accurate reports and persuasively communicate for buy-in purposes.

Integrated Methods for Offshore LNG Transfer

This course will explore the key components, design codes, parameters and configurations in offshore LNG transfer technologies and allow attendees to: Learn about LNG storage & loading systems in terms of safety and process constraints. Know the technical specifications of the different offshore LNG transfer technologies available on the market. Explore the key parameters and the different configurations of each technology solution. Understand the technical challenges in offshore LNG trans...

Leadership & Team Dynamics in Oil & Gas (ILM Recognised Course Provider)

This 3-day course will equip you with key skills that you can utilise to maximise your staff’s performance in line with the company’s objectives.

Application of Structural Geology in Seismic Interpretation

Seismic interpretation requires understanding of structural development and its interrelation with the stratigraphic system. Bias and misunderstanding have unfortunately resulted in countless dry holes. So go beyond tracing horizons and understand their context within the structural system by extracting key information from seismic surveys and other datasets.

Lubricant Analysis and Condition Monitoring - ICML, Machine For Lubricant Analyst Level II (MLAII) Certification

This course has been designed to help your company's reliability drive in the areas of lubrication, oil analysis and contamination control. It not only covers the fundamentals, but provides best practice solutions to ensure your plant achieves world class levels in lubrication management. The course content covers the body of knowledge as laid out by the International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML) for Machine Lubricant Analyst Level II (MLAII) certification.

EPCIC Contract Management & Essential Elements of International Contract Laws

This 3-day workshop that covers important topics such as contracting strategies, liabilities of the parties, issues of indemnity warranties and guarantees. This workshop will provide you with a forum to explore root causes behind disputes as ambiguous clauses or one sided contracts and strategies to deal with such scenarios.

Design, Planning & Executing in Heavy Lifting

From contract signing to project execution, the efficient and safe execution of heavy transportation and lifting involves a variety of specialised load handling equipment and qualified people. At the end of the 2-day advanced course, a multiple choice evaluation test will be done in order to evaluate what participants have learned.

Advanced Production Logging, Cased Hole & Production Log Evaluation

This advanced 5-day course is designed to provide clarity on cased hole log interpretation.

Navigating Petrophysics: Log Analysis, LWD & Wireline

Targeted at awareness to knowledge level, this course addresses the tenets of petrophysics and formation evaluation, using integrative perspective of multiple datasets, including geological, geophysical, and logging and core data.

Technical Report Writing Skills for Oil & Gas Engineers and Technical Professionals - ILM Recognised Course Provider

This separately bookable course will demonstrate how technical professionals can use their technical knowledge and logical edge to write in a reader-friendly style and produce grammatically accurate reports for buy-in purposes.

Advanced Casing Design

This 5-day training course reviews the fundamentals of Casing Design and builds on them to address well design challenges associated with deep, extended reach, HPHT and deepwater wells.

Process Safety Engineering - IChemE Approved Training Course

This 5-day course covers all the main elements of IChemE’s Process Safety Competency framework: culture, knowledge and competence, engineering and design, human factors, systems and procedures, and assurance.

Trap, Top - and Fault Seal Analysis

In this 5-day course, the main aspects that need to be considered for trap and seal analysis will be discussed, including understanding and identifying spill and potential leak points of traps, theoretical aspects of seals and sealing capacity,methods to assess the sealing potential of seals,trap identification and analysis in a variety of extensional and in compressional settings, unusual traps, such as basement traps,sealing mechanisms and reasons of seal failure; permeability seals and...

Advanced Carbonate Reservoir Geology

This 5-day advanced course will start with a refresher on key aspects of carbonate sedimentation, diagenesis and porosity evolution.

Materials Management

This 3-day training course will explain the importance of an efficient Materials Management in the Supply Chain process.

Critical Thinking In Geoscience - The Value of Integrated Data Interpretation and the Skills Required to Frame and Solve the Problems

This data driven training course aims to provide a mechanism to overcome barriers and facilitate collaboration, coordination, cooperation and co-creation between the disciplines. We need to step back and rediscover the analytical methods at our disposal and learn how they can be used to solve the problems that we face in exploration and production studies through critical thinking.

Supply Chain In Upstream: Purchasing & Procurement

This 3-day course defines the Supply Chain process by equipping participants on the details of the Supply Chain functions and their interaction.

E&P Technical Services Contract

This course allows all parties involved – Company, Contractors and sub-Contractors – to better understand the contractual relationship, their rights and obligations. It gives a detailed review of the Contract and its main features.

Plug and Abandonment

This course will guide participants on the key techniques and methods for safe and efficient abandonment of wells both on land and offshore.

Advanced Distributed Control System (DCS) Applications, Selection & Troubleshooting

This course will cover the practical applications of DCS and is based on a selection of subjects that either have had a strong impact on distributed systems today or explore novel ideas which may be of importance for the future.

Well Drilling AFE, Forecasting & Cost Control

This intermediate-level 3-day course covers the elements which comprise the well cost, how to estimate, forecast and monitor them. It also covers elements like geographical location, type of well and profile, hole depth, well targets, rig type, completion type, and contracting strategies.

Advanced Well Integrity Management

This intensive five-day course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management, and skills for designing, operating, and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimize productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD)

This 5-day course will focus on equipment and procedures required to deliver the full range of different MPD techniques as well as the integration training required to maintain appropriate well integrity and well control barriers throughout the operation.

Drilling Essentials for New Engineers and Non-Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas

Drilling Essentials will help you de-mystify activities around the rig and well planning. It will explain the fundamentals of drilling with an emphasis on key areas such as logistical considerations, costing, and analysis of drilling contracts. Understand the urgency of drilling requests, know more about the cost implications of drilling-related problems, and understand the risks involved in a drilling contract.

Introduction to Exploration and Production for New Engineers and Non-Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas

Explore the multi-disciplinary nature of Oil & Gas exploration & production by examining the process, technology and technical terminology used during operations in an upstream business.

Drillstring Design & Failure Prevention

This 5-day course will address all elements of drillstring selection and design, integrating drilling optimisation with drillstring failure prevention.

PSC & JOA Auditing in Upstream Oil & Gas (3-Day Course)

This 3-day course examines auditing concepts, principles and practices specific to the international exploration & production sector. A related course is the Auditing Fundamentals in Upstream Oil & Gas.

Auditing Fundamentals in Upstream Oil & Gas (1-Day Course)

This 1-day course outlines fundamental auditing concepts, principles and practices specific to the international exploration & production sector. A related course is PSC & JOA Auditing in Upstream Oil & Gas.

Auditing Fundamentals in Upstream Oil & Gas • PSC & JOA Auditing in Upstream Oil & Gas (4-Day Course)

This 4-day separately bookable course explores fundamental auditing concepts, principles and practices specific to the international exploration & production sector.

Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs

The Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs course will examine reservoir properties, modeling and development aspects, with practical examples and case studies from Brazil, Oman and Angola.

Evaluation and Development of Shale and Tight Gas

Unconventional evaluation and development require much more multi-disciplinary approach compared to conventional. All pieces from evaluation to drilling, multi-stage fracturing and economics must fall in the right place to make such development possible. This course will help participants identify the essentials of each discipline in the context of shale gas development.

Hydraulic Fracturing: From Design to Execution and Post Frac Analysis

This 4-day course will cover drilling, completion, fluids, reservoir, geomechanics, fracture modelling and design, fracturing operation, production and reservoir management from the basics to the latest developments and the technologies involved.

Petroleum Systems Analysis in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production

This 5-day course addresses the fundamentals of Basin Analysis to Petroleum Systems Analysis, a holistic view of how it works, which is essential for geoscientists involved in today’s challenging Exploration and Production projects.

Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) & Related Agreements - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) examines the operational, fiscal and legal aspects of the different types of Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) in use around the world.

Effective Business Writing for Oil & Gas Professionals (3-Day Course)

In this 3-day course, you will learn that the key to effective memos, email, letters and reports is a strong writing process.

Virtual Reality (VR) Geology Field Trip

VR field trips aren’t just a cost effective, risk free alternative to real field work. They offer unique opportunities to incorporate activities and features unavailable in the field, and deliver a more integrated and flexible learning resource.

Advanced Well Control

This 5-day comprehensive course will address planning and implementation of operational procedures in Well Control. In the event that a Well Control incident occurs, participants will be equipped with down-hole awareness of the behaviour of influxes and how to manage pressures in the wellbore to avoid escalation of the event.

Directional, Horizontal and Multilateral Drilling (Simulator Assisted)

This 5-day training course covers the principles and practices of directional drilling, calculations and planning for directional and horizontal wells.

Human Reliability Analysis (Safety Critical Task Analysis) - Human Factors

This 2-day course will introduce you to a qualitative methodology to undertake Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) – sometimes known as Safety Critical Task Analysis – which is an approach used to pro-actively assess safety critical tasks and other business critical tasks to identify realistic potential human errors so as to take steps to reduce the probability of their occurrence.

Introduction To Artificial Intelligence For Non-Data Scientists In Oil & Gas

Artificial Intelligence is probably the most important technology development of this decade. Artificial Intelligence attempts to simulate several key human capabilities. Simply put, it is a tool that looks for hidden patterns in a massive pool of data that most energy companies are acquiring or developing in business daily. These patterns have predictive value. Machines that can learn from these massive amounts of data can help you make faster, better and cheaper decisions.

Play-based Exploration (3 day course)

This 3 day training course will introduce participants to the Play-Based Exploration workflow through many individual andgroup exercises and discussions. The core of the course is a large group exercise based on a real data set. Based on dataprovided, participants will make reservoir, seal, charge and structural maps, followed by Play maps and CRS maps. The difference in and use of prospect-specific and play-based probabilities will be explained by examples and exercises. It will also be expl...

Oil & Gas Budgeting & Forecasting -Best Practice and Modeling

This 2-day training course provides participants with a solid introduction to the principles of budgeting and forecasting and its practical application to real-world situations. The course also shows how to apply the principles and best practices regarding Oil & Gas budgets cultivated by companies in new and existing projects. It is designed for participants who are new to budgeting and forecasting, and those who have been in operating in this role for some time but would like to update thei...

Gaslift Design, Operations And Troubleshooting

Gaslifting oil wells is one of the most flexible and cost effective artificial lift techniques, the success of any gaslift system depends on an adequate and reliable source of lift gas. The course will prove valuable to production and completion engineers who are involved in artificial lift selection and the design and troubleshooting of gaslift completions.

Exploration for Tight Gas System

This 5 day course is designed to train the explorationist to efficiently identify and map pervasive, large opportunities in Tight Gas Systems. They occur in both clastics and carbonates, and examples of each will be provided. In as much as these resource plays will be a main focus of future gas exploration, it is critical to understand the occurrence and characteristics of these huge unconventional accumulations. They will also become increasingly important in worldwide exploration as a larg...

Tender Preparation & Process Management for Client Organizations

This three (3) day workshop is structured primarily for the oil and gas industry, offshore marine, civil and heavy engineering and water and energy utilities. It is applicable to those persons who manage or lead the procurement processes & manage tender stakeholder committees associated with preparing and issuing requests for quotes, tenders or proposals and who evaluate and assess bid documentation, and negotiate with contractors.

Masterclass in ESD Simulation for the Process Industries: Problems Solving & Troubleshooting for Engineers

This course will provide engineers with a good understanding of troubleshooting and problem solving in process plants. Using a series of simulated practical examples, delegates will be challenged to identify and correct real life process problems.

Effective SOP for Engineers & Technical Professionals in Oil & Gas

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are important for the safe and effective operation of industrial plants and oil & gas facilities. But SOPs are frequently developed late in the project, after the design is completed and construction is well underway.  And they may be used for little other than operator training. Following start-up, they often end up on a shelf collecting dust. Used this way, SOPs have little influence on either the design or the operation of the facility.  But this cannot...

Well Integrity Management - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

This intensive 4-day course is designed to provide participants with a thorough knowledge of well integrity management and risk assessment in producing assets.

International Petroleum Fiscal Systems

It explores the structure and mechanisms of production sharing contracts (PSC’s), concessionary tax/royalty systems, and risk service contracts  and includes the economic principles that underpin them. Studying the underlying processes and commercial drivers, participants will examine case studies to illustrate the economic structure of these complex agreements. This course brings the theory to life, allowing course attendees to design their own fiscal system and build and interpret their own...

Depositional Systems & Reservoir Distribution

The course aims at improving the conceptual geological understanding of the presence and quality distribution of potential reservoir systems. The training material is derived from a variety of geological settings and comprises a mix of petroleum geology case histories and textbook material including seismic, log, core and outcrop data.

Subsea Control Systems & Umbilicals

Offshore Subsea Production Control Systems and Umbilicals covers a broad range of activities that include System Types, Typical Equipments, Operator Interfaces, Control Fluids, Controls Interfaces and a look at future technologies. This course is designed to give a clear understanding to participants of the components of offshore production control technology.

International Oil Pricing & Price Risk Management

In the current volatile oil market, you need targeted skills and knowledge to manage risk in your Oil pricing and trading strategy. By having strong fundamental knowledge of the market mechanisms, you will be able to better predict future market scenarios, and how to respond to it. To get a clear strategy on how to price and trade in the current and future markets, companies have to adopt sophisticated techniques and tools that can deal with the dynamism and challengers of today’s operating ...

Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing

This course teaches hydraulic fracturing in detail plus a matrix acidizing overview so the optimum stimulation treatment can be chosen. It requires a basic understanding of oilfield operations, preferable with prior exposure to well stimulation, though this is not essential. The course is intended for drilling, completion and production personnel who are looking to gain a better understanding of each technique’s advantages, limitations and applications for use in their upcoming completions.

AVO and Seismic Inversion

AVO attributes are used as independent evidence for the occurrence of hydrocarbons (in addition to structural evidence), as a hydrocarbon discriminator and as a lithology indicator. This course starts with a discussion of new developments in seismic data acquisition that have an impact on the accuracy of the AVO attributes, e.g. long offsets, wide-azimuth geometries and broadband data acquisition. It deals with elastic constants, wave propagation, boundary conditions, rock physics, and fluid ...

Natural Gas & LNG Sales Agreements

This 3-day course addresses the various transactional and legal issues along the value chain for natural gas and LNG, including production, processing, delivery and storage. Particular attention is given to current trends in pricing mechanisms, cost reduction strategies, revisions to supply and transportation contracts.

ESD Simulation Training Control, Operation And Design Of Reciprocating Gas Compressors & Control And Operation Of Centrifugal Gas Compressors

An intensive 2 day hands-on course using computer based training (CBT), 3D animations, and dynamic simulation models to examine the design, construction, control and operation of reciprocating compressors. Topics will include the principles of operation, how the design is adapted to a number of different configurations to meet various needs as well as strategies for providing a safe, efficient and effective means of boosting pressure of a gas stream in a number of applications.

HPHT Planning and Well Control

In our pursuit to discover oil and gas in ever deeper horizons, wells are often drilled in what is known as a High Pressure High Temperature [HPHT] environment. To be considered a HPHT well, the downhole conditions will have pressures in excess of 10,000 psi [69 MPa] and 300 deg F [150 deg C]. To drill these usually expensive wells successfully, the planning and execution phase has to be of an exceptionally high standard. Therefore, both operator and drilling/service contractor staff must be ...

Sand Control Operations

This intensive five-day course is designed to provide participants with a thorough knowledge of downhole sand exclusion equipment and the operational procedures required for converting a drilled well into an efficient and safe producer. It follows a practical approach for the various types of sand control equipment, specific applications, the preparation and the final execution and installation of the equipment.

Fluvial-Deltaic Depositional Systems

This course aims to review the fundamentals of fluvial and deltaic depositional systems, and their sequence stratigraphic evaluation.  Examples are given using modern and ancient analogues, and recognition of these depositional systems in the subsurface. 

Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Waterflooding

This 3-day course addresses the basic Reservoir Engineering concepts of waterflooding. The course will discuss the target ultimate recovery to be expected from a waterflood based on the Complexity Index analysis.

Effective Conflict Resolution And Dealing With Difficult People For Engineers And Technical Professionals

When confronted with a challenging personality or situation, most people will either avoid, confront, or concede rather than engage constructively. This workshop will prepare you to respond intelligently rather than react emotionally. It will help you change your attitude and behaviour, transform your relationships, and not waste time trying to change others. In this intensive, 1-day workshop participants will gain the knowledge, skills, techniques, and attitude to successfully manage chal...

Deepwater Depositional Systems

This course examines different deepwater depositional systems and considers how deepwater process, topography and sediment supply impact on these systems. The course examines analogue data from turbidite reservoirs and modern turbidite systems. Depositional settings and sequences associated with clastic deepwater systems are reviewed, along with the geological controls on reservoir quality and architecture. It also examines post-depositional process that can have a major impact on reservoir q...

Completions: Applications, Types, Installation and Workovers

This intensive five-day course is designed to provide participants with a thorough knowledge of completion equipment and operational procedures required for converting a drilled well into an efficient and safe producer. It follows a practical approach for the various completion types, specific applications, completion installation and workovers.

International Petroleum Contracts

This course will help you develop an in-depth knowledge of the legal and contractual framework in which the upstream oil industry conducts its operations. It opens with an explanation of the geopolitical forces which shape the modern oil industry and then covers the major technical, legal/contractual and financial/economic/taxation/fiscal issues that form modern E&P agreements worldwide. You will learn the philosophy, evolution and fundamentals of international petroleum contracts. You w...

Petroleum Fluids and Source Rocks in E&P Projects

The course “Petroleum Fluids and Source Rocks in E&P Projects” enables participants to interpret fluids and source rock data to add value to E&P projects from exploration to environmental remediation. Examples and case studies come from both conventional and unconventional petroleum systems around the world. The learning objectives are achieved through well-illustrated lectures, numerous hands-on exercises and active class discussions.

Operations Geology

Participants will acquire an understanding of the geological challenges that accompany drilling and how to combat them to succeed. The course will look at what information is gathered during drilling from wellsite geology, mud logging and petrophysical (“wireline”) logs, and how it is used. The measurement and prediction of formation pressure are covered in detail, and there are also modules on coring and well testing. The course concludes with an in-depth look at the deep water drilling e...

Advanced Heat Exchanger Design, Performance, Inspection, Maintenance and Operation

The design, performance and operation of modern heat exchangers requires an understanding of the principles of heat transfer and fluid flow, coupled with access to numerically based techniques and supporting data. This course will review heat transfer fundamentals as applied to tubular and plate devices.

Flow Assurance for Offshore Field Development

This training course provides an in-depth understanding of the issues to be considered in the development of offshore fields. Each day consists of lectures in the morning and a hands-on workshop in the afternoon. The workshop allows the participants to appreciate the design process associated with field developments. Various software will be available during the training course to predict multiphase flows through wells, pipelines and risers, as well as evaluating reservoir production profile...

LNG Markets, Pricing, Trading & Risk Management

This 3-day intensive intermediate level course will give you cutting-edge knowledge needed in today’s complex LNG market.

Exploration Simulation: Critical Thinking, Technical Integration And Commercials

Surface Production Operations

This 5 day training course is designed to provide an understanding of the wide range of surface production handling and treatment equipment. Participants will learn not only "what" but "how" field fluid treating equipment works. Participants will be introduced to the fundamental principles of fluid behavior and how it applies to all of the various equipment and systems comprised in production operations. Emphasis is on understanding the internal workings inside the piping, valves and vessels.

Production Engineering and Optimisation

This 5-day course is designed with the aim of identifying optimal solutions for petroleum development projects from a production and facilities perspective, either looking at new developments or existing ones.

Negotiation Skills and Techniques for Engineers and Technical Professionals - Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

Many technical experts find it difficult to move out of their expertise areas and deal with commercial matters. Negotiating to optimise business value is a step further from their comfort zones. All too often negotiations are then left to finance personnel. They bring many strengths to the table but an understanding of engineering trade-offs is not one of them. By attending this course participants will add to their technical know-how a core competence in negotiation skills. They will thu...

Applied EOR Technology

This 3-day course addresses the relevance and basic concepts of various EOR techniques. EOR techniques are often grouped in three main areas: thermal EOR (e.g. steam soak and SAGD), chemical EOR (e.g. low-salinity waterflooding, polymer and surfactant flooding) and Gas EOR (like HC gas and CO2 injection).

Reliability Engineering & Operating Best Practices - A Holistic Approach

This 5-day practical course includes the latest thinking in reliability improvement, how to gain maximum benefit for minimum effort and how to develop bespoke reliability strategies that will integrate effectively with other work. This course includes methods and tools to move away from the academic theory of reliability and generate practical methods to improve performance. This course is based upon an award-winning model of excellence for improving plant performance to achieve pace setter s...

Applied Sequence Stratigraphy

This course aims to help geologists, geophysicists, stratigraphers and reservoir engineers gain a thorough understanding of the concepts and practical applications of sequence stratigraphy through integration of seismic sequence stratigraphy with well log sequence stratigraphy and the application of biostratigraphy to sequence stratigraphy.

Liquid & Gas Flowmetering & Custody Measurement

This course will familiarise process, instrumentation and custody transfer engineers with the procedures and practices involved in the choice of flowmetering systems and their associated supporting equipment.

Root Cause Analysis for the Oil & Gas Industry

Eliminating failures is a proven strategy that can improve plant reliability. With minimal investment, it can help to yield returns in excess of 500% in months, not years. Root Cause Analysis is a systematic, evidence-driven process that helps you find the true underlying (and often hidden) causes that result in unwanted events.

Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) & Related Agreements (3-Day Course)

This 3-day course examines the operational, fiscal and legal aspects of the different types of Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) in use around the world.

Carbonate Reservoir Geology

This 5-day course has been designed to develop skills in understanding the geometry and petrophysical characteristics of carbonate reservoirs.

Advanced Well Integrity Management

This intensive five-day course is designed to deepen your knowledge of well integrity management, and skills for designing, operating, and maintaining well equipment. The ultimate goal is to optimize productivity at the lowest Unit Operating Cost (UOC) and to maintain mechanical integrity throughout well life cycle.

Clastic Exploration & Reservoir Sedimentology

This course has been developed to provide an understanding of the geometry and hydrocarbon potential of clastic depositional systems and facies, and how they are affected by such important features as basin configuration, tectonics and eustasy.

Advanced Well Stimulation Strategies

Strategic Innovation in Oil & Gas

Design and build long term scenarios to explore strategic expectations. To be able to define a long term innovation strategy focused on possible future needs supported by long term business scenarios. Understand stage-gated technology development and innovation. Learn how to value a portfolio of innovation projects, use various ‘lenses’ to manage and cull.Use scenario thinking linked to innovation to create options for new ventures. Deploy transparent and structured frameworks for new ways...

Rapid and Inclusive Strategy Development in Oil & Gas

This course uses simulations, practical exercises, case studies (including videos), presentations and group discussions to allow participants to experience the different technologies and approaches.

Deepwater Completion Operations

This 5-day training course provides participants with knowledge of critical well completion processes, completion equipment and operations associated with deepwater completions and available intelligent well and completion architecture used for both platform and subsea completions.

Pipeline Integrity Management

This 3-day course provides a sound review of Pipeline Integrity Management strategies, in compliance with regulatory requirements, including self-assessment. It is highly interactive and takes the form of lectures and case studies.

Gas & LNG Contract Negotiations

This world class training course is uniquely Asia-focused. It immerses course participants in a dynamic negotiation process based entirely on real life Oil, Gas and LNG negotiating situations, many of which have been experienced directly by the course Trainers. It targets professionals who are normally peripheral to major Gas and LNG negotiations such as legal counsel, financial and engineering professionals, project leaders and senior management, any of whom may be called in to play an a...

Applied Petroleum Geomechanics - Pore Pressure Prediction and Maintaining Wellbore Stability

The course is essentially non-mathematical and makes wide use of diagrams, pictures and exercises to illustrate the essential concepts of geomechanics,essential pore pressure and rock mechanics principles, mechanical core testing, abnormal pressure mechanisms – subcompaction, fluid expansion and buoyancy, pore pressure measurement and overview of prediction techniques, real-time over-pressure detection, Unconventionals, sand production, prediction and management, constructing a rock mecha...

Reliability Engineering

The links between maintenance and reliability, and the effect of Reliability on Process & Environmental Safety, Production volumes and maintenance costs will become clear.

Introduction to Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Vessels (FPSO) - Design & Technology

This 2-day training course will focus on the key technical questions that an FPSO and/or FLNG project team need to address as part of the overall design project. The course has been exclusively designed to equip participants with key tools needed to find answers to these questions and to make the appropriate decisions to advance future projects.

Gas Processing (5-Day Course)

This 5-day course covers the design of systems for natural gas handling and treatment from the wellhead to the gas processing plant to achieve marketable products that meet desired product specifications.