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Hydrocarbon Exploration, Production Process & Techniques

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Course Overview

What are the techniques of exploration?

Hydrocarbons are the backbone of technological achievements and historical benefits to man till today. The exploration of hydrocarbons is conducted by geophysicists and geologists to utilize potential crude oil and natural gas reserves deposited underground. The primary stage in such exploration is the identification of potential regions of the world and drill exploratory wells. After exploration, stages such as production, refining, and transportation are commonly followed in the oil industry.

What is exploration & production?

Development planning and production are created based on the expected production profile. This depends on the driving force mechanism in the reservoir. However, the environmental consequences of these processes are highly challenging due to the need to maintain a balance between petroleum operations and environmental effects. At present, the primary goal of exploration and refining companies is to use cost-effective production methods that have least impact on environment.

This Zoe training course intends to provide you with an integrated overview of how petroleum refineries work to produce oil and gas, focusing on hydrocarbon exploration and related facilities in production processes. Delegates will be able to go through all the stages of an oil and gas field. These include exploration, drilling, development, production, and decommissioning. Through this Zoe course, you would acquire the ability to work confidently in an oil and gas field in a practical manner.

Course Objectives

The key objective of this course is to encourage professionals to:

  • Get Familiar with the fundamental knowledge of the upstream oil and gas industry
  • Enable to develop a broad perspective of the global oil business: exploration, appraisal, planning, production, refining, and transportation
  • Create the ability to differentiate between various exploration methods for hydrocarbons
  • Enable to identify the geological structures containing hydrocarbons
  • Develop an understanding of the techniques and process requirements to produce hydrocarbons including drilling engineering
  • Familiarity with the importance and requirements of oil and gas facilities in oil and gas fields
  • Recognition of the risks and environmental concerns associated with hydrocarbon exploration and production
  • Develop a basic understanding of the need to balance between the benefits to society and environmental aspects
  • Enable to communicate with others on the operational aspects of hydrocarbon exploration and production techniques in an oil and gas field

Training Methodology

Zoe Talent Solutions offers training courses across a wide range of subjects. Training is delivered by experienced professionals who excel in the relevant domain. Part of the training is delivered as presentation in sessions, and sections are facilitated through practical exercises. Trainees are assigned projects and tasks in groups, encouraging interaction among trainees and between the trainer and the trainees. Role-plays are also employed as part of Zoe training courses, wherever applicable.

This training format is run by Zoe Talent Solutions & is used for all its courses. It is called the ‘Do–Review–Learn–Apply’ Model.

Organisational Benefits

With professionals undergoing this course, organizations will benefit in the ways mentioned below:

  • Familiarity with the fundamentals of oil and gas fields to develop a better understanding of the processes in the exploration of hydrocarbons
  • Improvement of the process efficiency and performance at the workplace
  • Training of the employees orienting towards the practical nature of oil and gas fields and hydrocarbon exploration
  • Detailed assessment of the upstream project within the field to modify the life cycle of the gas field
  • Identification of the technical gaps within the exploration and production processes and accepting them as challenges to improve the credibility of the system
  • Propose and investigate advanced development plans for the company fields
  • Use the synergistic approach to achieve the balance between society and the environment
  • Familiarity with the advanced techniques in hydrocarbon exploration and production processes to improve the system in terms of reducing the environmental footprints

Personal Benefits

Professionals who opt for this Zoe course will benefit in the below-mentioned ways:

  • Detailed overview of the upstream processes involved in the oil and gas field
  • Identification of the geological structures containing hydrocarbons
  • Understand the aim of exploration & development planning
  • In-depth understanding of the complex nature of operations in the oil and gas fields
  • Ability to understand the technology, concepts, and terminology used in the oil and gas industry
  • Awareness of the modified technologies in the oil and gas operations
  • Improved exposure to the process requirements in all the stages of hydrocarbon exploration and production
  • Understanding of the field discovery and various methodologies for the exploration of hydrocarbons
  • Appreciate the contribution of technologies and experts involved in the field development project
  • Ability to train others on the key processes in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons keeping in mind the advanced processes
  • Skills to assume higher responsibilities involving supervision of multiple functions and requirements of the stages in hydrocarbon exploration and production
  • Ability to understand the environmental aspects of hydrocarbon exploration and appreciate the link between society and the environment
  • Develop a basic perspective of the risks associated with hydrocarbon exploration and production

Who Should Attend?

  • Oil and gas field personnel
  • Technicians and field operators
  • Petroleum, refinery, and chemical engineers
  • All personnel involved in the operations, maintenance, and engineering
  • Energy industry journalists and reporters
  • Directors, executives, ministers, support traders, and technicians willing to acquire basic insight into oil and gas fields
  • Professionals from banking, finance and insurance – dealing with oil supply, refining, & transmission
  • HR or HSE professional involved in the oil and gas field
  • Business analysts, corporate planning professionals, and development managers who need to have a better understanding of this simulating field

Course Outline

The course covers the following topics regarding Hydrocarbon Exploration, Production Process, and Techniques.

Module 1: Introduction to the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry

Module 2: Life Cycle of Gas Field

  • Access stage
  • Exploration stage
  • Appraisal stage
  • Development planning
  • Production stage
  • Decommissioning

Module 3: Hydrocarbon Exploration

  • Estimation reserves
    • Origin of petroleum fields
    • Geological traps
    • Reservoir rocks
  • Role of geoscientists
  • Licensing
  • Development planning road map
  • Field discovery
  • Economic evaluation

Module 4: Exploration Techniques

  • Geophysical methods
  • Seismic processing
  • Seismic interpretation
  • Well logging
  • Gravity surveying
  • Geochemical prospecting
  • Amplitude variation with offset
  • Time-lapse seismic surveys

Module 5: Understanding Appraisal and Production Stages

  • Exploratory and appraisal wells
  • Appraisal phase
  • Scheduling for appraisal phase
  • Development
  • Petroleum plateau stage
  • Decline phase

Module 6: Properties of Reservoir Rock & Fluids

  • Reservoir geology and fluids
  • Porosity and permeability trends
  • Water saturation
  • Recovery efficiency versus depth trends

Module 7: Drilling Engineering

  • Well planning
  • Drilling rigs
    • Function
    • Types
  • Drilling equipment
  • Drilling techniques
    • Casing and cementing
    • Directional drilling
  • Drilling challenges

Module 8: Wells and production functions

  • Optimum well spacing
  • Optimized number of wells
  • Fluid flows close to wellbore
  • Production and bottom hole pressure testing
  • Well completion
  • Enhanced well and field recovery

Module 9: Hydrocarbon Production and Refinery Operations

  • Objectives
  • Crude oil products
  • Oil refinery operations
    • Topping refineries
    • Hydro skimming refineries
    • Complex refineries
    • Distillation
    • Cracking
    • Treatment

Module 10: Surface facilities

  • Processing of oil and gas
  • Metering and storage Oil and gas transport

Module 11: Risk assessment and management

  • Risks associated with the process
    • Oil spill pollution
    • Clean-up challenges
    • Unsuccessful exploratory operations
    • Operational impacts
  • Risk analysis in exploration and production
  • Risk management

Module 12: Safety and Environmental Concerns

  • Hazards in exploration and production
  • Balance between benefits to the society and environmental impact
    • Benefits to the society
    • Adverse effects of hydrocarbon exploration and production on the environment
    • Role of industry in mitigating oil pollution
    • Synergy between Governments, Oil industry, and Environmentalists
  • Process improvement

 

 

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