Comprehensive weather insights help safeguard your operations and drive confident decisions to make everyday mining operations as safe and efficient as possible.Learn fundamental principles, tools, technology and methodologies for finding and managing oil and gas reservoirs. Ideal for experienced professionals as well as new entrants to the industry seeking to gain a basic understanding of the upstream sector to contribute to team success.
At A Glance
| Industry Segment | Natural Gas, Oil |
| Course Level | Introductory |
| CPE Credits | 13 |
| DTN Credits | 6 |
| Competency Path | Certified Energy Professional, Natural Gas, Oil |
What You Will Learn
This course is also available On Demand in two parts:
This live course features a special focus on:
- Petroleum formation and geoscience techniques (the rock cycle, plate tectonics, hydrocarbon generation, source rocks, reservoirs, traps, seals, unconventional resources, seismic and well data).
- Geologic risk and exploration economics (basin analysis, commerciality / volumetrics, mineral leasing, global oil and gas reserves, national oil companies vs. international oil companies).
- Appraisal drilling and petrophysics (the appraisal process, reserves and resources definition).
- Field development decisions and drilling technology (reservoir simulation, risk integration decision modeling, vertical vs. directional wells, hydrofracturing, deepwater drilling).
- Reservoir engineering (field management principles – oil vs. gas reservoirs, waterflooding, CO2 enhanced oil recovery, heavy oil steamflooding, natural gas and condensate processing).
- Transportation (pipelines, marine vessels, rail options, liquefied natural gas – LNG).
- Exploration frontiers (global unconventional vs. conventional recent discoveries and trends).
Who Should Attend
This course is an excellent introduction to new employees in the upstream industry, introducing them to concepts, terminology and relationships that can take years to learn on their own. People who work on the periphery of the upstream (service companies, suppliers, refiners, and pipeliners) will find that these sessions clear up many of the uncertainties and confusions that exist. Investors, analysts, and regulators will gain insight into the risks and rewards of the business as well as how to interpret press releases and annual reports that detail significant events in an often-times arcane language.