Basic

Petroleum Engineering Practices - BE

Dubai
17 May, 2015 to 21 May, 2015 (5 days)
Discipline: Introductory and Multi-Discipline Training
Level: Basic
Instructors: Eric Foster, Mason Gomez, W. Greg Hazlett, Ron Hinn, Robert A. Hubbard,
Stephen Jewell, Satish Kalra, Robert (Bob) Lippincott, Alain Louis, William (Bill) Powell,
Helmy Sayyouh, George Slater
This course is a basic introduction to most aspects of the Petroleum Engineering discipline
which includes Reservoir, Production and Drilling Engineering as well as related topics.
This course lays the groundwork for further specialized training in advanced courses for
oil company and service company personnel. The course focuses on the field and
application approach; and includes classroom exercises, fundamental engineering
problems and basic field exercises. Basic Petroleum Engineering Practices will set the
foundation for technical professionals with regards to technology and its engineering
applications. The course starts out with a brief introduction of the history and current state
of the oil and gas industry. Next, reservoir fluids, petroleum geology, and petroleum
reservoirs are discussed. Then, various facets of exploration technology, drilling
engineering and operations, well completion technology, and production technology are
covered before finishing with surface processing of produced fluids.
Who should attend:
Engineers, engineering trainees, technical managers and assistants, technicians,
geologists, geophysicists, chemists, physicists, service company personnel, sales
representatives, and data processing personnel
You will learn:
Basic petroleum geology
Reservoir fluid and rock properties
Fundamentals of reservoir fluid flow
Oil and gas reservoir classification, definition, delineation and development
Unconventional resources
Fundamentals of drilling, well completion, and production operations
Basics of casing design and primary cementing
Primary and enhanced recovery mechanisms
Surface operations
Topics Covered:

Reservoir fluid properties

Petroleum geology
Reservoir properties and evaluation
Unconventional resources
Exploration technology
Drilling engineering
Well completion, stimulation and workover
Well testing and formation damage
Production operations
Recovery methods
Surface processing
Instructors:
ERIC A. FOSTER, P. Geol., is a Geoscience Advisor/Instructor with PetroSkills based in
Houston with 36 years of operations and management experience in the oil and gas
industry. His background includes all aspects of formation evaluation and the application
of software to geological and drilling engineering data acquisition and interpretation. He
has acted as a technical advisor /consultant on projects throughout the world, and has
extensive experience in the design and delivery of training programs. Previously, he was
with Landmark responsible for managing Geoscience and Engineering consultants,
representing Geological, Geophysical and Petrophysical software applications and
services for global operations. He was an instructor of petroleum technology at Mount
Royal College and SAIT in Calgary and in-house for Amoco. He is a registered
Professional Geologist and is a member of APEGGA, AAPG, SPE and SPWLA. He served
as Publications Chairman and on symposium committees for the CWLS, co-authored the
paper on computer data formats (LAS) and has compiled numerous technical papers and
training courses. He is a certified tutor for online learning and received a B.Sc (Hons). in
Geology, from the University of London.
MASON GOMEZ is the PetroSkills Technical Director for the Production and Completions
discipline and the Reservoir Engineering discipline. He is a Licensed Petroleum Engineer
(LA#26131) with 26 years diversified experience including: production/reservoir
engineering, offshore field development/mature field optimization, shale play drilling/
completions, Operator/Service Company employment, Engineering, Sales, Operations
Management, Human Resource Development, and Project Management roles. He
received a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University.
DR. W. GREG HAZLETT is Vice President of OGCI/PetroSkills where he designs
competency-based training programs, evaluates course materials and instructors,
teaches training courses, and consults on technical issues. Prior to joining OGCI, he was
Vice President of a consulting firm, where he was in charge of the petroleum and
geological engineering consulting group. He specializes in performing reservoir
characterization, engineering and simulation studies. Studies include deep-water Gulf of
Mexico oil and gas fields, a granite gas reservoir offshore India, and steamfloods in
California. Dr. Hazlett has also worked for Mobil as a drilling engineer, and for Texaco as
a steamflood project manager in Colombia, and as a reservoir and simulation engineer in

both research and Kuwait operations.

He was a Lecturer at Texas A&M University and an Associate Professor at New Mexico
Tech, and has published on petroleum engineering topics, served as SPE coordinator for
the Reservoir, Gas Technology, and Fluid Mechanics and Oil Recovery Processes
committees, and has testified as an expert witness. Dr. Hazlett has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University and is a registered
Professional Engineer in Texas.

Ron Hinn is the Executive Vice President of Technical Staff and Disciplines for PetroSkills.
He is a people oriented technical manager, possessing strong leadership and
communication skills. A registered professional engineer, Rons 35 year career has
spanned numerous roles including staff engineering, engineering supervision, corporate
knowledge management and professional staffing and competency development. Ron is
active in both the Society of Petroleum Engineers and ABET (Accreditation) activities. He
has served on the Board of Directors of both organizations. Ron received a B.S. degree
from the University of Tulsa in petroleum engineering.
MR. ROBERT A. HUBBARD is a training consultant with John M. Campbell & Company.
He is based in Norman, Oklahoma with over 30 years experience in oil and gas facilities.
Mr. Hubbard specializes in gas dehydration and economic evaluation. Mr. Hubbard joined
John M. Campbell & Company in 1980; within the company organization he has held the
positions of Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, President and Chief Financial Officer.
He now provides consulting and training services worldwide. Previous to John M.
Campbell & Company he held various engineering and management positions at Texaco
Inc. from 1972 to 1980. Mr. Hubbard is a member of SPE, AIChE, and GPSA, he has
chaired the SPE Facility Engineering Committee and is a member of the European GPA
Management Committee. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State
University, and an MBA from Tulane University.

STEPHEN JEWELL is an independent oil and gas consultant and advisor with 30 years
experience in the upstream sector. He was previously the Managing Director and cofounder of Xodus Subsurface Ltd, the Wells and Subsurface company within the Xodus
Group of technical consultants. He was also Chief Operating Officer and a founding
shareholder of Composite Energy Limited, a European Unconventional Gas company,
growing the company from seed capital of $500k to an ultimate sale value of over
$60million in 5 years. He has over 16 years experience with Amerada Hess starting as
petroleum engineer and progressing to Acting General Manager of its North Sea
Operations Base. He received a B Eng (Honours) degree in Electronic Engineering from
the University of Sheffield and speaks Norwegian and French.

DR. SATISH K. KALRA is a petroleum engineer with over 25 years of management,

operations, teaching, research, and consulting experience with national and private oil
companies. As an Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, he taught graduate and
undergraduate students at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette. He also
worked for the University of Texas at Austin. His career includes assignments with ONGC
(National Oil Company of India), ARCO Offshore (now BP), BJ Services, Agio Oil and Gas,
Schlumberger / Holditch, Miller and Lents and SKAL-TEX Corporation. He is widely
published in technical literature and was the Chairman of the National SPE Committee on
Monographs. His technical expertise includes the design and supervision of production
and well completion operations, formation damage and sand control, reservoir
management, technology transfer and contract negotiations. He actively participated in
several technology transfer agreements with various Indian, Chinese, and Russian
companies. He is fluent in English, Russian and several Indian languages. Recently he
was nominated as a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences US Section. He
received an M.S. and Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the Gubkin Oil Institute,
Moscow, Russia and a degree in law from Gujarat University, India.

BOB LIPPINCOTT is an Employee Development Consultant with extensive oil and gas
exploration and production experience which includes technical training, petrophysical and
petroleum engineering. He is well versed and knowledgeable on current tools and
technology and is an experienced course director and lecturer for Petrophysical and basic
Petroleum Engineering training. As a consultant, he is able to bring an unbiased analysis
of training needs as well as develop a program to effectively meet those needs. Bob is
skilled at delivering technical training across cultural and geographic groups. He has a
B.S./M.E. from Mississippi State and an MBA from the University of New Orleans.

ALAIN LOUIS is a Senior Geoscience and Petroleum Engineer with more than 35 years
international experience, both in oil and service companies. His expertise lies with the field
proactive monitoring (Digital Oilfield), reservoir and well performance, formation
evaluation, reservoir characterization, along with the associated R&D activities. His recent
contributions have led to the design and numerous implementations of collaborative tools
of field performance monitoring and optimization (reservoir, artificial lift, plant
maintenance,..), carried in TOTAL E&P assets of Angola, Gabon, Congo, Qatar,
Argentina,..

His expertise includes technical training within TOTAL and ELF in Petroleum Engineering,
in particular in focusing well data acquisition to better serve a field (re)development plan,
justify the program of this data and anticipate fallback solutions. He has generated
collaboration projects in this area between ELF, TOTAL and ENI for several years. He has
held various international positions overseas in Petroleum and Reservoir
Engineering. With ELF, from 1990, he delivered internally the first Logging Operations

Manual for witnesses; he developed and instructed the training course, dedicated to
wellsite geologists and petroleum engineers, in planning and executing operations of LWD
and wireline logging, along with the associated QC. From 1974 to 1979, he was a field
engineer and field service manager with Schlumberger in various countries of Africa and
Middle East.

He has authored numerous presentations and publications at SPE ATCE, ATW, and
EAGE Conferences. He received a Master of Sciences from ECAM Engineering School,
Lyon, France in 1973 and a Degree from IFP in 1979 (French Petroleum Institute). He is
fluent in English, Italian, French (mother tongue), and gets by in German.

W.E. "BILL" POWELL is an oil and gas professional with over 30 years of experience in
field operations, technical sales, marketing, and management with autonomous
operations and profit and loss responsibility.Prior to entering the oil and gas industry with
Schlumberger he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Bill holds
B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers,
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and
European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers. Over the course of his career, Bill
has taught short courses and seminars on a variety of technical topics.Bill served as Vice
President Marketing for S.A. Holditch & Associates Inc, a well-known petroleum
consultancywhere he played a key role in building the brand equity that was the basis of
their successful acquisition and integration into Schlumberger. His most recent
assignment with Schlumberger was as North America BusinessDevelopment Manager for
Data & Consulting Services where he maintained close relationships with numerousmajor
and independent oil and gas companies.Bill currently serves as Technical Director Core
and Integrated Disciplines for PetroSkills and performs the role of Integrated Disciplines
Manager Unconventional Resources.
DR. HELMY SAYYOUH is the professor of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering at Cairo
University, Egypt. He was the chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department, and an
active member in the Faculty Council at Cairo University, the Research Center Council
and the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Engineering Sciences at King Saud University
(Elsevier publications). Since 1986, he has been a Consultant Engineer in the areas of
petroleum reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery, and reservoir simulation.
In 1998, 2001 and 2006 he was awarded the distinguished prize of post-graduate studies
supervision from the CAPCU-Cairo University. In 1998 and 2008 he was awarded an
appreciation certificate for the significant contributions to the engineering profession. He
has taught petroleum engineering courses at, King Saud University, and Cairo University.
He was offered a visiting professor at the Petroleum Engineering Department, the
University of New South Wales at Australia.
Dr. Helmy Sayyouh has been involved in many consulting projects with SANCST (Saudi

Arabia), Bin Ali Oil Corporation (Libya), General Petroleum Company (Egypt) and Giesum
Oil Company (Egypt). He has supervised tens of Ph.D. and M.Sc students and has
published more than 120 technical papers at international conferences and bulletins. His
biography appeared in the 16th Edition 1999, of the Who's Who in the World. He has a
B.Sc.and a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering with a Ph.D. from Penn State in Petroleum &
Natural Gas Engineering as well as a Post Doctorate Fellowship from West Virginia.

DR. GEORGE E. SLATER is an instructor/consultant with over 45 years experience as an

engineer and professor. In addition to creating software systems used worldwide to
integrate engineering and geological data, he has worked in various management
positions as a reservoir engineer, and taught at Pennsylvania State University. He has
authored a number of papers on Reservoir Simulation and engineering problems, and is a
46-year member of the Society of Professional Engineers of AIME. He received a B.A. in
Arts & Letters with M.S. and PhD degrees in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from
The Pennsylvania State University.

In-House Course Presentations

All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house
courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your
requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged
specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House
Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com
Public Course Presentations
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Telephone 1-918-828-2500
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