Production Engineering Training

Provides participants with a solid understanding of integrated oil and gas asset management. Covers workflows for identifying oil generation opportunities and introduces trends and technologies that improve well, reservoir, and facility (WRFM) practices. Participants gain skills in well and reservoir surveillance for informed decision-making in asset life cycle management, production optimisation, enhanced recovery, and strategies for maximising value from ageing assets.

A rigorous treatment of well performance analysis using the systems (nodal) analysis framework. Participants explore the interaction between reservoir inflow performance (IPR) and tubing/wellhead outflow performance (VLP), and learn how to identify operating points, diagnose underperformance, and quantify the impact of changes in completion design, tubing size, choke setting, separator pressure, and artificial lift on well deliverability. Real field datasets are used throughout.

Multiphase flow behaviour governs how fluids move from the reservoir to the processing facility, and how flow assurance challenges threaten the continuity of that flow. This course covers the physics of gas-liquid-solid flow in pipes and risers, pressure drop and holdup prediction, flow regime mapping, and the principal flow assurance threats: hydrates, wax, asphaltenes, scale, sand, emulsions, slugging, and corrosion.

Effective surveillance is the backbone of production performance management. This course equips participants with structured methods for monitoring well and field performance, diagnosing deviations from expected behaviour, and managing performance through well-defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The course emphasises a data-driven approach: from raw measurement quality, through diagnostic workflows, to KPI dashboards that drive operational and management decisions.

A comprehensive overview of all major artificial lift methods: Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP), Gas Lift, Sucker Rod Pumps, Progressive Cavity Pumps (PCP), Hydraulic Jet Pumps, and Plunger Lift systems. Emphasis is on selection criteria, design fundamentals, and ongoing surveillance. Participants develop the judgement needed to match the right lift method to the right well under varying reservoir, fluid, and operating conditions.

Electrical Submersible Pumps remain one of the most widely deployed and most failure-prone artificial lift systems. This focused course covers ESP system architecture, sizing and selection, motor and pump performance curves, variable speed drive operation, downhole monitoring, and a deep treatment of failure mechanisms. Particular attention is given to root cause failure analysis, dismantle inspection findings, and engineering interventions that improve Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).

Gas lift remains one of the most flexible and forgiving artificial lift methods, but its true value is unlocked only through proper design and continuous optimisation. This course covers continuous and intermittent gas lift principles, valve design and spacing, unloading sequences, troubleshooting of common gas lift problems, and field-wide gas allocation optimisation under compression and supply constraints.

Surface facilities convert raw well streams into sales-quality products and are often the binding constraint on field production. This course covers the principal unit operations: separation, dehydration, compression, pumping, heat exchange, and water handling. It equips participants with the tools to identify facility bottlenecks, evaluate debottlenecking options, and optimise facility throughput against export and quality specifications.

Bridges process engineering and production engineering through the lens of integrated asset modelling and process simulation. Participants learn to build steady-state and dynamic process models, link them with subsurface and network models, and use simulation to test improvement and optimisation scenarios. The course emphasises practical model building, validation against plant data, and the translation of simulation results into operational decisions.

Production assurance is the discipline of ensuring that what is produced is accurately measured, allocated, reconciled, and protected against avoidable losses. This course presents a unified framework that links enhancement opportunities, optimisation initiatives, and the back-allocation and reconciliation processes that close the loop between subsurface estimates, well measurements, and fiscal sales. Loss accounting, deferment management, and shrinkage analysis are covered in depth.

An entry-level course that introduces the concepts, vocabulary, and core techniques of production enhancement and optimisation. Designed for new entrants and cross-discipline professionals, it provides a structured foundation in well performance, lift, surveillance, and basic optimisation thinking, without assuming prior specialist knowledge. Recommended starting point for anyone new to production engineering.

Building on foundational concepts, this intermediate-level course develops practical competence in the techniques used to enhance and optimise producing wells and fields. Topics include well intervention planning, matrix and acid stimulation, water and gas shut-off, recompletion strategy, artificial lift optimisation, and the economic evaluation of enhancement options. Field cases anchor the technical material in realistic operational contexts.

The advanced course in the enhancement and optimisation series tackles complex, integrated problems faced in mature assets and challenging operating environments. Topics include advanced stimulation design, complex multilateral and horizontal well optimisation, integrated asset optimisation under uncertainty, brownfield redevelopment strategy, and the leadership of multidisciplinary optimisation initiatives. Built around extended case studies and participant-led problem solving.