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SPE training course, you
help provide even more
opportunities for industry
2 SPE Training Center Locations professionals to enhance
their technical and
2 On-Site Training
professional competence.
3 CEUs
Scholarships, certification,
3 Online Training the Distinguished Lecturer
program, and SPE’s
4 Courses for Drilling and Completions energy education program
Energy4me are just a few
8 Courses for Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and examples of programs
Social Resonsibility supported by SPE.
9 Courses for Management and Information

15 Courses for Production and Operations
19 Courses for Projects, Facilities, and Construction
21 Courses for Reservoir Description and Dynamics
37 Instructor Biographies
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Course Listing by Technical Discipline
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Engineers are responsible for enhancing their professional
competence throughout their careers. Licensed, chartered, and/or Days CEU PDH
certified engineers are sometimes required by government entities
1-day .8 8
to provide proof of continued professional development and
training. Training credits are defined as Continuing Education Units 2-day 1.6 16
(CEUs) or Professional Development Hours (PDH).
3-day 2.4 24
Attendees of SPE training courses earn .8 CEUs for each day of 4-day 3.2 32
training. We provide each attendee a certificate upon completion
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Online (self-paced) Training

Online training can save you time and money by eliminating the expenses associated with travel.
SPE is working to bring you state-of-the-art, online courses that will allow you to develop at your own
pace, 24/7, around the globe.
Below are just a few of the courses available soon. Keep checking www.spe.org/training for more
information.
Wireline Production Operations Basic Completion Design And Practices
Well Planning Oil And Gas Industry Overview
Drilling Problems And Drilling Optimization Petroleum Geology And The Exploration
Hydraulic Fracturing Process
Wellheads, Flow Control Equipment And Drilling And Well Completions

Flowlines Oil Field Development
Cementing Upstream Gas: From Exploration To Wholesale
Directional And Horizontal Drilling Markets
Offshore Production Facilities Deepwater Drilling
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Course
Descriptions
SPE training courses cover a broad range of topics to meet the needs of the petroleum
engineering professional. You will learn new methods, techniques, and best practices to
deal more effectively with the technical challenges you face each day.
SPE offers more than 95 courses, ranging from introductory to advanced, covering the
following technical disciplines:
Course Descriptions
Drilling and Health, Safety, Security, Management Production and Projects, Facilities, Reservoir Description
Completions Environment, and Social and Information Operations and Construction and Dynamics
Responsibility
We are continually adding new courses. If a course in your discipline is not listed, be sure
to check our online catalog for a complete and up-to-date listing of training courses at
www.spe.org/training/catalog.
Drilling and Completions Training Courses
Casing and Tubing Design Seminar Cement Evaluation and Remediation

Peter Erpelding James J. Smolen, William K. (Bill) Ott
This 2-day course covers all the relevant subjects needed This 2-day course examines methods for detecting fluid
to understand the structural mechanics of downhole channels, voids and leaks, and how to repair them. It
tubulars. Discussions begin with the fundamental also covers the logging tools and technologies used
design principles and progresses through materials, to evaluate the integrity of the cement prior to initial
performance, loads and design. Participants will also learn completion or anytime during the life of the well. The first
to calculate tension, compression, burst collapse, yield day of class is dedicated to evaluating cement and the
and threshold strength. second day to repairs.
Why You Should Attend Why You Should Attend

This intensive hands-on course will give you the Poor cement coverage affects nearly every aspect of
proficiency and confidence you need to design safe a well. This course will give you a better understanding
and cost-effective casing and tubing strings. of some critical well safety and integrity issues.
Who Should Attend Who Should Attend

This course is for drilling and completion engineers, This course is for drilling and completion engineers,
and drilling supervisors who want additional insight into field supervisors, petroleum engineers and geologists as
casing and tubing design. well as managers and regulatory officials who need to
understand what can go wrong with a cement job and
Special Requirements how it can be repaired.
Attendees need to bring relevant field well designs and
problems to use as in-class exercises.
View the current schedule or register online at www.spe.org/training. 4

Coiled Tubing and Its Applications Horizontal Well Completions

Ed Smalley Sudiptya Banerjee, Aaron Burton
This 1-day course presents an introduction to coiled This 1-day course develops strategies for completing
tubing (CT) as a tool for workover, drilling, and horizontal wells. It covers both cased-hole and open-
completions. It provides an overview of conventional hole configurations, either with or without sand
CT applications, the properties of CT, its manufacture, control. Participants will learn the applications and
surface equipment and subsurface tools. A significant dynamics of horizontal wells, including drill-in fluids,
portion of the course covers mechanical performance, hole displacement, cementing, perforating, and
including working limits, buckling, lockup and fatigue. stimulation. They will also learn the guidelines for
There will also be a discussion of drilling technology selecting stand-alone screens and executing horizontal
and hydraulics. gravel packs. Topics include:
• Completion options
Why You Should Attend • Cased-hole horizontal completions
Coiled tubing has many applications in the oil and • Perforating and stimulating horizontal wells
gas industry. Anyone involved with exploration and • Open-hole horizontal completions
production should be familiar with the basics of this • Drill-in fluids
versatile technology. • Zonal isolation and inflow control
• Displacing the drill-in fluid
Who Should Attend
Course Descriptions
This introductory course is appropriate for those who are Why You Should Attend
new to coiled tubing, and for anyone who would like to Horizontal drilling was a step-change in the industry,
refresh or expand their knowledge. but the technology is more expensive and riskier
than drilling vertical or deviated wells. As a drilling,
completion or reservoir engineer, it is important
Geomechanical Aspects of CO2 Storage for you to understand the many challenges
and options of horizontal drilling.
Safdar Khan
This 1-day course is an overview of the essential Who Should Attend

geomechanical aspects to consider when assessing This course is designed for drilling, completion and
the suitability of a carbon storage site and maintaining reservoir engineers, and for service company personnel
the site safely over time. Participants will gain an involved with planning, drilling, completing and operating
understanding of the many factors that can affect horizontal wells.
the well, reservoir and caprock integrity of potential
geological carbon storage sites. Topics include:
• The basic concepts of stress and strain, including Introduction to Drilling with Casing
mechanical and acoustic properties, rock strength, pore Technology
pressure and in-situ stresses
Ming Zo Tan, Steve Rosenberg, Deepak M. Gala
• Geomechanical responses to CO2 injection
• A recommended geomechanics data acquisition This 2-day fundamentals course begins with an
program and introduction to coupled reservoir introduction to the DwC industry, key benefits of the
geomechanics simulation for the analysis of technology, and the primary DwC systems employed
caprock integrity by various operators. This is followed by selection of
• Effective reservoir monitoring, including injection- equipment for setting up a competent DwC system
induced microseismicity, and techniques for monitoring comprising of surface casing drive and handling
ground and subsurface deformations equipment and down-hole components. Various
engineering calculations will also be discussed. At the
Why You Should Attend end of the course students will be given an assessment
The technology behind the geomechanical test. Additional topics include:
sequestration of CO2 has advanced rapidly in the last • Drillability analysis, drill bit knowledge
few years. This course is an excellent opportunity to • Bit record and dull grading, basic log interpretation,
introduce yourself to the subject, or to bring your and drilling exponent
knowledge up to speed. • Casing drill bit and casing drives
• DwC Operations and economics,
Who Should Attend • Hydraulics, torque and drag analysis, cementing,
This course is for engineers, researchers, geoscientists, and drilling with liner
technologists and regulators involved in CO2 sequestration.
Why You Should Attend
You will gain an understanding of the well selection,
economics, pre-job engineering, equipment selection,
and preparation needed to ensure the successful
execution of a casing while drilling project.

Who Should Attend Why You Should Attend

The course is designed for drilling, application, and field With the increased use of advanced drilling
engineers, wellsite supervisors and managers involved in technologies such as underbalanced drilling, it is
preparation, engineering, and execution of a casing while important to understand how to conduct projects
drilling project. that are both successful and safe.
Who Should Attend

Introduction to Managed Pressure The course is designed for all personnel involved in
Drilling underbalanced drilling, including onshore and offshore
Deepak M. Gala managers, wellsite engineers, wellsite supervisors and
operations engineers.
This 1-day course provides a solid introduction to
Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD), an adaptive drilling
process that allows greater control of the annular pressure Modern Well Design
profile throughout the wellbore. Participants will learn Bernt S. Aadnoy
the variables involved in MPD operations, including the
selection of the equipment and the various aspects of This 2-day course presents a unified approach to the
safety and operations. Topics include: well design process. It is an overview of the operational
• Objectives of MPD and its variations sequences, from spudding the well through drilling and
• Advantages/disadvantages of each MPD variation completion, to startup and production. Participants will
Course Descriptions
• Drilling fluid systems and surface equipment for learn elementary rock mechanics and a simple way to
MPD Operations analyze borehole stability. The information is then used to
• Completing MPD wells design a fracture gradient curve, which serves as input to
• HSE Issues the well design process. That is followed by a discussion
• Limitations and costs of MPD of the potential for optimization. Topics include:
• The future of MPD • Methods for improving borehole stability
• Case histories • High-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) wells
• Hydraulic optimization and the interpretation of
Why You Should Attend ballooning in deep wells
Managed Pressure Drilling is an increasingly important • Deepwater, multilateral and long-reach wells
technique that helps operators drill new wells safely • Well integrity issues, with examples from the North Sea
and more efficiently. In some cases, MPD allows them
to drill previously undrillable wells. This introductory Why You Should Attend
course is an excellent opportunity to expand your Some of the practical solutions given in the course
understanding of drilling techniques. come from many years experience in the North Sea,
and are not published elsewhere. Each participant will
Who Should Attend receive a copy of the book Modern Well Design: Second
This course is appropriate for those who are new to the Edition by Bernt S. Aadnoy.
industry, or anyone who would like to understand the
value of this important drilling technology. Who Should Attend
This course is for drilling and production engineers,
drilling supervisors, exploration geologists, and others
Introduction to Underbalanced Drilling who work on oil and gas wells.
Deepak M. Gala, Steve Nas
This 1-day course covers the integrated technologies

involved in underbalanced drilling. Participants will learn SPE Members—
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Practical Rock Mechanics for Drilling Shale Selection, Completions,

and Completions Fracturing and Production
Pat McLellan George E. King
This 3-day course is a concise overview of basic rock This 2-day course acquaints participants with the basics of
mechanics and its application to many practical problems oil and gas shale evaluation and current shale selection,
encountered in drilling, completion and stimulation. well completion, fracturing, and production technologies
Participants will receive an up-to-date course manual with for shale reservoirs. The interactive format includes field
some of the latest technical innovations in the industry, a data, current approaches and use of technologies suited
comprehensive list of references and internet resources, a for shale developments. Technologies include logging,
spreadsheet program for analyzing basic wellbore stability frac interval selection, multi-stage fracturing in horizontal
and initiating hydraulic fractures, and a demonstration of wells, and a summary of field data from many shale plays.
advanced geomechanical software. Topics include: Topics include:
• In-situ stresses and formation pressures • Candidate selection criteria to identify shale “sweet
• Rock mechanical and acoustic properties spots”
• Wellbore stability and drillability • Complex fractures and role of geomechanics
• Casing integrity • Well orientation, optimum length and perf cluster
• Hydraulic fracturing and sand production design
• Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) • Optimizing well completions and stimulations
• Geomechanical reservoir monitoring • Fracturing risk estimation: strengths and areas to
Course Descriptions
improve
Why You Should Attend • Water sources, treatment, reuse and disposal
What you’ll learn in this course will add to your toolkit • Predicting production, estimating decline and well
of techniques for planning complex wells in challenging start-up suggestions
geological environments. • Surface equipment and production operations

This course is for drilling, completions, exploitation The technology for recovering oil and gas reserves
and production engineers and technologists. Reservoir from shale is changing the face of the industry
engineers, petrophysicists and geologists, as well as worldwide. If shale reserves are part of your
subsurface engineering and geoscience managers will portfolio, this course is for you.
also benefit from this class.
Who Should Attend
Special Requirements This course is for all well completion and production
Attendees must bring a laptop computer to class. engineers, managers and geologists working with
shale reserves.
Special Requirements
Attendees must bring a laptop computer to class.
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Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility Training Courses
GHG and CCS Regulatory and Legal • Security Measures

• Material of construction for bulk storage container
Frameworks
• Wellhead pressure control including installation
Kipp Coddington of blowout prevention and control system for
drilling operation
This 1-day course reviews the evolving regulatory and • Manifolds and flowlines
legal frameworks that will govern Green House Gases • Well shut-in valves
(GHG) and the emerging field of Carbon Capture and
Storage (CCS). As with any industrial activity, CCS will Why You Should Attend
require various operating rules. In this course, participants If you are interested in learning more about preventing
will gain and understanding of the broad legal framework or reducing the environmental impact of oil spill, you will
that defines the day-to-day operating procedures of the benefit from attending this course.
industry. Topics include:
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Who Should Attend
Change (UNFCC)
This course is for engineers, managers, technicians,
• The Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord and the
and consultants responsible for designing and
Cancun Agreement
operating offshore and onshore drilling, production,
• Current international climate negotiations
or work-over facilities.
• Surface and subsurface property rights issues for
geologic storage Note: Additional technical disciplines for this course
• Remaining gaps in legislation and regulation are Drilling and Completions and Production and
Course Descriptions
Operations.
Lawmakers at both the national and state level are
moving on issues that will affect all future CCS projects. Public Outreach and Education:
This is your chance to learn from one of the industry’s Preparing CCS Professionals for
leading legal experts. Engaging with Stakeholders
Who Should Attend Lindsey Tollefson
This course is for oil and gas professionals, executives,
managers, regulators and attorneys who need to Carbon capture and storage (CSS) project team members
understand the basic legal and regulatory framework that will understand and apply effective public education
is shaping the emerging CCS industry. and outreach strategies in selecting, permitting, and
operating a carbon sequestration site in this 1-day
course. Project members will be provided with technical
Offshore and Onshore Oil and scientific background, specific guidelines, and best
practices for dealing with a variety of stakeholders in a
Spill Prevention, Control, and number of different settings. Topics include:
Countermeasures • Outreach in CCS case studies from around the world
Emmanuel Wada • Public outreach and education methods and tools
• Community research
This 1-day course focuses on oil spill or discharge • Development of an outreach strategy and
prevention and response to spill during oil well drilling, communication plan
production, and work-over operations. Participants will • Working within and beyond the regulatory environment
learn about oil spill or discharge prevention, response to • Getting the message out effectively
spill, spill containment, air and water monitoring, hazard
evaluation, and introduction to oil spill trajectory model Why You Should Attend
simulation. Participants will also learn to develop a plan This course will bring together the results from the
that meets federal and state environmental regulations. latest CCS research published on public perceptions,
Topics include: outreach, and education best practices.
• Procedure for handling products, facility operations,
training, and environmental law Who Should Attend
• Transfer operations This course is for oil and gas professionals including
• Discharge or drainage prevention executives, managers, regulators and lawyers.
• Overflow, corrosion, vacuum prevention
• Inspection, maintenance, mechanical integrity
and leak testing

Management and Information Training Courses
Asset Management—Tools, Process, as well as maintaining, sustaining and measuring the

existing DIKM system. Topics include:
and Practice
• Data, information and knowledge management (DIKM)
Alok Jain • DIKM imperatives, why DIKM
• Company and DIKM VMV, goals and strategies
Participants in this 2-day course will learn to develop • DIKM assessment, gap analysis and road map
and put in context an integrated asset management definition
plan. They will begin by defining the asset from the • Change management and the basic implementation
earliest phases and work through its lifecycle, including • Pilot project, company to corporate implementation
all of the infrastructure, facilities, equipment and • DIKM framework: sharing and learning
services. Topics include: • DIKM application, standard and procedures and IT
• Define the contents of an asset management plan enabler
• External factors such as fiscal terms, host government • DIKM auditing and benchmarking
policies, regulatory requirements, etc. • Sustaining DIKM
• Macroeconomic factors such as the price of products, • DIKM project plan
goods, and services
• Internal factors such as company policies, external Why You Should Attend
commitments, resources, decision-making processes You can boost business performance through
and criteria, roles and responsibilities, authority integrating accurate data, information, and
guidelines, rewards, and budgets knowledge management in knowledge sharing
• The asset management process, including key and learning based organizations.
Course Descriptions
decisions and deliverables

• Roles of multi-disciplinary team members and
Who Should Attend
monitoring their performance
Professionals who want to enhance their competency in
• Information needed from each discipline in various
assessing the current company system and filling the
stages of the asset lifecycle
gaps—if any, developing and running the pilot project,
• Role of benchmarking, post-auditing, and
as well as maintaining, sustaining, and measuring the
continuous improvement
existing DIKM system.
• An overview of asset management tools and examples
from the field, including frequent mistakes
Field Development Economics
You’ll learn asset management strategies and skills that Mark Cook, David Palmer
can immediately be utilized in the field.
In this 1-day course, participants will learn to construct an
economic evaluation of a field development opportunity
Who Should Attend
using common industry indicators. Supported by many
This course is designed for professionals across the full
practical examples, the course covers both greenfield
spectrum of oil and gas operations.
and brownfield situations. The course is supported by full
text, copy of slide presentation, glossary of terms, and
bibliography. Topics include:
Data and Knowledge Management
• Cash flow analysis
Programm as Basic Keys to Achieve • Tax and royalty systems
Technology and Operational Excellence • Production sharing contracts
Prajuto • Discounting and assessing the cost of capital
• Economic indicators and project ranking
The use of data, information, and knowledge is • Incorporating risk into economics
extensively used in the business today. Unfortunately, • Incremental project economics
it is difficult to obtain accurate information from ocean
assets, with only an 11% retrieval rate, especially in Why You Should Attend
the exploration and production business. Thus, data, The information shared in this course will assure your
information and knowledge management practices decisions in the field are backed by sound economics.
may seem like a non-cost-effective solution to run the
business. Accurate, integrated, and easily accessible Who Should Attend
data, information, and knowledge is essential to create This course is for engineers, geoscientists and managers
effective cost savings for companies. who want to use economic methods for making field
development decisions. Service company staff will learn
This 1-day training course was developed to enhance to evaluate the economic benefits their products can
participants’ professional competency in assessing the offer, and investors will be better able to rank their oil or
current company system, and filling the gaps—if any, gas opportunities.
developing and running the pilot project necessary,

Production Forecast and Reserves Who Should Attend

Estimates in Unconventional Resources This course is for anyone who works closely with the
generating and reporting of reserves, and for those who
W. John Lee make resource estimates for business decisions.
This course, offered in both 1-day and 2-day versions,

teaches the skills and understanding needed to forecast Managing Your Business Using PRMS
production and estimate reserves in unconventional and SEC Standards
(ultra-low permeability) gas reservoirs. Although the
course emphasizes gas shale and tight gas formations, John Etherington, Rawdon Seager
some of the material also applies to oil reservoirs.
This 1-day course is an overview of SPE’s Petroleum
You’ll also learn the basic theories that describe how
Resources Management System (PRMS) and the
fluids move through a reservoir, as well as some of the
recently revised US Securities and Exchange Commission
most common drilling and completion techniques for
(SEC) regulations.
recovering them.
The PRMS is an industry standard approach to classifying
Why You Should Attend petroleum resources. Portfolio managers use it to
There are various ways to forecast production and support their evaluations and decisions. Publicly traded
estimate the size of unconventional gas reservoirs. You’ll companies listed on US stock exchanges are also
learn the strengths and weaknesses of each system and obligated to report a portion of their assets according
how to develop reliable forecasts in this course.
Course Descriptions
to SEC reserves disclosure rules. Although SEC rules are
now more closely aligned with PRMS guidelines, there
Who Should Attend are important differences. This course compares the key
The course is for engineers and geoscientists who features of PRMS and SEC regulations, and explains how
are interested in learning how to evaluate companies may combine the two standards to better
unconventional reservoirs. manage their business. Topics include:
• Background and comparison of petroleum guidelines
Special Requirements and revisions
Attendees must bring a laptop to class. • Major principles and key guidelines in PRMS
Note: An additional technical discipline for this course is • How PRMS captures risk and uncertainty
Reservoir Description and Dynamics. • Assessing and reporting unconventional resources
• Deterministic and probabilistic methods
• PRMS support for resources, project and
Managing Your Business Using portfolio management
• Changes in SEC disclosure requirements
PRMS (Petroleum Resources • New pricing requirement
Management System) • The concept of “Economic Producibility”
John Etherington • The use of reliable technology in defining proved
reserves limits
This 1-day course allows an in-depth look at the • SEC supplemental guidance
framework, classifications and applications of SPE’s • Comparison of SEC and PRMS guidelines
Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS). • Reporting requirements and control processes
Participants will gain a solid understanding of this • International reserves and resources systems
valuable resource management tool. Topics include: • Integrating internal business management and
• An overview and in-depth look at PRMS external disclosures
• Defining the project and evaluating risk and • Improving quality assurance in resource evaluations
uncertainty
• Incremental projects and unconventional resources Why You Should Attend
• Entitlement and recognition It’s critical for resource managers to keep up with the
• The resource management processes latest regulations. This course can save you days of
• Integrating internal and external reporting research and reading on your own.
• Combining deterministic and probabilistic methods
• Quality assurance and quality control Who Should Attend
• Coordinating international standards The course is designed for professionals involved in
estimating, classifying, and reporting petroleum resources.
Why You Should Attend It is also for those who use reports of petroleum reserves
The Petroleum Resources Management System is a and resources based on SPE’s Petroleum Resources
powerful management tool that is widely used in the Management System (PRMS), and the recently revised US
industry. If your job includes any aspect of resource Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations.
management, this course will enhance your skills.

Monte Carlo Simulation for the Oil Oil and Gas Economics and Uncertainty
and Gas Industry Rodney Schulz
Jim Murtha, Susan Peterson
This 2-day course will teach participants how to identify,
During this 2-day course, participants work directly with evaluate, and quantify risk and uncertainty in every day oil
spreadsheet-based risk simulation software (either Crystal and gas economic situations. It reviews the development
Ball or @Risk) to examine and modify prepared models of pragmatic tools, methods, and understandings for
and to create simple models of their own. Participants professionals that are applicable to companies of all sizes.
will also analyze historical data using histograms, cross The course also briefly reviews statistics, the relationship
plots, correlation in Excel, and software to fit probability between risk and return, and hedging and future markets.
distributions to data. Several worksheet models are Topics include:
included. The course covers software basics such • Strength and weakness of traditional econometric
as menus, settings, distributions, outputs, graphics, analysis methods
statistics, sensitivity analysis, interpreting results, and • The efficient market hypothesis and its application to
creating reports. Topics include: oil and gas price forecasting
• Monte Carlo simulation and the language of statistics • Proven volatility/uncertainty reduction methods and
• Simulation design tools for the operational side of business
• Crystal Ball (or @RISK) features, including inputs, • How to scientifically and statistically incorporate
outputs, settings, simulation and reports differing perspectives
• Models to estimate reserves • Ways to develop a revenue forecast that takes the
Course Descriptions
• Changing distribution types and parameters uncertainties into account

• Production and economic forecasts • Portfolio design and management
• Operating and capital expenses
• Cross plots and correlation in Excel Why You Should Attend
• Handling rare events This course will help you develop a better understanding
• Comprehensive models and linking model components of factors that could impact your daily economic
• Class Problems decisions as well as establish a new set of applicable
tools to use in your professional career.
In this course you’ll learn to use the language of Who Should Attend
probability and statistics to build practical models for This course is for professionals involved with economic
business decisions. This intensive learning opportunity evaluations, forecasting, and economic decisions in the
will give you a deeper understanding of the decision- upstream oil and gas business. It is for producers and
making process and open new doors in your career. operators with oilfield experience.
Who Should Attend

This course is intended for engineers, geologists and
geophysicists, managers, planners, economists and
technical support staff.
Special Requirments
Attendees must bring a laptop to class. No previous
knowledge of the subject is assumed, although you
should be familiar with Excel. Participants are also
expected to have experience using models to solve Society of Petroleum Engineers
problems, such as production or economic forecasting,
estimating reserves or scheduling. Petroleum Engineering
Certification Programme
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Oil and Gas Reserves: The SEC Oilfield Data Mining

Reporting Rules Shahab D. Mohaghegh
W. John Lee
This 2-day course examines the successful application
This 2-day course provides substantial detail and of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (AI&DM) in the
interpretation of the US Securities and Exchange E&P industry in the past several years. It will start with
Commission’s modernized rules for reporting oil and the fundamentals of AI&DM, covering artificial neural
gas reserves. The course includes networks, evolutionary computing, and fuzzy logic. The
• Discussions on classifying resources course is devoted to field application of this technology
• The SPE/WPC/AAPG/SPEE Petroleum Resources with focus on production optimization and recovery
Management System (PRMS), which is the basis for enhancement. Learning objectives:
many of the new SEC reserves definitions • Provide engineers and geoscientists with an
• The effects of the new rules on nontraditional alternative (new and innovative) set of tools and
resource disclosures techniques to solve E&P related problems
• Recommendations for adapting to the new rules • Identify remaining reserves and sweet spots in
reservoirs as a function of time and different field
Lectures and discussions are included, with more development strategies
than half of the time devoted to solutions from class • Optimize stimulation and workover design and
problems and exercises. effectiveness by coupling reservoir characteristics with
The course workbook includes relevant publications of stimulation practices and forecasting stimulation outcome
Course Descriptions
the SEC, SPE, and the Financial Accounting Standards • Tap into the hidden and usually unrealized potentials
Board. This course information has been updated to of numerical reservoir simulation models
include the latest changes in SEC rules and regulations. • Quantify uncertainties associated with geological
models and other parameters used in modeling
Why You Should Attend production optimization and recovery enhancement
This course will help engineers, geoscientists, and
business managers correctly interpret and apply the Why You Should Attend
SEC’s modernized oil and gas reserves reporting rules. Artificial Intelligence is a collection of several analytical
It will provide useful comparisons of the SEC rules with tools that attempts to mimic life. This technology is
the SPE/WPC/AAPG/SPEE/SEG Petroleum Resources used extensively in other industries such as automation,
Management Systems definitions. manufacturing, the financial market, and homeland
security. It has been predicted that the use of AI
Who Should Attend technology will introduce a step-change in how E&P
Anyone in the petroleum industry who deals with reporting industry does business in the future.
oil and gas reserves will benefit from this course.
Who Should Attend
Special Requirements This course is designed for reservoir, completion and
Participants must bring a laptop to class. production engineers of operating companies as well
as service company personnel involved with planning,
completion, and operating wells.
Note: Additional technical disciplines for this course
are Production and Operations and Reservoir
Description and Dynamics.
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Petroleum Reserves • The resource management processes

• Integrating internal and external reporting
John Hodgin • Resource tracking and reconciliations
• Special classification and categorization issues
In this 2-day course, participants learn to estimate
• Hybrid deterministic and probabilistic methods–
petroleum reserves using SEC and SPE/WPC definitions,
class exercise
guidelines and latest interpretations. Instructors will
• Quality assurance and quality control
present the main reservoir engineering and geoscience
• Coordinating international standards
methods used to estimate reserves, and demonstrate how
definitions affect such estimates. Case studies are use to
illustrate different methods for estimating reserves, along
PRMS is a powerful management tool that is
with typical errors and how to avoid them. Participants
widely used in the industry. If your job includes any
will also learn supplemental techniques such as reservoir
aspect of resource management, this course
simulation and probabilistic methods for estimating
will enhance your skills.
reserves. Topics include:
• The purpose of reserves
• Reserves studies, reports, and definitions Who Should Attend
• Petroleum fluids This course is for anyone who works closely with the
• Resources vs. reserves generating and reporting of reserves, and for those who
• US Reserve Standards make resource estimates for business decisions.
• Reserve classification and status
Course Descriptions
• Typical problems identified by the SEC

• International reserve standards Project Risk, Uncertainty, and
• Methods for estimating reserves Decision Analysis (1-day)
• Volumetric method, recovery factors, and James (Jim) Gouveia, Mark A. McLane, Gary P. Citron
reservoir simulation
• Reserve audits, quality control, and SEC hot topics This 1-day course provides an introduction to the
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act application of systematic risk analysis to identify, quantify,
and manage the risks and uncertainties involved with
Why You Should Attend modern petroleum field development. Topics include:
The rules that govern the way the oil industry reports • Understanding probability and statistics as the
oil and gas reserves aim to protect investors and ensure language of uncertainty. This includes different types
energy supplies. If your job includes dealing with SEC of distributions and when to use what, the central limit
and SPE/WPC guidelines, this course offers a quick way theorem, dependencies, and their impact.
to refresh your understanding of the process and learn • Decision analysis with a focus on the value of
about the latest changes. information.
• The application of Bayes’ theorem.
Who Should Attend • Geologic, non-geologic, and commercial chance of
This course is designed for industry professionals involved success plus multi-zone analysis.
in estimating or filing petroleum reserves under SEC • Exercises focused on developing better estimating
or SPE/WPC guidelines, or any oil or gas professionals skills with an emphasis on estimating in ranges, rather
interested in gaining a better understanding of the than single values.
process of estimating reserves.
Special Requirements You’ll learn tools and techniques for identifying
A basic knowledge of reserves definitions and estimation which variables have the greatest impact on
methods is desirable, but not required. overall project value.
Who Should Attend

Practical Application of PRMS Petroleum engineers, geologists, geophysicists, managers
(Petroleum Resources and others involved in the design or implementation of
Management System) risk analysis systems.
John Etherington
This 2-day course allows an in-depth look at the

framework, classifications and applications of SPE’s
Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS).
Participants will gain a solid understanding of this
valuable resource management tool. Topics include:
• An overview and in-depth look at PRMS
• Defining the project and evaluating risk and uncertainty
• Incremental projects and unconventional resources
• Entitlement and recognition

Project Risk, Uncertainty, and Decision Review for the Principles and Practice
Analysis (2-day) Exam (Study Session)
James (Jim) Gouveia, Mark A. McLane, Gary P. Citron Richard G. Hughes, Robert W. Chase,
Shawket Ghedan
In this 2-day course, you’ll learn to apply risk and
uncertainty management principles to decision quality This 2-day preparatory study course will share best
analysis in the development of oil and gas reserves. On practices for engineering professionals getting ready to
the first day, we set the background with statistics take the professional registration or the SPE certification
and probabilities, estimating under uncertainty and exam. Questions similar to those found on a typical exam
probabilistic reserves estimation principles. The second will be reviewed in an effort to raise awareness of exam
day features ways to determine the chance of geological content. Areas covered include drilling and completions,
and commercial success, and the use of decision trees to production logging, economics, reservoir engineering,
assess the value of new information. Topics include: and formation evaluation.
• Distribution types and when to use what
Course materials and sample problems are updated each
• The central limits theorem
year to remain abreast of changes in the exam. Current
• Estimating under uncertainty
test questions will not be reviewed or distributed during
• Estimating volumetric reserves, saturations and net pay
this class.
• The value of perfect Information—seismic example
• The value of imperfect information
Course Descriptions
Learn to strategically approach the study process,
Why You Should Attend know valuable reference materials needed for successful
This class is an excellent way to gain a lot of ground
completion of the exam, and general procedures and
professionally in a short amount of time. If you’d rather
requirements for registration.
be making the decisions than carrying them out, this
course is for you.
Who Should Attend
This course is for anyone desiring US professional
Who Should Attend
registration. This course provides the most recent
This course is for anyone who is involved with making
changes in requirements for the US professional
quality decisions about the development of subsurface
registration examination and suggests study tips for
hydrocarbon accumulations.
those planning to take the exam.
Attendees must bring a calculator to class.
Wanted—Training Courses in Emerging Technologies

SPE is calling for the development of new training courses featuring practical, hands-on approaches
to real-world problems.
To expand our global offerings, we’re looking for new courses, two- to five-days long, and 60- to
70-minute webinars in emerging technologies specifically addressing such topics as:
• Water anagement • High temperature and high pressure
• Data to action operations
• Well integrity • Hydraulic fracturing
• Drilling and completions • Flow assurance
• Health, safety, security, environment, and • EOR/IOR
social responsibility • Heavy oil operations
• Projects, facilities, and construction • Arctic operations
• Offshore oil and gas exploration, • Development and production of
development, and production unconventional resources
• Deepwater operations • Optimizing brown field (marginal field)
development
Email [email protected] to learn more about our new course development program.

Production and Operations Training Courses
Artificial Lift solve in the workshops, and problem scenarios from the
attendees are always welcome. Topics include:
Bill Lane, Rajan Chokshi • Understanding production systems
• The role of artificial lift in optimizing production
This 1-day course will help develop a solid foundation in
• Analysis and trouble shooting of continuous-flow
all forms of lift and the concepts of the selection process
gas lift systems
to maximize production and return on investment. Other
• The ESP, with detailed pump, motor, cable and
topics include:
shroud designs
• Advantages and limitations of each system
• Handling of gas and solids
• Application considerations
• Sample performance predictions
The instructor for this course draws on 40 years of
Why You Should Attend experience in the business. By the end of the week,
This class helps ensure a broad view of artificial
you’ll have a firm grasp of ESP and gas lift systems.
lift, particularly when in-house expertise is limited
to one-or two-lift systems.
Who Should Attend
This course is for engineers who are involved in oil
Who Should Attend
production and the design, maintenance and optimization
This course is for production and field operations
of artificial lift, especially electrical submersible pump and
engineers, junior and senior petroleum engineers and
continuous-flow gas lift systems.
field technicians as well as geoscientists and reservoir
Course Descriptions
engineers who wish to understand the implications of

production systems on their field reservoirs.
A suitable degree in engineering or a BS degree is a
pre-requisite for this class.
Cased Hole and Production
Log Evaluation Diagnosis and Practical Solutions
James J. Smolen for Wellbore Fluid- and Heat-Flow
This 5-day program is a comprehensive and up-to-
Problems
date course covering the new and traditional wireline Shah Kabir, Rashid Hasan
diagnostic techniques for the surveillance of cased wells.
Smolen’s 1996 book, Cased Hole and Production Log This 2-day course examines the fluid flow and heat
Evaluation, plus a loose-leaf workbook, are provided to transfer that occurs down hole during the production of
participants of this course. Topics include: oil and gas. Participants will use spreadsheets to compute
• Formation evaluation through casing the pressure and temperature profiles of single- and
• Well integrity—cement and casing inspection multi-string completions, and for both conduits of gas-lift
• Water identification and fluid movement in both wells. These basic principles will then be extended to
injection and producing wells tackle flow assurance and reservoir surveillance problems
using examples from the field. Topics include:
Why You Should Attend • Fluid- and Heat-Flow Models and Their Practical
This course is a unique opportunity to learn proven Applications
cased hole and production log diagnostic techniques. • Applications to Fluid Flow Assurance
• Applications to Reservoir Surveillance
Who Should Attend
This course is for reservoir and production engineers Why You Should Attend
and geologists, petrophysicists, log analysts and others A host of problems can threaten flow assurance in
involved in well surveillance, maximizing recovery, offshore and onshore wells. If you are directly involved
identifying production problems, planning workover in flow assurance or need to know more about it, this
operations or utilizing production information in course is for you. Participants will receive a copy of the
reservoir studies. SPE text, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wellbores, by
A.R. Hasan and C.S. Kabir, 2002.
Design and Optimization of Artificial Who Should Attend

Lift Systems This course is designed for production, reservoir and flow-
assurance engineers who are involved in the development
Hemanta Mukherjee of oil or gas reserves and the simulation
of integrated systems.
This 5-day course is an in-depth look at artificial lift,
specifically for wells using continuous-flow gas lift or
electrical submersible pumps (ESPs). The course can also
Participants should have moderate experience or
be modified for a 5-day exclusive ESP training program
exposure to the topic. Attendees need to bring a
with hands-on problem solving using SubPUMP software.
laptop to class.
In either case, there are plenty of class problems to

Formation and Prevention of • Candidate Selection with discrete “candidate

recognition” examples
Oilfield Scale: From the Laboratory
• Fracturing Materials
to the Field • Diagnostics—How you know you’ve achieved
Eric Mackay, Ken Sorbie your goal
This 2-day course introduces state-of-the-art oilfield scale Why You Should Attend
management, with field examples to illustrate the basic The course will introduce the basic concepts and
science. Participants have the opportunity to run Heriot- terminology of hydraulic fracturing, enabling you to
Watt’s software, SCALEUP, to predict the formation of intelligently discuss the potential applications to your
scale, and the university’s SQUEEZE VI software to create well. For G&G personnel, it will provide an ability to
field-scale inhibitor squeeze designs. recognize very early in the evaluation process the
potential for fracturing to improve potential target
The course material draws on the research and industry
formations, as well as learning what types of formations
experience of the presenters. It provides both the
make the best targets for fracture stimulation.
underlying theory in an accessible manner and examples
of how to apply that knowledge in the field.
Who Should Attend
The course is intended for engineering managers,
Why You Should Attend geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers desiring
This is a unique opportunity to learn from people
general information about the process, and what it can
who developed some of the industry’s best tools
do for them. It is also intended as a general review for
Course Descriptions
for managing oilfield scale.
petroleum engineers with knowledge or experience in
fracturing, but no current active involvement.
Who Should Attend
This course is for production technologists, engineers,
oilfield chemists and anyone concerned with flow
Hydraulic Fracturing—Design
assurance issues. It is also useful for those who work in the
service, scale inhibitor and sulphate removal industries. and Treatment
Michael B. Smith, Carl T. Montgomery
Participants are encouraged to bring their field formation, This 2-day course covers the fundamental principles
injection water composition data and other properties of concerning how hydraulic fracturing treatments can be
their reservoirs for discussion in class. used to stimulate oil and gas wells. It includes discussions
on how to select wells for stimulation, what controls
fracture propagation, fracture width, etc., how to develop
Hydraulic Fracturing—A data sets, and how to calculate fracture dimensions. The
Concise Overview course also covers information concerning fracturing
fluids, propping agents, and how to design and pump
Carl T. Montgomery successful fracturing treatments. Other topics include:
• Rock mechanics/in-situ stress aspects of fracturing
This 1-day course includes the fundamentals of hydraulic • Reservoir aspects of fracturing (How much fracture
fracturing along with addressing the general process, the do I need?)
terminology, and many of the real-world problems—in • Fracture mechanics
a concise format. The overall emphasis is how hydraulic • Fracture design variables
fracturing fits-in with, is impacted by, or impacts geologic • Perforating for fracturing
concerns, reservoir engineering, and operations. It will • Fracture diagnostics
provide a general familiarity with fundamentals of the
complete hydraulic fracturing process. That is, why it
works (or doesn’t), where is it applicable, and what to
You will receive a sound engineering approach to
consider in order to improve. Topics include:
fracture treatment design and a thorough analysis of
• Introduction—What is fracturing?
fluid/proppant selection and ancillary fracturing topics.
• Reservoir engineering aspects of fracturing
• What fracturing can do
Who Should Attend
• What type of fracture you want
Production and completion engineers, and field
• Fracturing
operations staff with basic to moderate knowledge or
• Impact of geologic environment
experience in designing, pumping or evaluating hydraulic
• Major fracture variables such as creating the
fracture treatments can benefit from this course.
fracture you want

Hydraulic Fracturing/Pressure Analysis • Flow valves, actuation systems, downhole sensors

• Control systems, communication and power,
Michael B. Smith ancillary support equipment
• Data collection, validation, storage
This 2-day course presents the basics of analyzing
• Analysis and decision-making processes,
fracturing pressure, including design parameters that
control, optimization
can be determined, and the uses and limitations of such
• An operating philosophy for intelligent wells
analysis for on-site design. Sessions include real-world
examples from a variety of wells, from tight gas and shale
to high permeability, offshore, and frac-pack treatments.
If your field development plans include smart well
Topics include:
technology, or if you’re wondering if they should, this
• In-situ stresses and fracture geometry
course is for you.
• Determining closure pressure and analyzing
pressure decline
• The interruption of bottom-hole treating pressure Who Should Attend
• Fluid efficiency and the fluid loss coefficient This course is intended for reservoir, production,
• Pressure vs. fracture height growth-stress profile drilling and completion engineers, managers and other
• Scheduling proppant and fluid from personnel who are interested in learning about intelligent
pressure-decline data well technology and its potential applications.
Why You Should Attend Special Requirements

Course Descriptions
Although operators have been fracturing reservoirs for Attendees must bring a laptop to class.
decades, recent advances in the technology are having a
dramatic effect on the industry. This course will give you
a strong foundation for building your knowledge in this Introduction to Distributed
important area. Temperature Sensing (DTS)
James J. Smolen
Who Should Attend
This course is for petroleum engineers who are involved, This 1-day course is a comprehensive look at the
either directly or indirectly, in the design and evaluation emerging technology of Distributed Temperature
of hydraulic fracturing treatments. Sensing. With DTS, downhole temperature surveys can
be taken unobtrusively in real time along the full depth
Special Requirements of the well. The time between each survey can be as
To get the most from this class, participants should have short as a few minutes, which allows operators to easily
a basic understanding of hydraulic fracturing and well pinpoint changes in production. Such systems have
completion concepts. Attendees must bring a laptop to found application in high-cost horizontal and multilateral
this class. wells where reentry with a logging tool is difficult if not
impossible. Topics include:
• Fiber-optic technology for DTS measurements
Intelligent Well Technology • Typical installations and recordings
• Oil well installations and hardware
Michael Konopczynski
• Application and interpretation of DTS in oil and gas wells
This 2-day course presents the basic knowledge and • Quality control
fundamentals of intelligent well completions needed to • A demonstration of Plato software
identify, plan, and execute smart-well and smart-field
projects. Participants will gain an understanding of the Why You Should Attend
petroleum engineering considerations for intelligent well The science behind DTS and its applications are still
applications such as project screening, well performance emerging. If you are looking for ways to improve analysis
modeling and reservoir simulation. They will also learn of well performance, this course is for you.
about the equipment, functionality, completion design
and execution needed to successfully implement the Who Should Attend
project. Topics include: This course is for petroleum engineers, geologists and
• Elements of an intelligent well, applications, anyone else interested in learning more about DTS and
and business drivers the latest advances in the technology.
• Basic screening questions and defining Note: An additional technical discipline for this course is
completion requirements Reservoir Description and Dynamics.
• Simulation tools and evaluating improved
productivity and recovery
• Using intelligent wells to address reservoir a
nd production uncertainty
• Inflow, outflow, and Nodal analysis
• Flow control valves for linear control
• Artificial lift and intelligent wells

Multiphase Pumping: Fundamentals paradigm of a single, vertical, planar, elliptical fracture.

This course is designed to give an understanding of
to Field Applications
the foundation of the “ground truth” from microseismic
Hisham Saadawi imaging data, an appreciation for the implementation
and benefits of the technology, and an awareness of the
This 1-day course is an overview of state-of-the-art strengths and weaknesses of the technology.
multiphase pumping technology. It covers the various
aspects of multiphase pumping, from concept to field Who Should Attend
applications, with emphasis on the practical side. Topics Any oil and gas professional interested in hydraulic
include: fracturing and diagnosis would benefit from this 2-day
• Key process parameters for multiphase pumps survey course.
• Classification of multiphase pumping technologies
• Twin screw and helico-axioal pumps
• Subsea multiphase pumps Understanding Inorganic
• Mechanical seals
• Project implementation issues
Scaling—Mechanisms, Control,
and Management
Why You Should Attend Gordon M. Graham
Multiphase pumping is an increasingly important
technology for oil field development. If you need to stay This 2-day course is an introduction to inorganic scaling.
on top of this current technology, this course is for you. It includes an overview of the different types of inorganic
Course Descriptions
oilfield scales encountered during production, and the
Who Should Attend various methods used to control them. Field examples
Petroleum, reservoir, production, facilities engineers, will illustrate the importance of an effective scale
as well as operations and maintenance staff will benefit management strategy. Topics include:
from this course. It is also for project engineers and • Why scale forms and how to treat it, including both
managers who are considering the use of multiphase chemical and engineering solutions
pumps in their projects. • Conventional acid soluble scales (carbonates) and
non acid soluble scales (sulphates as well as other less
common scales such as sulphides
An Overview of Microseismic Imaging • The chemistry of scale inhibition as well as the benefits
of Hydraulic Fracturing and limitations of different chemical inhibitors
• The squeeze process, the mechanisms involved and
Kenneth D. Mahrer
the various chemical and reservoir factors control
the treatment lifetime, as well as other chemical
This 2-day course is a survey of microseismic imaging of
deployment methods such as continuous injection etc.
hydraulic fracturing. It is designed to give the attendees
• Scale removal including both mechanical methods and
a rudimentary understanding of this technologybased on
chemicals methods
the science at its foundation, the means and methods by
• The influence of initial field design and varying
which it is carried out, and the benefits it brings to the
production conditions on the control of inorganic scales
users. Since this technology is interdisciplinary, combining
• The use of modeling tools such as scale prediction
geophysics, geology, and geomechanics with well
software, reservoir simulators and near well-bore
completion technologies, the goal of the course is to give
treatment models
attendees the knowledge and realistic expectations of
• A technical, economic, and risk-based analysis process
microseismic imaging of hydraulic fracturing. To this end
for estimating total field scale management costs for
attendees should expect to become knowledgeable and
new field developments
discerning users, evaluators, and questioners of those
• Throughout the course extensive reference is made
vending this technology. Topics include
to real field case studies and other published works to
• How it began—colliding disciplines: hydraulic fracturing
illustrate the importance of the various aspects covered.
technologymeetspressure-induced microseismicity
• Overview of material science, geomechanics, rock
mechanics, fracture mechanics, andgeology Why You Should Attend
• Technology of hydraulic fracture stimulations Scaling is one of the most persistent flow assurance
• In Situ studies of hydraulic fracturing issues in the oilfield. Anyone who is involved in the
• Seismology and microseismology production side of the business should have a basic
• Microseismic Imaging—it’s how’s and why’s and more understanding of the problems of inorganic scale.
than “dots on a page”
• Case studies, FAQs, and misconceptions Who Should Attend
• Discussion, Q&A The course is intended for new or practicing production
engineers and production chemists involved in scale
Why You Should Attend control and mitigation in oilfield operations.
From its beginning, microseismic imaging of hydraulic
fracturing has created controversy. It typically shows a
flow network much more complicated than the traditional

Projects, Facilities, and Construction Training Courses
Assuring Flow from Pore to Process Why You Should Attend

Abul Jamaluddin The flow assurance risk factor can create a game-
changing impact on field development. With a
This 1-day course aims to introduce the state-of-the- reliable characterization and understanding of flow
art technologies, workflows, and their deployment impediments, unnecessary investments can be avoided.
in identifying, characterizing, and managing flow
impediments in hydrocarbon exploitation. This will also Who Should Attend
enable participants to learn the best practices and design This course is intended for engineers involved
fit-for-purpose solutions focusing on minimizing the risk in hydrocarbon field development, drilling, well
of flow stoppage while transporting hydrocarbons from construction, production, transportation, and processing.
“Pore to Process” based on field examples from around It will also be beneficial for department, asset and
the world Topics covered: technology managers and is suitable for anyone with
• Define and identify key flow impediments in various an engineering or scientific background.
challenging environments
• Introduce the state-of-the-art petrophysical Special Requirements
technologies in capturing fluid samples and their A basic understanding of petroleum engineering from
characterization methodologies reservoir to surface facilities aspects of the petroleum
• Present current measurement and modeling industry is necessary.
methodologies of potential production impediments
like asphaltenes, paraffin waxes, hydrates, and
Offshore Pipeline Projects
Course Descriptions
inorganic scales
• Define fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics and Stanton D. Marsland
their importance in field development
• Present the value of systematic and holistic This 5-day course is a practical, hands-on work session
integration processes of fluid flow, heat transfer, and in offshore pipeline project management, addressing
solids in designing risk free production systems and the six key phases of project execution: development,
their operation engineering, procurement, construction, pre-
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Projects, Facilities, and Construction Training Courses
commissioning, and start-up/operations. The course Why You Should Attend

maintains a balance between lecture and work session This course is about improving the effectiveness of all
using in-class exercises to demonstrate the relationships project decisions, not just the big ones.
between sound practice and application. On the last day,
participants will prepare and present development plans
Who Should Attend
using key information learned from the course curriculum.
Engineers, operations staff and other technical
professionals involved in project design, execution or
Why You Should Attend operation.
You will gain an in-depth understanding and broaden
your knowledge of offshore pipelines.
The Science and Technology of
Who Should Attend Water Treating
This course is for pipeline personnel who are or will
be responsible for the execution of offshore pipeline John M. Walsh, Ted Frankiewicz
projects. Participants should include personnel from
operator’s pipeline project teams, design engineering This 2-day course provides a fundamental understanding
staff, material supplier, and construction contractor of the science and practical applications of water treating.
personnel. The course is designed to benefit all levels It presents the fundamental mechanisms behind various
of experience. water treating equipment and processes and gives
practical experience from dozens of water treating
facilities from around the globe.
Course Descriptions
Project Decision-Making
Throughout the course, field experiences, practical
Howard Duhon issues, and field performance of equipment is analyzed
and explained in terms of surface science, chemistry
It takes millions of decisions by thousands of people and engineering principles. The scientific aspects of
to execute a major oil and gas project. A few of these water treating are presented in a practical down-to-earth
decisions are made by analytical methods, but the vast manner that can be understood with little prior study, and
majority are made via less structured methods including can be immediately implemented in the field.
intuition. Project success depends on the effectiveness
of all project decisions, not just the few made formally Topics include:
via structured methods. This course applies a variety of • Characterization of oil/water/gas for water treating
insights from diverse fields including psychology, cognitive • Equipment selection and performance
science, naturalistic decision-making, action science, • Process engineering and process line-ups
sensemaking, mathematics and communication theory to • Chemical treating
improve engineeringdecision-making. • Operations, monitoring, and surveillance
• Troubleshooting
Learnings and insights from the courseare used to
develop a strategy for improving decision-making and to The full project life cycle is covered from concept
develop answers to four questions of key importance in selection to front end engineering, detailed design,
project design: operation, and trouble shooting.
• Why do so many changes occur late in projects?
• Why do we have so many problems at interfaces? Why You Should Attend
• Why do we repeat mistakes from project to project? Water treating is becoming increasingly important
• Why do projects usually finish late? for maintaining the license to operate, as a component
of DBOO project delivery, and for developing
Topics include:
IOR/EOR projects.
• Collecting and evaluating data to generate
conclusions/beliefs
Who Should Attend
• How we use preconceived notions to make sense of
The course is intended for process, facilities, and chemical
new data
engineers involved in either design or troubleshooting
• A structured focus of our values to improve our skill at
water-treating systems. Both onshore and offshore
setting objectives and identifying alternatives
facilities are presented.
• The cause of defensiveness
• Individual and organizational learning—why the most
important lessons are often the most difficult to learn Special Requirements
• Naturalistic decision-making; the study of the impacts Attendees should have a basic understanding of process,
of stress and expertise facilities, or chemical engineering.
• Decision theory insights to improve the performance
of teams and minimize problems at interfaces
between teams
• The book, Making Sense and Making Decisions, an
engineer’s guide to project decision making, authored
by the instructor is the handout used for this course.

Reservoir Description and Dynamics Training Courses
4D Coupled Reservoir Geomechanics understanding of 4D seismic fundamentals and the use of

fit-for-purpose seismic acquisition and processing. There
Modeling for Optimal Field
will be ample time for questions and discussion.
Management
Chee Phuat Tan Why You Should Attend
Time-lapse (or 4D) seismic is well on its way to
This 1-day course will introduce coupled reservoir becoming an integral part of oilfield operations. You’ll
geomechanics, consequences of depletion and injection benefit from this course if you are involved in any phase
including reservoir compaction, overburden movement, of reservoir management.
subsidence, caprock integrity, and fault re-activation.
Case studies on implementation of coupled reservoir Who Should Attend
geomechanics and applications of this technology This course is for petroleum engineers, geologists,
to address a range of field issues and optimize field geophysicists, petrophysicists, managers, government
management will be presented and discussed. officials and others wanting to know what time-lapse
seismic is and how it can help reservoir management.
Coupled geomechanics modeling is required for
investigating and quantifying the full 3D nature of the
in-situ stresses pore pressure and rock properties and their Appraising and Developing Shale
spatial variation. This enables the complex subsurface Gas Reservoirs
conditions and properties through the overburden and
reservoir to be modeled and evaluated, and then used in Creties Jenkins, Dilhan Ilk
Course Descriptions
subsequent geomechanics analyses, well planning, and

reservoir management. Pore pressure and stress changes This 1-day course will help you understand the controls
(which will occur in both the overburden and reservoir) due on gas-in-place, resource distribution, and productivity.
to injection, production, and depletion can be quantified You’ll learn how to collect, analyze, and interpret
and forward modeled. The coupling of the petrophysics to critical data from multiple disciplines and why reservoir
the geomechanics means that dynamic reservoir behavior characterization and drilling/completion practices play
can also be modeled and investigated. Applications of key roles. It will help you understand why various shale
such 4D modeling and fully coupled analyses include well gas (and shale oil) reservoirs perform differently, know
planning, wellbore stability, completion design, stimulation, the key questions to ask, steps to take in assessing a
injection, waste and CO2 disposal, reservoir engineering, shale accumulation, and be able to apply appraisal and
4D seismic, reservoir compaction, subsidence, fault development strategies that are most cost-effective.
activation and induced seismicity.
A course notebook will be provided containing
PowerPoint slides. Topics include:
Why You Should Attend • Review the origin of shales and shale gas
Learn how solutions can be developed to mitigate/
• Discuss the various core, log, and seismic datasets
manage potential associated field problems for
needed to characterize them
optimizing field management.
• Review the mechanisms of shale gas production and
key drilling/completion practices
Who Should Attend • Discuss how to estimate resources and reserves
Reservoir engineers, production engineers/technologists, • Review of factors controlling commercial success
geologists, geomechanics engineers, drilling/ • Apply what’s been learned to case studies including
completions/well construction engineers and stimulation the Antrim, Barnett, Eagle Ford, Fayetteville,
engineers wishing to expand their knowledge in the Haynesville, Horn River, Lewis, Marcellus, Montney, and
discipline of geomechanics and its impact on completions Woodford shales
and field behavior.
This course provides practical insights and tools for use
4D Reservoir Management in appraising and developing shale gas reservoirs.
John Waggoner
Who Should Attend
Waggoner presents the fundamentals, business drivers, Geoscientists, engineers, and managers who want to
challenges, case studies, workflows and economics of 4D learn more about how to evaluate these accumulations,
seismic in this 1-day course. Using published case studies, what controls their productivity, which techniques should
he demonstrates that the challenges facing 4D seismic be used for forecasting well performance, and how to
can and have been overcome, largely through a better estimate resources and reserves.

Appraising and Developing Shale • Average drainage area pressure

• Hydraulically-fractured wells
Gas and Shale Oil Reservoirs
• Naturally-fractured reservoirs
Creties Jenkins • Horizontal wells
• Effect of input data errors
This 2-day course will help you understand the controls • Well test design
on hydrocarbons-in-place, resource distribution, and
productivity. You will learn how to collect, analyze, and Why You Should Attend
interpret critical data from multiple disciplines, recognize This course will provide you with an understanding of
why reservoir characterization and drilling/completion the fundamentals of buildup and flow test analysis—an
practices both play key roles, and understand why understanding that will provide insight into the strengths
various shale gas and shale oil wells perform differently. and limitations of the methodology used in modern
You’ll also know the key questions to ask and steps to commercial pressure-transient test analysis software.
take in assessing a shale accumulation and be able to
apply appraisal and development strategies that are
Who Should Attend
cost-effective.
This is a basic course in well test analysis and design,
suitable for engineers and physical scientists who have
A course notebook will be provided containing
little if any background in well test theory or practice. It
PowerPoint slides and supplemental materials will be
focuses on applications rather than theory.
made available. Topics include:
• Review the origin of shales and shale hydrocarbons,
Course Descriptions
and discuss the various core, log, and seismic datasets
used to characterize them.
Basic Reservoir Engineering
• Review the mechanisms of oil and gas production and Hemanta Mukherjee
key drilling/completion practices.
• Discussion of how to estimate resources and reserves, This 5-day course presents the geologic origins and the
and a review of those factors controlling commercial important properties of petroleum reservoirs, and how
success. to estimate their potential production. Participants learn
• Apply what’s been learned to shale gas and shale oil through a combination of class problems, examples and
case studies. workshops. Topics include:
• Depositional environments, basic structures, and
Why You Should Attend hydrocarbon traps
This course provides practical insights and tools for use • Large scale exploration techniques
in evaluating shale gas and shale oil opportunities. • The properties of reservoir rock, such as porosity, fluid
saturation, pore volume, and permeability
Who Should Attend • Reservoir fluid properties, such as API gravity,
Geoscientists, engineers, and managers who want to formation volume factor, gas solubility, density, and
learn more about what controls productivity in these viscosity
accumulations, the data that need to be collected and • Common classes of reservoirs according to the types of
evaluated, which techniques are being used to drill/ fluids they contain and their characteristic performance
complete wells and forecast their performance, how • Sources of reservoir data
to estimate resources and reserves, and what the key
differences are between the various shale gas and shale oil Why You Should Attend
plays. No previous experience with shales is necessary. This intensive course will raise participant’s skill set
beyond the fundamentals of reservoir engineering and
provides an excellent opportunity to share ways to
Basic Pressure Transient Test Analysis overcome challenges in the field.
W. John Lee
Who Should Attend
This course is for engineers and technologists who want
This 2-day course teaches the systematic analysis and
to learn more about reservoir engineering.
design procedures for testing pressure buildup and
flow tests. Example applications focus on identifying
the appropriate reservoir model, estimating effective Special Requirements
formation permeability, and quantifying damage or Participants should have a bachelor’s degree and two to
stimulation. Topics include: four years of oilfield experience. Attendees must bring
• Semilog analysis methods laptop to class.
• Type curves and diagnostic plots
• Gases and multiphase flow

Chemical Enhanced Recovery Who Should Attend

This course is for engineers, geologists, geophysicists,
Mojdeh Delshad investors, managers, government officials, planners, and
technical support staff who are interested in evaluating
This 2-day course is a review of the fundamental
CBM fields and understanding the future of the industry.
principles of displacement and phase behavior needed
to understand chemical EOR methods. It provides an
overview of four major types of chemical EOR, specific Special Requirements
chemicals in each category, conditions under which they Participants should have a basic understanding of
work, and special problems encountered with each. general engineering and geologic terms.
You will gain a better understanding of why EOR is

used, greater awareness of the classifications of EOR Coalbed Methane Reservoir and
methods, increased ability to judge which chemical EOR Production Analysis
method is appropriate for a given reservoir, and increased Steve Hennings
knowledge of how each chemical EOR method works.
Topics include: This 2-day course will cover recognizing the factors
• Displacement fundamentals controlling gas-in-place, reserves, and productivity.
• Polymer flooding You will understand how to collect, quality-check, and
• Conformance improvement methods interpret critical data, and determine how to select the
• Surfactant/polymer flooding optimum well completion and stimulation methods.
Course Descriptions
• Surfactant/polymer optimization Other topics include:

• Alkaline/surfactant/polymer flooding • Review the steps for calculating reserve volumes
• Chemical flooding of carbonate reservoirs and forecasting production
• Commercial simulators for CEOR • Recognize why various successful projects have
required different development techniques
Why You Should Attend • Review the CBM development steps, costs,
You will broaden your understanding of enhanced oil and timelines
recovery techniques. If you’re new to EOR, you will • Gain practical insight and techniques for
get a solid foundation on which to build. performing due diligence
• Review the global CBM activities, technologies,
Who Should Attend and future opportunities
This course is designed for early-career petroleum,
reservoir, production and facilities engineers, as well as Why You Should Attend
managers, government officials, and others who want to Get a detailed review of the data, techniques, and
learn more about enhanced oil recovery. strategies needed for evaluating and developing
coalbed methane projects.
Coalbed Methane Development Who Should Attend

Steve Hennings This course is for engineers, geologists, geophysicists,
researchers, managers, government officials, planners,
This 1-day course outlines the unique characteristics of and technical support staff.
coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs. It reviews key reservoir
data and explains how variations in the properties of coal Special Requirements
impact completion strategies, performance, and recovery. Participants are assumed to have an understanding
Comments and examples provide an overview of CBM of general engineering and geologic terms. It is
developments around the globe. Participants will also recommended each participant bring a laptop or
learn to recognize the factors that control gas-in-place and calculator to solve example problems.
productivity. Other topics include:
• How to collect, screen, and interpret critical data
• How to calculate reserve volumes and forecast Design of Fiber-Optic Distributed
production Temperature Sensing (DTS) Well
• Computer simulation
Installations
• Future opportunities and technologies
Dennis Dria, Bill Shroyer
This class provides practical insight and techniques This 1-day course will provide attendees with a greater
for quality control and due diligence. It’s also an understanding of the technical and economic factors
excellent opportunity to share ideas and meet others that influence the selection and justification for installing
in the CBM industry. DTS systems in specific well types, the completion and

monitoring components needed to deliver a DTS- Enhanced and Improved Oil Recovery
monitored well, and installation and commissioning
Methods—A Life Line for an Old and
operations. The course will contain:
• Background and procedures for selecting candidate “Tired” Reservoir?
wells for DTS monitoring and for selecting specific Hemanta K. Sarma
monitoring options such as DTS and pressure gauges.
A brief set of examples and exercises will illustrate This 1-day course offers an overview of enhanced oil
the cost-benefit analysis one may employ during the recovery (EOR) and improved oil recovery (IOR) processes
selection and planning phases. with particular emphasis on issues relevant to field
• The completion components, installation equipment applications. This course will provide technical professionals
and processes, and the commissioning or start-up with an understanding of the following topics:
procedures needed to install and operate a fiber-optic EOR/IOR—What are they?
monitoring system. Several well configurations will be • Size of the PRIZE: Why must we consider it?
considered, including offshore (dry tree), onshore oil, • Screening for EOR—timing: When is the right time
unconventional gas, thermal, and injection wells. for implementation? What options do we have? What
tools do we need? Can we do it all?
Why You Should Attend • Waterflooding and chemical flooding
To ensure the most value from DTS technology, field • Gas flooding—Hydrocarbon, CO2, Air and N2
or planning staff needs the necessary skills to select • EOR in Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs
candidate wells for DTS system use and tolearn the • Critical review and identification of broader issues
proper installation and start up procedures. and summary
Course Descriptions
• Case histories and exercises
Who Should Attend
This course is for completion, production, surveillance, Why You Should Attend
and reservoir engineers who need an introduction to the Get an overview of EOR and IOR, explore your
design of fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing well options and tools for screening and the best time
installations. for implementation.
Who Should Attend

Diagnosis and Analysis of Waterfloods This course is for petroleum, reservoir, production and
Shah Kabir facilities engineers, as well as managers, and planners
who are interested in enhanced oil recovery.
This 1-day course covers well performance diagnosis and
performance forecasting. Attendees will learn modern
analysical tools and deal with data and their quality that Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals
enter into various studies Topics include: Larry W. Lake
• WOR type-curve for flood performance
• Production-well behavior with reciprocal-PI plot This 1-day course teaches an integrated version of the
• Injection-well performance monitoring with modified- basics of waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery (EOR),
Hall plot illustrating the connection of each process to a few
• Estimating EUR with various empirical methods fundamental principles. It reviews the specifics of thermal
• Capacitance-Resistance Model (CRM) formulations for and solvent EOR by relating basic principles to the results
different control volumes of cases from the field. Topics include
• Introduction to spreadsheet programme • Definitions of EOR and polymer flooding
• Understanding reservoir connectivity and aquifer influx • Fundamentals of displacement
at individual wells • Phase behavior, micellar-polymer flooding, and
• Probabilistic performance forecasting chemical methods
• Thermal flooding and the basics of solvent flooding
Broaden your horizons beyond conventional waterflood Why You Should Attend
management and learn from an expert with over 30 Every oilfield eventually relies on some form of enhanced
years of experience. oil recovery. Some require it from the start. This
information can be crucial for continued productivity.
Who Should Attend
This course is for reservoir, production, and operations Who Should Attend
engineers. This course is designed for engineers with at least a
bachelor’s degree in petroleum or chemical engineering.
All other engineers, mathematicians, and physicists with
at least a bachelor’s degree and some experience in
reservoir engineering or numerical simulation can benefit
from this course.

Ensuring Reliable SCAL Data for • How to understand and categorize capital and
operating costs
Reservoir Modeling
• How to discount future cash flows and interpret
Shawket Ghedan profitability
• How to check income tax calculations in evaluations
Special core analysis (SCAL) data are among the most • Using evaluations for investments, acquisitions
critical reservoir input data for reservoir simulation and divestments
models. This 1-day course will cover the concepts of • Understanding probability in estimating reserve
the different elements of SCAL data, including reservoir
wettability capillary pressure, two and three phase Why You Should Attend
relative permeability, reservoir electrical properties, and The material in the course is very practical, with many
the way these data would possibly change as a function tips and insights in evaluating wells, groups of wells,
of the reservoir heterogeneity and wettability. Other properties and companies.
topics include
• Effect of reservoir saturation history and associated
Who Should Attend
hysteresis of SCAL data
This course is for engineers, geologists, geophysicists,
• Best practice of laboratory measurements of SCAL
land negotiators, accountants, technologists and anyone
data as well as the interpretation of the experimental
who wants to understand the process and results of
data considering the associated uncertainties
evaluating Canadian oil and gas properties.
• Proper preparation and utilization of SCAL data for
reservoir characterization and modeling, considering
Course Descriptions
reservoir rock typing scheme and its wettability

profile, if any
Field Piloting for EOR/IOR Schemes
• Possible integration of SCAL data with log and well Ashok K. Singhal
testing data
• The sensitivity of the prediction of the reservoir simulation In this 1-day workshop, participants have an opportunity to
models to the quality of SCAL data under different review and learn various strategies for piloting Enhanced
flooding conditions Oil Recovery (EOR) and Improved Oil Recovery (IOR)
projects. Most of the time is spent discussing the practical
Why You Should Attend aspects and economics of EOR pilots, while keeping
Learn how SCAL data can have a direct impact on the way theoretical topics to bare minimum. Each participant will
fluids are allocated and distributed in the reservoir simulation receive a workbook containing copies of the instructors’
models, the performance of secondary and EOR flooding presentations and solutions to the class problems.
processes, and accuracy of the oil and gas reserves estimates.
Who Should Attend Here is your opportunity to learn the latest EOR
This course is designed for technical managers and strategies from a recognized expert in the field
team leaders, reservoir engineers, reservoir geologists, and assure continued productivity.
petrophysicists and geophysicists. This course is also
designed for university and operating companies’ Who Should Attend
research and development staff. This course is for petroleum, reservoir, production and
facilities engineers, as well as managers, and planners
Note: An additional technical discipline for this course is who are interested in enhanced oil recovery.
Management and Information.
Fundamentals of Field Development

Evaluation of Canadian Oil and Planning for Coalbed Methane Fields
Gas Properties
Laurent Alessio
Matthew J. O’Blenes, Peter C. Sidey, Cameron P. Six,
Nora T. Stewart This 1-day course offers insights on reservoir
characterization approaches, integrated development
This comprehensive 5-day course is an introduction planning methods, uncertainty management techniques,
or refresher for the techniques of evaluating Canadian and modeling workflows accumulated through the
oil and gas properties, but the techniques used in this experience of a number of CBM plays. Selection will
course also apply to oil and gas properties elsewhere in also be reviewed, including approaches to model
the world. There is ample opportunity to work problems the performance of different well and completion
in class. By the end of this course, participants will be configurations and implementing these into a full field
able to evaluate an oil and gas property and interpret modeling strategy. Techniques to assess the economic
evaluations done by others. Topics include: potential of the play will be illustrated, including methods
• How to estimate oil and gas reserves and for high-grading development areas into sectors of
forecast production different attractiveness.
• Forms of ownership and the state royalty regimes • Fundamentals of CBM
in Western Canada • Reservoir characterization

• Uncertainty management Fundamentals of Reservoir Simulation

• Static modeling and volumetrics
• Dynamic modeling and forecasting J. Robert Gochnour
• Concept select techniques and field development
This 1-day course is a fast-paced, lecture-style overview
planning optimization
of the fundamental concepts and elements of reservoir
• Subsurface high-grading and value of Information
simulation. No equations are used. Instead, we discuss
various phases of reservoir modeling, including when to
Why You Should Attend use reservoir simulation, the use and misuse of reservoir
Learn how to model the performance of different well
simulation, elements of a reservoir simulation model,
and completion configurations and implement them into
the types of reservoir simulators and their features. The
a full field modeling strategy.
course also covers coordinate geometries and types
of models, managing a simulation run, defining initial
Who Should Attend conditions, history matching and prediction.
This intermediate to advanced level course is for
geologists, reservoir engineers, subsurface managers,
and team leader.
If your career is in the upstream side of the business, you
need a working knowledge of reservoir simulation. Upon
completion of this course, you’ll know the basics, such
Fundamentals of Reservoir Description as why and how a model is built, the various sources of
and Modeling with Geostatistics data, how wells are modeled, and what to look for in a
Course Descriptions
David O. Ogbe reservoir simulation study.
This 2-day course introduces engineers, geologists and Who Should Attend
geoscientists to the fundamental theory and practice This course is intended for those who need a quick start
of reservoir description and modeling for reservoir to their learning curve. It is designed for recent university
management. Participants will learn the fundamental graduates, early-career professionals, earth scientists,
concepts of reservoir description and modeling using and anyone who requires a high-level introduction to
geostatistical techniques. This course emphasizes reservoir simulation.
the principles and practice of integrated studies and
uncertainty analysis. Topics include:
• Fundamentals of reservoir modeling
Fundamentals of Retrograde Reservoir
• Overview of statistics and probability Fluid Properties, Characterization, and
• Data analysis, quality control and preparation Flow in Porous Media
• Variogram modeling
• Kriging techniques
F. Brent Thomas
• Stochastic simulation and modeling case studies
This 3-day course focuses on the properties of reservoir
• Overview of uncertainty analysis and integrated studies
fluids, beginning with the most fundamental definitions
and moving on to show how fluid properties are
Why You Should Attend measured and reported. Fluid properties are then put
In this course, you’ll learn how to apply reservoir in the context of the subsurface geology to explain how
description and modeling to support reservoir they affect reservoir performance. Topics include:
management, and you’ll be able to recognize the • Sampling reservoir fluids: oils, gas, and condensates
limitations and opportunities of reservoir modeling. • Tests used to describe reservoir fluid parameters
• The use of EOS models
Who Should Attend • Calculating parameters and analyzing material balance
This course is for petroleum engineers, geologists and • Coupling fluids to rock properties
geoscientists who want to apply reservoir description and • Measuring relative permeability, gas condensates, and
modeling techniques for reservoir management. It is also volatile oils
for managers and supervisors who wish to update their • Other topics as a function of class interest: Contamination
skills to the current level of the technology. with synthetic drilling fluids, gas-phase measurements,
Note: An additional technical discipline for this course is and the phase behavior of gas injection processes
This course is a solid foundation for building your
understanding of reservoir fluid dynamics.
Who Should Attend

This course is for engineers who need to know more about
optimizing gas condensate, rich gas or volatile oil reservoirs.

Geological Sequestration of CO2 History Matching and Conditioning

Charles E. (Chuck) Fox, S.M. (Sam) Avasthi, Reservoir Models to Dynamic Data
Michael H. (Mike) Stein, J.M. (Jay) Avasthi Akhil Datta-Gupta
This popular 1-day course introduces various aspects This 1-day course explores ways to incorporate
of the geological storage or “sequestration” of CO2, production data into high-resolution reservoir models
an important tool for combating global warming. using both conventional and fast-flow simulation
Although much of the technology is similar to that of techniques, and it examines the merits of various history
CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR), there are important matching workflows practiced in the industry. Both
differences. This course draws upon the instructors assisted history matching and automatic history matching
extensive practical experiences in CO2 EOR projects and (inverse modeling) techniques will also be covered.
the development of CO2 storage projects. Field applications from various parts of the world will
be discussed to illustrate the current state of the art, its
Why You Should Attend advantages, and limitations. Other topics include:
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), another name • Production data integration: Background and theory
for CO2 sequestration, is an emerging technology • Flow simulation through geologic models:
that is important for the future of the industry. The Streamline approach
environmental aspects of CO2 make this a 21st • Streamline-based production data integration
century skill. If you like to stay ahead of the curve, • Assisted history matching/inverse modeling with
you’ll enjoy this course. finite difference models
Course Descriptions
• Experimental design: Background and applications

Who Should Attend • History Matching: Some recent developments
This course is designed for petroleum and reservoir (EnKF and MCMC)
engineers, production and facilities engineers, managers
and government officials and others who need to know Why You Should Attend
the basics of CO2 sequestration. This course offers unique access to one of the industry’s
leading contributors in the field of fast-flow simulation
Special Requirements methods and the integration of dynamic data into high-
Attendees must bring laptops to class. resolution geologic models.
Who Should Attend

Geomechanics for Effective Shale This course is intended for engineers, geologists and
Gas Exploitation geophysicists interested in reservoir characterization,
Safdar Khan, David Handwerger reservoir management/optimization and history
matching of geologic models.
This 1-day course explains the essential aspects of
geomechanics in shale gas. It offers a unified approach Special Requirements
that combines the theoretical, laboratory and field aspects Some background in reservoir engineering and
of exploring unconventional reservoirs. Case histories are numerical simulation is helpful but not required.
used to reinforce the concepts. Topics include: Attendees should bring a laptop computer to follow
• Predicting pore pressure, wellbore stability and along with software exercises.
hydraulic fracturing
Note: An additional technical discipline for this course is
• Evaluating shale heterogeneity
• Tight Rock Analysis (TRA) and scratch testing
• Estimating anisotropic parameters using acoustic
azimuthal measurements
• Critical elements of an effective stimulation program
• The influence of natural fractures on fracturing
• Successful shale completion strategy and best practices Praise for SPE Training
Why You Should Attend Courses
Geomechanics plays a critical role in successfully
optimizing shale gas exploitation. This course will See what our attendees and instructors
help you make better field development and
are saying about us.
operational decisions.
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This course is for engineers, geoscientists, and searching for the “Society of
technologists involved in exploration, drilling, completions, Petroleum Engineers” channel.
and production in unconventional reservoirs.

In-Situ Recovery Methods and SAGD Introduction to Reservoir Engineering

K.C. Yeung Rob Lavoie, Brian Weatherill
This 1-day course will provide a general overview of This 5-day course is a practical guide to reservoir
current and emerging heavy oil recovery methods with engineering. It covers the basic principles of reservoir
emphasis on field experiences in Alberta and steam engineering and an introduction to stimulation methods.
assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). Participants will Topics include:
learn about the concepts, field development, reservoir • Reservoir description and decline curve analysis
performances, applicability, challenges, and issues of • Hydrocarbon phase behavior
the various in-situ recovery methods. Commercial and • Estimating waterflood recovery and forecasting
emerging recovery methods covered: production
• CHOPS, CSS, steamflood, SAGD • Properties of reservoir rock
• Steam solvent hybrid • Reserve classifications
• Cross-SAGD, fast SAGD, wedge wells • Reservoir drive mechanisms
• VAPEX, N-SOLV, THAI, COGD, ET-DSP, ESEIEH
Why You Should Attend This course provides expert advice that will bring
Many advances have been made in in-situ recovery you quickly up to speed. It is an excellent
techniques over the past twenty years. Learn more foundation in reservoir engineering.
about the current and emerging recovery technologies
Course Descriptions
being developed in order to reduce capital costs, Who Should Attend
operating costs, and environmental impact. This course is for engineers and geologists who are
relatively new to the industry, but who have some
Who Should Attend background in reservoir geology and the production
All E&P personnel, including engineers, geoscientists, of hydrocarbons.
technologists, and managers involved or interested in
heavy oil recovery methods and field practices will benefit
from this course.
Introduction to Waterflooding
Rob Lavoie, Brian Weatherill
Introduction to Geomechanics for This 3-day course provides a practical understanding of

Unconventional Oil and Gas the waterflood recovery process. Participants will learn
how to estimate expected recoveries and design new
Pat McLellan floods, as well as how to monitor and modify existing
waterfloods and predict actual recoveries. Topics include:
This 1-day course is an introduction to geomechanics • Review of geological models, and rock and fluid
principles and their application to unconventional properties
resources including tight gas, shale gas, and shale oil. • Review of primary recovery drives
Basic rock mechanics theory is reviewed and many • Waterflood displacement mechanisms and flow
practical problems encountered in the exploration, recovery
drilling, completion, stimulation, and production workflow • Waterflood candidate screening and pilot projects
are described. Topics include: • Water quality and operational considerations
• In-situ stresses • An analysis of mature waterfloods and case study
• Rock mechanical properties
• Critically stressed natural fractures
• Caprock and casing integrity
This course will give you a solid grounding in
• Wellbore stability
waterflooding, a basic tool for secondary oil recovery.
• Hydraulic fracturing
• Geomechanical monitoring
Who Should Attend
This course is for geologists, reservoir and production
Why You Should Attend engineers, technologists and technicians who are involved
You will gain a better understanding of the geomechanical
in planning, monitoring or optimizing oilfield waterfloods.
factors that underpin new and improved technologies
for drilling, completing, and stimulating horizontal wells
and learn how to use this knowledge to find and develop
unconventional resources with safe and economic practices.
Who Should Attend

This course will be of interest to all E&P personnel
working in subsurface disciplines including engineers,
geoscientists, technologists, and management.

Modern Production Data Analysis of Optimizing Existing Waterfloods

Unconventional Reservoirs Brian Weatherill, Rob Lavoie
David Anderson
This 2-day course covers practical methods for analyzing
This 2-day course provides attendees with a the performance of existing waterfloods and optimizing
comprehensive methodology for well performance their technical and economic performance. Geological
analysis with specific focus on unconventional oil and complexities in the reservoir often become apparent
gas. The approach combines the use of several powerful only after a waterflood has been implemented. Other
techniques and will illustrate the practical aspects of operational factors could also result in performance that
production data analysis. Participants are encouraged to is significantly different from what was expected. This
bring their own data as time will be allotted to go through course focuses on surveillance methods and corrective
their examples as a class. Depending on interest and time measures that can help to optimize a field’s performance.
available, examples from Barnett, Bakken, Montney, Horn Topics include:
River, Marcellus, Haynesville, and Eagle Ford plays will be • Geological settings
presented. • Characterizing waterflood production response
• Identifying problems
Why You Should Attend • Computer software applications for waterflood
If you’d like to get more mileage from your production surveillance
and flowing pressure data, this course is for you. • A case study
Course Descriptions

This course is for engineers and technologists involved in Although waterfloods are a traditional stimulation
exploitation, evaluating reserves, optimizing production technique, they can be tricky. This course provides
or analyzing well tests. expert advice that will help you avoid problems and
optimize the waterflood performance in the field.
Laptops are required for this course. Course materials Who Should Attend
will be distributed via USB. Laptops are required for This course is for practicing reservoir production and
the second day of class. Software will be downloaded operations engineers, technologists and other professionals
(minimum requirements: Pentium 3 with 1 GB RAM). who are responsible for managing or operating waterfloods
and implementing redevelopment plans.
Optimizing Gas Fields Using
Modified EOR Methods for Better Integrated Asset Modeling
Displacement Michael H. (Mike) Stein, Luiz C. Amado,
S.M. (Sam) Avasthi
Birol M.R. Demiral
This 1-day course offers practical, state-of-the-art
This 1-day course offers an overview of Modern EOR techniques for optimizing gas field assets. Participants
techniques with special emphasis on new ways of will learn techniques that are based on integrated asset
enhancements of classical EOR applications for better modeling (IAM) through collaboration with an asset team
displacement efficiency. Recent R&D work on new EOR to reach an integrated optimal solution. This course
agents will also be discussed. Topics include goes beyond standard nodal analysis by incorporating
• Rock and fluid properties affecting the the entire reservoir and facilities. Participants will learn
EOR recovery factor by reviewing case histories; will work on practical and
• Conventional EOR agents useful problems on their own, then see the instructors’
• Water alternating gas injection solutions. Each participant will receive a workbook of the
• ASP, Chemically enhanced WAG instructors’ presentations and solutions to the problems.
• Chemically enhanced thermal EOR
• Unconventional EOR methods
The biggest advantage of utilizing gas fields through
Why You Should Attend IAM is that the results are consistent with facilities, well,
Those who are dealing with field development and reservoir constraints and are more realistic. Utilizing
projects that involve EOR applications will benefit this technology helps obtain answers quickly—extremely
from attending this course. important for making business investment decisions with
limited time. In the future, IAM will be linked to monitoring
Who Should Attend CO2 emissions as the effect of fuel consumption on
This course is intended especially for young reservoir facilities can easily be incorporated.
engineers, production engineers, geoscientists, and
management personnel.

Who Should Attend Practical Aspects of Thermal EOR

Petroleum, reservoir, production and facilities engineers,
as well as asset managers interested in managing and
Paul L. Bondor, Ashok K. Singhal, S.M. (Sam) Avasthi
maximizing profitability from gas field assets should
This 1-day course focuses on the practical side of Enhanced
attend this course.
Oil Recovery (EOR). It presents thermal techniques and
strategies, with a minimum of theory. Participants will learn
Special Requirements to solve thermal EOR problems, and will receive workbooks
Attendees must bring a laptop computer; Excel programs with copies of the instructors’ presentations.
will be provided in class.
This course will provide participants the opportunity
Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding to review and learn the most up-to-date information
EOR and Introduction to CO2 available about EOR technologies and strategies
Geosequestration practiced today.
Charles E. (Chuck) Fox, S.M. (Sam) Avasthi,
Michael H. (Mike) Stein, J.M. (Jay) Avasthi Who Should Attend
This course is for petroleum, reservoir, production and
This popular 1-day course is based on the SPE facilities engineers, as well as managers, government
Monograph Volume 22, Practical Aspects of CO2 officials and others who are interested in the practical
Flooding, and is an outgrowth of The University of Texas, aspects of thermal technologies for recovering heavy oil.
Course Descriptions
the Permian Basin and the SPE CO2 conferences, and
short-courses held in Midland, Texas over the past 13
years. The instructors spend most of the time on the Practical Decline Curve Analysis
practical aspects of CO2 flooding, keeping the theoretical Brian Weatherill
aspects to a bare minimum. Instructors also discuss the
economics of CO2 flooding compared to waterflooding. This 2-day course begins with a brief description of the
If there is enough interest among the participants, there theory of decline curve analysis and its background. Both
will also be a discussion of CO2 geosequestration. Each type-curve fitting and type curve matching techniques will
attendee will receive a workbook containing copies of the be explained and demonstrated. The more common type
instructors’ PowerPoint presentations, and solutions to curve fitting methods are demonstrated using examples
the problems given in class. from fields in western Canada. The class includes a variety
of hands-on problems using modern computer-aided
Why You Should Attend analysis tools. Topics include:
This course is a great opportunity to learn the practical • Problems and limitations of decline analysis
aspects of CO2 flooding from seasoned veterans without • Theory and mathematical basis for analyzing decline
getting mired in the technical details. It’s a popular class, • Exponential, harmonic and hyperbolic declines
so register early. • Factors affecting decline methods
• Type curve matching (Felkovich curves)
Who Should Attend • Examples and problems identifying opportunities using
This course is for anyone who is interested in CO2 decline curve analysis
flooding, hydrocarbon gas flooding or CO2 sequestration.
Participants typically include petroleum, reservoir and Why You Should Attend
production engineers, as well as facilities engineers, If your ability to analyze declining oil and gas production
managers and government officials. is not what you’d like it to be, this class will give you
some powerful new tools.
Attendees must bring laptops to class; Excel programs Who Should Attend
are provided. This course should is for all engineers and technologists
who use decline curve analysis on a regular basis. It is
also popular with other professionals, supervisors and
managers who would like a short refresher course and
overview of decline analysis methods, uses, misuses
and pitfalls.

Practical Reservoir Surveillance and who are interested in learning about selecting reservoirs
for horizontal wells and understanding production
Management Techniques for Primary,
performance of horizontal wells.
Secondary, and Tertiary Oil Recovery
Projects Note: Additional technical disciplines for this course
are Drilling and Completions, Production and
Ashok K. Singhal, Paul L. Bondor, S.M. (Sam) Avasthi Operations, and Management and Information.
This 1-day course covers the practical aspects of project

surveillance and the impact of reservoir management and Reservoir Characterization: From the
surveillance on project economics for both conventional Laboratory to the Field
and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects. Examples will
include problems to be solved in class. Each participant Larry W. Lake
will receive a workbook with copies of the instructors’
presentations and solutions to the class problems. This 1-day course teaches integrated reservoir
characterization, from basic petrophysics through
geostatistics. The emphasis is on porosity, permeability,
Why You Should Attend capillary pressure and relative permeability as they relate
Reservoir management and surveillance is even more
to flow. The course also covers the statistics of the spatial
important in EOR projects than they are in conventional
distribution of these properties and illustrates the benefits
operations. This popular course is an excellent
of using them. Topics include:
opportunity to improve your skills in this important area.
• Single-phase petrophysical porosity, permeability and
Course Descriptions
non-Darcy effects
Who Should Attend • Two-phase flow: capillary pressure, relative
This course is for petroleum, reservoir, production and
permeabilities and trapped phase saturations
facilities engineers, as well as managers, and other
• Heterogeneity and non-uniformity
professionals interested in practical reservoir surveillance
• Effective properties: (pseudo) porosity
and management techniques for primary, secondary and
• Absolute permeability: capillary pressure, relative
tertiary oil recovery.
permeability, dispersivity and viscous fingering
Special Requirements Why You Should Attend

This class will quickly bring you up to speed on the
characterization of oil and gas reservoirs.
Reservoir Aspects of Horizontal and Who Should Attend
Multilateral Wells This course is designed for engineers with at least a
Sada Joshi bachelor’s degree in petroleum or chemical engineering.
All other engineers, geologists, mathematicians and
This 1-day course includes discussion on the practical physicists with at least some experience in reservoir
issues and reservoir parameters of horizontal well engineering or numerical simulation can benefit from
projects. The topics include formation damage, drainage the course.
areas, well spacing, well reserves, and rate calculations
using steady-state and pseudo steady-state methods.
The course includes several field case histories and Reservoir Simulation for Practical
performance analysis of horizontal wells. Topics include: Decision Making
• Drilling methods and costs
• Well spacing and drainage areas Dean C. Rietz, Miles R. Palke
• Recovery factors and steady-state solutions
This 2-day course covers all the important facets of
• Case histories: coning applications
reservoir modeling, with a considerable amount of the
• Fractured horizontal wells
class time reserved for case studies. Previous models
• Forecasting production
conducted by the instructors will also be discussed.
Other topics include:
Why You Should Attend • Planning a simulation study
While horizontal wells are riskier and more expensive
• Acquiring and analyzing data
than conventional wells, the production gains may be
• Fluid properties and rock-fluid interaction
worth it. This course teaches you when the technology
• Developing geologic models
justifies the risk.
• Constructing grids
• History matching and prediction
Who Should Attend
This course is for reservoir, production, drilling, and
completion engineers, managers, and other personnel

Why You Should Attend Screening of Reservoirs for EOR/IOR

By the end of this course, you will better understand Ashok K. Singhal
how to plan and conduct reservoir studies, and how
to review studies conducted by others. This 1-day workshop examines the rationale and
philosophy behind the screening process for Enhanced
Who Should Attend Oil Recovery (EOR) and Improved Oil Recovery (IOR).
This course is for those who want to go beyond the Participants will learn to identify the technical and
Fundamentals of Reservoir Simulation course. Anyone economic factors that determine the feasibility of a given
involved in conducting, reviewing, or overseeing IOR / EOR scheme. Emphasis is on the practical side, with
reservoir simulation studies will benefit. a minimum of theory. Participants will receive a workbook
containing copies of the instructor’s presentations and
Special Requirements solutions to class problems.
Participants are encouraged to bring materials and non-
confidential data relating to potential projects. The class, Why You Should Attend
guided by the instructors, will brainstorm and discuss This course is an excellent way to quickly boost your
which approach will achieve the desired objectives. professional skills and learn from a recognized expert
in the field of enhanced oil recovery.
Rock Physics for Reservoir Who Should Attend

Characterization and Recovery This workshop is for petroleum, reservoir, production and
Course Descriptions
Monitoring facilities engineers, as well as managers and planners who
are interested in screening reservoirs being considered
Gary Mavko for enhanced or improved oil recovery.
In this 2-day course, applications will focus on seismically
detecting variations in lithology, pore fluid types and Special Requirements
saturation (oil, water, steam, gases), stress and pore Attendees must bring a laptop to class and their own
pressure, fractures, and temperature. Other topics include: reservoir data for class discussion.
• Case studies and strategies for seismic interpretation
• Site characterization
• Recovery monitoring Shale Gas Development
• Upscaling seismic and rock properties from the lab Steve Hennings
to borehole to reservoir scales
• Rock and fluid factors affecting seismic This 1-day course covers the basic geological aspects and
• Fluid signatures key properties of shale gas. It also reviews the status and
• Effects of saturation and saturation scale characteristics of various shale gas plays, and the factors
• Interpreting 4D seismic for reservoir monitoring that control gas-in-place and productivity. Participants will
• Seismic mapping of porosity and lithology learn how to collect, analyze and interpret critical data, to
• Seismic signatures of fractures calculate reserve volumes and forecast production. They
• Permeability will also gain practical insight and learn techniques for
quality control and due diligence. Other topics include:
Suggestions for more effectively employing seismic-to- • The analysis of gas resources
rock properties transforms in geostatistical methods will • How to optimize hydraulic fracture treatments
also be discussed. • Forecasting production
• Global shale gas developments
Learn the fundamentals of rock physics, ranging from Why You Should Attend
basic laboratory and theoretical results to practical The class will lay the foundation for your broader
“recipes” that can be applied immediately in the field. understanding of shale gas developments. It’s also
a great opportunity to network with others from the
Who Should Attend shale gas industry.
This course is designed for geophysicists, reservoir
geologists, seismic interpreters, hydrogeologists, and Who Should Attend
engineers concerned with interpretation of seismic data, This course is for engineers, geologists, managers,
reservoir and characterization, hydrocarbon detection, regulators, planners and anyone else involved in
and monitoring of recovery and remediation processes. evaluating or developing shale gas plays.
Participants are assumed to have a basic understanding
of general engineering and geologic terms.

Shale Oil and Tight Oil Fundamentals Why You Should Attend
Steve Hennings This course is a unique opportunity to learn about
a rapidly emerging technology from a recognized
This course is intended for those familiar with the leader in the field.
terminology and basic evaluation processes applied
to conventional oil reservoirs but who are interested in Who Should Attend
learning what is different about how tight oil and shale This course is intended for engineers, geologists and
oil reservoirs are evaluated and developed. The learning geophysicists interested in rapid fluid flow simulation
objectives are: techniques, screening of geologic models, reservoir
• Understand the differences between tight oil, shale oi,l characterization and management and history matching
and conventional oil reservoirs of geologic models.
• Review the key geologic features of commercially
successful plays Special Requirements
• Gain insights on how oil volumes and production rates Some background in reservoir engineering and
are forecasted numerical simulation is helpful but not required. Bring
• Review what determines, and what can identify, the a laptop computer if you want to follow along with the
hydrocarbon composition in a shale software exercises.
• Understand the well completion and hydraulic
fracturing design issues and approaches
• Review global activities and key terminology Thermal Reservoir Simulation for SAGD
Course Descriptions
Mike Carlson
Recent success in developing oil from very low This 5-day course covers reservoir simulation theory using
permeability reservoirs in North America has sparked the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process.
global interest in how these plays are being identified, It includes a discussion of major engineering concepts
evaluated, and developed. This course addresses these such as thief zones, overlying water and gas, and water
issues that require unique approaches, as compared legs. About one third of the class time is spent on a series
to conventional oil reservoirs, primarily in the areas of of practical examples that give participants hands-on
well design, hydraulic fracture design, log analysis, core experience using STARS and Exotherm thermal simulation
analysis, and production forecasting. software. By the end of the week, participants will be able
to input data and perform thermal reservoir simulations
Who Should Attend with consistent results. They will be able to discuss
This course is intended for engineers, geologists, basic simulation theory and perform simple heat flow
technicians, sales representatives, investors, managers, calculations. They will also understand use of K values,
and technical support staff. viscosity data, stream properties, and reservoir properties
such as permeability, relative permeability, operating
conditions and controls.
Streamline Simulation: Theory
and Practice Why You Should Attend
There is almost no material about SAGD in conventional
Akhil Datta-Gupta
reservoir simulation texts, since the technology is so
This 1-day course covers introductory and advanced new. This course is an excellent opportunity to learn the
concepts in streamline simulation and its applications. We latest technology from a recognized expert in the field.
will review the theory of streamlines and streamtubes in
multi-dimensions. Applications include slow visualization, Who Should Attend
swept volume calculations, rate allocation and pattern The course is for entry-level reservoir engineers, and
balancing, waterflooding management and optimization, for geologists and production engineers with some
solvent flooding, ranking geostatistical realizations, SAGD experience.
upscaling/upgridding, history matching and dynamic
reservoir characterization. Special Requirements
Discussions will include the strengths and limitations of
streamline modeling compared with finite difference
simulation. PC-Windows based computer programs are Transient Well Testing
used to illustrate the concepts. Topics include: Medhat M. (Med) Kamal
• Streamlines and streamtubes: fundamentals
• Streamline simulation: state of the art This 1-day course is designed to teach state-of-the-art
• Streamline simulation: applications design and interpretation of pressure transient testing
• Streamline-based history matching through hands-on examples and exercises from oil and
• Advanced topics: fractured reservoirs and gas fields. The course describes the detailed process
compositional models from well-testing selection and design to data acquisition,

validation, and interpretations for different types of Who Should Attend

reservoirs. Information about the latest developments This course is intended for those having some familiarity
in pressure transient analysis such as testing under with the oil and gas industry but with little to no exposure
multiphase flow conditions, layered reservoirs, and to unconventional reservoir evaluation or development.
numerical analysis. The target audience includes engineers, geologists,
technicians, sales representatives, investors, managers,
Why You Should Attend government officials, planners, land specialists, and
Understand the state-of-the-art of well testing, including technical support staff.
testing of horizontal wells, layered reservoirs, and
reservoirs producing under multiphase flow conditions.
Unconventional Reservoir Production
Who Should Attend (Rate-Transient) Analysis
This course is for production and reservoir engineers
Chris Clarkson
and Earth scientists involved in well and formation
characterization and reservoir surveillance. This 1-day course provides a brief review of the unique
properties of unconventional reservoirs and the way they
Special Requirements can affect the analysis of production data. Discussions
Attendees must bring a laptop to class. Problems will be will include pore structure and gas storage mechanisms,
solved using Saphir software. For those who don’t already material balance, matrix and fracture flow, non-static
have the software, a temporary free download of the permeability and multiphase flow.
Course Descriptions
software and license will be provided.
There will be a review of completion and stimulation
Note: An additional technical discipline for this course is methods for unconventional reservoirs. Participants will
Production and Operations. also see field examples from tight gas, single- and multi-
phase shale gas, and single- and multi-phase coalbed
methane developments. Other topics include:
Unconventional Gas Fundamentals • Cavity completed wells
Steve Hennings • Vertical, hydraulically fractured wells
• Horizontal, naturally completed, and multi-lateral wells
This 1-day course provides an introduction to the • Multi-fractured horizontal wells
latest evaluation, drilling, and completion techniques • Rate-transient signatures
for unconventional gas reservoirs. Background • Analytical methods for rate-transient analysis
information is also presented on fundamental geologic • Modification of pseudo-variables to account for the
and engineering concepts, the differences between unique properties of unconventional reservoirs
conventional and unconventional reservoirs, key • Straight-line (flow-regime) methods
terminology, the development history of the four primary • Transient flow (bilinear, linear, elliptical and radial flow)
sources of unconventional gas, and environmental • Boundary-dominated flow
issues. Topics include: • Simulation, and some tips on setting up a model, history-
• Unconventional gas overview matching and integration with rate-transient analysis
• Essential geologic properties
• Natural gas fundamentals Why You Should Attend
• Lessons from CBM Unconventional gas reserves are transforming energy
• Lessons from tight gas outlooks around the world. If you are part of this
• Shale gas development important energy trend, you will benefit from this course.
• Petroleum systems
• Drilling options Who Should Attend
• Completion options Engineers, geologists and managers who are involved in
• Hydraulic fracturing basics developing or evaluating unconventional gas reserves will
• Horizontal drilling basics gain from this course.
• Determining reserves
• Forecasting production Special Requirements
• Global activities Participants should have a basic understanding of general
• Environmental issues engineering and geologic terms.
Gain insights on how gas volumes and gas production
rates are determined and factors controlling the value of
unconventional gas prospects. This course includes an
understanding of the different drilling and completion
options and discussions on the current environmental
challenges and apparent solutions.

Waterflooding Concepts, Design • WOR analysis

• VRR determination and significance
Prediction, and Optimization
• Floodable pore volume versus primary depletion
Iraj Ershaghi pore volume
• Characteristics of an analogue flood
This 1-day course reviews the characteristics of
petroleum reservoirs and ways that injected fluids affect Why You Should Attend
the success of waterfloods. Managing waterfloods is Add value to a waterflood injection projects by better
an optimization process. There are opportunities, for identifying and understanding the key reservoir and
example, to improve well placements and completions operation factors impacting a project. Participants
to better manager voidage and replacement, and to will leave the session knowing ‘best practices’ in
use additives for extending the ultimate recovery. These waterflooding and when to move forward with a
and other possibilities should be addressed before and project by taking real world experiences and
during the flood. applying them in the field.
The discussion includes the various sources of data,
Who Should Attend
measurement techniques, and their cost-effectiveness.
This course is designed for any production or operations
Using simple procedures and specific diagnostic plots,
staff, engineer or geologist involved in, or who will soon
we will analyze the performance of actual waterfloods.
be involved in, water injection.
Participants will learn shortcuts for predicting the
effectiveness of waterfloods, and chemical methods
Course Descriptions
for enhancing them. Hands-on classroom exercises will

focus on ways to troubleshoot problems relating to the
Well Test Interpretation
reservoir, wellbore or surface facilities. Louis Mattar
Why You Should Attend This 5-day course is for engineers and technical specialists
Waterflooding is one of the most basic techniques for who want to learn the reasons for well testing and the
secondary recovery, yet conducting the most efficient information that can be derived from it. By the end of
and effective waterflood is tricky business. the class, participants will know the principles underlying
well testing and the procedures for analyzing well tests in
Who Should Attend both vertical and horizontal wells. Presentations include
This course is for reservoir engineers, geologists, the interpretation of oil and gas well tests, drill stem and
production engineers and asset managers who want to production tests, buildup and interference tests, how to
improve their understanding of waterflooding. detect boundaries, and how to stabilize flow rates from
short tests.
Throughout the course, the theme will be Well Test

Waterflooding: Performance
Interpretation (WTI), which involves much more than
Predictions and Surveillance simply Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA). Practical
William M. (Bill) Cobb interpretation is emphasized along with the theory. Data
Validation and the Primary Pressure Derivative (PPD) will
This 5-day course combines geology, rock and fluid be used to illustrate Wellbore Dynamics and to extricate
properties, and immiscible displacement theory to these effects from the apparent reservoir response.
develop waterflooding prediction techniques and to
aid in the evaluation of actual waterflood performance Why You Should Attend
behavior. Procedures for analyzing oil and water Well testing is one of the primary tools for fine
production rates, water injection rates, and recovery tuning production rates. You will be able to increase
efficiency are presented. Impact of primary depletion on productivity by utilizing the skills learned in this class.
waterflood recovery is covered. Selection of waterflood
patterns (regular, irregular, peripheral), prediction of Who Should Attend
sweep efficiency (areal, vertical, and displacement), All reservoir and production engineers and
and an analysis of other variables that control recovery technologists who are interested in well testing will
efficiency are discussed in detail. benefit from this course.
Also discussed are waterflood surveillance techniques

such as:
• Production plots
• Injection profile testing

Well Testing—Benefits and Limitations Well Treatment and Stimulation

Giovanni Da Prat H.A. Nasr-El-Din
This 2-day course reviews past and current well testing This comprehensive 5-day course covers the full spectrum
methods. Participants will learn that, although current of well treatment and stimulation options for carbonate
testing practices may use modern testing equipment and sandstone reservoirs. It begins with a review of
and optimized programs and procedures, getting the the various mechanisms that can damage a formation
desired reservoir evaluation in the most economical and ways to avoid them. Next, the discussion turns to
way often depends on the nature of the formation, fluid acid systems for carbonate and sandstone formations,
properties and the well’s response to the particular testing treatment design the selection of additives, and the use
equipment and field practices. Several field cases are of coiled tubing in extended reach and multilateral wells.
presented to illustrate the benefits of testing and the The week ends with an introduction to new technologies
uncertainties of interpretation. Topics include: for carbonate acidizing. Case histories illustrate some of
• Lessons learned from onshore and offshore the treatment options. Topics include:
case histories • What causes formation damage in carbonate reservoirs
• Why, how and when well tests are needed • Acids and additives used in carbonate and
• Types of tests according to the kind of well completion sandstone formations
• Acquiring pressure and rate data • Candidate selection, job design, and execution
• Monitoring pressure in real time • New technologies
• Estimating production rates and pressures
Course Descriptions
• An introduction to pressure transient analysis for Why You Should Attend
oil and gas wells. In one week, this course will give you the benefit of
years of experience, presented by an industry expert
Why You Should Attend and experienced educator. It is also an excellent
There are many variables in well tests that can influence opportunity to network with colleagues in the field.
the results. This course will make you aware of the
uncertainties behind the data. Who Should Attend
This course is for production, drilling, completion and
Who Should Attend reservoir engineers who are responsible for enhancing the
This course is for petroleum, reservoir and production performance of wells.
engineers, as well as geological operations professionals
and managers.
Production and Operations.
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Instructor
Biographies
Knowledge transfer from experienced engineers is vital to the future of the petroleum
industry. Our instructors are experts in their fields, with decades of practical experience,
who appreciate the need for training and development of new talent. They incorporate
case studies, field examples, workflows, analysis, and problem solving techniques
providing the highest quality of continuing education available.
Instructor Biographies
Sea (Leman), Brazil (Bijupira and Salema fields), and

Bernt S. Aadnoy is a professor of drilling

other areas of South America and South Caribbean.
engineering at Stavanger University in Norway and
He was also involved in many projects in the Gulf of
an expert advisor for Rogaland Research and the
Mexico (Llano field, Pliocene, Miocene, and Lower
Norwegian Petroleum Authorities. Aadnoy began his
Tertiary plays, Hadrian, K2, and Santos, Campos and
professional career at Phillips Petroleum in Odessa,
Espirito Santo basins).
Texas in 1978 and later worked for Statoil and Saga
Petroleum. Most of his current work relates to drilling Amado holds a BS in civil engineering from Federal
and completion. He has written more than 100 Fluminense University, Brazil, an MS in petroleum
technical papers, several books, and holds a number engineering from Campinas State University, Brazil
of patents. His numerous honors include the 1999 and a PhD in petroleum engineering from the
SPE International Drilling Engineering Award. University of Leoben, Austria. He is a long-standing
Aadnoy holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical, member of SPE and has served on several SPE
control, and petroleum engineering from the technical committees and conference boards. He is
University of Wyoming and the University of Texas. fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
He holds a PhD in petroleum rock mechanics from
the Norwegian Institute of Technology. David Anderson, PE is vice president of

software development with Fekete Associates.
Laurent Alessio is a managing partner of LEAP
He has fifteen years’ experience in the petroleum
Energy, an independent subsurface consulting and industry, including production optimization, gas
technology services group headquartered in Kuala deliverability modeling, and welltest analysis. He
Lumpur, Malaysia with operations throughout the has led the development of Fekete’s F.A.S.T. RTA™
Asia-Pacific region. He has wide industry experience software, and has become a recognized expert in
in conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon the area of production analysis. David has authored
recovery through a large range of consulting numerous papers on the subject, for which he
assignments, previous roles as petroleum engineer, has been awarded two SPE Best Presented Paper
subsurface manager and development manager Awards (both in 2005). He also received the SPE
with Shell, and joint operating companies in the Outstanding Young Professional Award for the
Netherlands, UK and Malaysia. Laurent holds an Rocky Mountain Region in 2008. He has lectured
engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and presented industry courses all over the world on
and Imperial College London. modern production analysis. David has served on
the SPE Calgary Section board during 2005–2007
Luiz C. Amado, is an expert in reservoir
as director for the Young Professionals Initiative and
engineering, PVT/compositional simulation and currently serves on SPE’s Reservoir Description and
integrated asset modeling (IAM). He works with Dynamics Advisory Committee.
Avasthi & Associates as a principal reservoir
simulation and IAM consultant, providing consulting J.M. (Jay) Avasthi is the executive vice

and training in his areas of expertise. president and director of geoservices at Avasthi
& Associates, a worldwide petroleum consulting
Amado has over 20 years of oil and gas industry company headquartered in Houston, Texas. He has
experience, working with Shell, Petrobras, Ecopetrol, extensive experience in the oil and gas industry. He
Nexen Petroleum and Schlumberger. He has been has authored or coauthored numerous technical
involved in projects in Mexico, the Southern North

publications, has taught several courses, and than 42 years of worldwide oil and gas experience,
conducted hands-on training workshops in his areas including 35 years with the Royal Dutch/Shell
of expertise. Group, where he served as Shell’s reservoir
engineering instructor and the head of Royal Dutch/
Jay Avasthi earned degrees in applied geology and
Shell’s EOR research. Since his retirement from Shell
mining engineering from the Indian School of Mines
in 2003, he has continued to consult on reservoir
and an MS from the University of Minnesota. He
technologies and practices.
received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin
Madison. Before joining Avasthi & Associates, he Bondor holds a BS in engineering science, an MS in
held senior-level research and supervisory positions mechanical engineering, and a PhD in engineering,
at Chevron for several years. He is a long-standing all from Case Western Reserve University.
member of SPE, a technical editor for the SPE
Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering journal, and has Aaron Burton, Aaron Burton is the business

served as the SPE Los Angeles Basin section director development manager for Unconventional
and program chairman. Completions, a group primarily focused on the
completion of shales and similar unconventional
S.M. (Sam) Avasthi, PE is chairman and
plays that require multistage hydraulic fracturing.
CEO, founder, and director of engineering of EOR Burton joined Baker Hughes as a field engineer
at Avasthi & Associates, a worldwide petroleum trainee for completion tools after graduation.
consulting company headquartered in Houston, During his tenure in operations, he has held the
Texas. He has extensive experience in oil and roles of field engineer, operations coordinator, and
gas reservoir engineering and simulation, the district engineer. He has completed wells in several
revitalization of mature fields, EOR project design, as unconventional plays in North America, including
well as reservoir asset optimization and training. the Bakken, Marcellus, and the Lower Huron.
Before founding his own company, Avasthi held Burton holds a BS in mechanical engineering from
senior-level petroleum engineering and consulting Mississippi State University.
positions with a major oil and gas company and an
international oil and gas consulting company. He is Mike Carlson is the manager of reservoir
a registered professional engineer in Texas, a Legion engineering for RPS Energy in Calgary, Alberta,
of Honor member of SPE, and a technical editor for and has more than 30 years of experience in
the SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering journal, thermal recovery. He is the author of Practical
SPE Production & Operations journal, and SPE’s Reservoir Simulation (PennWell 2003) and
Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology. numerous technical papers. He was the principal
Avasthi is an engineering alumnus of the Indian and founder of Applied Reservoir Engineering
School of Mines, Imperial College of the University (ARE) and was responsible for the development of
of London, and Texas A&M University. He earned the Leismer Black Gold SAGD property. Carlson
his PhD in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M has taught practically-oriented reservoir simulation
University, and was a research fellow in chemical courses around the world since 1989.
engineering at Rice University.
Robert W. Chase is professor and chair of

the Department of Petroleum Engineering and
Sudiptya Banerjee is a completion engineer
Geology at Marietta College and has served in
within the Baker Hughes’ Center for Technology that position since 1978. Prior to this, he served as
Innovation who specializes in inflow control an assistant professor of petroleum engineering
technology and reservoir simulation. He began at West Virginia University from 1976 to 1978.
his career working as a cementing and stimulation He worked previously for Halliburton Services,
field engineer for Schlumberger well services, living Gulf Research and Development Company, and
and working in locations ranging from Western the Department of Energy. He has served as a
Oklahoma to Saudi Arabia. Since joining Baker consultant to Columbia Gas, NiSource, Dominion
Hughes, Banerjee focused on new product design Resources, EQT (formerly Equitable Resources),
and global technical support, developing and Cabot Oil and Gas and CONSOL Energy/CNX.
launching products ranging from premium sand He has published numerous technical papers in
control screens to new hybrid-geometry inflow the areas of natural gas engineering and well
control devices. He holds three patents related to testing, but his primary devotion has been to
adaptive inflow control alone. Banerjee is an author undergraduate petroleum engineering education.
on a number of papers related to completions in a
sand control environment and presented at the Sand Chase was a member of SPE’s Board of Directors
Control Workshop in Santa Marta, Colombia. from 1991–1994. He has served as chair of the
Education and Accreditation Committee of SPE
Banerjee received his BS in chemical engineering from and president of the Association of Heads of US
Case Western Reserve University and MS in petroleum Petroleum Engineering Schools. He served one
engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. year as SPE’s representative on the Engineering
Accreditation Commission of ABET in addition to
Paul L. Bondor is an expert in secondary
serving as a visitor on numerous ABET visiting teams.
recovery, EOR technologies, and the revitalization
of mature oilfields. He has worked with Avasthi & Chase received his BS, MS, and PhD in petroleum
Associates in Houston as a principal engineering and natural gas engineering from Penn State.
and EOR advisor since 2006. Bondor has more

Stanford University, all in petroleum engineering.
Rajan Chokshi currently works as a director

He is currently an adjunct professor of petroleum
of training and competency for artificial lift
engineering at Texas A&M University.
and production optimization for Weatherford
International located in Houston, Texas. In a career
spanning over 25 years, he has worked on may Kipp Coddington represents investors in
petroleum and software engineering projects and developers of conventional and renewable
globally in the areas of multiphase flow, gas lift, energy projects in the United States and abroad.
sucker rod pumping, and production optimization. Considered an expert on carbon capture and
storage (CCS), Coddington led the formation of and
Chokshi holds a PhD in petroleum engineering from is counsel to the North American Carbon Capture
the University of Tulsa. & Storage Association. In 2007, he testified before
the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural
Gary P. Citron is the managing partner in Rose &
Resources on CCS long-term stewardship. In early
Associates, a consulting firm that supplies integrated 2010, the State of California invited him to serve
methods of risk analysis to the E&P industry. Citron on its CCS Review Panel. He is a member of the
joined Rose & Associates in 1999 after 20 years as Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission’s CCS
a geoscientist, manager, and internal consultant for Task Force and has assisted on recent CCS-reports
Amoco. In 2001, he received the Best Paper Award issued by the National Coal Council.
from AAPG’s Division of Professional Affairs, and
again in 2007 he was honored for delivering a Top Coddington is a member of the state bars of the
Ten Oral Presentation at the AAPG annual convention District of Columbia and Virginia. He holds a BS in
in Long Beach, California. chemical engineering from Purdue University and
earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from
Citron has authored or coauthored more than a Georgetown University.
dozen publications and has been an invited speaker
for SIPES, Geological Society of London, AAPG, SPE,

Mark Cook has worked in the oil and gas

and SEG. He earned his BS in geology from State
industry for more than 22 years, the first eleven
University of New York at Buffalo, and his MS and
for Shell International. While at Shell, Cook
PhD in geology from Cornell University.
worked internationally as a reservoir engineer. He
is currently managing director of AGR Petroleum
Chris Clarkson, PE is president of UROC
Services (TRACS International Consultancy), where
Consulting He is also a professor in the he is active in both training and consulting.
Department of Geoscience and the EnCana chair
in Unconventional Gas Research at the University Cook’s specialties are reservoir engineering,
of Calgary. His research is investigating critical petroleum economics and risk analysis. He has taught
issues of importance to the industry through a the SPE training course on petroleum economics
comprehensive analysis of unconventional plays in for more than five years, and during 2002 he was
western Canada. an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on the same topic.
Cook holds a BS in chemical engineering from the
A technical paper by Clarkson won the Rossiter University of Nottingham.
W. Raymond (AIME) and Alfred Noble Prize (ASCE)
for exceptional merit at SPE’s Annual Technical
Giovanni Da Prat is an independent consultant
Conference and Exhibition in 2005. Clarkson also
based in Buenos Aires. He has more than 28 years
served as a 2009–2010 SPE Distinguished Lecturer.
of experience in the oil and gas industry, primarily
His topic was “Coalbed Methane: What Secrets
in well test management, pressure transient analysis
Remain Hidden in the Black Box.” Clarkson
and production optimization. Da Prat’s experience
earned his PhD from the University of British
includes nine years as district reservoir engineer
Columbia in 1998.
for Flopetrol-Schlumberger in Bogota, where he
interpreted well test data acquired from fields
William M. (Bill) Cobb is a petroleum
in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. Before joining
engineering consultant who specializes in Schlumberger, he spent three years with Halliburton
waterflooding, pressure transient analysis, and Reservoir Services in Caracas as the regional
property management. Cobb has over 40 years reservoir engineer.
of experience in the petroleum industry including
research, staff, and district position for Arco Oil and Da Prat has been the author and coauthor of
Gas. He has hands-on experience in the design, numerous technical articles, and he wrote the
implementation, surveillance, and management of book, Well Test Analysis for Fractured Reservoir
waterfloods in various areas of North America as Evaluation, published by Elsevier in 1990. He was an
well as Australia, Africa, the Middle East, the North SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2003–2004. Da Prat
Sea, South America, and Southeast Asia. He headed holds an MS in geophysics and a PhD in petroleum
oil and gas operations for Cornell Oil Company, an engineering, both from Stanford University.
independent oil and gas company. Cobb was the
2008 president of SPE and served as a member Akhil Datta-Gupta is professor and holder of

of the SPE Board of Directors for more than seven the LeSuer endowed chair in petroleum engineering
years. For more than 28 years, he directed a at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
petroleum consulting firm in Dallas. He has also worked for BP Exploration/Research and
for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In
Cobb received BS and MS degrees from
2009, Datta-Gupta received the John Franklin Carll
Mississippi State University and a PhD from
Award from SPE for distinguished contribution in the

application of engineering principles to petroleum Making Decisions: An Engineer’s Guide to Project
development and recovery. He also received SPE’s Decision Making.
2003 Lester C. Uren Award for significant technical
Duhon earned a BS in chemical engineering for the
contributions in petroleum reservoir characterization
University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1974.
and streamline-based flow simulation. He is an
SPE Distinguished Member (2001), Distinguished
Lecturer (1999-2000), Distinguished Author (2000), Peter Erpelding is a consulting engineer for
and was selected as Outstanding Technical Editor Viking Engineering, where he specializes in the
(1996). Datta-Gupta earned his PhD from the mechanical and thermal analysis of drilling and
University of Texas at Austin. completion equipment. Erpelding is heavily involved
in engineering complex deepwater projects with
Mojdeh Delshad is an associate research
high pressure, high temperature, and highly corrosive
professor of petroleum and geosystems reservoirs. He has conducted numerous software
engineering at the University of Texas at training courses and casing and tubing design
Austin. Delshad has more than 20 years of seminars. Before joining Viking, Erpelding spent
work experience in chemical flooding. She has four years with Schlumberger and seven years with
worked extensively on the development and OTS. He has an additional seven years of teaching
application of reservoir simulators for enhanced oil experience in reactor physics, thermodynamics and
recovery processes, and is currently in charge of heat transfer, and has served on the faculty of the US
development and user support for the University of Naval Academy, US Naval Nuclear Power School, and
Texas’ chemical flooding oil reservoir simulator. Johns Hopkins University.
Birol M.R. Demiral is the Schlumberger chair I raj Ershaghi is the Omar B. Milligan professor and
in petroleum engineering at Universiti Teknologi director of the petroleum engineering program at
Petronas. Currently he is the research leader of USC. He is also serving as the executive director of the
EOR Mission Oriented Research and head of the Center for Smart Oilfield Technologies at USC. Prior to
Centre for EOR at UTP. Previously he had been joining the faculty at USC in 1972, he worked for AGIP-
the chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas SIRIP, Signal Oil and Gas Company and California
Engineering Department of Middle East Technical State Lands Commission. His areas of research and
University in Ankara, Turkey where he earned all publications are reservoir characterization, well testing,
of his degrees in petroleum engineering mainly and improved recovery processes.
on heavy oil recovery and worked for the last 15 Ershaghi is a recipient of numerous awards from SPE
years. While working at METU he joined Stanford including Honorary Member, Distinguished Faculty,
University Petroleum Research Institute Heavy Oil Distinguished Member, Western North America
Group (SUPRI-A) as a post doctoral research affiliate Distinguished Service, Technology Transfer Award
for a period of four years between 1988 and 1992. for Development of the Smart Oilfield Technology
He has more than 70 technical papers published Curriculum, and Western Regional North America
and presented. He has been SPE Engineering and Reservoir Description and Dynamics. He served as an
Professionalism Committee member since 2008 and SPE Distinguished Lecturer during 2006–2007. As a
a 25-year club member of SPE. fellow of Institute for Advancement of Engineering,
he received the Outstanding Educator Award of
Dennis Dria, president and chief technology American Association for Advancement of Engineering
advisor for Myden Energy Consulting, has been and the Outstanding Educator Award of Orange
involved with in-well fiber-optic monitoring since County Council of Engineers and Scientists.
1999, and well/reservoir monitoring since 1993.
His experience includes more than 20 years with Ershaghi is a registered engineer, has a BS degree
Shell in the areas of petrophysics, well and reservoir in petroleum engineering from University of Tehran,
surveillance, smart field design, development and and an MS and a PhD in petroleum engineering from
deployment of fiber-optic monitoring systems, and University of Southern California.
surveillance data interpretation and integration. He
is a 2011–2012 SPE Distinguished Lecturer for “E&P John Etherington is managing director of

Applications of Fiber-Optic Technologies”. PRA International, a Calgary-based consulting firm
Dria has a BS in physics and mathematics from advising industry on resources assessment, reserves
Ashland University and a PhD in petroleum disclosures, and portfolio management processes.
engineering from University of Texas at Austin. Etherington has a BS and PhD in geology. He spent
more than 32 years with Mobil Oil in Canada, the
US, and international assignments. Etherington
Howard Duhon, PE is a process engineer
served on the SPE Oil and Gas Reserves Committee
with over 30 years experience in process design
with primary responsibility for the 2007 PRMS
and project management roles. He is a systems
project. He also coordinated SPE’s interface with
engineering manager for GATE LLC in Houston. He
the United Nations Framework Classification and
is also chairman of an SPE workshop series on Final
the International Accounting Standards Board’s
Commissioning and Initial Startup, a member of the
Extractive Activities projects. He was an SPE
SPE Projects, Facilities, and Construction Technical
Distinguished Lecturer in 2005–2006, has presented
Advisory Board, and a member of the editorial
papers on resources evaluation issues at AAPG,
board of the new SPE magazine, Oil and Gas
EAGE, and SPE conferences, and has conducted
Facilities. His course is the result of a career-long
training for more than 950 geoscientists and
obsession with the theory and practice of decision-
engineers from 40 countries.
making. He is author of the book, Making Sense and

and industrial experience. He is manager of the
Charles E. (Chuck) Fox is vice president

reservoir characterization and modeling research
of operations and technology at Kinder Morgan
project for ADNOC and its group of companies since
CO2 in Houston, Texas. He currently manages
2008. His areas of expertise are extensive, including
operations of the McElmo Dome CO2 source field
reservoir dynamic rock typing, characterization and
and some 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines. He is also
modeling of capillary transition zones and EOR
responsible for his company’s oil and gas CO2 EOR
applications. A member of SPE since 2006, he has
operations, including the 5 billion-barrel Yates field,
served as section chairman, Distinguished Lecturer,
the 3 billion-barrel SACROC field, and the Snyder
on the Cedric K. Ferguson Medal Committee, and is
Gasoline Plant.
a recipiant of the ME Regional Technical Award for
Fox has written on the practical aspects of CO2 reservoir description and dynamics.
flooding and has taught courses at the annual CO2
Ghedan is a reservoir engineering and modeling
conferences held in Midland, Texas. He is a past
instructor at NExT. He has taught industrial courses
chairman of the program committee of the SPE/
such as PVT and EOS, basics and advanced
DOE Fourteenth Symposium on Improved Oil
reservoir simulation, compositional reservoir
Recovery. Fox holds an MS in petroleum engineering
simulation, simulation of fractured reservoirs and
from Stanford University and a BS in mechanical
enhanced oil recovery theory and applications. He
engineering from Rice University.
holds a BS in petroleum engineering from Baghdad
University and MS and PhD degrees in reservoir
T
ed Frankiewicz has more than 30 years of engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
experience with oilfield process systems and produced
water treatment. His experience includes hands-on
operations, equipment design and manufacturing, and
J. Robert Gochnour is the manager of
Advanced Reservoir Simulation Development and
process engineering. He has worked for Occidental
Deployment for BP Exploration and Production
Petroleum, Unocal, Natco Group, and currently, SPEC

Technology in Houston. He is responsible for the
Services. There, he designed or diagnosed issues with
development and delivery of new reservoir simulation
facilities and water treatment systems internationally
technology to BP reservoir engineers worldwide.
for major as well as independent operators. His
Gochnour has mentored many BP reservoir and
combined experience in oilfield chemistry, equipment
petroleum engineers and is extremely active in
design, and with process systems provides him
campus recruiting for specialist reservoir engineers.
with unique insights into the issues that challenge
He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in petroleum and
operators as their water production and water
natural gas engineering from Pennsylvania State
treatment costs escalate.
University. He has been a member of SPE since 1973
Frankiewicz was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and and taught as many as 200 industry courses as well
has traveled extensively to deliver lectures on the as graduate petroleum engineering courses at the
treatment of oilfield produced water. He has a PhD University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University, and
in physical chemistry from the University of Chicago, the University of Houston.
holds 15 patents, and has written more than 35
professional publications. James (Jim) Gouveia, a partner at Rose &
Associates since 2002 after 21 years with Amoco and
Deepak M. Gala is the US engineering lead for BP Energy. Gouveia worked in a variety of technical
the Drilling Hazard Mitigation Group of Weatherford and managerial assignments in exploration, production
International in Houston, Texas. Before joining and reservoir engineering, strategic and business
Weatherford in 2006, he was a well control engineer process planning, portfolio, and risk management.
with Cudd Well Control. He was director at BP of risk management for North
America. He functioned as the risk and assurance
Gala is involved in many industry associations coordinator for Canada and led BP’s strategic initiative
and initiatives with over 15 technical publications. into unconventional gas resources in Western Canada.
He regularly teaches SPE courses and serves on He was a member of a world-wide task force focused
various regional and international SPE committees. on growth initiatives in mature basins and developing
Gala was selected to be a part of the new SPE a portfolio management process for BP’s North
Sustainability Committee and SPE International American unconventional gas assets.
Young Professional Coordinating Committee. He
was the first Weatherford employee to receive SPE’s Gouveia has co-authored and presented papers,
2008 Outstanding Technical Editor Award for the SPE most recently as a contributing author to the SPEE’s
Drilling and Completions journal, the first to receive 2011 Monograph 3, “Guidelines for the Practical
the 2010 International Young Member Outstanding Evaluation of Undeveloped Reserves in Resource
Service Award and the 2011 Young Engineer of the Plays”, and SPE 121525, “A Statistical Approach
Year for the SPE Gulf Coast Section. to the Effective Economic Modeling and Portfolio
Selection of Unconventional Resource Opportunities”,
Gala earned a BS in chemical engineering from at EUROPEC. He is a member of APEGGA, SPE, SPEE,
Mumbai University, an MS in natural gas engineering and AAPG. Gouveia earned a BS degree in chemical
from Texas A&M University Kingsville, and a MBA in engineering from the University of Toronto.
finance from Tulane University.
Gordon M. Graham is the managing director

Shawket Ghedan is an associate professor of
of Scaled Solutions, an independent laboratory in
reservoir engineering at The Petroleum Institute of Livingston, UK. Until September 2002, he was a
Abu Dhabi. He has over 20 years of diverse academic research fellow at Heriot-Watt University, where he

was responsible for the management and technical geologist in 1977. Prior to his election as president,
direction of the large, multi-sponsored Flow Hodgin coordinated and supervised reservoir
Assurance and Scale Research team. evaluation studies for the company worldwide.
Graham served three years as chairman for SPE After graduating from Texas A&M University with
International Oilfield Scale Symposiums, and a BS in geology in 1974, Hodgin joined Gulf Oil
three years for SPE International Oilfield Corrosion Corporation in New Orleans as a development
Symposiums. He also served six years on the geologist working offshore Louisiana. Hodgin is
program committee for the SPE International a certified petroleum geologist and a registered
Oilfield Chemistry Symposiums, chaired the 17th professional geologist and engineer in the State
International Tekna International Oilfield Chemistry of Texas. He is a member of AAPG, SPWLA, the
Symposium in 2006 and continues to serve on the Houston Geological Society, and SPE, and has
committee for this event. He also serves regularly coauthored several SPE papers on reserves topics.
both as committee member or chairman on other
production chemistry related workshops including Richard G. Hughes is an associate professor
the biannual SPE workshop on Oilfield Scale, the and holder of the Mr. and Mrs. Boyd H. McMullan
SPE Scale and Asphaltene workshop in Abu Dhabi, Professorship in the Craft & Hawkins Department
as well as several other international events. of Petroleum Engineering (PETE) at Louisiana State
University. He earned a BS in petroleum engineering
David Handwerger is a senior geophysicist from New Mexico Institute of Mining and
with TerraTek, a Schlumberger company based Technology and held various production, reservoir
in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is primarily involved in and IT positions with Tenneco Oil Company,
core-log integration for tight gas shales and other Dwights EnergyData, and Amerada Hess.
unconventional reservoirs, including tight gas
Hughes earned his BS and PhD in petroleum
sands and coalbed methane. He is an expert in the
engineering from Stanford University, then joined
log signatures of shales, shale petrophysics, shale
the University of Oklahoma’s Mewbourne School
geology and the modeling and statistical analysis
of Petroleum and Geological Engineering as an
of log data. Handwerger is an SPE Distinguished
assistant professor. His research interests include
Lecturer for 2010–2011. He holds a PhD in
using CO2 for enhanced oil recovery and carbon
geophysics from the University of Utah.
sequestration, modeling multiphase flow in porous
media and rock fractures, the analysis of production
Rashid Hasan is a professor of petroleum
data, natural gas storage, and unconventional gas
engineering at Texas A & M University at College reservoir engineering.
Station, Texas. He has 30 years of teaching,
consulting, and research experience in many areas,
including fluid and heat flow modeling in wellbores, Dilhan Ilk is a reservoir engineer at DeGolyer
and pressure-transient testing. He has also worked and MacNaughton in Dallas, Texas. Ilk’s interests
with NASA on various aspects of multiphase flow include analysis of well test and production data,
and thermo-hydraulic transients. He has published reservoir engineering, and inverse problems. In
extensively, and is a co-author of the SPE book, particular, he focuses on well performance analysis
Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wellbores. Hasan in unconventional reservoirs and has extensive
has served on various SPE committees, including field experience in well performance assessment
editorial review for SPE Projects, Facilities & of unconventional reservoirs. He has made several
Construction and SPE Journal, and was the contributions to petroleum engineering literature,
recipient of 2011 SPE Production and Operations and to date, has prepared more than 30 articles
Award. Hasan earned his MS and PhD in chemical in well test analysis, analysis/interpretation of
engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada. production data, and general reservoir engineering.
Ilk holds a BS from Istanbul Technical University, and
Steve Hennings is the unconventional gas
MS and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University—all
manager for Source Rock Engineering in Littleton, in petroleum engineering.
Colorado. He has over 30 years of field and
reservoir experience in a large number of basins, Alok Jain is a director of Asset Management
covering every phase of development. His focus Solutions, a training and consulting firm that he
for the past decade has been on coal gas, coal formed after taking retirement from ConocoPhillips
mine methane and shale gas development. He in late 2003. In his 22 years with Conoco, Jain
has been involved in technical evaluations of served in technical and leadership roles in asset
development and exploration prospects in eight management, project management and reservoir
different countries including China, Australia, engineering. Prior to Conoco, he worked for 11
Canada, India, and the United States. years in the petroleum industry in Canada, United
In 2008, Hennings was awarded the prestigious States, and Libya in economic evaluation, reservoir
annual Stefanko Award from the Society of Mining engineering and development, and as a reservoir
Engineers for his technical contributions. Hennings is simulation engineer with Gulf Oil Company in
a registered professional engineer. He holds a BS in Venezuela, Nigeria, and Canada.
petroleum engineering and an MS in finance. Jain holds a BS in chemical engineering from
Panjab University, India, a postgraduate diploma
John Hodgin is president and a member of in petroleum refining and petrochemicals from the
the Board of Directors of Ryder Scott Company, Indian Institute of Petroleum and an MS in petroleum
Petroleum Consultants. He joined the firm as a engineering from the University of Alberta in Canada.

Most Influential People of the Petroleum Century” by
Abul Jamaluddin is currently a director with

Hart Publications in 2000. In 2003, Joshi was named
Schlumberger Learning Network. He is also a
as a Distinguished Alumnus by his alma mater, IIT
production domain advisor with Schlumberger,
Bombay, India. He earned his PhD in mechanical
specializing in reservoir fluids phase behavior and
engineering from Iowa State University in 1978.
production assurance. His career began in 1990 as a
research scientist with Noranda Technology Centre,
where he held positions of increasing responsibility, Shah Kabir is a global reservoir engineering
including program leader for Energy Technology. advisor at Hess Corporation in Houston. His
He joined Hycal as the director of technical services experience spans more than 30 years in the areas
in 1996. Jamaluddin joined Schlumberger in 1998 of transient-pressure testing, fluid- and heat-flow
and established several Fluid Analysis Centers modeling in wellbores, and reservoir engineering.
around the world. He then went on to lead the well Kabir coauthored the 2002 SPE book Fluid Flow
completion and productivity marketing team for and Heat Transfer in Wellbores and contributed to
Saudi, Kuwait, Pakistan, and Bahrain. Consequently, the 2009 SPE Monograph Transient Well Testing.
he created and led the reservoir fluid advisory team Kabir has served on various SPE committees,
of Schlumberger based in Houston. He is coinventor including the editorial review committees for SPE
of nine patented processes related to petroleum Production & Facilities, SPE Reservoir Evaluation
production and optimization, coauthored over 80 & Engineering, and SPE Journal. He was a 2006–
technical papers, and received three Best Technical 2007 SPE Distinguished Lecturer and became a
Paper Awards. Distinguished Member in 2007, and he received the
2010 Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award.
Jamaluddin has been an active member of various
SPE committees including workshops, forums, and Kabir holds a master’s degree in chemical
the Distinguish Lecturer Selection Committee. He is engineering from the University of Calgary.
a technical editor of Journal of Canadian Petroleum
Technology and SPE Production & Operations. He Medhat (Med) M. Kamal is a senior research

chaired the 2003 IQPC Flow Assurance Conference consultant and leader of the dynamic reservoir
held in Kuala Lumpur. In 2011, he chaired the SPE characterization group with Chevron Energy
Flow Assurance Workshop and SPE Forum on Sour Technology Company in San Ramon, California.
Gas Field Development. He is an SPE Distinguished
Kamal has more than 35 years of industry experience
Member and an SPE Distinguished Lecturer 2004–
in well testing, reservoir description, and production
2005. He holds a BS in petroleum engineering and
and reservoir engineering. He is the author of multiple
an MS and PhD in chemical engineering.
technical articles in SPE journals and has served as
a technical editor, review chairman and executive
Creties Jenkins is a senior technical advisor editor of SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation
for DeGolyer and MacNaughton in Dallas where journal. Kamal is the editor and lead author of SPE
he specializes in the characterization of clastic Monograph 23, Transient Well Testing. He is a past
reservoirs, including sandstones, shales, and coals. SPE Distinguished Lecturer and winner of many society
He has conducted integrated studies, resources/ awards, including the Cedric K. Ferguson Medal,
reserves work, and training for numerous companies the SPE Distinguished Service Award, and the Texas
around the world. Jenkins began his career with Petroleum Engineer of the Year Award.
Tenneco Oil in 1986 as a geological engineer and
worked for ARCO from 1988–2000, in various roles Kamal has served on and chaired multiple SPE
as a reservoir engineer, development geologist, and committees, including the textbook and monograph
petrophysicist. He has been named a Distinguished committees, the first SPE Board Committee on R&D
Lecturer (2000), Outstanding Technical Editor and the first SPE R&D conference. Kamal holds a
(2003), and Distinguished Author (2008) by SPE. BS degree from Cairo University and MS and PhD
He is also a past president of the Energy Minerals degrees from Stanford University all in petroleum
Division of AAPG and served on the steering engineering. He has served on the SPE Board of
committee for the 2010 AAPG Hedberg Research Directors as the Regional Director of the Western
Conference on shales. North America Region.
Jenkins received an MS in geology and a BS in

geological engineering from the South Dakota School Safdar Khan is a senior geomechanics specialist
of Mines. He is a registered professional engineer and with Schlumberger, and has more than 14 years of
a registered professional geologist in Texas. research and consulting experience in the oil and
gas industry. His experience with unconventional
reservoir geomechanics includes anisotropic stress
Sada Joshi is president and CEO of Joshi profiling, wellbore stability analysis, stimulation
Technologies International. He has more than 30 design, caprock integrity analysis, thermal reservoir
years of experience in horizontal wells and has been modeling, casing and well integrity analysis,
advisor to more than 200 field projects around the reservoir compaction, and subsidence prediction
world. He has written many technical papers and and monitoring. Khan has written several technical
the book, Horizontal Well Technology. papers and has taught numerous training courses
Joshi served as a Distinguished Lecturer for SPE on geomechanics internationally. He holds a PhD in
(1995–1996) and was named as “One of the 100 geomechanics from University of Toronto.

and Manufacturing at Otis Engineering. His degrees
George E. King is a registered professional
include a BS in mechanical engineering and an MS
engineer with over 40 years of experience since
in mechanical engineering design, both from the
joining Amoco Research Center in 1971. His technical
University of Texas at Arlington. Lane has 33 years
work has provided advances in foam fracturing,
of oil and gas industry experience.
production from unstable chalk, underbalanced
perforating, sand control reliability, gas shale
completions, and fracturing. Currently, he is working
Rob Lavoie, a reservoir engineering associate

with RPS Energy, has more than 30 years of oilfield
with new technologies for the oil and gas industry.
experience. After ten years with Shell Canada,
King has written 65 technical papers and was Lavoie developed a natural gas supply forecasting
awarded the 2004 SPE Production Operations Award application for TCPL (formerly NOVA) during 1992 to
and the 2012 Engineer of the Year award from the 1996. He joined RPS Energy (formerly APA Petroleum
Houston Region of the Texas Society of Professional Engineering) in 1996. He has extensive experience with
Engineers. He is Apache’s Distinguished Engineering enhanced oil recovery (EOR) feasibility and production
Advisor. He lives in Katy, Texas where one of his forecasting. Much of Lavoie’s current area of practice
hobbies is rebuilding vintage Ford Mustangs. involves the of use of CO2 as a miscible flooding agent
for EOR and/or the sequestration of CO2 into saline
King holds a BS in chemistry from Oklahoma State
aquifers. Lavoie earned his BS in chemical engineering
University. He also has a BS in chemical engineering
in 1981.
and an MS in petroleum engineering from the
University of Tulsa, where he also taught completions
W. John Lee holds the Hugh Roy and Lillie
and workovers for 11 years as an adjunct professor.
Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair at the
University of Houston’s petroleum engineering
Michael Konopczynski is the director
program. Prior to this, Lee held the L.F. Peterson
of technology at WellDynamics, where he
Chair in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M
provides petroleum engineering support for the University. He was the former executive vice
application of SmartWell technology. Before joining president of S.A. Holditch & Associates, where
WellDynamics in 2001, he spent nearly 20 years he specialized in reservoir engineering for
with Shell Canada, serving in a variety of production unconventional gas reservoirs. He served as an
engineering and technology roles including steam- academic engineering fellow with the US Securities
assisted thermal recovery, CO2 enhanced recovery, & Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington
deep sour gas development, and gas-condensate during 2007–2008, and was a principal architect of
developments in Canada, the United States, and the the new SEC rules for reporting oil and gas reserves.
Sultanate of Oman.
Prior to beginning his career in academia, Lee
Larry W. Lake is a professor in the Department managed Exxon’s Major Fields Study Group. He
of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The has written many technical papers and three SPE
University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught textbooks: Well Testing, Gas Reservoir Engineering,
since 1978 and served as department chairman and Pressure Transient Testing. Lee is a Distinguished
from 1989 to 1997 and again from 2007 to 2009. Member of SPE, a member of the US National
Lake is a specialist in reservoir engineering and Academy of Engineering, and the Russian Academy
geochemistry. His work in quantifying the effects of Natural Sciences. He received his BS, MS, and PhD
of geochemical interactions and flow variability degrees in chemical engineering from the Georgia
for resource recovery is now widely applied by the Institute of Technology.
industry. He has authored four textbooks and more
than 100 technical articles and reports. He earned Eric Mackay is research fellow at the Heriot-Watt
his BS and PhD from Arizona State University and University Institute of Petroleum Engineering, where
Rice University, respectively. Lake has twice been his research includes the application of reservoir
designated as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and engineering principles and data to better understand
member of the SPE Board of Directors. production issues. Mackay has written more than 60
publications on scale management. In 2004 he made
Bill Lane is vice president of Emerging
a keynote presentation at the SPE 6th International
Technologies for Weatherford Artificial Lift Systems. Symposium on Oilfield Scale, and was elected
His past roles at Weatherford have included vice program committee chair for the 2006 Symposium.
presidential positions over the Progressing Cavity Mackay is currently responsible for software
Pump Business Unit, the Elastomers Business Unit, development, support, and training within the
Artificial Lift Systems Engineering, Compression Flow Assurance and Scale joint industry project at
Equipment Engineering and Manufacturing (EVI), Heriot-Watt University, where he has conducted
and Completion Equipment Manufacturing (EVI). both theoretical and field studies with many of the
Before joining Weatherford in 1994, Lane managed operating and service companies that support the
manufacturing facilities in the US and internationally research. He holds a BS in physics from the University
for Halliburton Energy Services. He was also the of Edinburgh and a PhD in petroleum engineering
general manager of Surface Equipment Engineering from Heriot-Watt University.

Park. In 1984 he joined Entropic Geophysical,
Kenneth D. Mahrer is chief scientist at APEX
a seismic processing contractor, as a research
HiPoint building the full picture of a hydraulic
geophysicist and eventually became Entropic’s vice
fracture stimulation. His career has included a
president for research. Mavko returned to Stanford
diversity of positions including a member of the
University in 1989 where he is a professor in the
team that monitored, mapped, and characterized
Department of Geophysics and codirector of the
the microseismicity induced by the world’s deepest,
Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics
continuous, high-pressure injection well. Prior to
Project. His current focus is to develop ways to use
APEX HiPoint, Mahrer was a principle geophysicist in
rock physics knowledge to help bridge the gaps
the microseismic mapping group at Weatherford.
between seismic methods, interpretation, reservoir
Mahrer won two postdoctoral fellowships in fracture flow simulations, and geostatistics. Mavko, along
mechanics at the University of Sheffield and at with Tapan Mukerji and Jack Dvorkin, published The
Northwestern University. He taught geophysics and Rock Physics Handbook in 1998. He was awarded
geology at the University of New Mexico and worked Honorary Membership by SEG in 2001.
as a principal geophysicist at Teledyne Geotech.
Mark A. McLane is a partner in the

He was a technical editor for both the Society of
international consulting firm of Rose & Associates
Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and the Society of
(R&A). He is an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on
Petroleum Engineers. He wrote two columns for the
the topic of “Reserve Overbooking—An Issue
SEG journal The Leading Edge, “The Writer’s Block”
of Professional Ethics.” McLane joined Rose &
on improving technical writing and “Bright Spots”
Associates in January 2000 after three years with
summarizing technical articles appearing in the SEG
Pioneer Natural Resources and 17 years with
journal Geophysics. In addition to teaching courses
Exxon Company. He has coauthored several
on microseismic imaging of hydraulic fracturing,
technical papers and served on the Professional
Mahrer teaches technical writing training courses in
Ethics/Registration Panel at the 2003 SPE ATCE in
universities and companies. Mahrer holds BS and

Denver, Colorado. He has taught courses for the
MS degrees in physics and a PhD in geophysics from
Gulf Coast Section of SPE, AAPG, and Houston
Stanford University.
Geological Society. McLane holds a BS with honors
in petroleum engineering from The University of
Stanton D. Marsland, PE has 45 years’
Texas at Austin.
experience in project management, project services,
and design and construction of worldwide offshore P
at McLellan, PE, principal consultant with
oil exploration and production development McLellan Energy Advisors, has over 30 years
projects and operations, with emphasis on offshore experience applying geomechanics to a wide range
and onshore pipeline projects. Having worked for of E&P activities. He was the founder of Advanced
a number of major operating companies, including Geotechnology (now Weatherford Geomechanics
Shell, ExxonMobil, and Statoil, he has an in-depth Services). He has conducted over 400 consulting and
knowledge and awareness of the client’s needs research projects for clients in Canada and abroad,
and requirements for the successful execution and was the lead developer of two commercial
of pipeline transportation systems. Marsland has software products for well design and geomechanical
liaised closely with many of the pipeline industry’s analysis. He was employed in technical and
engineering firms, suppliers, contractors, and supervisory roles with Petro-Canada, Shell Canada,
service companies over the years. He has an and Shell Research. He has given over 150 technical
appreciation of their unique contractual obligations papers and presentations and more than 80 courses
and commitments as providers of goods and on geomechanics related topics in Canada and
services to the major operating companies. abroad. McLellan was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer
Marsland holds a BS in civil engineering from Purdue and received the SPE Distinguished Service Award.
and an ME in coastal engineering from the University McLellan holds a BS in geological engineering from
of Florida. He also has post-graduate studies at both Queen’s University and an MS in civil engineering
Tulane University and Stevens Institute of Technology. from the University of Alberta.
Stan is a registered engineer, Louisiana, a member of
ASCE, and the Pipeline Industries Guild.
Shahab D. Mohaghegh is professor of

petroleum and natural gas engineering at West
Louis Mattar, BS, MS, PE is president of Fekete Virginia University. He is founder and president
Associates. As an energy consultant he has been of Intelligent Solutions, the leading company in
serving reservoir engineering clients since 1981. providing the E&P industry with solutions based
Mattar previously worked for Alberta’s Energy on artificial intelligence and data mining (AI&DM).
Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), where he With more than 18 years of experience, Mohaghegh
wrote Gas Well Testing—Theory and Practice (1975). has been a pioneer in the application of AI&DM in
Mattar also taught reservoir engineering at the petroleum engineering, applying hybrid forms of
University of Calgary as an associate professor and neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic
has authored some 70 professional publications. He to smart wells, smart completions, and smart fields
is an SPE Distinguished Member. as well as to drilling, completion, well stimulation,
surface facility optimization, formation evaluation,
Gary Mavko received his PhD in geophysics
seismic inversion, reservoir characterization,
from Stanford University in 1977. He spent the next reservoir simulation, and reservoir management.
six years at the US Geological Survey in Menlo

He has published more than 100 technical papers Mukherjee has written numerous technical papers.
during his career and has been a technical editor/ He was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 1996–1997,
reviewer for various SPE journals as well as other and received the SPE Production Engineering Award
petroleum-related publications such as Journal of in 2000. He has been an SPE Distinguished Member
Petroleum Science and Engineering, Computers since 2004 and has served on many SPE committees.
& Geosciences, Geophysics, and Energy & Fuels. Mukherjee holds a BS in petroleum engineering from
His technical articles on the application of AI&DM the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad, India, and
in the E&P industry and their recent developments MS and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from
have appeared in the Distinguished Author Series The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
of SPE’s Journal of Petroleum Technology during
September, October, and November of 2000 as Jim Murtha, PE, presents seminars and training
well as April 2005. He was an SPE Distinguished courses and advises clients in building probabilistic
Lecturer for 2007–2008. models in risk analysis and decision making. He
is an expert on risk and decision analysis. Murtha
He is the technical review chair for SPE Reservoir
published Decisions Involving Uncertainty: An @
Evaluation and Engineering 1997–1999 and 2007 to
RISK Tutorial for the Petroleum Industry, and is the
present. He has also served as chair, discussion leader,
principal author of the chapter on “Risk Analysis
and technical presenter in SPE forums and as a steering
and Decision Making” for the new SPE Petroleum
committee member in SPE workshops. He has been a
Engineering Handbook.
panelist in several international conference discussing
topics related to AI&DM and smart fields. In 25 years of academic experience, Murtha has
chaired a math department, taught petroleum
Mohaghegh holds BS and MS degrees in natural engineering, served as academic dean of a college,
gas engineering from Texas A&I University and a and coauthored two texts in mathematics and statistics.
PhD in petroleum and natural gas engineering from He has a PhD in mathematics from the University
Pennsylvania State University. of Wisconsin, an MS in petroleum and natural gas
engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and a
Carl T. Montgomery is an engineering
BS in mathematics from Marietta College.
consultant for NSI Technologies where his main
responsibilities are technical service, engineering Steve Nas has more than 30 years of oilfield
development and research in well stimulation and experience, including 27 years as a drilling engineer.
completions. He is recognized within the industry Nas is currently the engineering manager for
as one of the leaders in all areas of stimulation, Weatherford’s Controlled Pressure Drilling Services
including hydraulic fracturing, acid fracturing, matrix in Asia Pacific in Singapore. In 2001 Nas was
stimulation, cavity completions, waste/cuttings head of the BP Colombia Underbalanced Drilling
injection, rock mechanics and scale prevention/ operations on behalf of Weatherford. Since then he
removal. He also has considerable experience has been involved in numerous feasibility studies
in cementing, sand management, conformance and international underbalanced operations, both
control, perforating strategy and formation damage. offshore and onshore, and with jointed pipe as well
Formerly, Montgomery was with ConocoPhillips, as with coiled tubing.
Arco and Dowell Schlumberger.
Nas was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on
Over the course of his career, Montgomery has underbalanced drilling technology from 1999 to
published more than 30 technical papers and holds 2000, and lectured on advanced drilling technology
numerous US patents. Montgomery served as an SPE at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He has
Distinguished Lecturer in 1998–1999 and has been authored several papers on underbalanced drilling
presented with awards from private industry and and coiled tubing drilling technology. Nas holds a BS
SPE, including SPE Engineer of the Year Award for in electronics from the MTS in Nijmegen, Holland,
Drilling and Completions in 2006 and ConocoPhillips and an MS in drilling engineering from The Robert
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Montgomery received BS and MS degrees in
biochemistry from Colorado State University and Ball H.A. Nasr-El-Din is a professor in the

State University, and petroleum engineering from Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas
Colorado School of Mines. A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at
Texas A&M, he was with Saudi Aramco in Saudi
Arabia, where he was responsible for all research
Hemanta Mukherjee is the principal

projects dealing with downhole operations. He has
consultant and president of iPoint LLC, an
more than 35 years of experience as a academic
independent consulting company based in
researcher and a professional in the oil and gas
Westminster, Colorado. He has more than 40
industry. Nasr-El-Din received the SPE Distinguished
years of experience in production and reservoir
Member Award in 2007 and SPE’s Production and
engineering. Mukherjee retired from Schlumberger
Operations Regional Award in 2006. He earned his
Oilfield Services in January 2005, after serving in
BS and PhD from the University of Cairo, and holds
four product lines and working in many regions
a PhD from the University of Saskatchewan, all in
of the world. He is also a visiting professor of
chemical engineering.
production engineering for the Imperial College,
London where he teaches a master’s level class in
petroleum engineering every year.

teams and partnership interfaces at the heart of
Matthew J. O’Blenes, PE has been with
corporate investments, was a leading contributor of
Sproule Associates since 1997. He has a BS and MS
developing decision methodology, and managed
in mechanical engineering. O’Blenes’ primary job
the full range of commercial skills development
responsibility is the evaluation of Canadian oil and
programs. Since leaving BP he has maintained
gas properties, with an emphasis on natural gas
industry currency as associate training consultant
properties, especially unconventional gas properties.
with TRACS International, building further upon
extensive experience with a range of IOC’s and state
David O. Ogbe, PE is the president and a

oil and gas agencies. Palmer has a BA in economics.
senior reservoir engineering advisor with Greatland
Solutions, in Denver, Colorado, and professor
emeritus, University of Alaska. Before joining
Susan Peterson has more than 20 years of
experience as a consultant, project manager/senior
Greatland Solutions, Ogbe was a lead reservoir
drilling engineer, and as an instructor. Peterson
engineer with Schlumberger in Denver. He was a
specializes in risk analysis and decision-making
professor of petroleum engineering and coordinator
methods for full field development, and AFE
of the Coalbed Methane for Rural Energy Research
time and cost models. As a consultant, Peterson
Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Ogbe
performs project-specific risk analysis and provides
specializes in oil and gas reservoir engineering,
training on decision and risk analysis. She has led
well testing, reservoir simulation, reservoir
a risk analysis and decision methods initiative,
characterization and formation evaluation, and in
and has been responsible for the risk analysis on
large-scale reservoir simulation.
projects ranging from fast-track remote gas field
Ogbe earned his BS and MS from Louisiana State development to large capital expenditure oil
University and his PhD from Stanford University, all in development. She holds PhD and MS degrees
petroleum engineering. from Texas A&M University and a BS from Marietta
College, all in petroleum engineering.
William K. (Bill) Ott is an independent,

international petroleum consultant based in Prajuto was a geophysical analyst (seismologist)
both Houston and Singapore. He was an SPE for Meteorological and Geophysical Agency
Distinguished Lecturer in 2007–2008, and has (1975-1986) and joined ARCO Indonesia Oil and
conducted technical petroleum industry courses Gas (1986-1999) as a seismic data interpreter, data
worldwide. He has written numerous technical papers health inspector, and operating excellence system
relating to well completions and workovers, and is and human capital facilitator before he took his early
coauthor of the popular World Oil Modern Sandface retirement. He joined Medco E&P Indonesia (2000-
Completion Practices Handbook and World Oil 2010) as a senior exploration data and computing
Downhole Remediation for Mature Oil & Gas Fields. analyst, head data and computing section, head
of technical knowledge and data management,
Miles R. Palke is a senior petroleum engineer as a geophysicist and senior CSM advisor as well
specializing in reservoir simulation, characterization as a facilitator for change management, data and
and well-test and material balance analyses. He has knowledge management (KM).
more than fourteen years of reservoir engineering He received a BS in geophysics from the
experience with heavy emphasis on reservoir Meteorological and Geophysical Academy
simulation studies. Areas of expertise include (1974). His post-graduate in seismology is from
sector and full-field reservoir modeling, fluid the International Institute of Seismology and
characterization, compositional simulation, coalbed Earthquake Engineering (1978). Prajuto received
methane recovery, gas storage analysis, nodal his PhD from the Department of Physics and
analysis, well test analysis and material balance Mathematics, University of Indonesia (1983).
evaluations. Palke has evaluated numerous oil and
gas properties around the world. Before joining
Ryder Scott, he was a senior staff reservoir engineer
Dean C. Rietz, managing senior vice president
and manager of Reservoir Simulation at Ryder Scott,
and subsurface engineering manager at BHP Billiton
has more than 25 years of diverse experience in
for seven years beginning in 2002. He also worked
evaluating oil and gas reservoirs. He has built a
at Ryder Scott from 1998 to 2002 as a petroleum
variety of full-field, segment and single-well models
engineer in the reservoir simulation group.
including black-oil, compositional and thermal
Palke began his career as a petroleum engineer at formulations. Before joining Ryder Scott in 1995,
Arco E&P Technology in 1996. He has BS and MS Rietz taught in-house material-balance schools at
in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M Chevron and the ECLIPSE user’s course while at
University and Stanford University, respectively. Intera’s Petroleum Production Division.
Palke is a Registered Professional Engineer in the
Rietz holds a BS in petroleum engineering from the
State of Texas.
University of Oklahoma and an MS in petroleum
engineering from the University of Houston. He has
David Palmer has worked within key oil- written numerous technical articles and is an adjunct
and-gas-industry commercial operations for 20 professor at the University of Houston.
years, initially for BNOC/Britoil (the UK’s former
national oil company), followed by 13 years in
central commercial management roles with BP’s
Steve Rosenberg is the US region product
line manager for Weatherford’s Drilling with Casing
upstream division. As a business economist
division. He has over 25 years of experience in the
and career commercial specialist, he managed
oil and gas industry, previously holding drilling

engineering positions with Diamond Offshore and Schulz has a BS in petroleum engineering from
Conoco. Rosenberg is regarded as a subject-matter the University of Kansas and an MBA from Duke
expert in casing and liner drilling applications. He University’s Fuqua School of Business.
has written and coauthored several technical papers
on these subjects as well as being a US patent Rawdon Seager is currently projects director

holder (Patent No. 7,857,052 B2, Stage Cementing and chief reservoir engineer for Gaffney Cline and
Methods Used in Casing while Drilling). Associates’ (GCA’s) western hemisphere headquarters
Rosenberg holds BS degrees in petroleum engineering in Houston, Texas. Seager’s main responsibilities
from Mississippi State University and in biology from St. include internal quality assurance for technical
Lawrence University, Canton, New York. projects and providing clients with advice regarding
reserve and resource evaluation and reporting. He
has also provided expert testimony at international
Hisham Saadawi is vice president
arbitrations. Seager has spoken at various industry
(engineering) for Abu Dhabi Company Onshore
events as well as presenting in-house and public
Oil Operations (ADCO). He has more than 30
courses to clients on estimating, classifying and
years of experience in the design, construction,
reporting of reserves. Seager began his career in
startup, project management and operation of
1972 as a petroleum engineer with Shell International
oil and gas processing facilities. He has worked
in Malaysia with later assignments in Brunei, the
on numerous multiphase pumping projects and
Netherlands, and Australia. In 1980 he joined Roy M.
unique applications. They include the world’s first
Huffington in Indonesia where he became petroleum
installation of multiphase screw pumps operating
engineering manager before joining GCA in 1985
in series, the first helicon-axial multiphase pumps
with whom he has held senior positions in the United
operating in series, and the use of a mobile
Kingdom, Singapore, Argentina, Venezuela and the
multiphase ram pump and multiphase ESP.
USA. He has a BS in physics from Bristol University,
Saadawi has run numerous seminars on multiphase England and an MS in petroleum engineering from
pumping and served on several committees and Imperial College, London.
subcommittees for SPE conferences and workshops.
He is an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and currently B
ill Shroyer, managing director of EXiiUS LLC, has
serves in the Editorial Committee of the SPE Journal worked in the practical application of DTS systems in
of Petroleum Technology. He is a fellow of the the oil and gas market since 1998. During this time,
Institution of Chemical Engineers and a member of he has designed and executed numerous fiber-optic
the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He earned DTS as well as conventional monitoring installations in
his PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. a wide variety of applications ranging from complex
offshore installations to shallow steam flood fiber
Hemanta Sarma is currently the chairman and deployments. Over the last 14 years, Shroyer has
professor of the petroleum engineering program served in field and project engineering roles for
at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi. He was a two major service companies and provided project
professor and holder of the Reg Sprigg Chair in management consultation for a major global operator.
petroleum engineering in Australian School of Shroyer has a degree in electronics engineering from
Petroleum, University of Adelaide. He is an SPE the University of East Carolina and is a Certified Fiber
member since 2009 and has primarily worked in Optic Technician (CFOT).
the areas of EOR and reservoir engineering, in both
research and field pilots. He holds a BS with honors
in petroleum engineering from Indian School of Peter C. Sidey, PE, has been with Sproule

Associates since 1997. He has a BS in mechanical
Mines, MS in chemical engineering, specializing in
engineering. Sidey’s primary job responsibility is
reservoir engineering from University of Calgary,
the evaluation of Canadian oil and gas properties,
and a PhD in petroleum engineering from the
with an emphasis on the application of probabilistic
University of Alberta.
evaluation techniques.
Rodney Schulz is formerly from ConocoPhillips
where he held a variety of engineering (primarily Ashok K. Singhal, an expert in EOR

technologies and horizontal well applications,
reservoir), finance, and organizational efficiency
is a principal consultant with Premier Reservoir
positions throughout North America over 15 years.
Engineering Services, where he provides consulting
Since leaving ConocoPhillips in 2009, Schulz has
and training in EOR. He has more than 35 years of
served as an expert witness on oil and gas asset
worldwide oil and gas experience in heavy oil and tar
valuation for a federal bankruptcy court and a major
sand reservoir engineering, horizontal well technology,
international law firm In addition to his oil and gas
CO2 flooding, thermal EOR, and waterflood projects.
production experience. He has also served as the
He has lectured on EOR, horizontal well applications
financial director/CFO for an organization with 150
and other topics around the world.
employees in six states. In 2003, while still with
ConocoPhillips, he started Schulz Financial, a retail Singhal is an engineering alumnus of Indian School
investment advisory company that now manages of Mines and the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
$7 million for 27 households/40 clients and boasts He earned his PhD in petroleum engineering from
a 98% client retention ratio through a very difficult the University of California and later taught chemical
time for equity markets. Currently, Schulz is putting engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and
together several oil and gas field redevelopment petroleum engineering at the University of Alberta.
deals in south Texas while continuing to grow Schulz
Financial and Schulz Consulting.

Cameron P. Six, PE, has been with Sproule Michael H. (Mike) Stein retired from BP
Associates since 2004. He has a BS in chemical in 2006 after 28 years of service, and is now a
engineering. Six’s primary job responsibility is the consultant specializing in enhanced oil recovery
evaluation of Canadian oil and gas properties, with and integrated asset modeling. Stein was a team
an emphasis on emerging trends. leader of the Integrated Asset Modeling group in
BP’s Technology Center in Houston. He also directed
Ed Smalley has more than 30 years of oilfield research on ways to apply integrated asset modeling
experience, including new product development, to monitor corrosion and erosion in real time, and
field operations, sales and management. His to couple integrated asset modeling with reservoir
expertise includes coiled tubing, formation simulation. Stein holds three US Patents, two in
evaluation, coalbed methane, hydraulic fracturing enhanced coal bed methane (ECBM) production,
and the commercialization of emerging technology. and one in automatic waterflood history matching.
Smalley began his career with Schlumberger and He is a long-standing member of SPE, has served on
held various positions in sales and operations. SPE editorial committees, and chaired SPE Reservoir
He later joined the Gas Technology Institute, Engineering committee to select papers for SPE’s
where as director of E&P business development Annual Technology Conference and Exhibition.
he spearheaded the commercial launch of more Stein he holds a BS in chemical engineering from the
than 60 new E&P products. Smalley is currently the University of Missouri, and MS and PhD degrees in
general manager of National Oilwell Varco’s Coiled chemical engineering from Purdue University.
Tubing Equipment Services (NOV CTES) in Conroe,
TX. Smalley holds a BS in Engineering from Kansas
State University. Nora T. Stewart, PE, has been with Sproule

Associates since 1989. Stewart’s primary job
Michael B. Smith is president and founder
responsibility is the evaluation of Canadian oil
of NSI Technologies, a consulting firm in Tulsa, and gas properties, with an emphasis on the
Oklahoma. He has more than 20 years of experience development of pricing models.
in rock mechanics, well completions, and hydraulic
fracturing. Smith has written more than 35 technical Chee Phuat Tan is Schlumberger’s

papers and holds six patents. He also served as geomechanics advisor based in Kuala Lumpur,
an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and wrote two Malaysia. He has more than 25 years of experience
chapters in the SPE Monograph, Recent Advances in petroleum geomechanics, in particular
in Hydraulic Fracturing. Smith recently received the wellbore-centric and reservoir geomechanics,
Lester C. Uren Award for his technical contributions and drilling fluid-shale interaction. Chee Tan’s
to hydraulic fracturing. education includes a BS degree in engineering
(with first class honors in civil engineering) and a
James J. Smolen has more than 30 years of PhD in geomechanics, both obtained at Monash
experience in cased hole well logging, applications, University in Melbourne, Australia. He has
related research, and training. He began in the authored/coauthored more than 400 technical
oil industry in 1970 with Schlumberger and since publications and has served on the technical
1980, has been an officer and director of Petroleum program committees of numerous SPE and rock
Computing, as well as an international consultant mechanics conferences and workshops. He has also
and trainer. He has numerous publications to his served as special faculty member of the School
credit, including the 1996 PennWell text, Cased of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, the
Hole and Production Log Evaluation. Smolen was University of Oklahoma and as member of Graduate
a Distinguished Lecturer for SPE and SPWLA. He School Thesis Examining Committee, University of
holds a BS from Northwestern University, and Minnesota School of Civil Engineering.
earned his MS and PhD degrees from the University
of California, Berkeley. Ming Zo Tan is the global application
engineering manager for Weatherford Drilling
Ken Sorbie is a professor at Heriot-Watt with Casing product line. He joined Weatherford
University’s Institute of Petroleum Engineering. He in 2003 as a DwC product line manager. Recently,
has a first degree in chemistry from Strathclyde he focuses on nurturing application engineering
University and a PhD in theoretical chemistry and teams in various geographical regions besides
applied mathematics from the University of Sussex. being actively involved in the development of
He has worked in oil-related research for more new products and engineering tools. Prior to
than 20 years, first with the Department of Energy Weatherford, he held various positions within
laboratory at AEE Winfrith and, since 1988, at Halliburton, being a drill bit optimization engineer,
Heriot-Watt University. Sorbie is currently a principle bit designer, and rock strength specialist. He has 15
investigator, along with Anne Neville and Eric years of oilfield experience. He holds a BS degree
Mackay, of the Flow Assurance and Scale Team joint in petroleum engineering, coauthored several
industry project, which he launched in 1989. technical papers, and is a co-owner of a US patent.
Sorbie has published more than 200 technical papers F. Brent Thomas directs phase behavior and
on his research and a book on polymer flooding. He EOR research at Weatherford Labs in Calgary, where
was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2000–2001 and he has worked in various capacities since 1981. His
is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. focus includes numerical analysis, phase behavior
and phase interference in porous media, gas
injection, asphaltene precipitation, and chemical and

thermal recovery. Thomas has written or coauthored the Consulting Services group in 2005. In addition
more than 130 technical papers. He received the to 4D seismic, his experience includes reservoir
1992 Best Technical Paper of the Year Award from characterization, artificial lift, and borehole
CIM and coauthored the 1995 best technical paper telemetry. During 2000–2001, he served as an SPE
for the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology. Distinguished Lecturer on the topic “Integrating
He was selected as a Distinguished Author for the Time-Lapse (4D) Seismic Data with Reservoir
Petroleum Society of CIM in 1995 and 1998, and Simulation.” Waggoner’s work now focuses
was a Distinguished Lecturer for SPE International in on integrating 4D seismic data with reservoir
2003–2004. Thomas obtained his BS and MS at the simulation, and on the use of 3D seismic data for
University of Calgary and his PhD from Washington improved reservoir characterization.
University in St. Louis, all in chemical engineering.
John M. Walsh is the subject matter expert
Lindsey Tollefson is the founder of Leverich for Shell in the area of produced water treating.
Solutions, a firm that specializes in public involvement, He has more than 20 years experience in the E&P
communication, and facilitation services for water, industry, having worked in the Shell technical centers
energy, environmental, and community projects. She for half of his career and in operating assets for the
also serves as the outreach and communications other half. He has designed water-treating systems,
manager for the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration and provided troubleshooting support to assets all
Partnership at Montana State University. Tollefson over the world including deepwater US, Brazil and
has given numerous presentations on a wide variety Nigeria, the North Sea, onshore Europe, and onshore
of topics at conferences, universities, and workshops Middle East. He has experience in conventional
around the nation. Her audience includes policymakers, produced water treating systems, and water treating
stakeholders, civic groups, and the public. for waterflood, polymerflood, and steamflood.
Tollefson has a BS in biological sciences from Having earned a PhD in chemical engineering,
Montana State University and an MS in environmental together with extensive experience in operating
science from Florida International University. units, he brings a unique combination of fundamental
knowledge with first hand practical experience. He
Emmanuel Wada is a chemical engineer with has presented more than 40 papers on the subject
more than 19 years of experience in design and of produced water treating at various conferences
integrity assessments as well as hazard operation and workshops. He currently serves on the Board
analysis procedures. He also has experience in air of Directors of SPE as the technical director for the
and water pollution control, wastewater treatment, Projects, Facilities, and Construction discipline.
oil spill prevention, hazardous waste management,
risk assessment, emission inventory, superfund sites Brian Weatherill, PE, is a petroleum
clean up, pollution prevention, the development of engineering specialist with APA Petroleum
control and countermeasure (SPCC) plans as well as Engineering with more than 30 years of oilfield
Phase 1 and 2 environmental assessment. He has experience. Prior to becoming a consultant in
supervised many projects in chemical plants and 1998, Weatherill spent over 20 years with Shell
refineries using operational excellence management Canada where he gained extensive experience
systems (OEMS) to assess mechanical integrity, in petroleum engineering, enhanced oil recovery,
safety standards, and regulatory compliance. petroleum technology management and project
management. Weatherill has also managed well
Wada has used his experience and knowledge to
stimulation operations for a privately-owned
train engineers and scientists in topics which include
Canadian company.
safety analysis, air pollution control equipment
design, oil spill prevention, permitting, environmental
and safety risk assessment, environmental K.C. Yeung, MS, PE, is director of Oil Sands
safety, health regulations, and hazardous waste Technology at Dover Corporation in Calgary, Alberta,
management. In addition, he has also managed Tax Canada. He has worked in the heavy oil industry
Relief for Pollution Control Program for the Texas for over 34 years, primarily in the area of reservoir
Commission on Environmental Quality. development. He has been involved in various in-
situ field projects including cyclic steam stimulation
Wada obtained his PhD from Louisiana State (CSS), steamflood, in-situ combustion, cold heavy oil
University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and his BS and production with sand (CHOPS), and steam assisted
MS in chemical engineering from University of gravity drainage (SAGD).
Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana. He is a licensed Yeung was a Distinguished Lecturer for the Petroleum
Professional Engineer in Texas and Louisiana. Society of CIM. He has given lectures and training
courses on heavy oil recovery and SAGD in Canada,
John Waggoner is a principal reservoir China, South America, and Middle East to promote
engineer with Schlumberger Data and Consulting Canada’s in-situ heavy oil technology. He was also
Services (DCS) in Houston. He holds BS, MS, and a member of the evaluation committee on the SPE
PhD in petroleum engineering from The University Reprint Series No. 61, Heavy Oil Recovery.
of Texas at Austin, and worked seven years at
Sandia National Laboratories in the Geophysical Yeung was the 2005–2006 president of the Canadian
Technology Department before joining Western Heavy Oil Association (CHOA) and the 2007
Geophysical (later WesternGeco) in London in chairman of the Petroleum Society of CIM. In 2009,
1997. Waggoner was 4D Product Champion in he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from
WesternGeco/Reservoir Services before joining the Petroleum Society of Canada.

Drilling and Completions
Casing and Tubing Design Seminar. . ...................................................................................................................... 4
Cement Evaluation and Remediation..................................................................................................................... 4
Coiled Tubing and Its Applications. . ....................................................................................................................... 5
Geomechanical Aspects in CO2 Storage................................................................................................................. 5
Horizontal Well Completions. . ............................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction to Drilling with Casing........................................................................................................................ 5
Introduction to Managed Pressure Drilling ............................................................................................................. 6
Introduction to Underbalanced Drilling .................................................................................................................. 6
Modern Well Design ........................................................................................................................................... 6
Offshore and Onshore Oil Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures . . ............................................................... 8
Practical Rock Mechanics for Drilling and Completions .. ........................................................................................... 7
Reservoir Aspects of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells ........................................................................................... 31
Shale Selection, Completions, Fracturing and Production.. ........................................................................................ 7
Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility

GHG and CCS Regulatory and Legal Frameworks ................................................................................................... 8

Public Outreach and Education: Preparing CCS Professionals for Engaging with Stakeholders ...................................... 8
Management and Information

Asset Management—Tools, Process, and Practice.................................................................................................... 9
Data and Knowledge Management Programm as Basic Keys to Achieve Technology and Operational Excellence.. ........... 9
Ensuring Reliable SCAL Data for Reservoir Modeling ............................................................................................. 25
Field Development Economics ............................................................................................................................. 9
Production Forecast and Reserves Estimates in Unconventional Resources ............................................................... 10
Fundamentals of Reservoir Description and Modeling with Geostatistics .................................................................. 26
History Matching and Conditioning Reservoir Models to Dynamic Data .. .................................................................. 27
Managing Your Business Using PRMS (Petroleum Resources Management System) .. .................................................. 10
Managing Your Business Using PRMS and SEC Standards ...................................................................................... 10
Modern Production Data Analysis of Unconventional Reservoirs . . ............................................................................ 29
Monte Carlo Simulation for the Oil and Gas Industry ............................................................................................. 11
Oil and Gas Economics and Uncertainty .. ............................................................................................................. 11
Oil and Gas Reserves: The SEC Reporting Rules ................................................................................................... 12
Oilfield Data Mining .. ........................................................................................................................................ 12
Petroleum Reserves .......................................................................................................................................... 13
Practical Application of PRMS (Petroleum Resources Management System) .............................................................. 13
Practical Decline Curve Analysis . . ........................................................................................................................ 30
Project Risk, Uncertainty, and Decision Analysis (1- and 2-day) ............................................................................13, 14
Review for the Principles and Practice Exam ......................................................................................................... 14
Unconventional Reservoir Production (Rate Transient) Analysis ................................................................................ 34
Production and Operations

Artificial Lift ..................................................................................................................................................... 15
Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation .. ........................................................................................................ 15
Design and Optimization of Artificial Lift Systems . . ................................................................................................ 15
Diagnosis and Practical Solutions for Wellbore Fluid- and Heat-Flow Problems ......................................................... 15
Formation and Prevention of Oilfield Scale: From the Laboratory to the Field ........................................................... 16
Hydraulic Fracturing—A Concise Overview........................................................................................................... 16
Hydraulic Fracturing—Design and Treatment........................................................................................................ 16
Hydraulic Fracturing/Pressure Analysis. . ................................................................................................................ 17
Intelligent Well Technology . . .............................................................................................................................. 17
Introduction to Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) . . ........................................................................................ 17
Multiphase Pumping: Fundamentals to Field Applications .. .................................................................................... 18
Overview of Microseismic Imaging of Hydraulic Fracturing...................................................................................... 18
Transient Well Testing .. ...................................................................................................................................... 33
Understanding Inorganic Scaling—Mechanisms, Control, and Management ............................................................ 18
Well Treatment and Stimulation .......................................................................................................................... 36

Projects, Facilities, and Construction
Assuring Flow from Pore to Process .. ................................................................................................................... 19
Offshore Pipeline Projects .................................................................................................................................. 19
Project Decision-Making. . ................................................................................................................................... 20
The Science and Technology of Water Treating. . .................................................................................................... 20
Reservoir Description and Dynamics

4D Coupled Reservoir Geomechanics Modeling for Optimal Field Management . . ..................................................... 21
4D Reservoir Management . . ............................................................................................................................... 21
Appraising and Developing Shale Gas Reservoirs.................................................................................................. 21
Appraising and Developing Shale Gas and Shale Oil Reservoirs............................................................................... 22
Basic Pressure Transient Test Analysis .................................................................................................................. 22
Basic Reservoir Engineering ............................................................................................................................... 22
Chemical Enhanced Recovery .. ........................................................................................................................... 23
Coalbed Methane Development .. ....................................................................................................................... 23
Coalbed Methane Reservoir and Production Analysis .. ........................................................................................... 23

Design of Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) Well Installations. . ....................................................... 23
Diagnosis and Analysis of Waterfloods................................................................................................................. 24
Enhanced and Improved Oil Recovery Methods—A Life Line for an Old and “Tired” Reservoir? .................................. 24
Enhanced Oil Recovery Fundamentals ................................................................................................................. 24
Ensuring Reliable SCAL Data for Reservoir Modeling ............................................................................................. 25
Evaluation of Canadian Oil and Gas Properties ..................................................................................................... 25
Field Piloting for EOR/IOR Schemes .................................................................................................................... 25
Production Forecast and Reserves Estimates in Unconventional Resources ............................................................... 10
Fundamentals of Field Development Planning for Coalbed Methane Fields . . ............................................................ 25
Fundamentals of Reservoir Description and Modeling with Geostatistics .................................................................. 26
Fundamentals of Reservoir Simulation ................................................................................................................. 26
Fundamentals of Retrograde Reservoir Fluid Properties, Characterization, and Flow in Porous Media ........................... 26
Geological Sequestration of CO2 ........................................................................................................................ 27
Geomechanics for Effective Shale Gas Exploitation ............................................................................................... 27
History Matching and Conditioning Reservoir Models to Dynamic Data .. .................................................................. 27
In-Situ Recovery Methods and SAGD .................................................................................................................. 28
Introduction to Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) . . ........................................................................................ 17
Introduction to Geomechanics for Unconventional Oil and Gas . . ............................................................................. 28
Introduction to Reservoir Engineering .. ................................................................................................................ 28
Introduction to Waterflooding ............................................................................................................................ 28
Modern Production Data Analysis of Unconventional Reservoirs . . ............................................................................ 29
Modified EOR Methods for Better Displacement .................................................................................................. 29
Optimizing Existing Waterfloods . . ....................................................................................................................... 29
Optimizing Gas Fields Using Integrated Asset Modeling ........................................................................................ 29
Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding EOR and Introduction to CO2 Geosequestration. . .................................................. 30
Practical Aspects of Thermal EOR ....................................................................................................................... 30
Practical Decline Curve Analysis . . ........................................................................................................................ 30
Practical Reservoir Surveillance and Management Techniques for Primary, Secondary, and
Tertiary Oil Recovery Projects . . ........................................................................................................................ 31
Reservoir Characterization: From the Laboratory to the Field .................................................................................. 31
Reservoir Simulation for Practical Decision Making ................................................................................................ 31
Rock Physics for Reservoir Characterization and Recovery Monitoring ...................................................................... 32
The Science and Technology of Water Treating. . .................................................................................................... 20
Screening of Reservoirs for EOR/IOR ................................................................................................................... 32
Shale Gas Development .................................................................................................................................... 32
Shale Oil and Tight Oil Fundamentals.................................................................................................................. 33
Streamline Simulation: Theory and Practice .......................................................................................................... 33
Thermal Reservoir Simulation for SAGD ............................................................................................................... 33
Transient Well Testing .. ...................................................................................................................................... 33
Unconventional Gas Fundamentals ..................................................................................................................... 34
Unconventional Reservoir Production (Rate Transient) Analysis ................................................................................ 34
Waterflooding Concepts, Design Prediction, and Optimization ............................................................................... 35
Waterflooding: Performance Predictions and Surveillance ...................................................................................... 35
Well Test Interpretation ..................................................................................................................................... 35
Well Testing—Benefits and Limitations ................................................................................................................ 36
Well Treatment and Stimulation .......................................................................................................................... 36

Name Page # Name Page #
Aadnoy, Bernt S. ............................................ 6, 37 Lane, Bill .................................................... 15, 44
Alessio, Laurent ........................................... 25, 37 Lavoie, Rob . . ......................................... 28, 29, 44
Amado, Luiz C... ........................................... 29, 37 Lee, W. John ....................................10, 12, 22, 44
Anderson, David . . ........................................ 29, 37 Mackay, Eric ................................................ 16, 44
Avasthi, J.M. (Jay) .................................. 27, 30, 37 Mahrer, Kenneth D. ...................................... 18, 45
Avasthi, S.M. (Sam) .. .................... 27, 29, 30, 31, 38 Marsland, Stanton D. . . .................................. 19, 45
Banerjee, Sudiptya......................................... 5, 38 Mattar, Louis ............................................... 35, 45
Bondor, Paul L. ...................................... 30, 31, 38 Mavko, Gary ............................................... 32, 45
Burton, Aaron................................................ 5, 38 McLane, Mark A. .. .................................. 13, 14, 45
Carlson, Mike .............................................. 33, 38 McLellan, Pat .......................................... 7, 28, 45
Chase, Robert W... ........................................ 14, 38 Mohaghegh, Shahab D. . . .............................. 12, 45
Chokshi, Rajan .. ........................................... 15, 39 Montgomery, Carl T...................................... 16, 46
Citron, Gary P. ....................................... 13, 14, 39 Mukherjee, Hemanta . . ............................ 15, 22, 46
Clarkson, Chris ............................................ 34, 39 Murtha, Jim ................................................ 11, 46
Cobb, William M. (Bill) .................................. 35, 39 Nas, Steve .................................................... 6, 46
Coddington, Kipp . . ........................................ 8, 39 Nasr-El-Din, H.A. ......................................... 36, 46
Cook, Mark ................................................... 9, 39 O’Blenes, Matthew J. ................................... 25, 47
Da Prat, Giovanni . . ....................................... 36, 39 Ogbe, David O. . . ......................................... 26, 47
Datta-Gupta, Akhil ................................. 27, 33, 39 Ott, William K. (Bill) ........................................ 4, 47
Instructor Index
Delshad, Mojdeh ......................................... 23, 40 Palke, Miles R. ............................................. 31, 47

Demiral, Birol M.R. ....................................... 29, 40 Palmer, David. . ............................................... 9, 47
Dria, Dennis. . ............................................... 23, 40 Peterson, Susan . . ......................................... 11, 47
Duhon, Howard. . .......................................... 20, 40 Prajuto.......................................................... 9, 47
Erpelding, Peter ............................................ 4, 40 Rietz, Dean C. ............................................. 31, 47
Ershaghi, Iraj ............................................... 35, 40 Rosenberg, Steve........................................... 5, 47
Etherington, John .................................. 10, 13, 40 Saadawi, Hisham ......................................... 18, 48
Fox, Charles E. (Chuck) ........................... 27, 30, 41 Sarma, Hemanta . . ........................................ 24, 48
Frankiewicz, Ted........................................... 20, 41 Schulz, Rodney ............................................ 11, 48
Gala, Deepak M. .. ...................................... 5, 6, 41 Seager, Rawdon .......................................... 10, 48
Ghedan, Shawket .................................. 14, 25, 41 Shroyer, Bill. . ................................................ 23, 48
Gochnour, J. Robert ..................................... 26, 41 Sidey, Peter C. . . ........................................... 25, 48
Gouveia, James (Jim) ............................. 13, 14, 41 Singhal, Ashok K. ........................ 25, 30, 31, 32, 48
Graham, Gordon M. . . ................................... 18, 41 Six, Cameron P. .. .......................................... 25, 49
Handwerger, David ...................................... 27, 42 Smalley, Ed ................................................... 5, 49
Hasan, Rashid ............................................. 15, 42 Smith, Michael B. . . ................................. 16, 17, 49
Hennings, Steve ......................... 23, 32, 33, 34, 42 Smolen, James J. . . ............................. 4, 15, 17, 49
Hodgin, John .............................................. 13, 42 Sorbie, Ken ................................................. 16, 49
Hughes, Richard G. ...................................... 14, 42 Stein, Michael H. (Mike) .....................27, 29, 30, 49
Ilk, Dilhan.................................................... 21, 42 Stewart, Nora T. . . ......................................... 25, 49
Jain, Alok ..................................................... 9, 42 Tan Chee Phuat............................................. 21, 49
Jamaluddin, Abdul ...................................... 19, 43 Tan Ming Zho. . ................................................5, 49
Jenkins, Creties........................................ 21, 22, 43 Thomas, F. Brent . . ........................................ 26, 49
Joshi, Sada ................................................. 31, 43 Tollefson, Lindsey .......................................... 8, 50
Kabir, Shah .. .......................................... 15, 24, 43 Wada, Emmanuel .......................................... 8, 50
Kamal, Medhat (Med) M. .............................. 33, 43 Waggoner, John .......................................... 21, 50
Khan, Safdar ........................................... 5, 27, 43 Walsh, John M............................................. 20, 50
King, George E. . . ........................................... 7, 44 Weatherill, Brian ...............................28, 29, 30, 50
Konopczynski, Michael ................................. 17, 44 Yeung, K.C. ................................................. 28, 50
Lake, Larry W. . . ...................................... 24, 31, 44

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