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Basic Petroleum Exploration
Basic Petroleum Drilling

Basic Petroleum Exploration

Target audience

The course is designed for personnel who work in the exploration industry but have little or no exploration-specific technical background. This includes administration staff, technical support staff, and those in management or professional roles whose background is in a field other than Earth Science.

Course objectives

The course provides an overview of the business of petroleum exploration from acreage selection through to final discovery of an oil or gas field. It highlights the multi-disciplinary nature of the business, examines the tools and methods used in exploration, and provides an understanding of the technical terminology.

Course outline

Participants will be exposed to the basic concepts of acreage management, exploration geology, petroleum geophysics, rotary drilling, and economics and risk assessment:

Acreage acquisition and legal aspects

  • How exploration groups are put together (joint ventures, floats, operators, non-operators)
  • How companies acquire exploration acreage (permits, gazettals, open acreage, bidding, work programs, farmins, joint ventures)
  • Legal obligations and moral responsibilities (legislation, environmental controls)

Petroleum geology

  • Why companies explore where they do (rock types and properties, geological models, prospectivity)
  • Where oil and gas come from (source, seal, reservoir, generation, migration, trapping mechanisms)
  • How oil and gas fields are found (basin analysis, regional studies, play concepts, prospect generation)

Petroleum geophysics

  • How explorers determine what it looks like below the surface of the earth (remote sensing)
  • How seismic works (acquisition, processing, 2D and 3D surveys)
  • What seismic tells us (interpretation, mapping, hydrocarbon indicators)

Exploration drilling

  • Types of drilling rigs (land rigs, jackups, drill ships, semi-submersibles)
  • How rotary wells are drilled (hoisting, rotating, circulation, control)
  • Information obtained from wells (cuttings, cores, logs, well seismic)
  • What happens after the well is drilled (abandon, suspend, test)

Economics and risk

  • Why do we drill so many dry holes (outcomes, prospect risking and ranking)
  • Differences between technical success and commercial success (costs, prices, infrastructure)
  • How do we handle the risks involved (geological risk - POS, commercial risk – EMV)
  • The “Exploration Game” An fun opportunity to draw the learnings of the day together

 

Basic Petroleum Drilling

Target audience

The course is designed for personnel who work in the exploration industry but have little or no exploration-specific technical background. This includes administration staff, technical support staff, and those in management or professional roles whose background is in a field other than Earth Science.

The Drilling course is an ideal follow-up for those who have previously attended the Basic Exploration Short Course and would like a more detailed understanding of the drilling process. However, that is not a pre-requisite as both courses are entirely self-contained.

Course objectives

The drilling of an oil well is seen as the culmination of the exploration process, but to the lay person it is a mysterious and complex undertaking which has a language all of its own. This course highlights the multi-disciplinary nature of the business, examines the tools and methods used in exploration drilling, and provides an understanding of the technical terminology and jargon used.

Course outline

The course will cover such topics as:

Rules and regulations

  • The historical record and current activity levels
  • Who controls the drilling process; safety and environmental constraints
  • Reporting requirements – how to read a drilling report

Pre-drill preparations

  • How companies select a drilling location
  • Rig types and selection
  • Well planning, procedures and costs

Drilling the well

  • Components of a rig – hoisting, circulating, rotating and control systems
  • The mechanics of making hole
  • Special techniques – deviated and horizontal drilling

Evaluating the well

  • Cuttings and core analysis
  • Oil and gas shows, sampling, testing
  • Basic wireline logs, measurement while drilling
  • What it all means – interpreting the results

What can go wrong

  • Kicks, blowouts and oil spills
  • Loss of hole, loss of equipment and fishing
  • Completion and abandonment
  • The “Drilling Game” – just for fun: drill your own well and gain an appreciation of some of the risks involved