Oil and Gas for Human Resources
This course is a light version of our Upstream Oil and Gas course with emphasis added on job categories and duties. It would be helpful to a variety of HR positions, particularly those involved in recruiting, employee development, and training.
Course Agenda
Timing: 8:00 AM -4:00 PM with 45 minutes for lunch.
- Oil and gas characteristics and uses (examine oil samples)
- Sectors of the industry
- Industry participants
- World oil and gas markets
- Liquefied natural gas
- U.S. unconventional activities
- Questions using electronic response cards
- Organic source
- Sedimentary rock basins and rock types important to oil and gas (examine with magnifiers)
- Porosity and permeability (physical demonstration)
- Unconventional shale and tight rock characteristics
- Oil and gas formation
- Oil and gas migration and traps (physical demonstration)
- Changes over geological time
- Total petroleum system
- Conventional vs. unconventional development
- Geological and geophysical methods/tools used by geoscientists
- Roles of geologists and geophysicists
- Seismic acquisition
- Questions using electronic response cards
- Ownership of oil and gas rights in U.S. vs. rest of world
- Severance of mineral rights from surface rights
- Ownership of oil and gas production (Rule of Capture)
- State regulatory agencies and conservation laws
- Elements of an oil and gas lease
- Joint ownership
- Roles of landmen, title analysts and division order analysts
- Questions using electronic response cards
- Well planning
- Wellsite preparation and rig mobilization
- Video segments (with downhole animations) explaining the structure and functions of a drilling rig and showing the step-by-step drilling of a horizontal well
- Video and animations showing hydraulic fracturing
- Well completion (flowback, tubing, packer and christmas tree)
- Brief overview of offshore drilling
- Questions using electronic response cards
- Optional instead of questions: Interactive exercise if group size is between 20-30
- Reservoir characteristics
- Well evaluation tools (wireline logs, production tests and well cores)
- Modeling, simulation and development considerations
- Artificial lift
- Example production site layout
- Production processing facilities
- Offshore production and platforms
- Roles of engineers (petroleum, reservoir, drilling, completion, facility and production engineers)
- Roles of procurement specialists
- Roles of oil and gas accountants
- Questions using electronic response cards
- Course evaluations: copies of all evaluations provided to company