Oil and Gas Orientation
This course is designed for groups of new hires and interns. It is a lighter and slower-paced version of our Upstream Oil and Gas course. Focus and data retention can be improved by eliminating some of the details if the entire audience is new to the oil and gas industry.
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
- 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
- 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
- Brief overview of federal leasing
- 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
- Oil and gas reserves
- Questions using electronic response cards
- Course evaluations: copies of all evaluations provided to company