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Oil and Gas Training Courses

At Cowrie+ we believe that Oil and Gas competency training are better handled by practitioners who understand the principles and applications of the subject matter. In this regard, we leverage the expertise of industry professionals who have consistently applied the principles being taught in class and can make a real world connection between the white board and the oil field. The range and depth of our training offerings are continually being improved to help participants improve on their careers and make them valuable contributors at work

Basic Drilling Operations

Course presents an overview of hydrocarbon well drilling operations from start to finish. At the end of the course participants would have honed their skills in basic drilling operations both onshore and offshore, the sequence of the drilling processes

Target: Drilling Engineers, Drilling supervisors, and Technical support personnel

Overview of Well Planning
Drilling Rig Systems
Well Objectives
Engineering Considerations for Successful Drilling
Well Construction Phases
Principles of the Drilling Process
Principles of Well Control
Causes and Prevention of Well Construction Issues
Well Completion

Practical Drilling Skills (PDS) I & II

This two prong course exposes engineers to the very important aspects of drilling operation, what to look out for when drilling a well, and how to make proper decisions that ensures well delivery safely, on schedule and within estimates. Our facilitators are some of the best around. They have extensive global experience in some of the most challenging drilling operations and have written texts on various subjects in drilling engineering.

PDS I and II courses run separately for 5 days each but they can both be delivered over a straight two week period.

Target: Drilling Managers, Drilling Engineers, and Drilling supervisors.

PDS I

Visible and Non-visible Non-Productive Time (NPT): causative factors and its elimination.
Hole problems (stuck pipe, lost circulation, ballooning)
Drilling fluid conditioning
Lost circulation
Drilling rate
Interpretation of mud logger gas units
Determining pore pressure
On-site hydraulic optimization

PDS I

Visible and Non-visible Non-Productive Time (NPT): causative factors and its elimination.
Hole problems (stuck pipe, lost circulation, ballooning)
Drilling fluid conditioning
Lost circulation
Drilling rate
Interpretation of mud logger gas units
Determining pore pressure
On-site hydraulic optimization

Natural Gas Processing

This natural gas processing course covers the processing of gas from the well head through to the point of sale with focus on its handling and associated liquids. Participants are also exposed to competing technologies that could help in rapid development of gas assets.

Target: Production Engineers, Facility Engineers, Operations Engineers and Gas Processing Engineers.

Natural gas and world energy trends
The role of gas processing in the natural gas value chain
Technical engineering principles (common conversions, gas density, phase behavior)
Gas sweetening
Gas hydrates and dehydration
Gas conditioning (dew point control) and NGL extraction
Stabilization and fractionation concepts and facilities
Gas processing key equipment and support systems (heat transfer, compression, pipelines and gathering systems, and measurement)
Specialty processes in gas processing (LNG, nitrogen rejection and helium recovery, sulfur recovery, and acid gas re-injection)
Use of HYSYS with examples for natural gas processing designs.
Introduction to Membrane Technology.
Plant Start ups

Oil Processing and Treatment

Course participants are equipped with skills to recognize and develop solutions to operating problems in oil/water processing facilities. They also learn oil, gas, and water compositions and properties needed for equipment selection and sizing, selection and evaluation of processes and equipment used to meet sales or disposal specifications. More importantly, attendees learn to apply physical and thermodynamic property correlations and principles to the design and evaluation of oil production and processing facilities, and how to perform equipment sizing calculations for major production facility separation equipment

Target: Facilities Engineers, Production Engineers, Technical Support Personnel.

Review of Reservoir and oil properties
Phase envelopes and reservoir fluid classification
Gas, oil, and water - composition and properties
Oil gathering systems
Gas-liquid separation
Emulsions
Oil-water separation
Oil treating
Desalting
Oil stabilization and sweetening
Oil storage and vapor recovery
Treatment of sand, wax, asphaltenes, and scales
Pipeline transportation of crude oil
Pumps
Overview of produced water treatment
Water injection systems
Solution gas handling

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