OG90
Course Contents
Module 1: Production System Fundamentals and Field Operating Context
Key Topics
- Oil, gas, and condensate field lifecycle and operating objectives
- Reservoir-to-export production system overview
- Roles of wells, manifolds, flowlines, and processing facilities
- Key production constraints: pressure, temperature, capacity, and quality
- Daily operating priorities: safety, uptime, quality, and cost
- Production losses, deferment tracking, and opportunity identification
- Interface management between subsurface, operations, and maintenance
Module 2: Well Performance, Surveillance and Production Optimisation
Key Topics
- Well deliverability, inflow performance, and operating envelopes
- Production surveillance: rates, pressures, temperatures, and trends
- Well testing, allocation, and production accounting fundamentals
- Artificial lift overview: gas lift, ESP, PCP, and beam pumping
- Managing declining wells, high water cut, and gas breakthrough
- Production optimisation through choke, lift, and facility settings
- Well intervention planning, priorities, and risk controls
Module 3: Surface Facilities, Processing and Condensate Handling
Key Topics
- Three-phase separation: oil, gas, water, and condensate streams
- Gas compression, dehydration, dew point control, and export quality
- Condensate stabilisation, dehydration, storage, and custody transfer
- Produced water separation, treatment, injection, and disposal
- Chemical treatment: demulsifiers, corrosion, and scale inhibitors
- Metering, sampling, laboratory checks, and product specifications
- Utilities, power, flaring, venting, and emissions control basics
Module 4: Flow Assurance, Integrity and Operational Reliability
Key Topics
- Flow assurance threats: hydrates, wax, asphaltenes, and scale
- Sand production, erosion, corrosion, and solids management
- Slugging, liquid loading, and unstable gas-condensate flow
- Operating procedures for start-up, shutdown, and pigging
- Asset integrity: barriers, inspection, testing, and maintenance
- Reliability-centred maintenance and critical equipment care
- Troubleshooting abnormal operations and recurring production losses
Module 5: Production Management, HSE and Continuous Improvement
Key Topics
- Production planning, daily reporting, and performance dashboards
- HSE leadership, permit-to-work, and management of change
- Process safety barriers, alarms, trips, and emergency response
- Integrated operations: subsurface, facility, and maintenance coordination
- Digital tools, field data quality, and real-time decision support
- Operating cost control, energy efficiency, and emissions reduction
- Action planning for production improvement in participants’ assets