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Instructors: Silem Shaker
Course Length: 1 days
Course CEUs: .8
Course Description
This one day course is essential for every technical professional involved in exploration, risk assessment, development, monitoring, and production of oil and gas. Sealing integrity and hydrocarbon retention capacity of a prospective structural closure are the consequence of the subsurface geopressure compartmentalization. Successful drilling to the targeted formation is a result of accurate prediction of pore – fracture pressure and the drilling tolerance window. This course covers the essentials of geopressure compartmentalization in relation to pore pressure development with depth. The basic geological building blocks are used as the foundation for pore pressure predictions. The course is an introduction to developing concepts, models, measurements, predictions, calibrations, and appraisals. Moreover, the course briefly covers the process of calibrating pore and fracture pressures and predicting models before, during, and post drilling.
Offered as a Public course.
Who should attend
Geologists, geophysicists, drilling and reservoir engineers, well log analysts, managers, and support staff involved in exploration, development and drilling.
Course Content
- New approach to definitions, causes and concepts
- Graphical representations (PSI and PPG MWE) including some of their pitfalls
- PP-FP direct and pertinent measurements
- Method used to predict pore pressure with emphasis on Effective Stress
- Calibration of prediction model
Technique used for PP - FP prediction
- Pre-drilling
- During drilling
- Post-drilling
Applications overview
- Supra-sub salt
- Transgression and regression
- Compartmentalization and seal effectiveness and retention capacity
- Faults as sealers vs. leakers
- Reserve and reservoir management
- Drilling casing, and mud programs
- Anticipated drilling challenges
A follow-up 3 day course is available "Geopressure: Prediction, Analysis, Application, Appraisal and Risk Assessment for E&P" focuses on know how, in depth exercises and analyses (Microsoft Excel is used for the three day course. No pore pressure prediction software is required).
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