Production

Technology for Other

Disciplines - PTO

Discipline: Production and Completions Engineering

Level: Foundation
Duration: 5 days
Instructor(s): Paul Barry, Iskander Diyashev, Manickavasakan Nadar

PTO is an asset team course as it introduces a broad array of important daily Production
Technology practices to team members. Terminologies, expressions, axioms, and basic
calculations regularly utilized by Production Techs are covered throughout the course.
Emphasis is upon proven technology required to effectively develop and operate an asset
in a multidiscipline development environment. Practical application of technology is
emphasized. Both theory and actual field examples and well completion programs are
studied along with class problems, exercises, and videos. Nodal analysis examples to
assess well performance are set up. Well completion equipment and tools are viewed and
discussed. Participants work several exercises such as basic artificial lift designs, acidizing
programs, gravel pack designs, and fracturing programs. Shale gas and oil development
challenges are thoroughly explained. Horizontal and multilateral technology is presented.
The course includes the use of computers, which are provided at additional cost, with one
computer for each two participants.

Designed For:
Exploration and production technical professionals, asset team members, team leaders,
line managers, IT department staff who work with data and support production
applications, data technicians, executive management, and all support staff who require a
more extensive knowledge of production technology and engineering.

You Will Learn:

How To:

Apply and integrate production technology principles for oilfield project development
 Choose basic well completion equipment configurations
Perform system analyses (Nodal Analysis) to optimize well tubing design and selection
Perform basic artificial lift designs
Apply the latest shale gas and oil extraction technologies
Understand the chemistry and execution of sandstone and carbonate acid jobs
Design basic sand control gravel pack completions
Evaluate well candidate selection to conduct a hydraulic fracturing campaign
Apply new production technology advances for smart well completions
Maximize asset team interaction and understand the important dynamics between
production technology and other team member disciplines

Course Content:

Role and tasks of production technology

Completion design
Inflow and outflow performance
Artificial lift well completion systems (beam pump, gas-lift, ESP, PCP, plunger lift)
Formation damage and well acidizing
Perforating practices
Sand control
Hydraulic fracturing
Shale gas and oil development
Smart well completions
Field surveillance and data

Instructors:

MR. PAUL BARRY is a petroleum engineering consultant specializing in production

technology, production operations, and project evaluations. Mr. Barry has over 42 years
of international and domestic USA upstream oil and gas production and reservoir
engineering and management experience in conventional and unconventional reservoir
development. Assignments include working and residing in South America, SE Asia, the
Middle East, the North Sea region, and the USA. He has been a PetroSkills instructor
since 2002; during this period, he was based in Perth, Australia from 2007-2009 and in
Dubai, UAE, from 2003-2006, developing PetroSkills regional business in both locations.
Earlier industry experience was as field production engineer and field production
engineering manager of an onshore oilfield re-development project for PDVSA and
partners in Venezuela which required a combination of new development well and well re-
completion designs for gas lift, submersible pump, and rod pump artificial lift technology,
and frac pack and gravel pack sand control well completions. Previous Indonesia
experience was in the design and completion of dual string, multiple selective,
underbalanced, tubing conveyed perforated high pressure gas wells, exploration well
testing and evaluation for Pertamina and Atlantic Richfield, Huffco, Virginia Indonesia, and
joint venture contract partners for both oil operations and Bontang LNG gas supply
operations. As district reservoir engineer for Pertamina and Arco partners in Indonesia,
Mr. Barry was responsible for the plan of development and reserves determination and
certification for a 1.3 TCF offshore gas field. He has also worked as field engineer in
Saudi Arabia, responsible for a 1.2 MMBWD reservoir pressure support injection well
system, injection water quality assurance, producing well gravel pack completions, internal
and external well and flowline corrosion control systems, and, as Mobil Oil facilities
engineer in the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) Gas Projects department. He
has represented company technical and commercial interests in both UK and Norwegian
North Sea sectors oil and gas producing fields. Mr. Barry has served as an officer in the
Jakarta and Dubai SPE sections. He holds a BSCE from the University of Notre Dame and
an MSCE from Marquette University, and is a registered Professional Engineer in
Colorado, USA.

DR. ISKANDER DIYASHEV is a director and a co-founder of Petroleum and Energy

Technology Advisors, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm based in Houston, Texas,
focused on drilling, completion and stimulation (www.1penta.com). Prior to that Dr.
Diyashev was an officer and a board member with Independent Resource Development
Corporation, based in Moscow with operations in Western Siberia Russia. Dr. Diyashev
was responsible for the planning of field development, reserves evaluation and addition,
planning of exploration activities, as well as engineering and technology. In 2001-2006 Dr.
Diyashev served as a Chief Engineer for Sibneft, one of the largest integrated oil
companies in Russia with a daily production of 700,000 BOPD.

During his career, Dr. Diyashev worked in R&D, consulting, and the service and
production sides of the business both in Russia and internationally. Prior to his work with
Sibneft, Dr. Diyashev was one of the key Schlumberger specialists to start the horizontal
drilling project in Noyabrsk Western Siberia. He holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering
from Texas A&M University, and advanced degrees in Physics and Mathematics from
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has authored 30 technical papers. Dr.
Diyashev is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and served on the
Board of Directors of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE International), and on the
boards of various private E&P, service and engineering firms in the petroleum industry.
Twice in his career Dr. Diyashev was elected to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer of the
SPE, in 2005-06, and in 2017-18.

MR. MANICKAVASAKAN (MANICKAM) S. NADAR is a consultant Principal Petroleum

engineer with 27 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry and 6 years in
petrochemical process operations. With a strong background in Production Technology,
Well Operations, Well Completions & Workovers, Artificial Lift, Asset Modeling and
Optimization, he has specialized in artificial lift technologies, well and system designs,
analysis, trouble-shooting, reliability improvement and production enhancement. He has
made significant contribution in the artificial lift selection, design, operation, surveillance
and optimization of large volume gas lifted and ESP wells for many operators. Mr. Nadar
has worked for major international operating companies and handled various
responsibilities in production engineering operations and artificial lift systems, onshore
and offshore. In the service sector, he has delivered many challenging well and network
modeling and optimization projects that helped clients achieve substantial increase in
production, operation efficiency and cost savings. Recently he has helped companies to
implement real-time surveillance and optimization systems that allows operators use
collaborative work environments for achieving their KPIs. A university topper and gold
medalist, Mr. Nadar holds a BSc degree in Chemistry from Madurai University, India and a
degree in Chemical Engineering from Institution of Engineers (India). With several SPE
papers and text book publications to his credit, he has conducted many workshops,
training seminars and short courses for SPE and other organizations.

In-House Course Presentations

All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house
courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your
requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged
specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House
Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail [email protected]

Public Course Presentations

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