Wellsite Geology
- Course focuses on modern wellsite geology, duties, responsibilities, hazard identification, and data acquisition planning.
- Participants need basic wellsite operations knowledge for the course.
- Aims to provide a solid foundation in all aspects of wellsite geology.
- Target audience includes mudloggers, wellsite contractors, and beginner geologists.
- Tutor has extensive industry experience and provides training globally.
Overview
The Oil and Gas Training course focuses on providing participants with a solid understanding of wellsite geology. The course covers various aspects such as well planning, subsurface hazard identification, data acquisition planning, and post-well duties. It is designed for mudloggers, wellsite contractors, and beginner to intermediate wellsite geologists looking to enhance their skills. The course includes topics like directional drilling, coring, geosteering, formation pressure evaluation, and pore pressure assessment. The tutor has extensive industry experience and offers training globally.
Who should attend
Mudloggers, Wellsite Geologists
Oil and Gas Training
Overview
The course describes the modern role of the wellsite geologist. It will include duties and responsibilities with respect to well planning, subsurface hazard identification and mitigation, contractor selection and management, HSE, data acquisition planning. During the well execution phase, monitoring of coring, wireline logging, geosteering and pore pressure evaluation. Post well duties including end of well reporting, data distribution and archiving, lessons learned.
Level
Basic – Participants should have basic knowledge of wellsite operations.
Goals
To give the participant a firm foundation in all aspects of wellsite geology.
Target Audience
Mudloggers or other wellsite contractors wanting to learn the wellsite geology.
Wellsite geologists (beginner to 1 year) wanting to consolidate and enhance their skills.
Course Content (Daily Outline)
Day 1
Introduction to the role of wellsite geology and relationship to operations geology.
Review of some fundamentals
HSE
Samples and Sampling
Basics of logs
Data Management
Day 2
Directional drilling
Coring and sidewall coring
ERD and Geosteering.
Day 3
Quality assurance of contractors.
Geological contractors.
Mudlogging, LWD/MWD, Wireline.
Wireline Logging QC
Day 4
Formation Pressure fundamentals and activities.
Day 5
Pore pressure evaluation and activities.
Course finalisation.
Tutor:
33 years industry experience as a mudlogger, data engineer, pore pressure engineer, wellsite and operations geology. He has been providing training courses in all these topics for the last 15 years to oil companies and training providers worldwide. He lectures part time at the universities of Manchester and Derby and is lead facilitator and course creator for BP’s Accelerated Development Programme (ADP) for operations geology. He is a subject matter expert in wellsite and operations geology, wellsite data management, formation pressure evaluation and HTHP wells. He is also experienced in writing procedures and manuals having done so for both Exxon and BP.
Wellsite Geology training Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.
Wellsite Geology Training in Ghana, Nigeria and Qatar is also available.
