PVT Course for Oil and Gas Professionals

PVT Course for Oil and Gas Professionals

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Overview Avada Oil and Gas is commitment to raising the bar for postgraduate learning. A student receiving a certificate of completion from us, has developed practical and valuable skills that they can implement in their professional life to makes a difference for themselves and their companies. The course takes 6 weeks to complete and consists of 6 modules. The start date is the subsequent Monday after confirmed payment and students are grouped together according to demand. An application must be completed to access the exclusive mastermind group and is processed within two working days whereafter access is obtained. The course can be purchased using any type of creditor debit card. Select Buy Now on the landing page, and then Pay with Debit or Credit Card using our secure PayPal gateway. Contact us for other types of payment by sending an email to payment@avadaog.com

Detailed Outline MODULE 1. PVT FUNDAMENTALS PROPERTIES OF PETROLEUM FLUIDS ATOMS AND BONDS CLASSIFICATION OF HYDROCARBONS COMPONENT GROUPING ISOMERS OTHER COMPONENT GROUPS FLUID PROPERTY DEFINITIONS SPECIFIC GRAVITY AND API GRAVITY FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR GAS SOLUBILITY AND GAS-OIL RATIO SATURATION PRESSURE RESERVOIR SATURATION STATES PHASE DIAGRAM AND FLUID TYPES PHASE BEHAVIOR OF PURE COMPONENTS PHASE BEHAVIOR OF BINARY MIXTURES P-T PHASE DIAGRAM AND FLUID TYPES BLACK OIL VOLATILE OIL GAS CONDENSATE WET GAS DRY GAS ROLE OF PVT IN THE VALUE CHAIN BASIN MODELLING RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION RESERVOIR ENGINEERING PRODUCTION ENGINEERING FACILITIES DESIGN METERING FLOW ASSURANCE SUMMARY OF MODULE 1 MODULE 2. FLUID SAMPLING SAMPLING FUNDAMENTALS DATA GATHERING PROGRAM GOALS OF SAMPLING PLANNING A SAMPLING PROGRAM IDENTIFYING KEY STAKEHOLDERS SAMPLING POINTS SELECTING A SERVICE PROVIDER SAMPLING TYPES SAMPLE TYPES DOWN-HOLE SAMPLING DOWNHOLE FLUID ANALYSIS SAMPLING POSITIONS SAMPLING IN HORIZONTAL SECTIONS SAMPLE VOLUMES REQUIRED SAMPLE BOTTLES CONTAMINATION EXECUTING THE SAMPLING BRINGING THE SAMPLE TO THE SURFACE COST SURFACE SAMPLING SEPARATOR SAMPLING VALIDATION OF SEPARATOR SAMPLES WELLHEAD SAMPLING FLOWLINE SAMPLING SAMPLING WORKFLOWS WORKFLOW TO DETERMINE SAMPLE TYPE WORKFLOW FOR DOWNHOLE SAMPLING SUMMARY OF MODULE 2 MODULE 3. STANDARD PVT LAB EXPERIMENTS SAMPLE VALIDATION AND WORKFLOW VALIDATION OF DOWNHOLE SAMPLES VALIDATION OF SEPARATOR GASES VALIDATION OF SEPARATOR LIQUIDS SAMPLE VALIDATION WORKFLOW FLUID COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS SINGLE-STAGE FLASH SEPARATION SPIKE FLASH SEPARATION CRYOGENIC DISTILLATION GC ANALYSIS CONVERSION FROM WEIGHT% TO MOLE% PROPERTES OF THE PLUS FRACTION MUD CONTAMINATION CONSTANT-COMPOSITION EXPANSION SCHEMATIC OF THE CCE EXPERIMENT CCE AND THE PHASE ENVELOPE P-V CURVES FOR DEIFFERENT FLYUD TYPES EXPERIMENTS ON RESERVOIR OILS DIFFERENTIAL VAPORIZATION OIL VISCOSITY GAS VISCOSITY SEPARATOR TESTS COMPOSITE VAPORIZATION EXPERIMENT ON GAS CONDENSATES CONSTANT-VOLUME DEPLETION SPECIALIZED PVT CELLS WORKFLOW FOR PVT EXPERIMENTS INTERACTIONS WITH THE LAB SUMMARY OF MODULE 3 MODULE 4. EXAMINATION OF A PVT REPORT DATA TO QC SAMPLE INTEGRITY FLUID COMPOSITIONS CCE DATA DV DATA MASS-BALANCE CHECKS SEPARATOR TESTS ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MW AND DENSITY SUMMARY OF MODULE 4 MODULE 5. FLUID PROPERTY PREDICTION INTRODUCTION TO PROPERTY PREDICTION WHY PREDICT? WHICH PROPERTIES ARE KNOWN? WHICH PROPERTIES TO PREDICT? OIL PROPERTY CORRELATIONS THE SEQUENCE OF CALCULATIONS OIL COMPRESSIBILITY OIL FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR OIL DENSITY GAS-OIL RATIO OIL VISCOSITY SELECTING OF APPROPRIATE CORRELATION GAS PROPERTY CORRELATIONS GAS GRAVITY GAS Z-FACTOR GAS VISCOSITY DATA MINING REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA MINING CORRELATION COMPARISON DEFAULT VERSUS TUNED EXPLORING TRENDS IN DATA SETS WORKFLOW TO PREDICT BLACK-OIL FLUID PROPERTIES SUMMARY OF MODULE 5 MODULE 6. INTRODUCTION TO EOS CUBIC EQUATIONS OF STATE THE SRK-EOS THE PR-EOS MIXING RULES HISTORICAL EOS DEVELOPMENTS CHARACTERIZATION OF PLUS FRACTION AND COMPONENT LUMPING MOLE FRACTIONS BOILING POINTS CRITICAL PROPERTIES AND ACENTRIC FACTOR LUMPING INTO PSEUDO- COMPONENTS A WORD ABOUT SOFTWARE PACKAGES VISCOSITY CALCULATION TUNING AN EOS TO EXPERIMENTAL DATA SUMMARY OF MODULE 6