2021 Oil and Gas Facilities and Midstream

Training and Development Guide

 Message from the CEO

4 Course Progression Map

A competent workforce has always been critical for our
industry’s success.
GAS PROCESSING
This guide presents the industry’s most comprehensive
workforce development programs – focused on building 6 Gas Conditioning and Processing (Campbell Gas Course® ) – G4
competent people. PetroSkills brings together industry-driven 6 Gas Conditioning and Processing Principles - G3 (Virtual/Blended course)
and industry-approved programs that deliver flexible, practical, 6 Gas Conditioning and Processing – LNG Emphasis – G4 LNG
fit-for-purpose training and development. This guide can help 7 Gas Treating and Sulfur Recovery – G6
you find ways to advance your technical competence and build 7 LNG Short Course: Technology and the LNG Chain – G29
your company’s value. 7 Overview of Gas Processing – G2
Since the first offerings of Production Operations 1 and the Campbell Gas Course® 7 Practical Computer Simulation Applications in Gas Processing – G5
over 52 years ago, PetroSkills instructor-led training programs have set the standard for
excellence from subsurface to downstream. This guide presents hundreds of sessions
offered worldwide by top industry experts in each technical discipline across the value PROCESS FACILITIES
chain. Our competency-based programs are designed and delivered under the direction
of the PetroSkills Alliance which includes some of the top petroleum companies
10 Applied Water Technology in Oil and Gas Production – PF21
worldwide, working together, to offer an industry-driven and vetted set of courses,
8 Choosing the Right Facilities Equipment for the Reservoir – PF3
products and services.
11 CO2 Surface Facilities – PF81
In addition to our instructor-led programs, our digital learning solutions and 10 Fundamental and Practical Aspects of Produced Water Treating – PF23
professional services continue to lead the industry; see page 3 for more details. 9 Fundamentals of Process Safety - PS2
8 Introduction to Oil and Gas Production Facilities – PF2
Also, we are excited to announce that we have expanded our capabilities in operator 8 Oil Production and Processing Facilities – PF4
training by acquiring Simulation Solutions Inc. This allows us to offer you a dynamic 10 Oil Well Pad Facilities (for Facilities Engineers) – OWPF-FE
library of hands-on simulator training for console and outside operators. See petroskills. 8 Oil Well Pad Facilities (for non-Facilities Engineers) – OWPF-NFE
com/ssi for details. 11 Onshore Gas Gathering Systems: Design and Operations – PF45
9 Process Safety Engineering – PS4
We are proud that our blended/virtual learning program, PetroAcademy™, continues 9 Process Safety Engineering Fundamentals - PSF (Virtual/Blended course)
to grow. This unique course model delivers the same competency development as our 9 Process Safety Engineering Principles - PSE (Virtual/Blended course)
face-to-face courses via virtually delivered Skill Modules™, available from anywhere in 10 Relief and Flare Systems – PF44
the world. 9 Risk Based Process Safety Management – HS45
11 Troubleshooting Gas Processing Facilities - PF49G
Two important blended/virtual courses have been added to our extensive library, and 11 Troubleshooting Oil Processing Facilities - PF49O
we will be adding more throughout 2021.
• Basics of Rotating Mechanical Equipment - page 14
• Basics of Static Mechanical Equipment - page 14 INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROLS & ELECTRICAL

For a full list of blended/virtual courses, see the back cover, or petroskills.com/blended.
12 Electrical Engineering Fundamentals for Facilities Engineers – E3
I hope you find this guide useful. If there is any way that we can help you, your team, 12 Flow and Level Custody Measurement – IC73
or your organization, please don’t hesitate to contact me personally at ford.brett@ 12 Instrumentation and Controls Fundamentals for Facilities Engineers – IC3
petroskills.com, or contact our Customer Service Department at +1.918.828.2500. 12 Instrumentation, Controls and Electrical Systems Overview for Non-Electrical . . . .
Engineers – ICE21
13 Practical PID Control and Loop Tuning – IC74

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Ford Brett 14 Basics of Rotating Mechanical Equipment - BRM (Virtual/Blended

CEO, PetroSkills course)
14 Basics of Static Mechanical Equipment - BSM (Virtual/Blended
course)
15 Compressor Systems - Mechanical Design and Specification – ME46
14 Corrosion Management in Production/Processing Operations – PF22
15 Fundamentals of Pump and Compressor Systems – ME44
15 Mechanical Specification of Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers – ME43
14 Piping Systems - Mechanical Design and Specification – ME41
 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

PIPELINE ENGINEERING PROCUREMENT/SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

16 Offshore Pipeline Design and Construction – PL43 27 Contracts and Tenders Fundamentals – SC41
16 Onshore Pipeline Facilities - Design, Construction and Operations – PL42 27 Cost/Price Analysis and Total Cost Concepts in Supply Management – SC64
16 Terminals and Storage Facilities – PL44 27 Effective Materials Management – SC42
27 Inside Procurement in Oil and Gas – SC61
27 Strategic Procurement and Supply Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
OFFSHORE & SUBSEA – SC62
27 Supplier Relationship Management – SC63
17 Flow Assurance for Offshore Production – FAOP
17 Fundamentals of Offshore Systems Design and Construction – OS4 PROJECT MANAGEMENT
17 Overview of Offshore Systems – OS21
17 Overview of Subsea Systems – SS2 29 Advanced Project Management – FPM62
29 Advanced Project Management II – FPM63
30 Advanced Project Management Workshop - APMW
PRODUCTION AND COMPLETIONS ENGINEERING
30 Construction Management for the Project Professional - FPM64
28 Managing Brownfield Projects – FPM42
19 Gas Production Engineering – GPO 28 Petroleum Project and Program Management Essentials - P3ME
18 Production Operations 1 – PO1 (Also available as a Virtual/Blended course)
18 Production Technology for Other Disciplines – PTO (Also available as a Virtual/ 30 Petroleum Project Changes and Claims Workshop - PPCC
Blended course) 28 Petroleum Project Management: Principles and Practices – PPM
18 Surface Production Operations – PO3 29 Project Controls for Capital Projects - PC21
28 Project Management for Engineering and Construction – FPM22
29 Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management – TSOM
OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE
MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRAINING
20 Amine Sweetening and Gas Dehydration for Operations and Maintenance
- OT41
21 Applied Maintenance Management – OM21 32 Basic Petroleum Technology Principles – BPT (Virtual/Blended course)
32 Basic Petroleum Technology – BPT
20 Crude Oil Pipeline Operations – OT50 32 Overview of the Petroleum Industry – OVP
20 LNG Facilities for Operations and Maintenance – OT43 32 Operations Crew Resource Management - OCRM
21 Maintenance Planning and Work Control – OM41
20 NGL Extraction, Stabilization and Fractionation for Operations and
Maintenance - OT42 34 INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES
20 Oil and Gas Processing Facilities for Operations and Maintenance – OT1
21 Process Plant Reliability and Maintenance Strategies – REL5
21 Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management – TSOM PETROSKILLS SPECIAL FEATURES

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 4 Facilities Course Progression Map

Instrumentation,
Oil and Gas Processing Process Offshore Pipeline
Controls & Electrical
General Safety Instrumentation & Subsea Engineering
Gas Oil / Water Electrical
Processing & Controls
Specialized

CO2 Surface
Facilities – PF81
p.12

Gas Treating and

Sulfur Recovery
– G6 p.7

Practical Computer
Simulation
Intermediate

Applications in Gas
Processing – G5
p.7

Onshore Gas
Gathering Systems: Practical PID
Design & Operation Control and Loop
– PF45 p.11 Tuning – IC74 p.13

Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Separation Flow and Flow Assurance

Gas Processing Oil Processing Equipment - Relief and Flare Level Custody for Offshore
Facilities – PF49G Facilities – PF49O Selection & Sizing Systems – PF44 Measurement Production – FAOP
p.11 p.11 – PF42 (See website) p.10 – IC73 p.12 p.17

Oil Well Pad Facilities Terminals and

(For Facilities Storage Facilities
Engineers) – PL44 p.16
– OWPF-FE p.10 Process Safety
Engineering – PS4
p.9 Fundamentals of Onshore Pipeline
Fundamental and Offshore Systems: Facilities: Design,
Practical Aspects Design and Construction and
of Produced Water Risk Based Construction Operations – PL42
Treating – PF23 Process Safety – OS4 p.17 p.16
Foundation

p.10 Management
– HS45 p.9 Offshore Pipeline Design
Electrical Instrumentation
Engineering and Controls and Construction – PL43 p.16
Applied Water
Technology in Oil Fundamentals of Fundamentals for Fundamentals for
and Gas Production Process Safety Facilities Engineers Facilities Engineers Corrosion Management in Production/
– PF21 p.10 – PS2 p.9 – E3 p.12 – IC3 p.12 Processing Operations – PF22 p.14

Oil Production and Processing Facilities – PF4 p.8

Gas Conditioning and Processing - LNG Emphasis – G4LNG p.6

Gas Conditioning and Processing – G4 p.6

Gas Conditioning and Processing Principles – G3 Virtual/Blended Course p.6

LNG Short Course:

Technology and the
LNG Chain – G29
Basic

p.7

Oil Well Pad Facilities Overview of

Overview of Gas (For Non-Facilities Subsea Systems
Processing – G2 Engineers) – SS2 p.17
p.7 – OWPF-NFE p.8 Process Safety
Choosing the Right
Engineering
Facilities Equipment Instrumentation, Controls and Electrical Overview of
Principles – PSE
Introduction to Oil and Gas for the Reservoir – Systems Overview for Non-Electrical Offshore Systems
Virtual/Blended
Production Facilities – PF2 p.8 PF3 p.8 Engineers – ICE21 p.12 – OS21 p.17
Course p.9
 Facilities Course Progression Map 5

Operations Procurement/
Mechanical Engineering Project
& Maintenance Supply Chain
O&M Operator Mgmt. Management
Non-Rotating Rotating Reliability
Management Training

Advanced Project
Petroleum Project
Management
Changes and Claims
– FPM62 p.29
Workshop
– PPCC p.30 Advanced Project
Compressor
Systems - Management II
Construction Mgmt – FPM63 p.29
Mechanical Design
for the Project
and Specification Advanced Project
Professional
– ME46 p.15 Mgmt Workshop -
– FPM64 p.30
APMW p.30

Managing Cost/Price Analysis

Brownfield Projects and Total Cost
– FPM42 p.28 Concepts in Supply
Management – SC64
Project p.27
Management for
Engineering and
Construction Supplier
– FPM22 p.28 Relationship
Management
– SC63 p.27
Project Controls for
Mechanical Capital Projects
Specification of - PC21 p.29
Strategic
Pressure Vessels Procurement and
and Heat Supply Management
Exchangers in the Oil and Gas
Turnaround, Shutdown, and Outage Management – TSOM p.21
– ME43 p.15 Industry – SC62
p.27
Fundamentals Process Plant Petroleum Project
Piping Systems - of Pump and Reliability and Management:
Mechanical Design Compressor Maintenance Principles and Inside Procurement
and Specification Systems – ME44 Strategies Practices – PPM in Oil & Gas – SC61
– ME41 p.14 p.15 – REL5 p.21 p.28 p.27

Additional
Amine Sweetening courses
and Gas Dehydration
for Operations &
available in:
Maintenance
– OT41 p.20

NGL Extraction,
Production &
Stabilization and Completions
Fractionation
p. 18-19
for Operations &
Maintenance
– OT42 p.20
Health,
Crude Oil Effective
Pipeline Materials
Safety,
Operations Management Environment
– OT50 p.20 – SC42 p.27
p. 22-23

Petroleum Project
Maintenance LNG Facilities and Program Contracts
Planning and for Operations & Management and Tenders
Work Control Maintenance Essentials – P3ME Fundamentals Petroleum
– OM41 p.21 – OT43 p.20 p.28 – SC41 p.27 Business
p. 24-26

Professional
Petroleum
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p. 31

Oil & Gas Multi-

Basics of Static Basics of Rotating Applied Processing Facilities Managing Non-
Mechanical Mechanical Maintenance for Operations & Technical Risks Discipline
Equipment Equipment Management Maintenance – OT1 – MNTR Training
– BSM p.14 – BRM p.14 – OM21 p.21 p.20 p.25
p. 32
6 GAS PROCESSING
Gas Conditioning Gas Conditioning and Processing – G4 Gas Conditioning and
and Processing The Campbell Gas Course® Processing – LNG
Principles – G3 Emphasis – G4 LNG

BASIC 52 HOURS FOUNDATION 10-Day FOUNDATION 10-DAY

The Campbell Gas Course® has been the standard of the industry for more than 52 years. This is the LNG-industry version of our popular
Tens of thousands of engineers have attended our G4 program, considered by many to be G4 course, with expanded coverage of
the most practical and comprehensive course in the oil and gas industry. refrigeration and LNG technologies. The course
PetroAcademy includes in-depth information on basic natural
TM

The Campbell Gas Course® textbooks, Volumes 1 and 2, are routinely updated to reflect
gas conditioning and processing. This is mainly
evolving technologies in this broad industry.
the core G4 Campbell Gas Course® curriculum
B L EN D E D L E A R N I NG
Both hand-methods and computer-aided analysis are used to examine sensitivities of in an LNG context with the expanded
technical decisions. To enhance the learning process, about 30 problems will be assigned, refrigeration coverage. The course covers
This course will be delivered virtually through reviewed, and discussed throughout the course. Problems will be solved individually and in relevant details of both the mixed refrigerant
PetroAcademy providing participants with the teams. (APCI) and cascade (ConocoPhillips) processes
knowledge they need at their convenience. in LNG liquefaction. Reference is made to other
DESI GN ED FOR liquefaction processes including Mixed Fluid
Production and processing personnel involved with natural gas and associated liquids, to Cascade Process, Dual Mixed Refrigerant
The Campbell Gas Course® has been the acquaint or reacquaint themselves with gas conditioning and processing unit operations. Process, and Nitrogen (single or dual) Cycles
industry standard for more than 52 years and This course is for facilities engineers, process engineers, senior operations personnel, field being developed for FLNG projects. This is
the core competencies of the Campbell Gas supervisors, and engineers who select, design, install, evaluate, or operate gas processing followed by higher level coverage of the LNG
Course are now available in self-paced online plants and related facilities. A broad approach is taken with the topics. value chain consisting of a gas liquefaction
Skill Modules™. These competencies set the section; LNG run-down to LNG storage; loading
base knowledge that is required for a successful YOU W I LL L EA RN
berth for LNG export; LNG shipping; and LNG
career as an entry-level facilities engineer, • Application of gas engineering and technology in facilities and gas plants
receiving and regasification terminals. Versions
seasoned operator, and/or field supervisor. • Important specifications for gas, NGL, and condensate
of this course have been taught in many of the
These modules provide an understanding of • About the selection and evaluation of processes used to dehydrate natural gas, meet
hydrocarbon dewpoint specifications, and extract NGLs world’s base-load and peak-shaving LNG plants,
common terminology, hydrocarbons and their • How to apply physical/thermodynamic property correlations and principles to the such as in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia,
physical properties, qualitative and quantitative operation, design, and evaluation of gas processing facilities Norway, Qatar, UK, and West Indies.
phase behavior, hydrates, and fluid flow. In • Practical equipment sizing methods for major process equipment Clients are invited to evaluate the curriculum for
addition, they provide a systematic approach to • To evaluate technical validity of discussions related to gas processing LNG Short Course: Technology and the LNG
understanding the common types of equipment, • To recognize and develop solutions for operating problem examples and control issues in Chain (G29). The G29 course has more coverage
and the primary unit operations in both offshore gas processing facilities on LNG technology and the LNG value-chain and
and onshore gas conditioning and processing does not contain the same materials as The
facilities. Each module ranges from 3 – 5 C OU RSE C ON TENT
Campell Gas Course® (G4).
hours of self-paced activities, with pre and post • Gas processing systems
• Physical properties of hydrocarbons DESIGNED FO R
assessments. In addition, the modules have • Terminology and nomenclature
interactive exercises and problems to solve on Personnel involved with natural gas processing
• Qualitative phase behavior and LNG production, as well as anyone
the various topics. • Vapor-liquid equilibrium interested in a solid technical understanding of
• Water-hydrocarbon phase behavior, hydrates, etc. the principles of an LNG plant.
D E S IG N E D F O R • Basic thermodynamics and application of energy balances
Facilities engineers, process engineers, senior • Process control and instrumentation YOU WILL LEARN
operations personnel, field supervisors, and • Relief and flare systems • The basics of LNG gas conditioning and
engineers who select, design, install, evaluate, • Fluid hydraulics; two-phase flow processing
or operate gas processing plants and related • Separation equipment • Selection and evaluation processes used
facilities. • Heat transfer equipment to dehydrate natural gas, remove heavy
• Pumps components and other contaminants, and
S K IL L MO D U L E S • Compressors and drivers extract NGLs for LNG plants
• Hydrocarbon Components and Physical • Refrigeration in gas conditioning and NGL extraction facilities • Physical/thermodynamic property correlations
Properties • Fractionation and principles, including heating values, etc.
• Glycol dehydration; TEG as applied to gas processing facilities and
• Introduction to Production and Gas • Adsorption dehydration and hydrocarbon removal
Processing Facilities LNG plants
• Gas treating and sulfur recovery • Fundamentals of propane, propane-precooled,
• Qualitative Phase Behavior and Vapor • Overview and summary
Liquid Equilibrium mixed refrigerants, and cascade systems used
in LNG plants
• Water/Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior • Key points in other LNG liquefaction
• Thermodynamics and Application of Energy technologies
Balances • How to perform and review equipment sizing
• Fluid Flow for major process equipment
• Separation • Solutions to operating problems and control
issues in LNG and gas processing facilities
• Heat Transfer Equipment Overview
• Pumps and Compressors Overview COURSE CONTE N T
• Refrigeration, NGL Extraction, and Basic gas technology principles • Terminology
Fractionation and nomenclature • Physical properties of
• Contaminant Removal - Gas Dehydration hydrocarbons • Qualitative phase behavior •
Vapor-liquid equilibrium • Water-hydrocarbon
• Contaminant Removal - Acid Gas and system behavior, hydrates, etc. •
Mercury 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) Thermodynamics of LNG processes •
ABERDEEN, UK 27 SEP-8 OCT $9990+VAT Separation equipment • Gas treatment, CO2, and
DENVER, US 7-18 JUN $9120 H2S removal • Dehydration of natural gas (TEG
HOUSTON, US 26 JUL-6 AUG $9115
Self-paced, virtual course 6-17 DEC $9115
and Molecular Sieve) • Heat transfer and
exchangers • Pumps and compressors •
- start anytime. KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA 29 NOV-10 DEC $9990
LONDON, UK 10-21 MAY $9990+VAT Refrigeration systems • LNG liquefaction
Tuition US$3890 15-26 NOV $9990+VAT technologies • Fractionation • and more...
PERTH, AUSTRALIA 16-27 AUG $9995+GST
STAVANGER, NORWAY 18-29 OCT $9990
VIRTUAL 26 APR-14 MAY $8990 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT 7-25 JUN $8990 DOHA, QATAR 10-21 OCT $9990
PETROSKILLS.COM/G3ONLINE 6-24 SEP $8990 HOUSTON, US 14-25 JUN $9115
1-19 NOV $8990 VIRTUAL 5-23 APR $9115
 GAS PROCESSING 7

Overview of Gas LNG Short Course: Practical Computer

Gas Treating and Sulfur
Processing – G2 Technology and the Simulation Applications
Recovery – G6
LNG Chain – G29 in Gas Processing – G5

BASIC 3-DAY BASIC 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY

G2 is a versatile overview of the gas conditioning This LNG Short Course is designed for This full 5-day course covers sweet gas This course emphasizes process selection,
and processing industry. This course is designed participants requiring moderate technical processing and NGL extraction, using a practical operating issues, technical
for a broad audience and is engaging and coverage, coupled with information on LNG commercial simulator to perform calculations. A fundamentals, and integration of the sweetening
interactive, utilizing basic technical exercises and commerce and all parts of the LNG Value Chain. basic working knowledge of the commercial facilities into the overall scheme of gas
terminology to communicate key learning points. Over 5-days, the course covers technical LNG process simulation package used (generally processing. Sulfur recovery and tail gas
This course does not cover the technology and basics and facility operation topics, plus UNISIM) is suggested to achieve the course processes are also covered, including standard
engineering principles in depth, and is only technical, design, and commercial issues. learning objectives. Volumes 1 and 2 of the John Claus configurations, SuperClaus, EuroClaus,
recommended for those needing an overview of Selected exercises and syndicates are used to M. Campbell textbooks, Gas Conditioning and SCOT, etc. Special design and operation topics,
the industry and common processes and reinforce the main topics of LNG trade and Processing, are the basis for the material such as trace sulfur compound handling and the
equipment used. technology. In-house versions are available with presented, coupled with a ‘red thread’ importance of H2S:CO2 ratio, are covered as well.
either increased technical and operational comprehensive exercise based on a typical gas Related topics reviewed during the course
D E S IG NE D F O R emphasis or increased project and development processing facility (can be applied to onshore or include liquid product treating, corrosion,
As a wide ranging overview, it is suitable for emphasis. More in-depth coverage for technical, offshore facilities). The exercise is developed in materials selection, and NACE requirements.
interested parties, such as geologists, reservoir production, and processing personnel is stages as the material is covered. Participants
engineers, procurement professionals, and sales available in our 10-day course, G4 LNG, Gas will develop a comprehensive process DES IGNED FOR
or business development staff; related specialists Conditioning and Processing - LNG emphasis. simulation that includes a dew point control Production and processing personnel involved
like environmental staff, operational staff, and process, a mechanical refrigeration process with with natural gas treating and sulfur recovery,
shift foremen; those new to the industry, such as DESI GN ED FOR economizers, hydrate inhibition using MEG, and requiring an understanding of the principles of
entry-level (1-2 year) engineers; or anyone Commercial and managerial staff looking for a NGL liquid product stabilization with recycle. these process operations. This course is for
interested in a general, technically-oriented concise overview; engineers new to the LNG facilities engineers, process engineers,
overview of the gas processing industry. industry; operations supervision staff and senior NOTE: The individual exercises include operations personnel, and field supervisors, as
plant personnel; specialists looking to broaden condensed gas processing fundamentals drawn well as others who select, design, install,
YOU W IL L L E A R N their general knowledge of LNG; and staff from the internationally famous Campbell Gas evaluate, or operate gas sweetening and sulfur
• An overview of natural gas and world energy involved in LNG commerce and interested in Course® textbooks Volumes 1 & 2. recovery facilities.
trends LNG technical fundamentals.
• Natural gas sources, makeup, properties, DES IGNED FOR Y OU WILL LEA R N
specifications, and related oil and gas YOU W I LL L EARN Engineers that require practical in-depth training • Evaluation and selection of processes to
terminology • What is LNG, why it is produced, and what is on natural gas processing and NGL recovery remove acid gases (H2S, CO2, COS, CS2,
• Markets and uses for NGL, LPG, ethane, the current status of the industry processes, with emphasis on the use and mercaptans, etc.) from gas and NGLs
propane, and butane • LNG facilities world-wide benefits of a simulation package. • The advantages and disadvantages of available
• Summary of gas processing costs, and • The LNG chain and impact of contractual gas treating technology and processes
issues on LNG plant design and operation; Y OU WILL LEA RN
commercial and contract issues in liquids • How to estimate solvent circulation rates,
LNG pricing • To determine the water content and hydrate energy requirements, and equipment sizes
extraction
• A survey of commercial and contractual issues formation conditions for gas streams using • To recognize and evaluate solutions to
• How gas is transported and sold
• Project costs, feasibility, development, and issues both a commercial process simulator and common operating and technical problems
• Overview of the common equipment used
• Some technical fundamentals of gas hand calculation methods • Sulfur recovery technologies, including an
in the oil and gas industry, including heat
processing, such as molecular weight, heating • Techniques to inhibit hydrate formation, overview of the Claus Sulfur process
exchangers, pumps, and compressors
value, Wobbe Index, vapor pressure, multi- including injection of equilibrium inhibitors • How to select among the proper sulfur
• Options for various basic gas conditioning
component mixtures, thermodynamics such as methanol and MEG recovery process given differing process
and processing steps, including acid gas
• Refrigeration: single and multi-component • Preliminary design and evaluation of TEG conditions
removal, dehydration, liquid extraction,
refrigeration cycles dehydration processes using quick hand • Tail gas cleanup
product fractionation, LNG overview,
• Technologies used in the production of LNG calculations
pipelines, sulfur recovery, and acid gas
for base-load and small scale production, • Process design used to control the COURS E CONTE N T
injection issues relating to technology selection, and hydrocarbon dew point of sales gas streams Fundamentals of sour gas processing,
COUR S E CO N T E N T operation by removing NGLs using mechanical sweetening, etc. • Overview of gas treating and
Natural gas and world energy trends • • Equipment used in the production of LNG: refrigeration processes sulfur recovery, terminology • Gas specifications
Hydrocarbon components and physical heat exchangers, compressors and drivers • Various techniques to optimize mechanical and process selection criteria • Generic and
used for LNG, pumps, and turbo expanders refrigeration systems specialty amine treating • Common operating
properties • The role of gas processing in the
• To apply knowledge of LNG gas pretreatment, • How to use the process simulator to evaluate and technical problems • Proprietary amine
natural gas value chain • Heat transfer
drying, and refrigeration the impact that pressure and temperature solvents, such as Sulfinol and Flexsorb •
equipment • Pumps and compressors • Acid
• About LNG storage, shipping, and terminals, changes have on the sizing of process Carbonate processes • Physical absorption
gas removal • Gas dehydration • NGL sizing basis, and small scale tanks
extraction • Fractionation and stabilization • equipment and levels of NGL recovery processes, e.g. Selexol • Metallurgical issues
• Types of LNG carriers, marine management • How to use short-cut distillation calculations
LNG • Pipelines and storage • Sulfur recovery (corrosion) • Other technologies and new
issues, and LNG transfer to provide input to rigorous distillation
and acid gas injection developments • Selective treating, acid gas
• LNG importing, regasification of LNG and simulations in order to obtain faster enrichment • Solid bed and non-regenerable
distribution to consumers, basis for sizing, convergence
technology selection, and energy integration treating; scavengers • Liquid product treating •
• Which thermodynamic property correlations Sulfur recovery processes (including degassing)
• New developments: development of off- are appropriate for various gas processing
shore LNG operations to regasification and • Tail gas clean-up (SCOT-type, CBA, and
systems others) • Acid gas injection • Membranes •
liquefaction; coal seam gas project issues
• Limitations associated with commercial Emerging and new technologies • Course
• Site selection and HSSE considerations
simulation packages and how the results can workshop and summary
C OU RSE C ON T EN T be quickly checked for relative accuracy
What LNG is and where it comes from •
COURS E CONTENT
Physical properties of LNG • Vapor-liquid
Physical properties of hydrocarbons •
equilibrium behavior of LNG and refrigerants •
Qualitative phase behavior • Vapor-liquid
Gas pre-treatment • Heat exchangers •
equilibrium • Water-hydrocarbon equilibrium •
Refrigeration • Rotating machinery •
Basic thermodynamic concepts • Separation
Liquefaction processes • LNG storage • LNG
equipment • Heat transfer • Pumps •
shipping • LNG importing
Compressors • and more...

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) HOUSTON, US 15-19 NOV $4310 DUBAI, UAE 17-21 OCT $5770+VAT HOUSTON, US 14-18 JUN $4640
HOUSTON, US 19-21 OCT $3250 PERTH, AU 1-5 NOV $5610+GST HOUSTON, US 12-16 JUL $4950 LONDON, UK 27 SEP-1 OCT $5360+VAT
LONDON, UK 25-29 OCT $3790+VAT VIRTUAL 23 AUG-3 SEP $3890+VAT * plus computer charge VIRTUAL 22 MAR-2 APR $4090

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 8 PROCESS FACILITIES
Introduction to Oil Choosing the Right Oil Well Pad Facilities Oil Production and
and Gas Production Facilities Equipment for (for non-Facilities Processing Facilities –
Facilities – PF2 the Reservoir – PF3 Engineers) – OWPF-nFE PF4

BASIC 3-DAY BASIC 5-DAY BASIC 3-DAY FOUNDATION 10-DAY

The scope of the discussion ranges from an This course is similar to Introduction to Oil and NEW The emphasis of this course is on oil production
overview of the oil and gas industry, Gas Production Facilities (PF-2), but is facilities - from the wellhead, to the delivery of a
This course provides a comprehensive overview
hydrocarbon phase behavior characteristics, and presented in the context of concept selection and specification crude oil product, to the refinery.
of onshore oil well-pad facilities as typically
different reservoir types, to product front-end field development planning. Both onshore and offshore facilities are
utilized for the development of shale/tight oil
specifications and the processes used to meet discussed. Produced water treating and water
DESI GN ED FOR fields. The course is focused on the purpose,
these. Other facilities considerations are injection systems are also covered. Solution gas
This course is intended for those working on function, and operation of the facilities - what,
addressed, such as process safety and handling processes and equipment will be
field development teams, as well as those who why, how - not on the more detailed engineering
downstream processing that may impact the discussed at a relatively high level. In addition to
need to better understand how surface facilities aspects which are covered in a companion
production facility selection and operation. the engineering aspects of oil production
are selected and how subsurface characteristics course OWPF-FE (for Facilities Engineers). A
facilities, practical operating problems will also
D E S IG NE D F O R affect facility design and specification. major aspect of the non-Facilities Engineers
be covered, including emulsion treatment, sand
Those interested in an overview of production course is how the pad facilities integrate with the
handling, dealing with wax and asphaltenes, etc.
facilities, including subsurface professionals, YOU W I LL L EARN wells/subsurface and also the product (oil, gas,
Exercises requiring calculations are utilized
line managers, sales or business development • How to develop the project framework and produced water) export systems. This course
throughout the course. The course is intended to
staff, environmental personnel, operations staff, decision making strategy does not contain many calculations; instead the
complement the G-4 Gas Conditioning and
and those new to the industry. • How the specification of production/ intent is to generate discussion and better
Processing course, focused on the gas handling
processing facilities is influenced by reservoir understanding of the issues involved with
side of the upstream oil and gas facilities area.
YOU W IL L L E A R N type, drive mechanism, fluid properties, design, operation and maintenance of the pad
• How the reservoir type, drive mechanism, location, and contractual obligations facilities, and their role in providing value to the DESIGNED FO R
fluid properties, location, and product • Operating conditions that affect the development as a whole. Process/facilities engineers and senior operating
specifications influence the selection and specification of the production facilities from personnel involved with the design and operation
design of the production facilities the wellhead through initial separation DES IGNED FOR
of oil and produced water processing facilities.
• How to do quick ‘back of the envelope’ • Parameters that affect the design and This course is aimed primarily at non-Facilities
calculations to better understand equipment specification of oil stabilization and Engineers, e.g. production/reservoir engineers, YOU WILL LEARN
sizing and capacity dehydration equipment operations personnel, environmental staff, etc, or • Well inflow performance and its impact on
• Parameters that affect the design and • The design and specification of produced anyone who needs a basic understanding of oil production/processing facilities
specification of oil stabilization and water systems appropriate for the rate and well pad facilities – what they do and how they • About oil, gas, and water compositions and
dehydration equipment composition of the produced water to meet work. properties needed for equipment selection
• Awareness of the parameters that determine the required environmental regulations and/or and sizing
Y OU WILL LEA RN
flowline/gathering system capacity injection well capacity • How to select and evaluate processes and
• The different types of process flow schemes
• The purpose of separators in a production • The design and specification of gas handling equipment used to meet sales or disposal
typically used for oil well pad facilities
facility and familiarity with the typical facilities, including compression dehydration specifications
• The various types of engineering drawings
configurations and sweetening • To apply physical and thermodynamic
used to describe facilities and how to interpret
• Typical design parameters, operating • The impact of artificial lift systems and property correlations and principles to the
them
envelopes, common operating problems of secondary/tertiary production projects on design and evaluation of oil production and
• How well production characteristics/
oil and gas production equipment, and the facilities selection and design processing facilities
performance should be integrated into the
effect of changing feed conditions over the • The principles of asset integrity and inherently • How to perform equipment sizing calculations
facilities design
life of a field safe design given the rate, composition, for major production facility separation
• The range of fluid compositions and
• To describe oil dehydration/desalting process temperature, and pressure of the production equipment
properties typically encountered in the newer
options and equipment stream • To evaluate processing configurations for
shale/tight oil developments and their impact
• Produced water treating options and the • About midstream facilities required different applications
on facilities design and operation
dependence on surface vs. subsurface, downstream of the primary production facility • How to recognize and develop solutions to
• The main processing requirements and
offshore vs. onshore disposal to deliver saleable products to the market, and operating problems in oil/water processing
associated equipment types typically required
• Compressor performance characteristics and how these facilities are affected by production facilities
• How the various processes and equipment
how they affect production rates and facility rates, composition, and production facility
types work with focus on the requirements COURSE CONTE N T
throughput performance
of typical onshore shale/tight oil well pad Reservoir traps, rocks, and drive mechanisms
• Gas dehydration process options, with a facilities
particular emphasis on glycol dehydration C OU RSE C ON T EN T • Phase envelopes and reservoir fluid
Reservoir types, fluid properties, and typical • Effects of third party gas gathering system classification • Well inflow performance •
• The principles of asset integrity and inherently design and operation on the well pad facilities
safe design given the rate, composition, product specifications • Flowlines, gathering Artificial lift • Gas, oil, and water - composition
temperature, and pressure of the production systems, flow assurance, and production and properties • Oil gathering systems •
COURS E CONTENT
stream separation • Oil dehydration and stabilization • Gas-liquid separation • Emulsions • Oil-water
Engineering drawings • Oil well pad process
• About midstream facilities required Produced water treating and water injection separation • Oil treating • Desalting • Oil
flow diagrams • Well production characteristics
downstream of the primary production facility systems • Gas handling, including stabilization and sweetening • Oil storage and
• Fluid compositions and properties •
to deliver saleable products to the market, and compression, dehydration, and sweetening • vapor recovery • Sand, wax, asphaltenes, and
Separation equipment • Oil treating • Oil
how these facilities are affected by production The effect of artificial lift systems, and secondary scale • Transportation of crude oil • Produced
stabilization • Storage tanks and vapor recovery
rates, composition, and production facility and tertiary recovery projects • Midstream water treatment • Water injection systems •
• Facility piping systems • Compressors •
performance facilities - gas processing, pipelines, product Solution gas handling
Sand handling • Produced water handling •
storage, and LNG • Other facility considerations
Flow measurement
COUR S E C O N T E N T - utility systems, process safety and asset
Overview of oil and gas industry • Qualitative integrity, and environmental regulations
phase behavior and reservoirs • Hydrocarbon
properties and terminology • Typical sales/
disposal specifications • Flowlines, piping and
gathering systems • Production separation •
Oil processing • Water injection systems
(including pumps) • Gas handling -
compression, dehydration • Measurement and
storage • Other facilities considerations -
utilities, process safety • Midstream facilities
- gas processing, pipelines, LNG 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
DENVER, US 10-21 MAY $9120
DOHA, QATAR 4-15 JUL $9715
DUBAI, UAE 5-16 DEC $9715+VAT
HOUSTON, US 8-19 NOV $9115
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) LONDON, UK 2-13 AUG $9115+VAT
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 PROCESS FACILITIES 9

Fundamentals of Process Safety Process Safety Risk Based Process

Process Safety – PS2 Engineering Engineering – PS4 Safety Management
Fundamentals - PSF – HS45
FOUNDATION NEW
FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY
The course will cover the fundamentals of This is a competency driven, fundamental course This course introduces process safety
Process Safety for all staff levels of processing covering the broad scope of process safety management in the oil and gas industry, the
facilities in the upstream and downstream oil, PetroAcademy engineering. Other topics relevant to process elements and benefits of process safety
TM

gas, and petrochemical industry. To identify how safety are introduced, showing how process safety management systems, and tools for
different disciplines and roles can have an engineering fits into the broader context of risk implementing and managing a system. In this
BLEN DED LEARN I NG
impact on Process Safety performance, there is a management and process safety management, but course the participant will learn to use tools and
rolling case study (Project COLEX) throughout the emphasis is on the technical content. techniques for managing process safety. The
the course that involves the installation of a Center for Chemical Process Safety’s (CCPS)
separator vessel. The associated Process Safety This course will be delivered virtually The course is designed to accelerate the
book titled “Guidelines for Risk Based Process
considerations and implications are explored through PetroAcademy providing participants process safety learning curve. Serious
process safety incidents occur somewhere in the Safety” or “RBPS Guidelines” will be the text for
and discussed at the various stages, from design participants with the knowledge they need at
industry nearly every week, and few if any are new; this course. Participant-centered exercises and
to full operation. their convenience.
essentially the same ways of going wrong are selected case studies will be used to build on the
found repeatedly, in different operating contexts. concepts that CCPS advocates for risk based
D E S IG NE D F O R This Process Safety Engineering Blended process safety.
One of the main objectives of PS-4 is to develop
The course will benefit all staff associated with program extends the Process Safety knowledge of the more common ways of going Throughout the course, participants will be
the operation, maintenance, and governance in Engineering Principles program to the wrong, and one of the ways of doing that is
production and processing facilities. It is relevant Fundamental level. Course material challenged to think how their process safety
discussion of major incidents, including some of
to roles, including senior management, project is reinforced using problems, simple management system can be enhanced and
those that have affected our regulatory
and engineering support teams, HSE support, calculations, and applications to an environment. PS-4 graduates should be able to modified to meet the concepts of risk-based
supervisors, and operator and maintenance example facility. The applications provide see their facilities and projects with a new decision making. An individual action plan will
technicians. An understanding is provided of the an opportunity to integrate the concepts and perspective, a new sense of not only how things be developed to apply the information from the
design basis and essentials for safe operations, methods in an oil and gas environment. work, but also of how things fail. They will also course to the workplace.
without addressing the more detailed calculation have an appreciation of the reasons for some of
our process safety practices and regulations, DESIGNED FO R
aspects covered in Process Safety Engineering
which will contribute to more consistent and better HSE professionals, operations and maintenance
PS4.
reasoned application of them. technicians, engineers, supervisors and project
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
YOU W IL L L E A R N H O W T O managers requiring a basic foundation in
VIRTUAL 30 MAR-21 MAY $3990 developing and managing process safety. The
• Identify the systems and processes required 28 SEP-19 NOV $3990 DESIGNED FOR
to enhance process safety in a high hazard Anyone who needs to work with process safety more technical aspects of process safety
installation engineers; this would include facilities engineers, engineering are covered in PS4, Process Safety
• Identify and choose appropriate techniques operations and maintenance supervisors, project Engineering.
and tools to qualitatively assess process engineers and managers, entry level process YOU WILL LEARN H O W TO
hazards safety engineers, experienced professionals new • Identify processes applicable to Process
• Determine appropriate risk reduction Process Safety to oil and gas, and anyone who needs a general Safety Management (PSM) and describe
strategies and identify effective risk reduction understanding of the breadth of the process safety
measures to prevent, control, and mitigate Engineering engineering discipline. Technical staff from
relevant terms used
• Identify which standards are to be applied for
process safety risk Principles – PSE insurance companies and regulatory agencies managing process hazards
• Recognize and develop systems to manage have found the course useful. Those requiring a • Apply programs and tools for managing a
Process Safety in operations through BASIC 40 HOURS less technical course may be interested in PS-2, PSM system
operating procedures and operating limits, Fundamentals of Process Safety; and risk-based • Choose appropriate decision making methods
ensuring plant integrity through maintenance process safety management is the subject of
BL EN DED LEARN I NG and tools to identify process hazards
and inspection HS45. • Describe and use techniques available for
• Use a management of change process to
control of hazards associated with process
minimize risk of change This course will be delivered virtually through YOU WILL LEA RN
• Types of equipment and process systems designs
• Identify and monitor key performance PetroAcademy providing participants with the
that have historically been problematic in the • Describe the criteria and methods of selecting
measures and verifications to maintain and knowledge they need at their convenience.
Upstream and Midstream oil and gas industry equipment and safeguarding controls
improve safety performance
• Basics of risk analysis • Research and apply the performance
This Process Safety Engineering Principles
COUR S E CO N T E N T • Thinking in terms of Inherently Safer Design parameters for the safety systems in
Blended Program provides an overview of
Business context for Process Safety • Risk • Most common process hazard analysis operations
process safety engineering fundamentals for
assessment (hazard identification, hazard methods and where they are used • Explain the role of all disciplines and their
hydrocarbon processing facilities.
scenarios, consequence and likelihood analysis, • Layers of Protection concept - what the different contribution to the management of potential
and risk analysis and tools and techniques) • YOU W I LL L EARN layers are and how they are applied HSE hazards
Risk reduction measures (barriers) • • How to analyze and assess different types of • Detection and mitigation methods for different
types of hazards COURSE CONTE N T
Management of process safety in operations risk analyses
Process safety culture and competency •
(operating procedures, design and operating • How to utilize models that are associated
COURSE CONTENT Compliance with standards • Understand
limits, human factors, inspection and with risk management
Historical incidents and problem areas • Risk hazards and risk • Operating procedures and
maintenance, and emergency response) • • The importance of building safety into
analysis basics • Process hazards analysis safe work practices • Asset integrity and
Management of change • Learning from processes
techniques - overview • Layers of protection • reliability • Management of change • Conduct
previous incidents and near misses • Self- • How Inherently Safer Design can be applied
Inherently safer design • Hazards associated with of operations • Incident investigation
verification and measurement • Process safety • and more...
process fluids • Leakage and dispersion of (associated with plant failures) • Measurement
key performance indicators • Management
C OU RSE C ON T EN T hydrocarbon releases • Combustion behavior of and metrics • Management review and
review and auditing • Process safety leadership
Process Safety Risk Analysis and Inherently hydrocarbons • Sources of ignition • Hazards continuous improvement
(governance and culture)
Safer Design • Process Hazards Analysis and associated with specific plant systems • Plant
Layers of Protection analysis techniques • layout and equipment spacing • Pressure relief
and disposal systems • Corrosion and materials
Leakage and dispersion of hydrocarbons •
selection • Process monitoring and control •
Combustion behavior of hydrocarbons • and
Safety instrumented systems • Fire protection
more...
principles • Explosion protection
Self-paced, virtual course
- start anytime.
Tuition US$3890 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) HOUSTON, US 23-27 AUG $4525 DUBAI, UAE 12-16 SEP $5550+VAT
KUALA LUMPUR, MYS 18-22 OCT $6015 HOUSTON, US 8-12 NOV $4410
HOUSTON, US 4-8 OCT $4410 FOR MOR E INFOR MATION, V IS IT LONDON, UK 26-30 JULY $5135+VAT
LONDON, UK 13-17 DEC $5265+VAT
LONDON, UK 22-26 NOV $5135+VAT VIRTUAL 29 NOV-9 DEC $3990
P E T ROS KILLS.C OM / BRM BL E N D E D PERTH, AU 7-11 JUN $6605+GST
10 PROCESS FACILITIES
Fundamental and
Applied Water Oil Well Pad Facilities Relief and Flare
Practical Aspects
Technology in Oil and (for Facilities Engineers) Systems – PF44
of Produced Water
Gas Production – PF21 – OWPF-FE
Treating – PF23
FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY
This course provides an overview of the main This course covers topics related to Produced NEW This intensive course provides a comprehensive
water handling systems typically encountered in Water Treatment in upstream oil and gas This course is focused on onshore well-pad overview of relief and flare systems for oil and
upstream (E&P) production operations, both operations. Produced water composition and facilities that are typically used for the gas processing facilities. The course begins with
onshore and offshore. The chemistry of the main physical properties are covered. Water quality development of shale/tight oil fields. The course the need for pressure control/overpressure
water-related problems of mineral scales, requirements for various disposal methods are starts with the review of typical well-pad facility protection, continues with the key engineering
corrosion, bacteria, and oily water will be addressed, including onshore surface discharge, process flow diagrams (PFDs) and the and design aspects including code
reviewed both from the theoretical and practical offshore discharge to sea, and reinjection for considerations involved in selecting a suitable considerations, and concludes with selecting
aspects. Produced water treatment equipment disposal or waterflood. Regulatory requirements PFD for the given conditions. Variations on the and sizing the components of a relief and flare
and typical water quality specifications will also and analytical methods used to monitor and different PFDs are evaluated and their system. The material of the course is applicable
be reviewed, as well as water injection and ensure regulatory compliance are discussed. applications, pros and cons discussed. The main to onshore field production facilities, pipelines,
disposal systems. An exercise will be given to Treatment technology is presented along with equipment types utilized are reviewed with focus gas plants, terminals, refineries, and offshore
identify typical system problems and to apply the practical considerations for selecting and on selection and sizing. A key aspect of this production facilities. The use of dynamic
knowledge you gained to propose solutions. operating typical water treatment equipment. course is understanding the interfaces between simulations for relief load determination is
Emphasis will be placed on understanding and Representative process flow diagrams illustrate the producing wells, the well-pad facility, and the discussed and demonstrated.
resolving operational problems in process equipment selection, design features, layout, and gas, oil, and produced water export systems.
equipment. processes. Chemical treatment options are also DES IGNED FOR
Numerous exercises and calculations will be Engineers responsible for designing, operating,
considered. utilized throughout the course to develop solid
DES IG NE D F O R and maintaining relief and flare systems in oil
Managers, engineers, chemists, and operators DESI GN ED FOR understanding and competence level in the areas and gas facilities.
needing to understand water-related problems in Managers, engineers, chemists, and senior covered. This course differs from the OWPF-NFE
oil and gas production and their solutions. operations personnel responsible for designing, (Non-Facilities Engineers) course in that it is Y OU WILL LEARN
operating, and maintaining facilities that process longer, goes into more detail in the subject areas, • Codes and Standards used in relief systems
YO U W IL L L E A R N and manage produced water. This course will and is focused on facilities engineering aspects • Ways to mitigate relief, such as HIPPS
• The basics of oilfield water chemistry provide participants with an understanding of the and calculations. • How to define the possible relief scenarios and
• How to monitor and control corrosion, scale, technical aspects required to select, design, calculate their relief loads
and bacterial growth in produced water and maintain, and troubleshoot produced water Note: This course has some overlap of content • Commonly used pressure relieving devices,
water injection/disposal systems equipment. with PF-4 Oil Production & Processing Facilities and how to size them
• How to implement system surveillance which is a 10-day Intermediate level course. • How to calculate relief valve inlet losses
programs to detect potential problems before YOU W I LL L EARN PF-4 is broader in scope, covers onshore and • How to fix relief valve excessive inlet losses
system damage occurs • How produced water compositions affect water offshore facilities and goes into more detail in • How to size relief valve outlet piping and flare
• Produced (oily) water treatment options and treatment system design and performance certain areas. OWPF is more narrowly focused headers
related treatment equipment • How to interpret produced water analytical on onshore oil pad facilities. • How to calculate relief valve backpressure
• How to use the knowledge gained to identify data and calculate common Scale Indices • How to size flare knockout drums
typical system problems and be able to • How emulsions form and contribute to water DES IGNED FOR • How to calculate flare stack height based on
propose solutions treatment challenges This course is aimed primarily at Facilities radiation limits
• How Total Suspended Solids (TSS) affects Engineers but would also be suitable for senior • Flare gas recovery systems
C OUR S E C O N T E N T water quality and what to do about it operations personnel involved with design and • Flare ignition systems available
Water chemistry fundamentals • Water sampling • What water quality is required for surface or operation of onshore oil well-pad facilities. It is • Advantages of using dynamic simulation for
and analysis • Water formed scales • Corrosion overboard disposal, for injection disposal, or not an engineering discipline-specific course but calculating relief loads
control • Water treatment microbiology • for beneficial use instead covers multiple aspects of pad facilities.
Produced water discharge/disposal and • The regulatory requirements for offshore water OWPF could also be used for cross-training of COURS E CONTE N T
treatment principles • Produced water treating disposal and what is in an NPDES Permit more specialized discipline engineers to provide Overview of typical relief and flare systems and
equipment - theory of operation, advantages and • What analytical methods actually measure and them with a better understanding of how the key components • Codes and standards as well
disadvantages, and the importance of oil droplet how to select an appropriate method various pad facilities components integrate and as good practices typical in oil and gas facilities
size • Water injection and disposal systems - • How separators, clarifier tanks, CPIs, act together. • Safety implications and causes of
theory of operation, corrosion, scale, and hydrocyclones, flotation cells, and bed overpressure • Overpressure protection
biological control • Case study Y OU WILL LEA RN philosophy including source isolation and relief
filtration work and how to improve their • The factors involved in selecting a process
performance • Determination of relief requirements and
flow scheme for a typical oil well-pad defining setpoint pressures • Types,
• The most common causes of water treating • The effect of well production characteristics
problems and how to diagnose and resolve applications, and sizing of common relief
and well performance on the surface facilities devices • Blowdown/depressurizing - purpose
them and how to integrate the two areas efficiently
• Typical PFDs used to illustrate operational and design/operational considerations • Design
• Typical wellstream compositions and their and specification considerations for relief valves
issues variability, and how to determine the fluid and header systems, including fluid
C OU RSE C ON T EN T properties needed for equipment selection and characteristics, services conditions, material
Introduction to water treatment technology and sizing and their effects on operations selection, and header sizing • Environmental
issues • Produced water chemistry and • The main pad facility processing requirements considerations • Radiation calculations and the
characterization • Defining and characterizing needed to produce on-spec products for sale impact of flare tip design • Selection and sizing
emulsions that impact water quality and or disposal, and the associated equipment of key components: knockout and seal drums,
treatment • Water quality requirements for types and operating conditions typically vent/flare stack, vent/flare tips, and flare ignition
injection or surface disposal, NPDES permits, utilized systems • Defining need and quantity of purge
analytical methods • Primary water treatment • and more... gas • Flare gas recovery, smokeless flaring, and
technologies - separators, hydrocyclones, and COURS E CONTENT purge gas conservation • Operational and
CPIs • Secondary water treatment - induced gas Oil well pad process flow diagrams • Well troubleshooting tips • The use of dynamic
flotation • Tertiary water treatment technologies production characteristics • Fluid compositions simulations to determine relief loads
- media and membrane filtration • Chemicals and properties • Separation equipment • Oil
and chemical treatment • Diagnostic testing and treating • Oil stabilization • Storage tanks and
in-field observations • Diagnosing and vapor recovery • Facility piping systems •
resolving water treatment issues based on actual Relief and flare systems • Compressors • Sand
field experiences handling • Produced water handling • Flow
measurement 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
HOUSTON, US 11-15 OCT $4510
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) KUALA LUMPUR, MYS 1-5 NOV $5670
HOUSTON, US 26-30 JUL $4410 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) LONDON, UK 19-23 JUL $5235+VAT
HOUSTON, US 18-22 OCT $4410 HOUSTON, US 12-16 JULY $4410 VIRTUAL 29 MAR-9 APR $4090

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 PROCESS FACILITIES 11

Onshore Gas Gathering Troubleshooting Gas Troubleshooting Oil CO2 Surface Facilities
Systems: Design and Processing Facilities – Processing Facilities – – PF81
Operations – PF45 PF49G PF49O
INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY SPECIALIZED 4-DAY
This course deals with the design, operation, and NEW NEW FIELD TRIP
optimization of onshore gas gathering systems
This course will cover how to establish and apply This course will cover how to establish and apply This course emphasizes the effect of carbon
and their associated field facilities, from the
a general troubleshooting methodology as well a general troubleshooting methodology as well dioxide on the selection and operation of
wellhead to the central gas processing facility.
as how to conduct process/equipment specific as how to conduct process/equipment specific equipment (separators, compressors, and
From a design perspective, the main variables
troubleshooting related to gas production and troubleshooting related to oil production and dehydrators), as well as sweetening process
that impact the flexibility and operational
processing facilities. Definitions of good/normal processing facilities. Definitions of good/normal equipment. This program, first introduced in
characteristics of an onshore gas gathering
performance will be discussed for each process/ performance will be discussed for each process/ 1985, assists those working with carbon dioxide
system will be discussed. Typical operating
equipment type covered. Data gathering, equipment type covered. Data gathering, or high carbon dioxide content natural gas. This
problems are covered including hydrates,
validation and utilization procedures will be validation and utilization procedures will be course is particularly applicable to those persons
multiphase flow issues, corrosion, declining well
discussed. Criteria to use when evaluating discussed. Criteria to use when evaluating who operate and/or design enhanced oil
deliverability, etc. Exercises will be utilized
possible problem solutions will also be covered. possible problem solutions will also be covered. recovery (EOR) facilities using CO2 as a miscible
throughout the course to emphasize the key
Real-world exercises will be utilized throughout Real-world exercises will be utilized throughout agent. Physical and thermodynamic property
learning points.
the class to reinforce the learning objectives. the class to reinforce the learning objectives. data for carbon dioxide/natural gas mixtures are
D E S IG NE D F O R Both onshore and offshore facilities will be Both onshore and offshore facilities will be discussed. Calculations are performed to
Production and facilities department engineers/ discussed. It is assumed that course participants discussed. It is assumed that course participants illustrate principles and techniques. Midland is a
senior operating personnel responsible for the have a solid understanding of how typical gas have a solid understanding of how typical oil four-day session including a CO2 plant tour on
design, operation and optimization of onshore production and processing facilities work, production and processing facilities work, Thursday, contingent on plant availability.
gas gathering systems and their associated field including the commonly used processes and including the commonly used processes and
facilities. equipment involved. This course will not equipment involved. This course will not DESIGNED FO R
provide in-depth coverage of fundamentals. provide in-depth coverage of fundamentals. Engineers and senior operating personnel
YOU W IL L L E A R N involved with carbon dioxide/natural gas/CO2
• The impact of gathering system pressure on DESI GN ED FOR DES IGNED FOR EOR systems.
gas well deliverability Process/Facilities engineers with 5-10 years of Process/Facilities engineers with 5-10 years of
• The impact of produced fluids composition on experience, facilities engineering team leaders/ experience, facilities engineering team leaders/ YOU WILL LEARN
gathering system design and operation supervisors, and senior facilities operational supervisors, and senior facilities operational • What to expect over the life of a CO2 EOR
• How to evaluate field facility and gathering personnel. personnel. system
system configurations for different • Impact of CO2 on the design and operation of
YOU W I LL L EARN Y OU WILL LEA RN oil production equipment
applications
• The difference between troubleshooting, • The difference between troubleshooting, • Physical and thermodynamic properties
• To recognize and develop solutions to
optimization, and debottlenecking optimization, and debottlenecking of pure CO2, and the impact of CO2 in
operating problems with existing gas
• How to recognize trouble when it is occurring • How to recognize trouble when it is occurring hydrocarbon mixtures
gathering systems
• How to develop a methodical approach to • How to develop a methodical approach to • Dehydration of high CO2-content gases
COUR S E C O N T E N T troubleshooting troubleshooting • Best practices to deal with Dense Phase
Gas well inflow performance and deliverability • • To recognize how different components of • To recognize how different components of pipelines, metering, flaring etc.
Overview of gas well deliquification methods for a facility interact with each other, and the a facility interact with each other, and the • How to pump and compress CO2
low-rate, low pressure gas wells • Effect of significance of these interactions significance of these interactions • Using purification processes: membranes,
gathering system/abandonment pressure on • How to gather, validate, and utilize the data • How to gather, validate, and utilize the data Ryan-Holmes, amines, hot carbonate, etc.
reserves recovery • Impact of produced fluids needed for troubleshooting needed for troubleshooting
composition • Sweet/sour • CO2 content • • The criteria to be considered for identifying the • The criteria to be considered for identifying the COURS E CONTE N T
Rich/lean • Produced water • Hydrates and best solution when several feasible solutions best solution when several feasible solutions Overview of CO2 injection and process facilities
hydrate prevention • Dehydration • Heating • are available are available • Heavy emphasis on CO2 for enhanced oil
Chemical inhibition • Multiphase flow basics • • Typical causes of problems, and their • Typical causes of problems, and their recovery • Physical and thermodynamic
Corrosion/materials selection • Gathering solutions, for the main types of processes and solutions, for the main types of processes and properties of CO2 and high CO2 mixtures •
system layout • Wellsite/field facilities options equipment used in upstream/midstream gas equipment used in upstream/midstream oil Materials selection and design consideration in
• Provisions for future compression production and processing operations production and processing operations CO2 systems • Process vessel specification •
Pumps and compressors • Fluid flow and
C OU RSE C ON T EN T COURS E CONTENT special pipeline design considerations such as
Understanding the similarities and differences Understanding the similarities and differences the control of ductile fractures • Dehydration of
between troubleshooting vs optimization vs between troubleshooting vs optimization vs CO2 and CO2-rich gases • General overview of
debottlenecking • Types of gas production and debottlenecking • Types of oil production and processes to treat/recover CO2
processing facilities • System trouble vs processing facilities • System trouble vs
component/equipment-specific trouble • component/equipment-specific trouble •
Defining good/normal operation • Quantifying Defining good/normal operation • Quantifying
the cost of the trouble • Gathering, validating, the cost of the trouble • Gathering, validating,
and utilization of data (types of data, sources of and utilization of data (types of data, sources of
data, data quality and validation, using the data) data, data quality and validation, using the data)
• Developing a step-by-step troubleshooting • Fundamentals of root cause analysis and
methodology/flowchart • Identifying the best methodology • Developing a step-by-step
solution (criteria for defining best) • Processing troubleshooting methodology/flowchart •
and major equipment modules covered include Identifying the best solution (criteria for defining
gas-liquid separation, gas sweetening (amine best) • Processing and major equipment
focus), glycol dehydration, molecular sieve modules covered include gas-liquid separation,
dehydration, shell and tube heat exchangers, oil-water separation, oil treating and desalting,
NGL recovery processes, fractionation facilities, oil stabilization and sweetening, oil storage and
reciprocating compressors, and centrifugal vapor recovery, produced water treating,
compressors centrifugal pumps, and water injection

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)

CALGARY, CAN 21-25 JUN $4090+GST
HOUSTON, US 29 NOV-3 DEC $4510
LONDON, UK 11-15 OCT $5235+VAT 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) PERTH, AU 1-5 NOV $5810+GST LONDON, UK 16-20 AUG $5235+VAT
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
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 12 INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROLS & ELECTRICAL
Instrumentation, Controls Instrumentation and
Electrical Engineering Flow and Level Custody
and Electrical Systems Controls Fundamentals
Fundamentals for Measurement – IC73
Overview for Non- for Facilities Engineers
Facilities Engineers – E3
Electrical Engineers – ICE21 – IC3
BASIC 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY
This basic level course provides an introduction This course applies fundamental electrical This course applies fundamental instrumentation This course is designed to acquaint users with
and overview of electrical systems, engineering principles to oil and gas facilities. and control engineering principles to oil and gas the problems and solutions for high accuracy
instrumentation, process control, and control/ The course is designed for Facilities Engineers facilities design and operation, and is designed transfer of liquid and gas petroleum products
safety systems typically encountered in oil and who interface with electrical systems, and to accelerate the development of new Facilities from supplier to customer. These needs have
gas facilities. The focus is to understand provides practical insight and development of Instrumentation and Control Engineers. Through been brought about by major changes in
terminology, concepts, typical equipment new Facilities Electrical Engineers. Through the the use of individual and group problem solving, manufacturing processes and because of several
configurations, and common pitfalls in order to use of individual and group problem solving, attendees will learn about field measurement dramatic circumstantial changes such as: the
improve communication with electrical and I&C attendees will learn about power transformers, devices, valves and actuators, documentation, increase in the cost of fuel and raw materials; the
professionals. This course covers similar content motors, generators, one-line diagram programmable logic controllers, power supplies, need to minimize pollution; and the increasing
to our E3 and IC3 courses, but at a more interpretation, protection and coordination of PLC, SCADA, DCS, SIS, hazardous areas, and pressures being brought to bear to adhere to the
conceptual level. This course is not a electrical equipment, site and standby installation methods. This course is a more in- requirements for health and safety.
prerequisite for taking E3 or IC3, but rather a generation, electrical safety, and hazardous areas depth version of the content of ICE-21 and ICE21
replacement for those that are not able to take identification. Participants will gain a better is not a prerequisite for taking this course. DESIGNED FOR
both E3 and IC3. understanding of electrical power systems in oil This workshop is specifically tailored for any
and gas facilities. This course is a more in-depth DES IGNED FOR personnel who are, or will be, responsible for
D E S IG NE D F O R Facilities and Project Engineers as well as newly designing, selecting, sizing, specifying,
Process, chemical, and mechanical engineers, version of the content of ICE21 and ICE21 is not
a prerequisite for taking this course. graduated Electrical, Controls and Instrument installing, testing, operating, and maintaining
(i.e. non-instrumentation and non-electrical Engineers (0-5 yrs.) with a need to improve basic instrumentation related to the field of custody
disciplines), as well as other technical and non-
DESI GN ED F OR understanding of instrumentation and control level and flow transfer measurement. This could
technical professionals with little or no
Those facilities personnel who interface with systems within oil and gas facilities. include facilities, process, chemical, electrical,
background in IC&E systems. Electrical and
facility electrical power systems, including instrumentation, maintenance, and mechanical
Instrumentation Engineers should consider E3 Y OU WILL LEA RN
project engineers, operation leads, engineers and technicians.
and IC3 for more in-depth coverage. • Operating principals and specification criteria
instrumentation, controls personnel, and
YOU W IL L L E A R N for field measurement devices including level, YOU WILL LEARN H O W TO
electrical engineers who are new to electrical
• Fundamentals of electricity, such as voltage, pressure, temperature, and flow • Recall the basics of fluid mechanics
power systems within oil and gas facilities.
current, resistance, power factor, and single/ • Final elements and actuators including control • Identify the fundamental problems related to
three phase power systems YOU WI L L L EARN loops, control valves, shutdown valves, uncertainty
• Electrical specifications, such as voltage • Fundamental concepts of electricity including actuators, and transducers • Compare the different methods of measuring
selection, load lists, and power voltage, current, resistance, power, inductance, • P&ID symbols and instrument tags, loop and flow in the oil and gas industries
• How to read one-line diagrams and capacitance, and power factor logic diagrams, pitfalls and best practices, • Describe the various methods of level
understand the function of the components • The key components of facilities electric ISA symbology, and creation of instrument measurement
of power distribution, including transformers,
power distribution, which include circuit and I/O lists • Compare the different methods used to derive
switchgear, MCCs, VFDs, and power
arrangements, low and medium voltage • Signal types and wiring requirements for strapping tables
distribution
switchgear, and single-phase and three phase analog/discrete inputs and outputs as well • Evaluate the different custody transfer
• The function and considerations of
infrastructure components, such as cable, schemes as other signals such as thermocouple, RTD, standards in use today
conduit, cable tray, and duct banks • Transformer operation, components, turns and pulse, and digital communications • Contrast the methods used in flow calibration
• Awareness of the concepts behind voltage ratios, losses, efficiency, rating, and • Typical control system functions, limitations, • Identify the different types of prover systems
classification of hazardous locations and connections and architectures for PLC and DCS systems • Explain the methodology used in truck
equipment specifications • The difference between direct current, including programming methods such as custody transfer
• Safety risks and mitigation strategies for induction and synchronous current motors, ladder logic and function block • Examine the challenges regarding pipelines
power systems, including short circuit and motor enclosures, and how to select, start, • Process control basics with an emphasis • Describe the basics of leak detection
overcurrent protection, ground faults, shock protect, and control motors on control loops, types, and configurations • Analyze the methodology for monitoring and
hazards, and arc flash • The principles of protecting electrical for common oil and gas process equipment controlling production losses
• Fundamentals of control systems, sensors, equipment, including time current curves, such as separators, pumps, distillation • Evaluate and compare the problems and
controllers, and final elements fuses, circuit breakers, and coordination towers, filters, contactors, compressors, heat solutions associated with the measurement of
• Key requirements for instrument specifications • The purposes and sizing criteria for backup exchangers, and fired heaters NGL, LPG, and LNG
such as accuracy, signal selection, process power, including generators and UPS power • Understanding of the PID algorithm, loop
conditions, material compatibility, installation systems tuning, and advanced process control COURSE CONTE N T
considerations, capabilities and limits, and • The considerations and sizing criteria for on- techniques such as feed forward, cascade, Fluid mechanics • Flowmeter classification •
relative cost site power generation, which includes standby, selective, and ratio control Uncertainty analysis • Flow measurement •
• Basics of specification of shutdown and prime, peak, and co-generation • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Turbine • Positive displacement • Ultrasonic
control valves • What grounding and bonding systems are, (SCADA) Systems to include telemetry, RTUs, flowmeters • Coriolis mass flowmeters • Level
• Control system functions, limitations, and with an overview of ignition sources, shock internet, and web based communications measurement • Buoyancy tape systems •
architectures, including PLC, DCS, SIS, RTU, protection, separately derived systems, and • Common networking systems including Hydrostatic pressure • Ultrasonic measurement
and SCADA; common networking systems, substation grounding Ethernet, Modbus, and Fieldbus • Radar measurement • Flow calibration •
including Ethernet, Modbus and Fieldbus • The concepts, terminology and application • Risk mitigation, technologies, and architecture Terminal custody transfer • Tank management
• Exposure to the typical documentation of hazardous area classification standards, of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) systems • Lease automatic custody transfer •
and drawings necessary for the design, equipment protection methods, and • The concepts, terminology, and application Truck and rail custody transfer • Pipeline
specification, installation, operation and installation requirements for NEC and IEC of hazardous area classificaton standards, considerations • Fugitive emissions • Leak
maintenance of electrical, instrumentation and projects equipment protection methods, and detection • Real time transient model • Loss
control systems installation requirements for NEC and IEC control systems • Custody transfer sampling •
COUR S E C O N T E N T C OU RSE C ON T EN T projects Monitoring and controlling production losses •
Fundamentals of electricity • Control system Fundamentals of insulation and conduction • Physical leaks • Meter prover performance •
fundamentals • Field measurement and control Direct current, alternating current • Transformers COURS E CONTENT API standards • Measuring the suspended S&W
devices • Hazardous area classification for oil power and instrument • Motors induction and Fundamentals of control signals and wiring • content • Calculating net volume • Flowmeter
and gas applications • Programmable electronic synchronous • Power distribution • System Control system basics • and more... selection and costs • Initial considerations •
systems (PLC, DCS, SIS, SCADA) • and more... protection and coordination • Standby power Meter selection • Properties and measurement
systems • Power generation • Variable speed of NGL, LPG, and LNG
drive principles • Grounding, bonding, and
electrical safety • Hazardous area identification

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)

HOUSTON, US 29 NOV-3 DEC $4310 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
LONDON, UK 18-22 OCT $5035+VAT PERTH, AU 30 AUG-3 SEP $5710+GST DENVER, US 12-16 JULY $4405
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
VIRTUAL 29 MAR-9 APR $3890 HOUSTON, US 1-5 NOV $4410 HOUSTON, US 6-10 DEC $4510

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 INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROLS & ELECTRICAL 13

Practical PID Control

and Loop Tuning – IC74

INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY
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automation, and process engineers and
technicians with the basic theoretical and
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process control in terms of quality, safety,
flexibility, and costs. Centered on the ISA-
recommended PC-Control LAB simulator,
participants will learn through active participation
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16 practical simulation sessions covering:
process reaction; tuning methods; diagnostic
tools; effect of different algorithms; surge tank
level control; analysis of such problems as valve
hysteresis, stiction and non-linearities and the
impact on controllability; and integral windup.

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14 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Basics of Rotating Basics of Static Corrosion Management
Piping Systems -
Mechanical Equipment Mechanical Equipment in Production/
Mechanical Design and
- BRM - BSM Processing Operations
Specification – ME41
– PF22
BASIC NEW 16 HOURS BASIC NEW 40 HOURS
FOUNDATION 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY
This comprehensive course will cover the main This 5-day, intermediate level course for
causes of corrosion in upstream oil and gas engineers and piping system designers reviews
PetroAcademy PetroAcademy operations, as well as monitoring and mitigation the key areas associated with the design of
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methods. The various corrosion mechanisms piping systems for oil and gas facilities. The
give rise to a number of different forms of course is focused on four areas: codes and
B L E NDE D L E A R N I N G BLEN DED LEARNING corrosion damage, which will all be considered. standards, pipe materials and manufacture,
Participants will learn about the different aspects piping components, and piping layout and
This course will be delivered virtually This course will be delivered virtually that make fluid corrosive, what enhances design. Applicable piping codes for oil and gas
through PetroAcademy providing through PetroAcademy providing corrosion rates and how to estimate corrosion facilities (ISO, B31.3, B31.4, B31.8, etc.), pipe
participants with the knowledge they need at participants with the knowledge they need at rates of a given environment through analysis of sizing calculations, pipe installation, and
their convenience. their convenience. the chemical and physical characteristics of the materials selection are an integral part of the
system; review approaches to selecting materials course. The emphasis is on proper material
and coatings for corrosion resistance for different selection and specification of piping systems.
This course provides an overview of This course provides an overview of conditions and applications (including the use of
mechanical rotating equipment. The focus mechanical non-rotating, static equipment. NACE MR0175/ISO 15156); and be introduced DES IGNED FOR
is on selection of pumps, compressors and The focus is on selection and integrity to cathodic protection systems and (CP) surveys, This PetroSkills training course is ideal for
drivers and their integration into the process of pressure vessels, piping and heat coating systems, and many other corrosion mechanical, facilities, plant, or pipeline
scheme and control strategy in upstream and exchangers and their integration into the mitigation techniques. The participant will learn engineers and piping system designers who are
midstream oil and gas facilities. Compressor process scheme and control strategy how to select and utilize corrosion inhibitors for involved in the design of in-plant piping systems
and pump sizing is addressed as well as in upstream and midstream oil and gas different systems, and how to select and apply for oil and gas facilities.
sizing of drivers including engines, electric facilities. The course addresses code corrosion monitoring techniques to create an
motors and turbines. Commissioning and requirements focusing on ASME Boiler & integrated monitoring program. The course Y OU WILL LEARN
installation are reviewed to ensure optimal Pressure Vessel code as well as B31 Piping content is based on a field facilities engineering • To apply piping system codes and standards
equipment integrity and reliability for the code and API tank construction codes. Heat point of view, as opposed to a more narrowly- • About line sizing and layout of piping systems
life of the plant. The material of the course exchanger sizing and TEMA requirements specialized corrosion engineering or chemistry in various types of facilities
is applicable to field production facilities, are also discussed. Piping hydraulics and viewpoint. It provides an appropriate balance of • How to specify proper components for
pipelines, gas plants, and offshore systems. corrosion mechanisms are reviewed to necessary theory and practical applications to process and utility applications
ensure correct equipment sizing and integrity solve/mitigate corrosion-related problems. • To compare alternative materials of
This program is comprised of the following management. The material of the course
PetroAcademyTM Skill ModulesTM. Each DESIGNED FOR construction
is applicable to field production facilities, • The process of steelmaking, pipe
module ranges from 3-5 hours of self-paced Managers, engineers, chemists, and operators
pipelines, gas plants, and offshore systems. manufacturing, and material specifications
activities. who need to understand corrosion and its control
management in oil and gas production and • Joining methods and inspection techniques
DE S IG NED F O R This program is comprised of the following processing. • Key considerations for flare and vent systems,
Facilities engineers, process engineers, PetroAcademyTM Skill ModulesTM. Each including PSV sizing
senior operations personnel, field module ranges from 3-5 hours of self-paced YOU WILL LEA RN
supervisors, and engineers who select, activities. • The basics of corrosion chemistry COURS E CONTE N T
design, install, evaluate or operate gas • The main corrosion mechanisms occurring in Piping codes and standards (ANSI/ASME, API,
processing plants and related facilities. DESI GN ED FOR oil and gas production/processing systems ISO) • Pipe materials and manufacturing •
Facilities engineers, process engineers, • The different types of damage caused by Basic pipe stress analysis methods • Valves and
S K IL L M O D U L E S senior operations personnel, field corrosion actuators • Welding and non-destructive testing
• Pump and Compressors Overview supervisors, and engineers who select, • Materials selection for corrosion prevention • Line sizing basics (single-phase and
• Reciprocating Engines, Electric Motor design, install, evaluate or operate gas • Some methods for conducting cathodic multiphase flow) • Pipe and valve material
Drivers, and Generators processing plants and related facilities. protection (CP) surveys selection • Piping layout and design •
• Gas and Steam Turbines • Items to consider in corrosion inhibitor Manifolds, headers, and flare/vent systems •
• Machinery Design, Materials, and SKI L L MODU L ES selection Non-metallic piping systems • Operations and
Subsystems • Mechanical Equipment • Key advantages and disadvantages of the maintenance considerations of facilities and
• Properties of Materials various corrosion monitoring methods pipelines
• Piping Systems and Welding • Where the main locations of corrosion
• Heat Transfer Equipment Overview concern occur within oil production systems,
• Unfired Pressure Vessels gas processing facilities (including amine
• Fired Heaters and Boilers units), and water injection systems
• Storage Tanks • The principles of managing corrosion
• Corrosion Control and Protection and the architecture of corrosion/integrity
• Fire Protection Systems management systems
• Mechanical Equipment Inspection,
Operation and Maintenance Care COURSE CONTENT
Fundamentals of corrosion theory • Major
causes of corrosion (O2, CO2, H2S,
microbiologically influenced corrosion) • Forms
of corrosion damage • Materials selection •
Protective coatings and linings • Cathodic
protection • Corrosion inhibitors • Corrosion
monitoring and inspection • Corrosion in gas
processing facilities • Corrosion in water
injection systems • Corrosion management
strategy and life-cycle costs

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VIRTUAL 7-18 JUN $3990
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 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 15
Mechanical
Fundamentals of Compressor Systems -
Specification of
Pressure Vessels and
Pump and Compressor Mechanical Design and PLANNING A
Heat Exchangers – ME43
Systems – ME44 Specification – ME46
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INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY SPECIALIZED 5-DAY
FIELD TRIP This is an intensive 5-day course providing a This 5-day, specialized level course is for facility
You plan the agenda
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comprehensive overview of pumps and
compressor systems. The focus is on equipment
design engineers, operations engineers, and We’ll handle the rest
technicians seeking an in-depth understanding
engineers and project engineers reviews the key
selection; type, unit, and station configuration; of centrifugal, reciprocating, and screw
areas associated with the mechanical design of
pressure vessels and heat exchangers for oil and
gas facilities. The course is focused on vessels,
and integration of these units in the process
scheme and control strategy in upstream and
compressors. This course provides basic
knowledge of compressor types and associated PETROSKILLS
heat exchangers built in accordance to ASME
midstream oil and gas facilities. The material of
the course is applicable to field production
auxiliary systems, mechanical design of
equipment, operating and performance CONFERENCE
CENTER
VIII Div 1, considering material selection, key
facilities, pipelines, gas plants, and offshore characteristics, control and monitoring systems,
design calculations, and manufacturing
systems. maintenance practices, and codes and standards.
processes. The course is not aimed at process
engineers sizing equipment (PF-42 covers these DESI GN ED FOR DES IGNED FOR
elements), although a brief review of the sizing Engineers, senior technicians, and system Mechanical, facilities, plant, or pipeline
correlations is included. The course is delivered operators designing, operating, and maintaining engineers and technicians needing an in-depth
from the perspective of a vessel fabricator to pump and compressor systems in oil and gas understanding of the different types of
better understand the dos and don’ts of ideal facilities. compressors.
mechanical specification of pressurized
equipment by owner/operators, in order to YOU W I LL L EARN Y OU WILL LEA RN
optimize material utilization and minimize • Selecting the appropriate integrated pump • How to apply thermodynamics to compressor
construction costs. The Houston session and compressors units (drivers, pumps, performance and operating characteristics
features an afternoon field trip to a large pressure compressors, and auxiliary systems) • How to size, specify, and select compressors
vessel fabricator. • Integrating the pump or compressor units • Compressor auxiliary systems
with the upstream and downstream piping and • Series and parallel application of compressors
D E S IG NED F O R process equipment • How to integrate compressor systems into
Mechanical, facilities, construction, or project • Evaluating pump and compressor units and process facilities used in the oil and gas
engineers and plant piping/vessel designers who their drivers in multiple train configurations, industry
are involved in the specification and purchasing parallel and series • How to use state-of-the-art monitor and
of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and other • Identifying the key local and remote control control devices in the operation, maintenance,
pressure-containing equipment for oil and gas elements of pumps and compressors as well and troubleshooting of compression systems
facilities. as their drivers • How to apply maintenance practices to
• Defining the major life-cycle events, such improve compressor reliability
Y OU W IL L L E A R N
as changes in flows, fluid composition, and • Shop and field performance testing
• About ASME B&PV code and the commonly
operating conditions that can affect equipment • Compressor economics including OPEX vs.
used sections relevant to oil and gas Located in the Houston area, we are
selection and operating strategies CAPEX considerations
equipment
• Assessing the key pump hydraulics and available to host your next meeting, in
• To specify correct and commonly used COURS E CONTENT
compressor thermodynamics, and their effect
materials according to ASME II
on selection and operations Types and application of compressors • addition to the many PetroSkills training
• How to design vessel shells, heads, nozzles, Selection criteria of dynamic and positive sessions we hold here each year.
• Identifying significant operating conditioning
and heat exchanger details displacement compressors • Compressor
monitoring parameters and troubleshooting
• How to provide accurate equipment thermodynamics and operating characteristics •
techniques
specification documents and review Performance curves and off-design evaluations
documentation for code compliance C OU RSE C ON T EN T • Key compressor components and other Conference Center Amenities:
• Key fabrication processes used in the Types of pumps, compressors, and drivers, and auxiliary systems • Equipment specifications •
workshop and how to simplify construction • 10 classrooms
their common applications and range of Compressor controls and monitoring devices •
through correct vessel specification operations • Evaluation and selection of pumps Driver and gear involvement • Installation, • 2 rooms with virtual accessibility
• About welding processes and inspection and compressors, and their drivers for long-term operation, maintenance practices, and
requirements per ASME IX
• Concierge and support staff
efficient operations • Unit and station troubleshooting • Economic considerations
configuration including multiple trains in series • State-of-the-art audio-visual
COUR S E C O N T E N T
Vessel codes and standards (ASME B&PV Code,
and/or parallel operations • Integration with • High-speed wireless internet
upstream and downstream process equipment, • On-site technical support
TEMA, API) • Vessel material selection,
local and remote control systems, and facilities
corrosion mechanisms, heat treatment, and • Break area and courtyard
utilities • Key auxiliary systems including
basic metallurgy • Essential design calculations
monitoring equipment, heat exchangers, lube • Complimentary parking
for vessels and heat exchangers • Welding
and seal systems, and fuel/power systems •
process overview and inspection requirements •
Major design, installation, operating,
Constructability and operability considerations
troubleshooting, and maintenance
• Vessel integrity, evaluation, and re-purposing
considerations
of pressure-containing equipment according to
API/ASME
Conveniently located near:
•Q uality hotels and accommodations
• Shopping, restaurants and entertainment
• Medical facilities

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KATY, TEXAS 77494
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DENVER, US 14-18 JUN $4505
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HOUSTON, US 17-21 MAY $4510
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16 PIPELINE ENGINEERING
Pipeline Engineering, Onshore Pipeline Offshore Pipeline Terminals and Storage
Construction and Facilities - Design,
Design and Facilities – PL44
Operation Construction and
Operations – PL42 Construction – PL43
FOUNDATION
NEW
FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY
Successful onshore pipeline businesses require This intensive 5-day foundation level course This 5-day, foundation level course reviews key
personnel competent in fully integrated covers the principal aspects of design, issues associated with development, design,
PetroAcademy approaches to evaluation, planning, design, construction, and operations of offshore pipeline construction, and operation of terminals and
TM

construction, operations, and asset integrity systems. The course focuses on pipeline storage facilities for liquid hydrocarbons and
management. This intensive, 5-day foundation mechanical, strength, and stability design, and NGLs. The course focuses on six areas: 1)
B L E ND E D L E A R N I N G
level course explores best practices for construction. Special challenges, such as terminal codes and siting constraints, 2) terminal
developing and maintaining pipeline systems shoreline crossings, foreign pipeline crossings, design and equipment layout, 3) types of storage
This course will be delivered virtually that maximize life cycle reliability; employee, repair methods, flow assurance, corrosion and selection criteria, 4) design considerations
through PetroAcademy providing public, and environmental safety; and cost control and cathodic protection are an integral for loading racks, fire protection, vapor recovery,
participants with the knowledge they need at effectiveness. Design and team exercises are an part of this course. Participants will acquire the blending equipment, and water treatment, 5)
their convenience. integral part of this course. essential knowledge and skills to design, detailed design of storage tanks, vessels, and
construct, and operate pipelines. Design caverns, and 6) operations and maintenance.
DESI GN ED F OR problems and team projects are part of this Safety, quality control, system reliability,
The Pipeline Engineering Principles Program Pipeline project managers and engineers,
represents the integration of all the skills course. availability, and regulatory compliance are
operations and maintenance supervisors, integrated throughout the course. Case studies
associated with planning, evaluation, design, regulatory compliance personnel, and other DES IGNED FOR
construction, operation and asset integrity and team exercises are used to reinforce key
technical professionals with 1-3 years of Engineers, designers and operators who are points.
through asset retirement and abandonment, experience in natural gas, crude oil, refined actively involved in the design, specification,
applied to onshore and offshore pipelines. petroleum products, LPGs, NGL, chemical, construction, and operation of offshore pipeline DES IGNED FO R
carbon dioxide pipeline engineering, systems. Project managers, engineers, operations and
The Program covers typical pipeline life construction, operations, or maintenance. This maintenance supervisors, and regulatory
cycle activities, starting with the definition of course is intended for participants needing a Y OU WILL LEA RN HOW TO compliance personnel with 1-3 years of
the need for the pipeline, sizing parameters, broad understanding of the planning, • Apply mechanical, strength, and physical experience in planning, engineering,
route selection, environmental concerns and development, construction, start-up, and principles to pipeline design, material constructing and/or operating terminals and
protection, followed by design requirements, operating and asset integrity management of selection, construction, and operation storage facilities for hydrocarbon liquids, NGLs,
strength requirements, construction activities onshore pipelines. • Describe the key construction methods and petrochemical feedstocks. This course is for
through commissioning. The Program then • Define the importance of environmental participants needing a foundation level
covers the operating life of the pipeline, YOU WI L L L EARN H O W TO conditions, construction methods, and understanding of the planning, engineering,
including maintenance and leak detection, • Apply regulatory codes, standards, and pipeline system hydraulics in design, construction, operations, and maintenance of
monitoring and integrity, repair, replacement industry guidelines (API and others) that installation, and operations of offshore storage and terminals connected to pipelines,
and alteration activities, leading to retirement control and guide the permitting, design, pipeline systems rail, barges/tankers and/or truck loading
and abandonment. construction, operation, and maintenance of • Identify special design and construction facilities.
pipeline facilities challenges of offshore pipeline systems
DU R ATION • Apply mechanical and physical principles • Incorporate construction methods into the Y OU WILL LEARN
Self-paced, approximately 20 hours of to pipeline design, hydraulics, and material design of a pipeline system • Storage and terminals basics for hydrocarbon
e-learning selection • Identify the principal interfaces of pipeline liquids, NGLs, and petrochemical feedstocks
• Apply mechanical and physical principles to facilities, such as platforms, floating • Design and operation of atmospheric storage
DES IG NE D F O R
pump and compressor selection production systems, sub-sea wellheads, and tanks and pressurized bullets and spheres
Pipeline project managers and engineers,
• Describe the important factors in station SPMs on design, construction, and operations • Fundamentals of underground storage (salt
operations and maintenance supervisors,
design of offshore pipeline systems and rock caverns)
regulatory compliance personnel, and other
• Describe the importance of route selection and • Identify offshore safety and environmental • Safety, product quality, and reliability/
technical professionals with 1-3 years of
hydraulics for long term profitability, reliability, practices and their effect on design, availability concerns
experience in natural gas, crude oil, refined
and safety construction, and operations
petroleum products, LPGs, NGL, chemical, COURS E CONTE N T
• Identify special design and construction
carbon dioxide pipeline engineering, COURS E CONTENT Sizing criteria and economics for storage and
challenges of onshore pipeline systems
construction, operations, or maintenance. Overview of oil and gas transportation systems • terminal facilities • Various storage types
• Describe methods of river and road crossings,
This course is intended for participants Review pipeline hydraulics, focusing on those (atmospheric storage tanks, pressure vessels,
HDD crossings, and bores
needing a broad understanding of the aspects that affect design, construction, and salt or rock caverns) and appropriate
• Identify the principle interfaces and potential
planning, development, construction, operations • Pipeline systems definition, survey, applications • Terminal and tank farm layout
interrelationships of pipeline facilities, such as
start-up, and operating and asset integrity and route selection • Safety, environmental, and constraints • Details of industry codes and
pump stations and terminals, on design and
management of onshore pipelines. regulatory considerations, focusing on Codes standards, plus regulatory and environmental
operations
• Apply operational and maintenance tools and and Standards related to pipelines • Pipeline compliance • Selection of equipment for
SKIL L M OD U L E S
procedures, including system monitoring conceptual and mechanical design for strength, delivery and receipt to/from pipelines, barges
• Pipeline O&M, Leak Detection, Repairs,
and control, leak detection, corrosion control, stability, and constructibility • Pipeline materials and ships, trucks, and rail, including metering
Alterations and Abandonment
custody measurement and quality control, and components selection including line pipe, options, loading arms, pumps, and control
• Pipeline Routing and Geomatics
asset integrity management, and emergency corrosion and cathodic protection, and coatings systems • Blending options and equipment,
• Compliance and Pollution Events and
response planning • Specialized equipment and materials for VRU/VCU, water treating, and fire protection •
Environmental Impacts and Assessments
integrating with subsea wellhead/manifold Key factors affecting safety, product quality,
• Pipeline Hydraulics and Flow Assurance
C OU RSE C ON T EN T systems, side taps, insulation, and pipe-in-pipe system reliability, and profitability in design,
• Pipeline Strength, Stability and
Regulations and code compliance requirements will be reviewed • Special design and construction, and operations • Atmospheric
Environmental Considerations
• Pipeline survey and routing • Mechanical and construction considerations for risers and storage tank design, layout, construction,
• Pipeline Pump and Compressor Stations
hydraulic design • Proper system sizing and umbilicals, foreign pipeline crossings, single corrosion prevention, and operations covering
and Terminals
design • Equipment selection criteria • point moorings, and shore approaches • API 650 and API 653 • Overview of pressure
• Pipeline Construction
Facilities sites and design concerns • Introduction to flow assurance considerations vessel and sphere design and construction •
Construction methods and contracting and pipeline integrity aspects including in-line Design, development, and operation of
approaches • Operations and asset integrity inspection, leak detection and emergency underground cavern storage facilities
management planning considerations • Pipeline operations,
maintenance and repair considerations and their
Self-paced, virtual course impact on design and material selection
- start anytime.
Tuition US$2645

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
F OR M O RE I NF ORMAT ION , V ISIT DUBAI, UAE 29 AUG-2 SEP $5550+VAT HOUSTON, US 11-15 OCT $4410 HOUSTON, US 6-10 DEC $4410
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 OFFSHORE & SUBSEA 17

Overview of Offshore Overview of Subsea Fundamentals of Flow Assurance for

Offshore Systems
Systems – OS21 Systems – SS2 Offshore Production
Design and
– FAOP
Construction – OS4
BASIC 5-DAY BASIC 5-DAY FOUNDATION 10-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY
This five-day course will accelerate the learning An overview of subsea components and how This 10-day course provides a fundamental Flow assurance is a critical component in the
and productivity of individuals with little to no they are integrated into field architecture is understanding of the technology and work design and operation of offshore production
experience working in the offshore oil and gas provided during this five-day course. Individuals processes used for the design and construction facilities. This is particularly true as the industry
industry. The course provides an overview of will develop a basic understanding of the various of all types of offshore systems, including goes to deeper water, longer tiebacks, deeper
field development concepts and explains how subsea components used in all water depths, consideration of asset development, surveillance, wells, and higher temperature and pressure
offshore structures and facilities function as from shallow water to ultra-deep water. The and management. The content includes the full reservoirs. Although gas hydrate issues
integrated systems. The content includes the full participants job productivity will be accelerated range of water depths from shallow water to dominate the thermohydraulic design, waxes,
range of water depths from shallow water to by learning how the components are combined ultra-deep water and addresses life-cycle asphaltenes, emulsions, scale, corrosion,
ultra-deepwater. All major components required and integrated into subsea field developments. considerations in all phases of offshore field erosion, solids transport, slugging, and
for offshore developments such as fixed and Installation and flow assurance are emphasized development and operation. All major operability are all important issues which require
floating platforms, drilling and workover rigs, as key drivers in subsea design. The course components required for offshore developments, considerable effort. The participant will be
pipelines, risers, process and utilities and emphasizes a systems approach to design. such as fixed and floating platforms, drilling rigs, presented with sufficient theory/correlation
construction equipment are discussed. The Individual and group exercises are used workover equipment, pipelines, risers, process, information to be able to understand the basis for
importance of life-cycle considerations during throughout the course, including a case study to and utilities and construction equipment are the applications. This intensive five-day course
development planning is emphasized. Individual develop field architecture recommendations, discussed. Emphasis is placed on the multi- has considerable time devoted to application and
and group exercises, including a case study, are basic component selection, and high level discipline team approach needed to manage the design exercises to ensure the practical
used throughout the course. The course project execution plans for a subsea myriad of interfaces of offshore facility design, applications are learned.
instructors are experienced offshore managers. development. Course instructors are experienced construction, and operations. Individual and
offshore managers. group exercises are used throughout the course. DES IGNED FOR
DES IG NE D F O R A case study for an offshore project development Engineers, operators, and technical managers
Technical staff, business professionals, DESI GN ED FOR is included. who are responsible for offshore completions,
technicians, analysts and other non-technical Technical staff who are beginning or transitioning production, and development; technical staff
staff who are involved but have limited into the design, construction, and operation of DESIGNED FOR needing a foundation in principles, challenges,
experience, or will be involved, with offshore oil subsea systems. Non-technical staff working Individuals with a basic awareness of or and solutions for offshore flow assurance. The
and gas facilities. The course provides a basic with a subsea development team will benefit by experience in offshore engineering and course is also appropriate for persons involved
understanding of offshore systems in all water developing an awareness of subsea systems. operations. Technical staff, project engineers, in produced fluids flow in onshore production
depths, from shallow to ultra-deepwater, engineering discipline leads, engineering operations.
including design, construction, and operations. YOU W I LL L EARN H O W TO specialists, and operating staff find that this
• Recognize the integrated nature of field course accelerates their capability to contribute Y OU WILL LEARN H O W TO
YO U W IL L L E A R N H O W TO architecture, system design, and component on offshore field development planning, design, • Identify the components of a complete flow
• Identify the key steps in the development selection and construction projects and field operations. assurance study and understand how they
of offshore fields from discovery through • Identify appropriate applications for subsea relate to the production system design and
decommissioning systems YOU WILL LEA RN HOW TO operation
• Understand the elements of field architecture • Identify the main subsea components, • Identify the key facilities parameters that drive • Interpret and use sampling and laboratory
to define a workable field development their functions, strengths, weaknesses, and field development testing results of reservoir fluids relative to
• Recognize key stakeholder issues interfaces from the well to the production • Recognize the best applications and flow assurance
• Recognize offshore production facilities and facility characteristics of each type of offshore fixed • Understand the basic properties of reservoir
structures, fixed and floating. • Understand key design, construction, and and floating structure fluids and how they are modeled for the
• Understand the impact of the ocean installation issues • Understand the effects of the ocean production flowline system
environment on facilities design and • Describe basic operating and maintenance environment on facilities design, construction, • Understand the thermohydraulic modeling of
operations considerations and operations steady state and transient multiphase flow in
• Identify major design, construction, and • Understand the key steps, from drilling • Identify the impact space, loads and forces offshore production systems
operational issues and interfaces of offshore through startup, for the design, fabrication, have on the structural design and global • Evaluate and compare mitigation and
systems testing, installation, and operation performance of offshore structures and their remediation techniques for: gas hydrates,
• Recognize important forces on offshore • Understand the importance of an integrated influence on development cost paraffin (waxes), asphaltenes, emulsions,
structures and their influence on design and approach to design, flow assurance, • Describe the impact of topside facilities (well scale, corrosion, erosion and solids transport,
cost installation, and life-cycle considerations construction, well servicing, processing, and slugging
and utilities) on the design of the supporting
• Understand strategic options for well drilling • Understand the elements of an operability
C OU RSE C ON T EN T structure, together with an outline of the
(construction) and servicing report for subsea production facilities,
Applications for subsea systems • Flow topsides design process
• Appreciate the basic processes and equipment flowlines, and export flowlines
assurance considerations in system design and • Recognize and manage key design and
involved in the topsides design and operation operational interfaces between the major
• Understand fluid transportation options and configuration • Field architecture considerations COURS E CONTE N T
• Subsea component descriptions and functions components of offshore facilities systems Overview of flow assurance • PVT analysis and
equipment • Understand the key design, construction,
• Recognize the marine equipment used in the • Fabrication, testing, installation, fluid properties • Steady state and transient
commissioning, and operational issues • and installation issues associated with fixed multiphase flow modeling • Hydrate, paraffin,
construction of offshore facilities and floating platforms and how to apply the
• Understand basic issues in life-cycle and Production, maintenance, and repair and asphaltene control • Basics of scale,
lessons learned to your work
decommissioning decisions considerations corrosion, erosion, and sand control • Fluid
• Appreciate advances in offshore technology COURSE CONTENT property and phase behavior modeling •
Offshore systems overview and field architecture Equations of state • Fugacity and equilibrium •
C OUR S E C O N T E N T selection • Well construction and servicing Viscosities of oils • Thermal modeling •
Field development concepts, fixed and floating • equipment and operation • Flow assurance • Multiphase pressure boosting • Slugging:
Subsea systems • Wells, construction and Topside facilities • Oil and gas transportation hydrodynamic, terrain induced, and ramp up •
servicing • Topsides facilities; processing; facilities • Riser systems • Subsea systems • Commissioning, start-up, and shutdown
utilities • Oil and gas transportation systems, Production operations • Infrastructure impact on operations
design and installation • Production operations design and operations • Effects of the ocean
• Offshore construction; equipment • environment • Introduction to naval architecture
Fabrication; transportation; integration; • Structural design processes and tools •
installation project management • Life-cycle Construction plans and execution • and more...
considerations, including decommissioning

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)

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HOUSTON, US 2-6 AUG $4310 HOUSTON, US 22-26 MAR $4310 HOUSTON, US 12-23 APR $7720 LONDON, UK 13-17 SEP $5235+VAT
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18 PRODUCTION AND COMPLETIONS ENGINEERING
Production Operations 1 – PO1 Surface Production Production Technology
Operations – PO3 for Other Disciplines
– PTO

FOUNDATION 10-DAY BASIC 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY

PO1 represents the core foundation course of PetroSkills’ production engineering curriculum and is This course presents a basic overview of all PTO is an asset team course, as it introduces a
the basis for future oilfield operations studies. Course participants will become familiar with both typical oilfield treating and processing broad array of important daily Production
proven historical production practices as well as current technological advances to maximize oil and equipment. Participants should learn not only Technology practices. Terminologies,
gas production and overall resource recovery. The course structure and pace apply a logical approach the purpose of each piece of equipment but how expressions, axioms, and basic calculations
to learn safe, least cost, integrated analytical skills to successfully define and manage oil and gas each works. Emphasis is on gaining a basic regularly utilized by production techs are
operations. Applied skills guide the participant with a framework to make careful, prudent, technical oil understanding of the purpose and internal covered. Emphasis is upon proven technology
and gas business decisions. Currently emerging practices in the exploitation of unconventional workings of all types of surface facilities and required to effectively develop and operate an
resources including shale gas and oil, and heavy oil and bitumen complement broad, specific coverage treating equipment. A major goal of this course asset in a multidiscipline development
of conventional resource extraction. is to improve communication among all environment. Practical application of technology
disciplines, the field, and the office. Better is emphasized. Nodal analysis examples to
D E S IG NE D F O R communication should enhance operational assess well performance are set up. Well
Petroleum engineers, production operations staff, reservoir engineers, facilities staff, drilling and efficiencies, lower costs and improve production completion equipment and tools are viewed and
completion engineers, geologists, field supervisors and managers, field technicians, service economics. Example step-by-step exercises are discussed. Exercises include, basic artificial lift
company engineers and managers, and especially engineers starting a work assignment in worked together with the instructor to drive home designs, acidizing programs, gravel pack
production engineering and operations or other engineers seeking a well-rounded foundation in the important points. Daily sessions include designs, and fracturing programs. Shale gas and
production engineering. formal presentation interspersed with a good
oil development challenges are thoroughly
number of questions, discussion and problem
YOU W IL L L E A R N H O W TO explained. Horizontal and multilateral technology
solving.
• Recognize geological models to identify conventional and unconventional (shale oil and gas and is presented.
heavy oil) hydrocarbon accumulations DESIGNED FOR
DES IGNED FOR
• Understand key principles and parameters of well inflow and outflow All field, service, support, and supervisory
• Build accurate nodal analysis models for tubing size selection and problem well review Exploration and production technical
personnel having interaction with Facilities
• Design and select well completion tubing, packer, and other downhole equipment tools Engineers and desiring to gain an awareness professionals, asset team members, team
• Plan advanced well completion types such as multilateral, extended length, and intelligent wells level understanding of the field processing of leaders, line managers, IT department staff who
• Design both conventional and unconventional multi stage fractured horizontal wells production fluids. This course is excellent for work with data and support production
• Apply successful primary casing cementing and remedial repair techniques cross-training and delivers an understanding of applications, data technicians, executive
• Select equipment and apply practices for perforating operations all the fundamental field treating facilities. management, and all support staff who require a
• Plan well intervention jobs using wireline, snubbing, and coiled tubing methods more extensive knowledge of production
• Manage corrosion, erosion, soluble and insoluble scales, and produced water handling YOU WILL LEA RN technology and engineering.
challenges • A practical understanding of all the
• Apply well completion and workover fluid specifications for solids control and filtration fundamental field treating facilities: what they Y OU WILL LEA RN H O W TO
• Employ the five main types of artificial lift systems are, why they are needed, how they work • Apply and integrate production technology
• Identify formation damage and apply remedial procedures • The properties and behavior of crude oil and principles for oilfield project development
• Design and execute successful carbonate and sandstone reservoir acidizing programs natural gas that govern production operations • Choose basic well completion equipment
• Understand the causes of sand production and how to select sand control options • Field processes for treating and conditioning configurations
• Understand the proper use of oilfield surfactants and related production chemistry full wellstream production for sales or final • Perform system analyses (Nodal Analysis) to
• Identify and successfully manage organic paraffin and asphaltene deposits disposition optimize well tubing design and selection
• Choose cased hole production logging tools and interpret logging results • The basics of oilfield corrosion prevention, • Perform basic artificial lift designs
• Understand modern conventional fracture stimulation practices detection, and treatment • Apply the latest shale gas and oil extraction
• Understand multistage, horizontal well shale gas and shale oil massive frac job design and • Internal workings of separators, pumps, technologies
operations compressors, valves, dehydrators, acid gas • Understand the chemistry and execution of
• Review heavy oil development and extraction including mining operations and current modern treatment towers, and other treating equipment sandstone and carbonate acid jobs
thermal processes • A wide range of produced fluid measurement • Design sand control gravel pack completions
and metering devices • Evaluate well candidate selection to conduct a
COUR S E C O N T E N T • A description of treating equipment whether hydraulic fracturing campaign
Importance of the geological model • Reservoir engineering fundamentals in production operations • located on the surface, offshore platform, or • Apply new production technology advances
Understanding inflow and outflow and applied system analysis • Well testing methods applicable to sea floor for smart well completions
production operations • Well completion design and related equipment • Primary and remedial • Maximize asset team interaction and
cementing operations • Perforating design and applications • Completion and workover well fluids • COURSE CONTENT
understand the dynamics between production
Well intervention: wireline, hydraulic workover units, and coiled tubing • Production logging • Artificial Properties of fluids at surface • Flowlines,
technology and other disciplines
lift completions: rod pump, gas lift, ESP, PCP, plunger lift, and others • Problem well analysis • piping, gathering systems; solids and liquid
Formation damage • Acidizing • Corrosion control • Scale deposition, removal, and prevention • limits • Oil - water- gas - solids - contaminants COURS E CONTENT
Surfactants • Paraffin and asphaltenes • Sand control • Hydraulic fracturing • Unconventional • Separation and treatment • 2-3 phase Role and tasks of production technology •
resources: shale gas and oil, heavy oil and bitumen separators, free water knockouts, centrifugal, Completion design • Inflow and outflow
filter • Storage tanks, gun barrels, pressure/ performance • and more...
vacuum relief, flame arrestors • Stabilizers •
Foams, emulsions, paraffins, asphaltenes,
PO1 is also available as a virtual course which is hydrates, salts • Dehydrators • Water treaters:
an enhanced version of the face-to-face public session. SP packs, plate interceptors, gas floatation,
coalescers, hydrocyclones, membranes • Acid
29 MAR-16 JUL 2021 US$6985 gas treatment: coatings, closed system,
chemicals, solvents, conversion; stress cracking
13 SEP-24 DEC 2021 US$6985
• Valves: all types; regulators • Pumps/
Also available anytime, on-demand (with pre-recorded instructor-led sessions). Compressors: centrifugal, positive displacement,
rotary, reciprocating, ejectors • Metering: orifice,
PETROSKILLS.COM/PO1-BLENDED head, turbine, and others • Corrosion/Scales:
inhibition and treatment

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)

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HOUSTON, US 19-30 JUL $7995 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
8-19 NOV $7995 DUBAI, UAE 12-16 DEC $5450+VAT HOUSTON, US 20-24 SEP $4435
KUALA LUMPUR, MYS 1-12 NOV $9595 HOUSTON, US 3-7 MAY $4310 KUALA LUMPUR, MYS 6-10 DEC $5350
LONDON, UK 16-27 AUG $9260+VAT 1-5 NOV $4310 VIRTUAL 3-14 MAY $3990
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 PRODUCTION AND COMPLETIONS ENGINEERING 19

Gas Production
Engineering – GPO IN-HOUSE TRAINING
INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY
Learn the latest methods for calculating gas well
performance from reservoir to sales. Reservoir
performance covers the fundamentals of
WHEN YOU NEED IT,
WHERE YOU NEED IT.
reservoir gas flow and details the best methods
for testing wells, according to the time and
money available. Reserve calculations and
diagnostic testing from production data are
covered. The importance of flow regime and
non-Darcy flow on test design and interpretation
is emphasized for new wells and for the
possibility of improving the performance of older
wells. Also discussed are performances of tight
formations, horizontal wells, fractured wells, and
methods for estimating gas reserves. Participants
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will learn to calculate and determine the effect of
each system component on total well WE CAN HELP!
performance, which permits optimum sizing of
tubing, flowlines, separators, and compressors.
Problem-solving sessions allow participants to
evaluate field problems. Participants receive
complimentary software at the end of the course.

DES IG NE D F O R
Production, reservoir and facilities engineers,
and others involved in gas production,
transportation, and storage including field
supervisors.

YO U W IL L L E A R N H O W TO
• Apply proven techniques to field problems
which increase profitability
• Calculate gas well performance from the
reservoir to the sales line
• Optimize gas well production
• Relate reservoir and well performance to time
• Predict when a well will die due to liquid
loading

C OUR S E C O N T E N T
In-house courses deliver private, on-site training
Gas properties: real gas behavior equations of
state, impurities, mixtures, phase behavior dew
to your group, whenever, wherever, and however
point, retrograde behavior, flash calculations;
classifying gas reservoirs • Reservoir
you need it.
performance: gas well testing flow after flow,
isochronal, stabilized inflow performance;
turbulence and skin effects; perforation effects; Save time, money, and travel hassles by bringing
tight well analysis; horizontal wells; hydraulically
fractured wells • Reserve calculations: P/Z plots, our course to your site, or any location that suits you.
energy plots, water influx, abnormal pressure
effects; diagnostic testing based on production
data • Flow in pipes and restrictions: pressure
loss tubing, flowlines, chokes, safety valves; If you do not have enough participants for an in-house session,
effects of liquids-liquid loading, liquid removal
methods, multiphase flow correlations; erosional we may be able to schedule an On-Demand Public session
velocity • Compression: types of compressors;
compressor selection reciprocating and in your location.
centrifugal; effects of variables; capacity and
horsepower • Total system analysis: tubing and
flowline size effects; perforating effects; relating
deliverability to time; evaluating compressor
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troubleshooting; other metering methods •
Condensate reservoirs: reservoir types - wet gas,
retrograde; reserve estimates, laboratory
simulation; gas cycling • Field operations
problems: interpreting P/Z plots; hydrate
formation

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)

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VIRTUAL 3-14 MAY $3990
20 OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE
Amine Sweetening
Oil and Gas Processing LNG Facilities for Crude Oil Pipeline
and Gas Dehydration
Facilities for Operations Operations and Operations – OT50
for Operations and
and Maintenance – OT1 Maintenance – OT43
Maintenance – OT41
BASIC 5-DAY FOUNDATION 4-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY
The public course content is governed by the This course will provide the basic knowledge This five-day, LNG facilities course provides This course utilizes case studies and industry
common production / processing facilities in the required for understanding operating issues in an overview of field operations, and an best practices for operating and maintaining
regions where the course is being held. There natural gas amine sweetening and dehydration in-depth review of the in-plant equipment onshore crude oil and liquid pipeline systems
are gas / LNG content focus, gas / expander units. Course content is customizable to client and processes. The course includes the two that maximize life cycle reliability; employee,
plant, or oil / water / gas focused courses. All needs at no additional cost. most common types of LNG liquefaction public, and environmental safety; and operational
locations include an overview of gas processing, processes, the AP-C3MR™ and ConocoPhillips cost effectiveness. It focuses on open
industry terminology, process drawings, units of YOU W I LL L EARN Optimized Cascade® Process. Class exercises/ discussions and troubleshooting techniques that
measurement, hydrocarbons physical properties, • Basic principles of gas processing problems focus on the application of theory to may be applied to crude, HVL (High Volatility
phase behavior fundamentals, plus the localized • The physical properties of hydrocarbons operational trends, so operators can understand Liquids) and refined product pipelines and their
topics below. Course content is customizable to • Practical application of the principles of their processes and become more proficient associated infrastructure. The course aims to
client needs at no additional cost. hydrocarbon phase behavior at identifying issues and troubleshooting improve the operation profitability and
• To determine the water content of produced problems before production suffers. Course communication with management and
Marcellus / Bakken Gas Processing natural gas and the effects of acid gases content is customizable to client needs at no engineering staff. Course content is customizable
Modules • The problems and dangers of hydrate additional cost. to client needs at no additional cost.
Water / hydrocarbon behavior formation

NEW
Basic principles of fluid flow DES IGNED FOR DESIGNED FOR
• Effective methods of hydrate inhibition Pipeline operations personnel who require a
Amine gas sweetening • Two types of dehydration processes: LNG facility operators who require a working
Mole sieve dehydration working knowledge of onshore liquid pipeline
absorption and adsorption knowledge of the various processes used in and terminal systems, including the common
Mechanical Refrigeration LNG facilities, including the common
• Principles and operational elements of TEG operational difficulties that may arise and
GSP (T/E) Process Operations

Operations &
gas dehydration operational difficulties that may arise and operational tactics used to resolve them. Also
NGL stabilization and fractionation operational tactics used to resolve them. Also
• Principles and operational elements of mole suitable for maintenance personnel, metering
Process troubleshooting suitable for maintenance technicians,
sieve gas dehydration technicians, lead supervisors, area managers,
Permian / Eagle Ford / North Sea Oil and • Principles and operational elements of amine supervisors, and managers, as well as other and engineering staff that need a working

Maintenance
Gas Production and Processing Modules sweetening non-engineering personnel who would benefit knowledge of field pipeline operations.
Basic principles of fluid flow from an understanding of gas processing
Gas lift systems C OU RSE C ON T EN T techniques that can be applied in their daily YOU WILL LEARN H O W TO
Production separators Physical properties of hydrocarbons • Phase work activities. • Apply regulatory codes, standards, and
Crude oil dehydration behavior fundamentals • Water/hydrocarbon

Courses
industry guidelines (PHSMA 195, ASME
Crude oil desalting behavior • TEG equipment • TEG system Y OU WILL LEA RN B31.4, API-1173 and others) that control
Crude oil, condensate, and NGL stabilization operating procedures and problems • Care of • Overview of oil and gas processing, including and guide the operation and maintenance of
Crude oil storage and vapor recovery systems typical field operations
the TEG system • and more... pipeline facilities
• The required feed quality specifications for
Crude oil pipeline systems • Explain fluid properties and behavior of crude
See website for dates and locations. LNG facilities, including issues with common
Produced water treating contaminants oils, wax behavior, temperature relationships
Process troubleshooting • Separation equipment with a focus on critical and use of DRA in crude oil pipelines
Australia Gas Processing Modules separation equipment in LNG facilities • Explain pipeline hydraulics, pipeline pressure
Water / hydrocarbon behavior
NGL Extraction, • Operational aspects of acid gas removal units gradients and predict capacity on the system
(AGRU) for LNG facilities • Identify pipeline MOP, surge and causes of
Basic principles of fluid flow Stabilization and
Amine gas sweetening (not in Brisbane) • Gas dehydration processes for LNG (including overpressure and mitigation measures
Mole sieve dehydration Fractionation for Operations pre-cooling and molecular sieve) • Explain pipeline facilities; pump stations,
• Mercury removal processes for LNG, and filtration, metering and LACT units, sampling
Mechanical refrigeration and Maintenance – OT42 location/performance in the facility and testing, pigging equipment, tank terminals
Cascade refrigeration
Mixed refrigerants FOUNDATION 4-DAY • Centrifugal compressor operations and issues
• Refrigeration system operational principles
and truck/rail loading facilities
NGL stabilization and fractionation • Explain liquid pipeline operations;
This course is designed to deliver the basic (propane, cascade and mixed refrigerant) commissioning and purging/filling, startup,
LNG facilities knowledge required for understanding operating • NGL stabilization and fractionation processes
Process troubleshooting stopping, pigging and pig receiver operations,
issues in NGL (Natural Gas Liquids) extraction (regional) measurement and sampling activities
and stabilization/fractionation. Course content is • LNG COP Cascade® Process Overview
D E S IG NE D F O R • Identify principle causes of loss of
customizable to client needs at no additional • LNG AP-C3MR™ Process Overview
Facility operators who require a working • LNG storage operations and considerations containment and mitigating measures;
knowledge of the various processes used in cost. corrosion, environmental cracking,
• LNG ship loading and boil-off gas
production fluid conditioning and processing, management issues and considerations overpressure, 3rd party damage and error
YOU W I LL L EARN
including the common operational difficulties • Application of hydrocarbon physical • Review regulatory compliance requirements
• About the various unit operations required
that may arise and operational tactics used to properties and phase behavior to understand for CFR 49, Part 195, to be better prepared in
in gas processing and how they impact one
resolve them. Also suitable for maintenance the process operational issues within the the case of compliance audits
another
technicians, supervisors, and managers, as well overall facility • Explore emergency response measures to
• Conditions that favor hydrate formation,
as other non-engineering personnel who would • Gas turbine operations and issues spills and loss of containment
and methods to mitigate hydrates (hydrate
benefit in an understanding of gas processing • Hydrocarbon physical properties and phase
inhibition) COURSE CONTE N T
techniques that can be applied in their daily work behavior as the natural gas flows through
• Principles and operations of gas compressors Crude oil transportation systems • Industry
activities. the plant
(centrifugal/screws/reciprocating codes and regulations, scope and applicability •
YOU W IL L L E A R N
• Principles, operations, and troubleshooting COURS E CONTENT Crude oils, waxes and DRA, fluid properties and
• The effects of produced fluid compositions mechanical refrigeration systems (propane Overview of oil and gas processing • Separation behavior • Hydraulic analysis of pipelines and
(oil/gas/water) on facility operation economized systems) equipment • LNG feed quality requirements • gradients • Pipeline pumps – components,
• About separation, conditioning, and • Molecular sieve dehydration operations and LNG pre-treatment systems (AGRU)/molecular operation, seal systems and seal leak detection
processing operations to meet product issues sieve/Hg removal) • Fundamentals of centrifugal • Pipeline surge and overpressure protection
specifications on oil, gas, and produced water • Operating principles, typical performance, compression • Refrigeration principles systems • Pipeline facilities – filtration, pressure
streams for disposal/re-use and issues in NGL extraction processes (propane, cascade and mixed refrigerant) • NGL controls, pigging equipment • Terminal facilities
• How to operate facilities to minimize operating (refrigeration/JT valve/turboexpanders) stabilization and fractionation (regional) • LNG – tanks, truck/rail loading, metering, sampling
costs • NGL stabilization and fractionation principles, COP Cascade® Process Overview • LNG APCI and proving • Pigging goals, processes and
• How to apply course material to operations, controls, and common operating C3MR™ Process Overview • LNG storage activities • Pipeline repairs and maintenance •
troubleshooting equipment and unit problems operations and considerations • LNG Corrosion overview and prevention • Leak
operations shiploading operations and considerations • detection methods • CFR 49, Part 195 review of
C OU RSE C ON T EN T
Boil-off gas management methods • and more... documentation requirements and terminology
Overview of gas processing •and more...

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 OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE 21
21

Turnaround, Maintenance Planning Process Plant

Applied Maintenance
Shutdown and Outage and Work Control Reliability and
Management – OM21
Management – TSOM – OM41 Maintenance Strategies
– REL5
INTERMEDIATE 3-DAY BASIC 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY
Scheduled turnarounds are difficult to manage. No matter the price of oil, safe, efficient No matter what the price of oil is, safe facilities This course is designed to teach reliability
Managing a surprise shutdown or outage operations require well managed, integrated operations require effective maintenance work engineering skills as they apply to improving
is like firefighting. Firefighters succeed because asset management. Effective, well organized control. ISO 55000 (PAS 55) is the asset process system reliability and developing
they know what strategies work and are maintenance management is the key. In this management standard everyone is moving maintenance strategies. You will use modern
highly trained to handle complex, risky course, participants will receive a sound, towards. This course is designed to build software and analysis methods to perform
situations. Uncertainty and complexity abound integrated, basic knowledge of the maintenance competency in Work Control as a primary skill statistical analysis of failures and model system
when a plant is down. Extra work can appear function and how to progress towards world- set required to achieve these new standards. It performance, plus develop maintenance and
when equipment is opened and inspected. class performance. Individual action plans will will focus on the six phases of work reengineering strategies to improve overall
Integrating project work increases the challenge. carry course learning into the work environment. management: work identification, planning, performance.
Experienced instructors show you how to A pre and post seminar self-assessment will be prioritization, scheduling, execution, and history
control scope uncertainty, tackle the complexity given to indicate delegates’ competency capture. These essential skills are the key DES IGNED FO R
of integrating project work, and get the improvements. The assessment is taken from the components of integrity management, safety, Maintenance, engineering, and operations
facility restarted. Upon completion you will know PetroSkills industry standard competency map efficient resource utilization, and reliable personnel involved in improving reliability,
how to deploy scarce resources (time, people for Maintenance Management. Course content is operation. A pre and post self-assessment will availability, condition monitoring, and
and materials) to complete work on time and customizable to client needs at no additional be used to measure competency improvement. In maintainability of process equipment and
within budget; utilize best practices in TSO cost. order to improve facility asset management, each systems. Participants should have foundation
planning, execution and closeout; and manage participant will develop an action plan to help skills in statistical analysis and reliability
engineering, maintenance, operations and DESI GN ED FOR their organizations in the long-term effort to techniques for equipment.
project interfaces. A blend of instruction, guided Maintenance supervisors, team leaders, or become more efficient and safe. Course content
discussion, and hands-on exercises using real managers needing to improve their maintenance is customizable to client needs at no additional Y OU WILL LEARN
world examples makes the sessions thought programs. This course is a broad survey of cost. • Improving reliability in new facilities/systems
provoking. The exercises will include both single essential aspects of maintaining a safe, efficient, • Reliability design for maintainability
and group activities. Course content is and reliable facility asset. DES IGNED FOR • Developing initial maintenance strategies
customizable to client needs at no additional Maintenance managers, superintendents, • Virtual equipment walk-down; criticality using
YOU W I LL L EARN supervisors, team leaders, and planners engaged simulation and modeling; developing baseline
cost.
• World class maintenance standards and how in work management, planning, and scheduling. condition monitoring programs; developing
DES IG NE D F O R to apply them lubrication programs; and developing
Managers, supervisors, engineers, schedulers in • Key performance indicators for your Y OU WILL LEA RN process-specific maintenance strategies with
maintenance, operations, reliability, HSE, dashboard • To develop world class planning and work reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)
procurement and projects should attend. This • Essential elements of work planning and control • Improving reliability in existing facilities/
course also helps business, commercial, finance scheduling • To employ business process analysis systems
and other non-technical personnel who want to • Optimization of preventive and predictive techniques in work control • Analyzing process reliability plots to
know more about turnaround, shutdown and maintenance • How to use a gap analysis on your work determine the amount of opportunity
outage best practices. • To focus your resources on critical equipment management system • Continuous improvement through failure
• How to work with contractors more effectively • Step-by-step work control from identification reporting, analysis, and corrective action
YO U W IL L L E A R N H O W TO • Development of organizational competence through using work history systems (FRACAS)
• Establish targets to ensure support from all • Optimization of preventive and condition- • Developing policies and procedures;
facility stakeholders C OU RSE C ON T EN T monitoring activities developing failure reporting codes; statistical
• Develop a robust resource plan and get the World class standards • Maintenance strategies • Techniques: critical equipment analysis, analysis of failures using Weibull; and
resources you need • Planning and scheduling • Optimizing critical spares control, and emergency developing root cause analysis (RCA)
• Integrate scopes for both maintenance and preventative and predictive maintenance • response work programs (triggers for RCA and analyzing
projects Identifying critical equipment • Developing recommendations)
• Establish turnaround scope selection criteria organizational competence • Presenting your COURS E CONTENT • Developing maintenance strategies with
early action plan Work identification • Planning prioritization • condition monitoring
• Select a computerized work system Scheduling execution • History records • • Identifying applicable condition monitoring
• Address key outage constraints and operations Optimizing preventive maintenance • Predictive methods; using criticality to determine level
interfaces maintenance planning • Critical equipment of condition monitoring application; and
• Develop a robust contracting plan focus • Emergency response reporting asset health
• Prepare an execution plan • Developing maintenance strategies with RCM
• Measure and control shutdown progress • Developing policies and procedures;
identifying systems for analysis; analyzing
C OUR S E C O N T E N T recommendations with simulation
Six-phases of turnaround, outage and shutdown and modeling; and implementing
management • Issues and challenges • Quality recommendations
control • Health, safety and environmental • Monitoring results
planning • Computerized systems benefits and • Understanding the true purpose of key
choices • Integrating the plan • Managing performance indicators (KPIs)
stakeholders and resources • Procurement and • Developing appropriate reliability and
contracting • Tracking progress and controlling maintainability KPIs
change
COURS E CONTE N T
Criticality analysis • Availability simulation and
modeling • Statistical analysis of failures using
Weibull • Maintenance strategy development;
condition monitoring; reliability-centered
maintenance; and essential care • Process
reliability analysis • Root cause analysis •
Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action
systems • Key performance indicators •
Reliability definitions

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HOUSTON, US 23-25 AUG $3370 HOUSTON, US 26-30 APR $4510
HOUSTON, US 29 MAR-2 APR $4195

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 22 O&M SIMULATION HSE
Fractionation
Simulator Training
Operations for Early
Courses
Career Engineers –
SIMFOE
FOUNDATION 3-Day
NEW NEW
This interactive 2-day course combines 2-Day courses allow Operators to improve their
elements of high fidelity, generic process skills using generic training Simulators.
simulators as well as a student-driven learning Simulation Solutions uses a unique blend of
model centered around the INSTO Methodology. DCS Simulation, a Virtual Reality “Outside
The course allows early-career engineers an Operator,” and comprehensive Laboratory
opportunity to explore the same system Exercise Booklets in order to help Operators
dynamics and process upsets that plant develop new Operating Mechanics as well as a
operators face. In this course each trainee will new Operations Mindset.
have access to their own generic simulators

How can you minimize health,

including a Heat Exchanger, Flash Drum, and
Fractionation simulator. Trainees will have an N EW C OU RSES
opportunity to startup each piece of equipment
safety, security and environment
• Basic Refinery & Petrochemical Operations
as well as spend time troubleshooting common
malfunctions relating to exchanger and • Batch Operations
separating units. Tower operations that promote
both safety as well as optimization are stressed
• Furnace Operations risks—anytime, anywhere?
throughout the course. The material of the • Plant Utilities
course is applicable to refineries, petrochemical • Power Plant Operations
sites, chemical plants, and any other facilities
• Pumps and Compressors
Pilot e-learning
that operate distillation columns.

DES IG NE D F O R
Early-career process or controls engineers that
would benefit from an operations bootcamp
YO U W IL L L E A R N
ONLINE HSSE LIBRARY
• Manually operate and optimize a cascade Many employers are struggling with limitations on their training
loop in a counter current shell and tube heat resources. Yet the need to stay up-to-date with safety and
exchanger regulatory mandates is critical. A single gap in knowledge can
• Determine the effects of product yields and
product purities in flash drums as well as seriously jeopardize every safety and quality improvement effort
distillation columns and a company’s good standing with regulatory compliance
• Identify key operating points in a distillation
column including the effects of changing
agencies.
throughput, operating temperature, operating
pressure and reflux ratio have on product PetroSkills ePilot™ HSSE Library can help you:
specifications
• Analyze trends and relate this information • Identify knowledge gaps quickly and
to various normal and abnormal situations
for exchangers, flash drums and distillation generate pathways to proficiency
columns
• Utilize the Think EQ.U.I.P.P.E.D.? method • Achieve compliance goals with compliance-
to expand troubleshooting options while focused management and reporting
operating a distillation column
• Discuss and simulate HAZOP analyses on • Reduce time-to-proficiency, enable
common troubleshooting scenarios with
exchangers and distillation columns focusing
refresher training, and improve on-boarding
on specific mitigation techniques
• Assess critical safety concerns during
• Reduce expenses of classroom scheduling,
the startup or restart of exchangers and travel, and instructor fees
distillation columns as well as simulate these
startup procedures
Hearing Protection
• Practice techniques for distillation column
optimization including dynamically adjusting Types of Respirators
column operating conditions to meet new
specifications determined by simulated
changes in feedstock or market conditions

C OUR S E C O N T E N T
A complete startup procedure for a heat
exchanger and distillation column • Operating
an outlet temperature to hot side flow cascade
loop including manually engaging these controls
• Simulating the effects of varying flow
characteristics (flow rate, temperature, density)
within a shell and tube heat exchanger •
Simulating changes to flow rates, operating
temperature, and operating pressure of a flash
drum and the resultant effects to product yields
and purities • and more...
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www.petroskills.com/elearning
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 HEALTH, SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT 23
Spill Control and
Remediation HEALTH, SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT SKILL MODULES
Engineering – SCRE
ENROLL

FOUNDATION 3-Day
• Process Safety Risk Analysis and Inherently Safer Design
NEW
The first part of this course reviews the basics • Risk Analysis and Inherently Safer Design Fundamentals
of spill control response principles, organization,
procedures, and equipment used. Attendees will • Process Hazard Analysis and Layers of Protection Analysis Techniques
be introduced to evaluation of spills,
organization of response and communications, • Process Hazard Analysis and Layers of Protection Analysis Fundamentals
surveillance and tracking, data records and
information. The second part of this course will • Leakage and Dispersion of Hydrocarbons
review the basics of remediation engineering
applicable to property contaminated by crude • Combustion Behavior of Hydrocarbons
and hydrocarbons. It will review the various
technologies to treat spill-contaminated waters • Sources of Ignition and Hazardous Area Classification
and soils. The course will finish with a review of
solids handling for permanent disposal. • Leakage and Dispersion, Combustion Behavior, Sources of Ignition Fundamentals
D E S IG NED F O R • Specific Plant Systems and Equipment
Operators and field managers, pipeline
operators, loading and unloading personnel, and • Relief and Flare Systems
those involved with crude and hydrocarbon
transportation. It will also benefit personnel • Relief, Flare, and Depressurization Fundementals
involved in treatment of contaminated property
or hard-to-dispose contaminated wastes. This • Historical Incident Databases, Plant Layout and Equipment Spacing
course will be useful to managers in completion
and optimization of operations. The course is an • Fire Protection Systems
important reference parameter for safety
situations where there might be involvement of • SIS, Monitoring and Control
governmental or civil protection.
Y OU W ILL L E A R N
• Historical Incident Databases and Metrics, Bad Actors (Specific Systems)
On Spill Control:
Fundamentals
• To understand and analyze spill causes and
most common situations
• Factors to consider when faced with a spill
situation
• Priorities in the three-tiered response
consideration, personnel requirements
• Equipment to control spills, basic principles
and design, applicability of technologies
• Personnel risks and protective equipment
• Environmental effects and information to all
at stake (Government, Municipal-Regional or
other authority, Health and Safety)
• Investigation of root causes, decontamination
of equipment and waste management

On Remediation Engineering:
• To detect contaminated land, migration
phenomena, phase distribution
• To assess hydrocarbon’s biodegradability, use
gas chromatography and UV light properties
• Technology of air sparging biodegradation, in-
situ soil vapor extraction remediation
• Ex-situ soil washing, bioremediation and
phytoremediation advantages
• Bioremediation of metal contaminated soils
• Composting and vermiculture
• Electro kinetics, stabilization and solidification
for final disposal

COUR S E C O N T E N T
Spill causes, detection, response and
communication derived from the incident •
Equipment used to control spills, HSE
Emergency Spill Response • Contaminated land
remediation technologies • Bioremediation,
phytoremediation, composting, and permanent
solidification and disposal

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)

HOUSTON, US 15-17 NOV $3310

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 24 PETROLEUM BUSINESS
Essential Leadership Expanded Basic

Si rece e co
Skills for Technical Petroleum Economics

to uabl
gn iv nt
va

up e ent
l
Professionals – OM23 – BEC

Technical BASIC 5-Day BASIC 5-DAY

In the oil and gas industry, skillful and competent
Resources
Could you answer the following three questions
leadership is extremely important for safety, for your next project? What will it cost? What is it
productivity, and asset management. The 21st worth? Will it earn sufficient profit? Before

Available to You century brings new emphasis on leaders, new

communication technologies, increased focus on
safety, information overload, workforce
undertaking any project, these questions should
be answered. This course will provide the
fundamentals necessary to enable you to do so.
dynamics, asset integrity, and many other Budgeting and financing, accounting, and
concerns which challenge even the most contractual arrangements, which also
proficient leader/manager. How do we blend significantly impact the economic viability of a
these new challenges with tried and true wisdom project, are covered. Participants practice cash
of success? There are skills to learn that will help flow techniques for economic evaluations and
you be more effective, with less stress. In this investigate frequently encountered situations.
seminar/workshop you will explore your internal Participants are invited to submit their own
drivers and learn how to combine them with new economic problems (in advance), if appropriate.
skills for greater effectiveness. This seminar/ Each participant will receive Economics of
workshop will include self-assessment, Worldwide Petroleum Production, written
discussion, lecture, readings, role-playing, specifically for PetroSkills courses.
games, video examples, and creation of
participant action plans. This course will help DESIGNED FO R
you unleash natural motivation in your team. Managers, engineers, explorationists, field
Your stress level can be lowered by working accounting supervisors and other personnel who
more efficiently and effectively by tapping the need to develop or improve their skill and
emotional intelligence of your team and understanding of basic economic analysis and
co-workers. profitability of petroleum exploration and
production.
DES IGNED FOR
Anyone who has new responsibilities to lead a YOU WILL LEARN
team. Supervisors, team leads, managers, and • How to evaluate the economic viability of a
others interested in becoming a better leader and project
a contributing team member will greatly benefit • Cash flow techniques applicable in economic
from this one-week experience. Many may want evaluations
to take this seminar/workshop more than once • Models to weigh risk and uncertainty
Keep current and for continuous improvement. • Techniques to determine expected value
• The effect finance, budgeting, and contractual
ensure you always Y OU WILL LEA RN HOW TO agreements have on a project
have the latest • Become a more effective leader by overcoming
the “tyranny of the urgent” with better time
• The basic principles of accounting

information by management
• Make better decisions by assessing when to
COURSE CONTE N T
Forecasting oil production • Defining: reserves,
joining our email make what kind of decisions operating expenses, capital expenditures,
inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices •
list. • Help others develop themselves by unleashing
their career motivation Cash flow techniques • Economic criteria:
• Have more effective communications with interest, hurdle rate, time value of money,
technical and non-technical teams by selection, ranking criteria • Risk, uncertainty:
developing the patience to let the team do types of risk, mathematical techniques,
its work probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic
You Will Receive: • Recognize and resolve conflicts before analysis • Financing, ownership in the oil and
they get out of control by early detection of gas industry: business arrangements between
• Complimentary learning and conflicts, when they’re simpler and have less operators, between mineral owners •
development resources impact Accounting versus cash flow: accounting
• Develop the ability to lead an empowered team principles and definitions, differences between
• Information on new courses and of technical professionals by more effective accounting cash numbers, depreciation,
delegation depletion, amortization • Budgeting: types,
instructors processes, selecting of projects for the budget •
• Reduce your own stress level by teaching
yourself how to lower your stress with clearer Economic analysis of operations • Computer
• Additional public course locations thinking economics software • Tips on economic factors
and dates • Learn assessment techniques for yours and in computer spreadsheet analysis • Ethics in
other’s people skills by raising the competency economic analyses
• Invitations for PetroSkills events levels of yourself and your team
and conferences • Walk your talk by getting buy-in for your ideas
and vision
• Leading by example

COURS E CONTENT
Simply go to The nature of teams • Leadership vs.
management • Self-centering and tangential
petroskills.com/emailsignup leadership • Listening • Motivation • Group
dynamics • Conflict management • Team-
building • Critical thinking and taking action

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2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) HOUSTON, US 18-22 OCT $4310
HOUSTON, US 20-24 APR $4310 LONDON, UK 13-17 SEP $5035+VAT
VIRTUAL 16-27 AUG $3890

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 PETROLEUM BUSINESS 25

Managing Non- Cost Management – CM Economics of Petroleum Finance and

Technical Risks Worldwide Petroleum Accounting Principles
– MNTR Production – EWP – PFA

BASIC 4-Day FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY FOUNDATION 5-DAY

Non-technical or societal risks have become the Few problems threaten the petroleum businesses In the area of corporate and international Making the most efficient use of your resources
main source of business delays and budget more than uncontrolled costs. Economic realities petroleum production, do you know how to is critical to the success of any company.
overruns in the oil and gas industry. Non-technical have made it necessary for most companies to choose the best investments? Can you properly Finance and accounting comprise the universal
risks typically are related to political, regulatory, operate with a “lean and mean” philosophy. As evaluate investment opportunities? Do you know business language and help you manage those
health, safety, security, environmental, and social the price of our products fluctuates widely, the what investment criteria really mean and which resources effectively. Planning and decision
issues. Mitigation requires good external most vulnerable companies are those that are criteria to use for best results? Answers to these making that occur in an informal financial
awareness and stakeholder engagement skills, but ineffective in understanding and managing their questions will greatly improve your ability to context permit better application of resources
also the willingness of technical and commercial costs. The ability to properly manage costs is make profitable decisions. Techniques for and promote competitive advantage. The aim of
teams to work closely together with the non- now paramount in a company’s success and predicting profit, production, operating costs, this course is to improve delegates’ job
technical disciplines to accommodate even their ultimate survival. As the energy and cash flow enable the analyst to evaluate performance by enhancing their understanding
non-technical perspectives in project designs and industry goes through its most monumental decision alternatives for optimum results. of current international practices in finance and
plans. This course looks at both the internal and changes since the 1970s, the companies that can Understanding cost of capital, financial structure, accounting within the E&P industry. The latest
the external challenges that a company may face identify efficiencies and inefficiencies will be able risk and uncertainty, present worth, rate of return, issues are discussed.
related to stakeholder engagement. On the external to react to the challenges of the global market and other economic yardsticks enhances the
side, we look at current trends in western and non- place, thus generating higher profits. This quality and the value of economic analysis. DES IGNED FO R
western societies, we study key stakeholder groups, seminar is an introduction to Practical Cost Discussion of real-life examples with participants Personnel new to the oil and gas accounting
in particular those seen as 'difficult to deal with,' Management techniques designed to help the from many different countries enhances the value industry - accounting, finance, or economists,
and then cover the practicalities of creating and participant better understand the underlying of the course. others desiring to understand or refresh their
maintaining effective relationships. However, a dynamics of cost using recent events and trends, knowledge of basic petroleum accounting
company will not be effective in its response to the DESIGNED FOR concepts, financial personnel needing to
using relevant exercises, timely case studies and
external world if it is not well organized internally. Managers, supervisors, and operating personnel understand unique issues as they relate to the
role-playing techniques.
Therefore, this course will also look at processes concerned with costs, profitability, budgets, the petroleum industry, and technical or asset team
and tools to ensure internal alignment and DESI GN ED FOR company bottom line and other aspects of members looking for the basic concepts of
cooperation with the aim to link external Operating managers, field personnel, project economic analysis of petroleum production on a accounting and finance. Participants are
perspectives to business decision making. A key managers, technology managers, budget project, corporate, and worldwide basis, who encouraged to bring their company’s financial
methodology is the quantification of non-technical managers, or anyone wanting to manage costs have had some previous experience in this area. reports. This course may qualify for up to 34
risks because it helps prioritization and focusing of more efficiently and effectively. A familiarity with Due to similarity in content, PetroSkills hours of CPE for US CPAs.
resources and mitigating activities. finance is helpful but not required. recommends that participants take this course if
they have some previous experience in this field Y OU WILL LE A RN H O W TO
DES IG NE D F O R
YOU W I LL L EARN H O W TO as the course content is more advanced than • Understand financial reporting requirements
All oil and gas business professionals who are
• Understand the different cost classifications Expanded Basic Petroleum Economics. Take one for oil and gas companies under IFRS and
directly or indirectly involved in the management of
and cost drivers or the other, but not both courses. U.S. GAAP
non-technical risks. Specifically, managers with
• Determine and monitor the behavior of costs • Apply basic concepts and terminology for
accountability for business delivery, that is,
projects or operations; managers of technical and • Build your own activity dictionary YOU WILL LEA RN HOW TO accounting and finance in oil and gas
commercial teams that support projects or • Design management control system that • Use cash flow techniques in economic • Create accounting statements, including a
operations; and professionals in Health, Safety, works evaluations cash flow statement from data accumulation to
Security & Social Responsibility; Government • Understand the principles of Activity • Evaluate and choose investment opportunities audited financial statements
Relations; and Communications. Based Cost Management (ABCM) and its • Use models to weigh risk and uncertainty • Distinguish between the different financial
development and implementation • Evaluate decision alternatives using predictive statements and their roles
YO U W IL L L E A R N • Analyze capital projects using the proper tools techniques • Distinguish between financial, managerial, and
• About important trends in the relationship and techniques • Evaluate how projects effect the corporation contract (joint operations) accounting
between business and society • Manage and not mismanage costs • Recognize the different oil and gas accounting
• To make the business case for active • Develop tools to use for managing costs COURSE CONTENT methods
management of non-technical risks Evaluate costs for effectiveness Pricing: natural gas, marker crudes, OPEC, spot • Determine the difference between profits and
• Essential concepts of stakeholder engagement, and futures markets, transportation • Production cash flow
including dealing with activist stakeholders C OU RSE C ON T EN T rate: mathematical models • Cash flow: revenue, • Apply capitalization rules and depreciation
• How to set up the internal structure and Defining costs, classifications and terminology capital and operating costs, spreadsheet methods
collaboration model to respond effectively to the for an E&P company • Determining cost exercises • Economic evaluation: present value • Recognize accounting treatments of joint
external world objects, cost drivers and their behaviors • concepts, sensitivity and risk analysis, decision ventures such as Production Sharing
• How to apply the tools to identify, assess, Analyzing different types of cost management trees, royalty, sources of capital, incremental Agreements
quantify, and mitigate non-technical risks systems • Using Activities Based Management economics, sunk costs, inflation • Budgeting: • Evaluate capitalized assets using a ceiling-test
• How to integrate non-technical risks into (ABM) to monitor costs and processes Building examples and exercises, long-range planning • • Read and understand those confusing footnotes
business decision-making processes and using an activity dictionary • Using value Cash versus write-off decision: depreciation, • Prepare, read, and use the disclosures for oil
added costs versus non value-added costs for depletion, and amortization • How to read an and gas companies
C OUR S E C O N T E N T improvement Distinguishing between cost annual report: statements, financial ratios, what
Trends in western and non-western societies • Recognize how accounting decisions can affect
effectiveness and cost efficiencies • Developing is and is not included, reading between the lines earnings, cash flows, and operational decisions
affecting oil and gas companies • The business productivity measurements that work • • Worldwide business operations: concessions,
impact of non-technical risks: the case for action • • Calculate, understand, and analyze financial
Operating Cost Management using the budgets licenses, production sharing contracts, joint reports and basic oil and gas ratios
An overview of modern stakeholder engagement
efficiently and effectively Using GAP analysis in ventures, cost of capital, sources of funding, debt
models • Methods to deal with NGO’s, activist
measuring productivity of costs • Support and equity • Performance appraisal: buy/sell COURS E CONTE N T
investors, and communities • Insight in the power
and limitations of multi-stakeholder initiatives • departments cost allocations Transfer pricing • assessments • Computer economics software • Getting started: financial terms and definitions,
Internal oganizational and cultural complexities and Determining the break-even cost and volumes • Tips on format and inclusion of economic factors the language of business; accounting rules,
challenges and practical solutions • Leave with a Using variance analysis budget for monitoring in computer spreadsheet analysis • Ethics in standards, and policies • Constructing the basic
blueprint for implementation in your own company performance • Optimizing the supply chain • economic analyses financial statements • Classifying revenues,
• Essential international standards as required by Developing and analyzing capital investment assets, liabilities, and equity • Comparing
international lenders and institutions • and more... projects Replace versus maintain • Life Cycle different accounting elements • Accounting for
Costing • Using different scenarios to more joint operations • Accounting and reporting
effectively manage costs Performance •
Measurement using capacity management
techniques

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)

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VIRTUAL 19-29 JUL $3510 HOUSTON, US 29 NOV-3 DEC $4410 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) HOUSTON, US 24-28 MAY $4460
LONDON, UK 6-10 SEP $5135+VAT

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 26 PETROLEUM BUSINESS
Advanced Decision
Petroleum Risk and
Analysis with Portfolio
Decision Analysis – PRD
and Project Modeling
– ADA
FOUNDATION 5-DAY SPECIALIZED 5-DAY
Good technical and business decisions are Quality forecasts and evaluations depend upon
based on competent analysis of project costs, well-designed project and portfolio models that
benefits and risks. Participants learn the decision are based upon clear decision policy, sound
analysis process and foundation concepts so professional judgments, and a good decision
they can actively participate in multi-discipline process. In this course participants learn to build
evaluation teams. The focus is on designing and good models. We use the familiar Microsoft
solving decision models. About half the Excel spreadsheet as the platform for project and
problems relate to exploration. The methods risk assessment models. Add-in software
apply to R&D, risk management, and all capital provides Monte Carlo and decision tree
investment decisions. Probability distributions capabilities. The course emphasis is on the
express professional judgments about risks and evaluation concepts and techniques, rather than
uncertainties and are carried through the particular software programs.
calculations. Decision tree and influence
DESI GN ED FOR
diagrams provide clear communications and the Evaluation engineers, analysts, managers,
basis for valuing each alternative. The planners, and economists. This course is intended
complementary Monte Carlo simulation for professionals involved with developing project
technique is experienced in detail in a hand- evaluation, portfolio, and other forecasting and
calculation exercise. Project modeling assessment models. Prior background in decision
fundamentals and basic probability concepts analysis is expected. Before registering, please
provide the foundation for the calculations. The visit http://www.decisionapplications.com/ada-
mathematics is straightforward and mostly pre-read/ to review a course prerequisites list and
involves only common algebra. This is a fast- to take a short self-assessment quiz. You may
paced course and recommended for those with login using ‘ada’ (no quotes) as the password.
strong English listening skills. This course is
intended as the prerequisite for the Advanced YOU W I LL L EARN H O W TO
Decision Analysis with Portfolio and Project • Frame, build, and evaluate decision models
Modeling course. and extract key insights
• Apply the exponential utility function for
DES IG NE D F O R risk policy
Geologists, engineers, geophysicists, managers, • Design investment portfolio optimization
team leaders, economists, and planners. models that include constraints,
requirements, and typical interrelationships
YO U W IL L L E A R N H O W TO between projects
• Describe the elements of the decision • Use decision tree software for value of
analysis process and the respective roles of imperfect information analysis
management and the analysis team • Use Monte Carlo simulation software with
• Express and interpret judgments about risks optimization
and uncertainties as probability distributions • Develop quality Excel models for projects
and popular statistics and portfolios
• Represent discrete risk events in Venn
diagrams, probability trees, and joint C OU RSE C ON T EN T
probability tables Decision Modeling: application of DA process
• Solve for expected values with decision trees, for modeling; influence diagrams; judgements
payoff tables, and Monte Carlo simulation and biases; sampling error bias; sensitivity
(hand calculations) analysis; documentation and good modeling
• Craft and solve decision models practices; real options overview • Monte Carlo
• Evaluate investment and design alternatives Simulation: multi-pay prospect risking (similar
with decision tree analysis to play analysis); calculating probabilities and
distributions with simulation; modeling and
• Develop and solve decision trees for value of
optimizing investment portfolios; valuing added
information (VOI) problems
control and flexibility; stopping rules; ways to
C OUR S E C O N T E N T model correlation • Decision Tree Analysis:
Decision Tree Analysis: decision models, value value of information review; sensitivity analysis;
of information (a key problem type emphasized solving with utility for risk aversion • Decision
in the course), flexibility and control, project Policy: portfolio optimization to maximize
threats and opportunities • Monte Carlo economic value; efficient frontiers; multi-criteria
decisions; risk policy as a utility function;
Simulation: Latin hypercube sampling, portfolio
calculating expected utility and certain
problems, optimization, advantages and
equivalent; insurance and hedging; optimizing
limitations • Decision Criteria and Policy: value
working interests • Implementation: eliciting a
measures, multiple objectives, HSE, capital decision maker’s or organization’s preferences for
constraint, risk aversion • Modeling the trade-offs among objectives, time value, and risk
Decision: influence diagrams, sensitivity attitude; decision analysis presentation agendas
analysis, modeling correlations • Basic and formats; special topics from the instructor’s
Probability and Statistics: four fundamental rules own research and experience
including Bayes’ rule (the easy way), calibration
and eliciting judgments, choosing distribution
types, common misconceptions about
probability • and more . . .

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)

HOUSTON, US 13-17 DEC $4610
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) LONDON, UK 11-15 OCT $5335+VAT
HOUSTON, US 6-10 DEC $4410 * plus computer charge
VIRTUAL 7-18 JUN $3990
20 SEP-1 OCT $3990
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 PROCUREMENT/SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 27
Strategic Procurement Cost/Price Analysis and
Contracts and Tenders Inside Procurement in
and Supply Total Cost Concepts in
Fundamentals – SC41 Oil and Gas – SC61
Management in the Oil Supply Management
and Gas Industry – SC62 – SC64
FOUNDATION 3-Day INTERMEDIATE 3-Day INTERMEDIATE 3-Day INTERMEDIATE 3-Day
This three-day course is designed to help This course will expand the industry The development and implementation of Managing and reducing cost continues to be
companies award the right contracts to the best understanding of supply chain professionals and carefully crafted strategies for the procurement one of the primary focal points of PSCM in oil
providers. Contracting involves many roles that increase their value-added in a global, fast of all goods, equipment, materials, and services and gas today. In many organizations, more
must work together to negotiate, document, and changing environment. Participants will learn has become a critical issue for all those in the than half of the total revenue is spent on goods
ensure a reliable supply of goods and services what each industry segment requires from oil and gas industry wishing to reduce operating and services, everything from raw material to
for capital projects and ongoing operations. procurement and be given insights to maximize cost while improving quality and productivity. overnight mail. Maintaining a competitive
Everyone involved in contracting with suppliers value delivery and increase their contribution. This program explores key concepts forming the position and even survival will depend on the
and service providers must understand the The course includes an online, interactive forum basis of strategic supply management, and organization’s ability to use all of the continuous
entire process, the keys to success, and what is with the instructor, and pre-read materials moves today’s supply management organization improvement strategies that have been
required of their role if contracts are to be designed to familiarize course attendees with from its typical tactical focus to the strategic developed to reduce cost across the entire
effective in managing supply risks. Materials relevant issues. Attendees will leave better focus needed to successfully implement the supply chain for the life of the product or
and exercises in this course are specifically built prepared to create and support procurement processes and methods needed to reach world- service. Fundamental to developing and
around oil and gas industry issues. strategies that meet stakeholder needs, whether class performance. implementing these strategies is knowledge of
for projects or operations support. cost/price analysis, value analysis, and total cost
DE S IG NE D F O R DES IGNED FOR of ownership concepts. This course provides the
Individuals involved in any aspect of sourcing, DESI GN ED F OR Managers and professionals in supply concepts that are essential skill sets in
tendering, selecting, forming, and executing Supply chain professionals with 2-7 years’ management, procurement, purchasing, developing and implementing the strategies
contracts with suppliers of goods and services experience either inside or outside the oil and contracts, materials, inventory control, projects, required to achieve the high levels of cost
to the oil and gas industry. Included are project gas industry. maintenance, operations, finance, as well as all reductions possible from the supply chain.
technical roles such as facilities engineers, other professionals interested in lowering total SC64 is also available as a 5-day in-house
drilling engineers, project engineers, YOU WI L L L EARN cost and increasing productivity and profit
• How industry is structured, including host course with expanded content.
commissioning engineers, contracts engineers, contributions from better supply management
and planning engineers. country and strategic relationships operations. DESIGNED FO R
• Business drivers and interface issues to be Managers and professionals in purchasing,
YOU W IL L L E A R N supported by procurement Y OU WILL LEA RN procurement, and contracts as well as those
• How to better manage project and legal risks • The role of industry economics in dictating • Stages to world class supply management involved in operations, engineering,
with the contracting process procurement good practices in cost • Skill sets in supply management maintenance, quality, projects, and other
• How to successfully manage disputes and management • Organizing the spend profile
• Industry global compliance needs and how company activities that expose them to
contract performance issues • Greater abilities in leading continuous suppliers and buying activities for production,
• and more... procurement can add value improvement programs
• and more... maintenance, equipment, MRO, services, and
• Ways in dealing with economic uncertainties other outside purchased requirements.
2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) • Questions for internal surveys to enhance
HOUSTON, US 13-15 SEP $3310 HOUSTON, US 16-18 AUG $3370 purchasing performance YOU WILL LEARN
• How to develop a “Purchasing Coding • Importance of price/cost analysis in
System” continuous improvement programs
• Steps in the development of a Composite • The difference between price and cost
Effective Materials Supplier Relationship Purchase Price Index analysis
Management – SC42 Management – SC63 • How to get more time to work on strategic • Methods of price analysis
issues • How to manage volatile markets
• Negotiation planning and strategies • Use of Producer Price Indexes
FOUNDATION 3-Day • To understand the elements of cost that • Methods of cost analysis
This three-day course covers practical
INTERMEDIATE 2-Day make up a supplier’s price • Development of “Should Cost”
• Categories in a purchased materials/services • Types of TCO models
considerations essential to achieve major Continuous improvement in all aspects of the strategic plan outline
improvements in planning, buying, storing, and supply chain is necessary to remain competitive COURSE CONTE N T
disposing of the vast array of materials and in today’s global economy. The traditional COURS E CONTENT Use of price indexes • Cost/price analysis •
spare parts needed in the oil and gas industry. adversarial relationship and transactional focus Stages to world class supply management • Total cost of ownership • RFQ/tendering as a
Evolving best practices by major oil and gas of buyers and suppliers cannot meet this Change and becoming more strategic • Supply price analysis tool • Cost estimating
companies are explored under three inter- demand for continuous improvement in lead- management skill sets • Defining supply relationships • Purchasing savings impact on
related modules - inventory management, time, quality, and overall supplier performance. management • Examples of job descriptions for the bottom line • Developing the spend profile •
warehousing, and investment recovery. As a result, significant changes are occurring in supply management • Developing the spend Sources of spend data • How to perform the
the philosophies and approaches that define the profile • Creating time to be strategic • The ABC analysis • Examples of using pivot tables
DE S IG NE D F O R relationship between purchasers and sellers in ABC (Pareto) analysis and what to do with it • in Excel for data mining • Continuous
Professional and management personnel who world-class organizations. This focus reduces Material/services purchasing code development improvement skill sets • Difference between
have responsibility for materials, spare parts, the lead-time and total cost of acquisition, • Elements of cost that make up the price • cost and price analysis • Selection tool •
and supplies needed to support any refinery, transportation, administration, and possession Developing “should cost” • Producer price Methods of price analysis • Historical analysis •
gas plant, onshore/offshore production, or other of goods and services for the benefit of both the indexes • Requesting supplier’s cost and pricing Developing company purchase price • Index
industry operations. buyer and seller, and as a result, provides a data • Dealing with economic uncertainties, methods of cost analysis • Major elements of
competitive advantage and improved profits. when, where, and how to use “Economic Price cost • Requesting supplier cost info • Sources
YOU W IL L L E A R N
Adjustment” clauses • Internal surveys to of cost information • What and how important
• How to provide better customer service for DESI GN ED F OR improve purchasing performance • Total cost of are supplier overheads • How much profit
long lead or critical materials and spare parts Managers and professionals involved in ownership concepts • Cost containment should the supplier make economic • Price
essential to the success of any well field purchasing, projects, contracts, supply methods • Cost reductions and cost avoidance adjustment clauses • Total costs of ownership
operation, offshore platform, refinery, gas management, operations, maintenance, • Savings reporting procedure • Developing models • How to combine price and
plant, or chemical processing facility engineering, quality, and other activities. purchased materials/services strategic plans • performance to obtain TCO
• How to establish the best methods of
Developing the purchase price index for your
inventory analysis and create performance YOU WI L L L EARN organization • Negotiation skill sets • Steps in
measures for min/max and order point • The Supplier Relationship Management negotiation preparation • Positional negotiations
systems Maturity Model • Final points before the negotiation
• How to use supplier stocking programs, • Importance of SRM in continuous
consigned inventory, and integrated supply improvement
agreements • and more...
• and more...

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 28 $ PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Petroleum Project and Petroleum Project Project Management Managing Brownfield
Program Management Management: Principles for Engineering and Projects – FPM42
Essentials – P3ME and Practices – PPM Construction – FPM22
FOUNDATION 3-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY INTERMEDIATE 5-DAY
NEW Successful petroleum operations need a blend of Many petroleum projects fail to meet their Why is it so difficult to manage projects inside
Petroleum companies often use projects to technology, business savvy, and people authorized cost, schedule or operability targets. operating facilities? Keeping the scope from
develop the skills of early career project skills. If you have a firm grasp of exploration or To be successful, today’s project leader needs growing is a constant battle. Operations priorities
professionals. This course covers the essential production technology, boost its impact by a comprehensive set of technical, business and maintenance needs hamper work
skills of petroleum project and program applying project management techniques. and interpersonal skills. This course addresses productivity. To be successful, brownfield
management and provides an opportunity to Running a staged program that integrates those critical skills. Seasoned instructors projects need strong control, effective liaison,
apply those skills to your project. You will be reservoir modelling, production estimating, tackle the issues and challenges found in and good interface management. They must be
able to utilize fit-for-purpose prioritization drilling, and facility design is challenging. The concept selection, development planning, managed differently than greenfield projects.
techniques and control tools to facilitate tools and techniques covered in this course will facility design, procurement, and construction Experienced instructors will share tools and
successful outcomes. The specific training help you meet that challenge. Upon completion activities. The specific training received in techniques that will help you work in this
received in planning, scheduling and risk you will know how to make better decisions in schedule and cost management, risk dynamic, operations-centric project environment.
management will help the early career field development that lead to high value and low mitigation, and the proper use of scarce Upon completion you will know how to examine
professional make the best decisions possible. cost; develop integrated plans to run the overall resources (people and materials) will help you existing documentation and confirm field
Participants will learn how the project program; and develop key deliverables for each make better decisions. Upon completion you conditions to improve scope control; frame a
management, HSE, engineering, operations, stage of development to reduce uncertainty. will know how to improve engineering and project and select the best concept for
maintenance, procurement/ supply chain, and Instruction, guided discussions and in-depth service discipline work relations, use execution development; and coordinate the work effectively
transportation disciplines relate to one another work tasks are used. You may choose a case plans to integrate the work, and effectively with operations, maintenance and shipping.
and what tools are available to ensure interfaces study from several real-life situations that are employ cost and schedule control tools. Instruction, guided discussion, and in-depth
among key stakeholders are managed. The based on the instructor’s petroleum experience. This course is taught using a combination of work tasks based on the instructor’s
course is taught using a combination of Or you may bring the details of one of your own instruction, facilitated discussion, and indepth brownfield project management experience are
instruction, facilitated discussion, and team current programs. exercises based on the instructor’s petroleum used. Offshore and onshore examples
exercises using real-world examples related to development successes and failures. The are used. The sharing of experience in this
facilities, drilling, and maintenance. The DESI GN ED FOR exercises will include both individual and course make the sessions challenging and
exercises will include both individual and group Exploration and production personnel with a group activities that provide you with a insightful.
activities that will provide each participant with a background in geoscience, petroleum practical application of the principles and
hands-on application of the principles and engineering or drilling should attend. If you are a practices necessary to keep your project on DES IGNED FOR
practices discussed throughout the course. facilities engineer, we refer you to our track. This course is for team members that work
Project Management for Engineering and projects installed in existing facilities.
D E S IG NE D F O R Construction (FPM22) and Project Management DES IGNED FOR Engineers, operations leads, and maintenance
Project managers and engineers, facility for Upstream Field Development (FPM2) Project managers, facility engineers, reps should attend. Services personnel in
engineers, operations and maintenance courses. construction representatives, schedulers, cost cost, schedule, procurement, and quality
representatives, schedulers, cost controllers, and controllers, operations personnel, and supply functions will also benefit. This course helps
purchasing personnel who plan, manage, or YOU W I LL L EARN H OW TO chain specialists including team leaders and business, commercial and finance and other
participate on multi-discipline teams. This • Navigate the staged development process others who participate on or consult with non-engineers who want a greater awareness of
course also addresses the essential requirements • Manage the interfaces among exploration, multi-discipline development teams. This brownfield project challenges.
associated with managing programs whose drilling and facility groups course is also suitable for business
timely completion is essential to the success of • Properly define a scope of work development, finance and land specialists as Y OU WILL LEARN H O W TO
regional operations. • Create a realistic, integrated schedule well as other non-engineering personnel who • Deal with competing priorities
• Find and reduce petroleum development risks would benefit from an understanding of oil and • Stage development to manage plant
YOU W IL L L E A R N H O W T O • Develop a high-performance team gas project management. complexity
• Apply essential work management techniques • Capture lessons learned • Minimize surprise work with due diligence
to a variety of tasks Y OU WILL LEA RN HOW TO surveys
• Identify key constraints and interfaces and C OU RSE C ON T EN T • Define development stages and skillfully • Resolve issues using an oversight board
develop action plans to address them The staged development process • Scope execute them • Tailor contracting strategy for brownfield
• Develop charters, scopes of work, schedules definition • Scheduling tools • Manpower • Develop scopes of work and execution plans projects
and cost estimates resources • Finding and mitigating risks • • Utilize project control techniques and earned • Tackle unique brownfield constructability
• Prioritize the work to best meet evolving Learning, continuous improvement, and quality value analysis issues
operations needs control • Project team management • • Develop engineering design checklists to • Ensure operations staff buy into objectives
• Prepare petroleum project execution plans and Petroleum case studies and exercises ensure key deliverables for each phase are
procedures addressed COURS E CONTE N T
• Utilize progress measurement and control • Guide teams through technical reviews and Brownfield stage gate system • Staffing the team
techniques secure needed approvals • Communications needs in an operating facility
• Use dashboards to track progress of larger • Measure progress during construction • Challenges in concept choice • Key value
programs and identify areas that need improving practices • Due diligence in the
attention COURS E CONTENT existing facility • Quality in engineering,
Project development systems for the oil and procurement, and construction • Increased
COUR S E C O N T E N T gas industry • The stage-gate system • Key brownfield risks • Change management •
• The petroleum project delivery system • knowledge areas for leaders • Leadership • Contract strategy • Procurement, logistics, and
Organization and resources • Engineering, Design engineering • Contracting • Execution material management • Construction
maintenance and operations • The execution planning for design, procurement, and management and HSE • Managing cost/
plan • HSE and risk management • construction • HSE management • Risk schedule expectations • Performance reporting
Procurement and contracting • Cost identification and mitigation • Organization • Commissioning and startup • Roles and
management • Planning and scheduling • types and resource deployment • Work qualities of successful project managers
Progress measurement • Program management breakdown structure • Planning and
essentials scheduling • Progress measurement • Cost
estimating • Change control • Reviews and
approvals

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2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) HOUSTON, US 25-29 OCT $4510 HOUSTON, US 25-29 OCT $4510 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
HOUSTON, US 23-25 AUG $3310 LONDON, UK 8-12 NOV $5235+VAT VIRTUAL 10-21 MAY $4090 HOUSTON, US 29 NOV-3 DEC $4510
VIRTUAL 29 NOV-3 DEC $2995 * plus computer charge 25-29 OCT $4090

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Turnaround, Advanced Project Advanced Project

Project Controls for Management – FPM62
Shutdown and Outage Management II – FPM63
Capital Projects - PC21
Management – TSOM
INTERMEDIATE 3-Day INTERMEDIATE 3-DAY SPECIALIZED 5-DAY SPECIALIZED 5-DAY
This course addresses project controls principles Scheduled turnarounds are difficult to manage. Mega projects are complex. A program This five-day, advanced level course for
and practices as they relate to providing project Managing a surprise shutdown or outage composed of these super projects is highly experienced project management professionals
leaders and key stakeholders the information is like firefighting. Firefighters succeed because complex. For a very large project, addressing addresses the fundamental principles and
they need to support project success for they know what strategies work and are linked issues is key to improving the chances of techniques of project management and how to
upstream, midstream, and downstream energy highly trained to handle complex, risky success. In a larger program, these key issues apply them on large international projects. This
projects. The focus of the course is using project situations. Uncertainty and complexity abound interact producing unexpected results. course will cover all the project phases, with
controls effectively to manage engineering / when a plant is down. Extra work can appear Instructors will explore critical issues in hands-on content directly supported by practical
procurement / construction, improve project when equipment is opened and inspected. contracting, decision making, and facility design. case studies.
profitability, make schedule, and deliver a quality Integrating project work increases the challenge. Interface control and risk reduction are
and safe project. Upon completion of this course, Experienced instructors show you how to examined. Non-technical problems in DES IGNED FO R
the participant will understand the critical control scope uncertainty, tackle the complexity stakeholder relations, partner ventures, and Experienced project managers, project engineers,
success factors for cost estimating, scheduling, of integrating project work, and get the approvals, are also tackled. Upon completion project controls managers, and construction
and progress measurement and be able to utilize facility restarted. Upon completion you will know you will know how to deal with the program managers who are working on large international
these best practices to effectively manage their how to deploy scarce resources (time, people complexity and surprise effects; improve projects or about to start new assignments on
project. Participants will understand all of the and materials) to complete work on time and program strategies and deliver the projects on international projects. Practical case studies will
steps necessary to develop and implement an within budget; utilize best practices in TSO time; address both project and program resource cover the entire spectrum of a large international
effective project controls plan. Project controls planning, execution and closeout; and manage concerns. Instruction, guided discussion, and project and will include offshore and onshore
activities throughout the entire project life cycle engineering, maintenance, operations and in-depth work tasks based on the instructor’s capital investment.
(FEED, engineering, construction) are addressed. project interfaces. A blend of instruction, guided petroleum experience are used. The work will
include both single and group activities. Y OU WILL LEARN
In particular, participants will learn the steps that discussion, and hands-on exercises using real
• Why international projects fail and the early
a project leader should take during each stage of world examples makes the sessions thought
DESIGNED FOR warning signs to look for
the project life cycle to effectively manage their provoking. The exercises will include both single
Experienced project and program personnel. • The principles of project management that
project and their contractor. and group activities.
Directors, managers, and team members in ensure project success
DE S IG NE D F O R DESI GN ED F OR engineering, procurement and construction will • How to build a strong and effective Project
This course addresses the special requirements Managers, supervisors, engineers, schedulers in benefit from attending. Project services Management Team (PMT)
associated with project controls for project maintenance, operations, reliability, HSE, personnel in the cost, schedule, contracts, • How to identify and manage project
professionals. It is intended for project procurement and projects should attend. This procurement and quality functions are stakeholders
managers, project engineers, project team course also helps business, commercial, finance encouraged to attend. This advanced course is • How to conduct business and yourself in the
members, project controls professionals, and other non-technical personnel who want to suitable for business, commercial, and international arena
planner/schedulers, and project discipline team know more about turnaround, shutdown and finance and other non-engineers who want a • How to select an effective contracting strategy
leads. outage best practices. greater awareness of mega project and the appropriate negotiation style
challenges. • The practical approach for global engineering,
YOU W IL L L E A R N YOU WI L L L EARN H O W TO procurement, logistics, fabrication,
• The elements of a robust cost estimate plan • Establish targets to ensure support from all YOU WILL LEA RN HOW TO construction, and commissioning
• Methods to develop early and mid life cycle facility stakeholders • Improve complex decision making • How to conduct project risk management
project cost estimates • Develop a robust resource plan and get the • Develop contracts for prompt work completion throughout the entire project lifecycle
resources you need • Evaluate risks in technology and design • How to apply effective leadership and strategy
• The critical role that project controls plays in
• Integrate scopes for both maintenance and • Address key stakeholders needs on your international project
developing a well-planned and executable
projects • Establish a process to manage critical
project for both cost and schedule COURS E CONTE N T
• Establish turnaround scope selection criteria interfaces
• The role that project definition, scope • Lessen the impact of risks on cost, schedule, Why projects fail • Project Management
early
management, contracting strategy, project and operations principles (PMT, scope, cost, schedule, safety,
• Select a computerized work system
execution, procurement, etc. play in • Navigate approvals challenges to advance and quality) • Stakeholders management on
• Address key outage constraints and operations
impacting project controls and the methods your project international projects • Host country - business
interfaces
used to measure progress and culture contracting • Strategies and
• Develop a robust contracting plan
• Critical progress measurement metrics using • Prepare an execution plan COURSE CONTENT negotiations • Global engineering - from
earned value or value of work done so that • Measure and control shutdown progress Key aspects of a stage-gate process • Effects of concept through detailed design procurement
stakeholders understand the potential to markets on contracting • How governance and logistics • Fabrication, construction and
meet project cost and schedule C OU RSE C ON T EN T affects decision making • How limited resources commissioning • International project risk
• The different estimate classes and the Six-phases of turnaround, outage and shutdown affect technology and design • Advanced management • Leadership and strategy
deliverables required to support each type management • Issues and challenges • Quality methods for influencing stakeholders •
of estimate control • Health, safety and environmental Challenges with partners • Critical factors in
• The different schedule levels and when is it planning • Computerized systems benefits and interface control • Risk methods that preserve
appropriate to use each level choices • Integrating the plan • Managing mega project value • Managing peer reviews,
• How to develop an estimate basis and stakeholders and resources • Procurement and assists, and approvals
schedule basis and why they are critical to contracting • Tracking progress and controlling
developing an achievable cost estimate and change
schedule
• How to develop a robust Project Controls
Plan and associated staff with roles and
responsibilities to support the plan
• How to effectively manage project changes
and understand the impact on overall cost
and schedule
• Challenges and issues associated with
forecasting final project cost and final project
completion using progress measurement or
earned value
• and more...

2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD) 2021 Schedule and Tuition (USD)
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Technical SPECIALIZED 3-Day SPECIALIZED 3-Day SPECIALIZED 3-Day
NEW NEW
Resources
This course will not follow the traditional lecture-
style format, instead it will be an interactive This course addresses the skills necessary to This course will cover all key aspects of project
hands-on workshop where the participants will interface with and effectively manage field changes and claims encountered throughout a

Available to You work on several case studies directly related to

the selected topics. This workshop will take an
EPC contractor perspective while also
construction. While construction projects are
addressed, the project engineer that must manage
engineering, procurement, and especially field
project lifecycle. The focus will be on how to
manage and control changes, take steps to
prevent disputes and claims, and how to prepare
highlighting how Owner companies (NOCs & construction, will find the course particularly claims. Different contract types will also be
IOCs) interact with their EPC contractors to useful. The course addresses how to effectively covered along with the required terms and
develop and execute their projects. The manage field construction to deliver the project on conditions for project changes, disputes and
workshop material covers both onshore and time and on budget. While many projects do front claims. This course will not follow the traditional
offshore projects. The main objective of this end loading effectively, projects ultimately fail due lecture-style format, instead it will be an
workshop is to present several real-life scenarios to poor execution or engineering/construction. interactive hands-on workshop where after a
of different types of project issues encountered With a focus on construction, this course provides brief slide presentation for each agenda topic the
by contractors and work through these issues to the tools necessary to establish the proper field participants will work on several real-life case
show how they should be addressed to arrive at organization to manage engineering and study scenarios directly related to the selected
an optimum resolution. This workshop will focus procurement, which are two key inputs to topics. The workshop will cover both onshore
more on practice and less on theory. In addition construction success. The case study focuses on a and offshore projects.
to the case studies created and provided by construction project that is challenged in the field
PetroSkills, it is recommended that attendees (due to prior poor decisions) that the project DESIGNED FOR
provide a few scenarios from their current or past leader must address to be successful. Exercises, Project managers, project controls managers,
projects to be used in the workshop as case the case study, and class discussions provide project engineers, discipline leads, procurement
studies. learnings that the participant can immediately managers, contract managers, and construction
apply upon returning to work. managers and supervisors working on large
DESI GN ED FOR onshore or offshore oil and gas projects.
This course is designed for senior project DESIGNED FOR
management staff of EPC contractors working on This course is designed for project managers, YOU WILL LEARN
large international projects in the energy industry project engineers, facilities engineers, • What causes changes, disputes and claims
with a focus on the Middle East Region. It is construction managers, discipline engineers, on a project
recommended for experienced project managers, operations staff, and all disciplines that work on • How to manage changes to minimize their
project engineers, project controls managers, integrated project teams for onshore and offshore impact on project scope, cost and schedule
construction managers and discipline leads. projects. • How to control the cost and schedule impact
on a project using earned value
Keep current and YOU W I LL L EARN H O W TO
• Allocate contract risk between owner and
YOU WILL LEA RN
• How the construction schedule should drive
• An overview of contract types, negotiations
and alternate dispute resolutions
ensure you always contractor engineering and not vice versa • Key steps to take for claim prevention
• Address terms and conditions at bidding stage • How to manage the construction contractor and • How to prepare a claim - type of claim, main
have the latest • Handle owner-provided FEED as basis of bid influence their field supervisors to deliver a elements, and the PMT role
information by • Finalize terms and conditions before contract
signing, contract administration, and records
successful project
• Methods to establish the appropriate owner's COURSE CONTE N T
joining our email keeping construction team given the construction What causes change on a project and can
change be avoided • Change management and
• Understand and negotiate liquidated damages strategy and construction challenges to ensure
list. applied to project milestones a successful project controls • Cost and schedule management of
• Handle change orders, suspension of work by • How to interface with the home office and changes using earned value • Types of contracts
owner or contractor, and contract termination engineering contractor to ensure field requests and relevant terms and conditions - from tender
for cause or convenience for information, engineering drawings, timing of to award • Negotiation techniques and
• Prepare for dispute resolution and claim by material delivery, etc. support project success alternative dispute resolution • How to avoid
You Will Receive: contractor • Root causes of poor craft field productivity and disputes on a project • Types of project claims
• Determine when negotiation, mediation, what the owner can do to improve productivity and their characteristics • Claims prevention •
• Complimentary learning and arbitration, and litigation are necessary to support aggressive project cost and schedule Claims preparation • Case Study Problems -
will cover topics listed in the agenda and will
development resources • Identify governing laws in the contract targets
include both onshore and offshore scope
• Determine cost of claims and who is • The 'Fatal Four' issues associated with
• Information on new courses and responsible for payment construction personal safety
• Protect yourself from claims by owner against • How to use field project controls and progress
instructors contractor monitoring to ascertain construction areas that
• Prevent claims where possible are challenged and require immediate attention
• Additional public course locations • Identify project risks and determine their • Methods to manage the contractor to minimize
and dates impact during engineering, procurement and construction claims and how to handle a claim
construction phases once it occur
• Invitations for PetroSkills events • Apply risk management on a project at the • and much more...
and conferences right time
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks COURSE CONTENT
• and much more... The role that construction management plays
during FEED and detailed engineering to support
C OU RSE C ON T EN T success in the field • Field project controls,
Why projects fail • EPC contracts • Dispute
Simply go to resolution and claims • EPC risk management
earned value, buildup of field indirect charges,
determination of 'all in' field labor costs, etc •
petroskills.com/emailsignup • Scope changes • Cost and schedule Temporary construction facilities, construction
management • Project planning and execution infrastructure, field equipment, etc. and the role
• Working with owner (client) and their PMC they play in construction success • and much
more...

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DUBAI, UAE 26-28 SEP $4285+VAT HOUSTON, US 15-17 NOV $3430 HOUSTON, US 29 NOV-1 DEC $3430

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 ADD ‘PEOPLE SKILLS’
TO YOUR TECHNICAL SKILLS
PetroSkills Petroleum Professional Development courses provide the people skills to help you and your team maximize your
capabilities. These courses are tailored specifically to the oil and gas industry, and are available worldwide.

ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS-OM23

Skillful and competent leadership is extremely important for safety, productivity, and asset management. The 21st century brings new em-
phasis on leaders, new communication technologies, increased focus on safety, information overload, workforce dynamics, asset integrity,
and many other concerns which challenge even the most proficient leader/manager. How do we blend these new challenges with tried
and true wisdom of success? There are skills to learn to help you be more effective, with less stress. (See page 24.)

E SSEN T I A L T ECH N IC A L W R I TI NG S KI L L S -E TW S
Writing for work-related purposes ought to be brief, clear, informative and, above all, readable. In this practical hands-on course, you gain
a solid foundation in technical writing skills. The primary theme for the course is that a writer must think constantly about their readers.
Examples and exercises provide hands-on experience.

M A K I N G CH A N G E HA PPE N: PE OPL E A ND PR OC E S S - MC P P
Attendees will work in teams to overcome the problems encountered when making changes in their organizations. You will learn how to
develop the ability to effectively handle organizational changes by examining the eight-step change process and understanding your own,
and others, needs and responses to each step.

M A N AG I N G A N D L E A DI NG OTH E R S - ML O
The first-line and mid-level supervisor has more direct effect on employees and the productivity of a work group than any other single enti-
ty in the organization. This course increases the confidence and productivity of leaders, supervisors and managers who may be scientific or
technical specialists, but have minimal training in the science and art of leading others.

MEETING MANAGEMENT AND FACILITATION FOR THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY-MMF

Meetings remain a boon or curse to corporate communication. Properly planned and managed, meetings are extremely positive and dy-
namic ways to exchange ideas, shape policy, resolve problems, effect change, etc. However, when poorly designed and implemented, meet-
ings become virtual breeding grounds for confusion, tension, frustration, boredom, and negativity. During this interactive 2-day session,
participants will learn how to perfect meeting facilitation skills; master meeting agenda design skills; and polish meeting communication
skills so that they’ll be able to run meetings efficiently, effectively, and smoothly.

N EG OT I AT I O N SK I L L S FOR TH E PE TR OL E U M I NDU S TRY- N SP I

This course helps you to develop strong interpersonal skills in the art and science of negotiation. You will learn to apply these skills to
complex organizational issues and individual needs. The course includes a Negotiating Style Profile self-assessment to determine your pre-
ferred negotiation style(s). Various tools and techniques are used to negotiate differences and disagreements to produce positive results. A
group workshop conducting a collaborative negotiation, allows attendees to engage in, comment on, and improve their competencies in
negotiation skills.

P RESEN TAT I O N SK I L L S FOR TH E PE TR OL E U M I NDU S TRY-P SP I

One of the prime requisites for oil and gas professionals is to be able to deliver presentations in as clear, concise, and well-designed a way
as possible. With the proper training and practice, any oil and gas professional can learn to make a convincing and persuasive presenta-
tion, and do so in a confident, assured, comfortable, and relaxed manner.

T EA M BU I L D I N G F OR I NTAC T TE A MS -TB
This workshop is most effective when attended by an entire team. Team members will develop and refine the skills essential for high per-
formance teams. Emphasis is placed on learning more effective ways to enhance total team functionality and maximum team productivity.

T EA M L EA D ERSH I P - TL S
This course has been constructed to maximize opportunity to improve both knowledge and practical skills in leading a team and being a
team player. Emphasis is placed on the leader’s role in effectively enhancing total team functionality and maximum team productivity.

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32 MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRAINING
Basic Petroleum Basic Petroleum Overview of the Operations Crew
Technology Technology – BPT Petroleum Industry Resource Management
Principles – BPT – OVP – OCRM
BASIC 20 HOURS BASIC 5-DAY BASIC 2-DAY INTERMEDIATE 3-DAY
This course provides the participant with an OVP presents an overview of the Petroleum Why do experienced, competent personnel make
understanding of basic petroleum technology in the Industry from the point of view of the Asset Life mistakes during the planning or implementation
context of the Petroleum Value Chain and Asset Cycle. Participants will gain an understanding of of operations? How does an organization
PetroAcademy Management, from exploration to abandonment. Exploration, Appraisal, Development and address these potential mistakes? High-risk
TM

Unconventional shale (tight oil and gas) and Production phases with particular emphasis industries introduce and practice non-technical
conventional oil and gas are covered. The being placed on actions they can personally take skills (NTS) coined as Crew Resource
BLENDED LEARNING participant will understand how and when within each phase to support value creation. Management (CRM) to address human errors.
geoscience and engineering professionals use Through use of lecture, multimedia and class In the late 1970s, the airline industry was
technology to determine and then optimize the interactive exercises, a breadth of upstream plagued with many crashes and resulting
This course will be delivered virtually through economic value of an oil and gas field. This enables
PetroAcademy providing participants with the business acumen will be delivered covering fatalities. Often investigations yielded no
the participant to maximize their professional and economic, business, geoscience and evidence of design or mechanical failures, rather
knowledge they need at their convenience. administrative contribution in their organization. engineering topics. Discussions will include poor or inconsistent decision making was the
Participants first learn and understand why various topics related to all types of resource plays major contributing factor to the incident (e.g.
This course provides the participant with an global oil and gas production types and plays
understanding of basic petroleum technology including deepwater, shale oil/gas and enhanced poor communications, distractions, leadership
(unconventional and conventional) have different oil recovery technologies. actions, lack of teamwork, changing situation
in the context of the Petroleum Value Chain, value. The participant learns which technologies are
from exploration to abandonment. The without knowledge, stresses, and fatigue played
used by the geoscience and engineering DES IGNED FOR
participant will understand how and when a role in the incidents). The industry came
departments during each stage of the asset life cycle Both technical and business oriented
geoscience and engineering professionals use together focusing on six non-technical skills,
and WHY! This E&P lifecycle context accelerates an professionals who are either new to the upstream
technology to find, then determine and optimize understanding of basic petroleum technologies and naming the effort CRM. After 40 plus years, CRM
oil and gas industry or experienced in one part, is still a major component of all airline industry
the economic value of an oil and gas field. This the oil industry. This learning is achieved through but could benefit from a wider point of view. OVP training. Other high-risk industries began to
enables the participant to maximize their guided discussions, videos, animations, and will likewise deliver for non-industry personnel a incorporate CRM into their organizations to
professional and administrative contribution in progressive team exercises utilizing ‘Our Reservoir’ broad, basic knowledge set of multiple E&P reduce the number of incidents. However, of
their organization. and ‘Our Well’ as working models.
topics. Legal, Financial, Accounting, recent, those and other industries have seen
D E S IG NE D F O R DESI GN ED F OR Management, and Service Company team performance improvements with the
Those who need to achieve a context and This course is appropriate for those who need to members will certainly benefit. incorporation of CRM. Introducing and
understanding of E&P technologies, and the achieve a context and understanding of E&P practicing NTS has reduced nonproductive
technologies in conventional and unconventional Y OU WILL LEA RN
role of technical departments in oil and gas time thus improving performance delivery.
fields, and/or the role of technical departments in • The critical importance the industry plays
operations. An understanding and use of The oil and gas industry has only recently started
oil and gas operations, and/or be able to on the world’s economic stage, including
oilfield terminology is developed. to introduce CRM skills. Initially the industry
understand and use the language of the oilfield. discussions of pricing, global reserves and
introduced CRM/NTS into well control training
Y OU W ILL L E A R N key short/long-term energy trends.
YOU WI L L L EARN post the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) incident, as
• Historical petroleum occurrences and usage • Business and exploration elements critical
• The E&P Process and how it differs in several DWH investigations and reports
• The objectives and processes of the to the success of organizations in search of
conventional vs unconventional plays, the role referenced human factor causes. IADC and IWCF
exploration phase of the E&P asset life cycle new reserves
of each technical department and specialist, and have accredited enhanced well control training
• The objectives, processes, and economic the technologies used • Methods by which new field prospects are
which requires CRM/NTS components. Several
metrics of the appraisal phase of the E&P • The economic value and properties of reservoir evaluated and risk factors assessed (Geology,
operators and contractors have started to include
asset life cycle fluids Geophysics, Petrophysics)
CRM/NTS in their “drill the well on paper” or
• Basic reserves and production value • Petroleum geology for exploration and • How exploration rights are acquired (Land
“drill the well on simulator” exercises,
concepts production themes, International Concessions)
recognizing non-productive time improvements.
• The Earth's structure, continental drift, and • About oil and gas reservoirs, both conventional • The basic process for drilling and evaluating
plate tectonics role in oil and gas exploration and unconventional, and understand the key an exploration well (Drilling, Petrophysics, COURS E CONTE N T
• Rock types and classification in an oil and differences Testing) Situational Awareness (gather information, share
gas context • Exploration and appraisal technologies • Major steps required to appraise a new understanding, possible consequences,
• The relationship between depositional • Drilling operations for exploration, development discovery and estimate its commerciality problems and contingencies) • Decision Making
environments and geological settings and production (Reservoir Engineering) (define situation and goal, previous experience,
• Production - well completions and production • Strategies to maximize the value of an oil or risks, options, check) • Communications
• Exploration concepts
technology gas field asset
• Elements of a successful petroleum system (exchange information, explain context, clear and
• Reservoir recovery mechanisms through • How geology and reservoir management plans
• Key differences between unconventional and primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery concise, relevant inclusion) • Teamwork
conventional petroleum systems are used to guide new field development (responsibilities, co-ordinate tasks, resolve
• Surface processing of produced fluids • Major steps in the design, construction, and
• Features of structural contour and isopach gaps/duplications, working relationships,
maps C OU RSE C ON T EN T commissioning of facilities support efforts) • Leadership (take charge,
• The basic reservoir rock properties and the World hydrocarbon production and consumption • Basic technical and operational steps required provide direction, prioritize tasks, delegate,
significance of core samples review including reserves, benchmarks, and the to produce an oil or gas field (Production organizational process) • Stressors/Factors that
• The roles involved in exploration impact of shale resources • Reservoir fluid Engineering) Impact Human Performance (identify, mitigate,
• Rig type classification and selection for properties • Petroleum geology • The petroleum • Types of opportunities to optimize older fields practice resilience, recognize efforts)
onshore and offshore drilling reservoir, conventional and unconventional • and increase production
• and more... Exploration technologies for conventional and
unconventional reservoirs including initial reserve COURS E CONTENT
COUR S E C O N T E N T estimates and consequent field development • The business of E&P • Hydrocarbon origin •
E&P industry and asset life cycle • Petroleum Drilling and operations • Well completions and Exploration - acquisition of exploration/
geology • Hydrocarbon reservoirs • Rock and workovers • Production operations • Reservoir development rights • Exploration - prospect
fluid properties • Surface/subsurface recovery mechanisms • Surface processing generation and evaluation • Appraisal - asset
exploration • Drilling operations and well characterization and reserve quantification •
completions • Production operations Development - drilling, completion, and facilities
• Produce Asset - recovery optimization
strategies
Self-paced, virtual course
- start anytime.
Tuition USD$3570

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34 Our Instructors

GP GAS PROCESSING O&M OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE

PF PROCESS FACILITIES HSE HEALTH, SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT
ME MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PB PETROLEUM BUSINESS
IC&E INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROLS & ELECTRICAL SC PROCUREMENT/SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
PL PIPELINE ENGINEERING PM PROJECT MANAGEMENT
OS OFFSHORE & SUBSEA PPD PETROLEUM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
P&C PRODUCTION AND COMPLETIONS ENGINEERING MDT MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRAINING

DR. FRANK ASHFORD has over 50 years’ National Polytechnique School of Algiers, an MS and a over 170 public seminars internationally. He was selected
experience in oil and gas reservoir engineering, downhole PhD from the University of Tulsa. MDT P&C to present seminars at the last 17 Institute for Supply
and surface design and operations, as well as oil and gas Management International Conferences and is the
conditioning and producing facilities. He has been with MR. PAUL M. BARRY is a petroleum contributor of numerous articles published in Purchasing
PetroSkills since 1988 and has worked extensively in most engineering consultant specializing in production Today and Inside Supply Management. Robi was selected
energy producing countries. He provides instruction technology, production operations, and project as ISM’s National Person of the Year in both Global
fluently in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. He worked evaluations. Mr. Barry has over 42 years of international Resources and in Education/Learning. Robi is a lifetime
with Gulf Research (GR&DC) in Houston, Texas where he and domestic USA upstream oil and gas production and CPM, and has received ISM’s new certification, the CPSM,
developed many reservoir engineering laboratory reservoir engineering and management experience in and also holds the MCIPS Certification as awarded by
techniques for the determination of applicable oil/gas/ conventional and unconventional reservoir development. CIPS. He has an undergraduate degree from the University
water relative permeability correlations, and choke Assignments include working and residing in South of Texas, and a Master’s Degree from Penn State University.
performance prediction techniques still in application America, SE Asia, the Middle East, the North Sea region, His energetic and enthusiastic style, combined with
today. Dr. Ashford was a Professor of Petroleum and and the USA. Earlier industry experience was as field extensive functional experience, makes him an excellent
Natural Gas Engineering at the Central University of production engineer and field production engineering consultant, trainer, and facilitator of change. SC
Venezuela in Caracas, where he taught various courses in manager of an onshore oilfield re-development project for
natural gas engineering technology. He was a founder of PDVSA and partners in Venezuela which required a MR. ROBERT BOMBARDIERI has almost
the Petroleum Engineering Department in INTEVEP, the combination of new development well and well re- 30 years in the oil and gas industry. His expertise is the
research Institute for PDVSA (Venezuela). He was a completion designs for gas lift, submersible pump, and use of process engineering to optimize operating facilities
participant in the initial gas lift optimization operations rod pump artificial lift technology, and frac pack and gravel economics via addressing availability, product recovery
held in Venezuela, and developed many field, and pack sand control well completions. Previous Indonesia and bottleneck issues. As such, Robert has tested,
numerical techniques and correlations for downhole, and experience was in the design and completion of dual identified, designed, project managed and lead
surface choke performance with Otis Engineering (US, and string, multiple selective, underbalanced, tubing conveyed implementation of numerous molecular sieve, NGL
Venezuela), and Compania Shell de Venezuela (CSV). He perforated high pressure gas wells, exploration well recovery, sulfur recovery and debottleneck projects in
has authored technical articles published in World Oil, testing and evaluation for Pertamina and Atlantic Richfield, several countries. He also has had roles in operations,
JPT, SPE, Intevep Pub., PDVSA, Pacific Oil World, AAPG, Huffco, Virginia Indonesia, and joint venture contract business development and management. Mr. Bombardieri
SPELAC, and GPA. He holds a BS (1961) and MS (1963) partners for both oil operations and Bontang LNG gas co-authored a paper on molecular sieve dehydration that
in Petroleum Engineering and a PhD in Engineering supply operations. As district reservoir engineer for was selected ‘Best Paper Award’ at the 2008 Gas
Sciences (1970) from the University of Oklahoma. He was Pertamina and Arco partners in Indonesia, Mr. Barry was Processor’s Association annual convention and was
one of Dr. John M. Campbell’s graduate students from responsible for the plan of development and reserves published in the Oil and Gas Journal. He has a B.Sc. in
1962-1968, and participated in the initial data collection determination and certification for a 1.3 TCF offshore gas Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and
and organization for the original John M. Campbell field. He has also worked as field engineer in Saudi Arabia, an M.B.A. from Tulane University. GP PF
technical textbooks Gas Conditioning and Processing, responsible for a 1.2 MMBWD reservoir pressure support
injection well system, injection water quality assurance, MR. MARK BOTHAMLEY has experience that
Volumes I and II. GP PF PL covers the areas of design, operation, troubleshooting and
producing well gravel pack completions, internal and
DR. OMAR BARKAT is a registered and licensed external well and flowline corrosion control systems, and, optimization of offshore and onshore oil and gas
Professional Engineer and the Executive Director for as Mobil Oil facilities engineer in the Arabian American Oil production and treating facilities. Prior to joining
Upstream Operations with PetroProTech. He has been a Company (Aramco) Gas Projects department. He has PetroSkills he was with BP/Amoco for 24 years, in several
training specialist and technical consultant for OGCI- represented company technical and commercial interests locations around the world. Mr. Bothamley is a past
PetroSkills since 1997. He has over 28 years of combined in both UK and Norwegian North Sea sectors oil and gas chairman of the SPE Facilities Subcommittee and a former
industrial and academic experience in the USA, North producing fields. Mr. Barry has served as an officer in the member of the GPSA Data Book Editorial Review Board.
Africa and Europe. He has been an active international oil Jakarta and Dubai SPE sections. He holds a BSCE from the Mr. Bothamley holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from
and gas consulting engineer since 1993 involved in University of Notre Dame and an MSCE from Marquette Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and
projects related to surface production operations, University, and is a registered Professional Engineer in a Diploma in Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology from
upstream facilities, field development, oil and gas Colorado, USA. P&C the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver,
production systems performance optimization, equipment BC Canada. GP PF PL
selection, petroleum fluids treating and processing and MR. ROBI BENDORF, CPSM, MCIPS, CPM,
M.Ed., has over 35 years of purchasing and sales MR. JOHN C. BOURDON has more than 29
fluids disposal management. From 1980 to 95, he worked years’ experience in hydrocarbon processing and
on several oil and gas production technical issues and led experience, involving domestic and international activities,
for a broad range of manufacturing and service businesses. specializes in sulfur recovery processes for the petroleum
research and development projects in areas such as: refining industry. Mr. Bourdon has been involved in the
cement slurries, hydraulic fracturing fluids, proppant He has extensive experience in consulting and training in
purchasing, contracts, reengineering the supply development of several sulfur-related technologies and
transport, emulsions, drilling muds, formation damage, mechanical innovations, has authored several papers and
cutting transport, H2S/CO2 corrosion, fluid flow and management process, the management of procurement
functions, global sourcing of materials and components, made presentations worldwide. He has experience with
rheology, drag and pour point reducing agents and several E&C firms including extensive start-up and
petroleum processing. He has successfully designed and reducing cost of purchased materials and services, and
negotiation of complex transactions and contracts. He has troubleshooting activities. He consults for both North
delivered several short courses, seminars and lectures in American and international clients. He is a registered
a variety of oil and gas topics throughout the world. He is held purchasing and contracts management positions in
high volume manufacturing, subcontract, job shop, and professional engineer and member of Chi Epsilon Sigma
a former tenured university full professor in Louisiana and Honor Society. Mr. Bourdon is fluent in English and
Oklahoma, a current member of several international service operations, involving gas turbine manufacturing,
power generation, nuclear and fossil power plants, Spanish. Mr. Bourdon has a BS in Chemical Engineering
societies including SPE, AIChE, ACS and ASEE, and a from the Georgia Institute of Technology and advanced
member of the US National Engineering Honor Society Tau electrical distribution and control, air conditioning
equipment and global sourcing services. He served as degrees in other fields. GP PF PL
Beta Pi. He is an invited Adjunct Professor of Petroleum
Engineering at the University of Tulsa and a member of its Manager of Customer and Supplier Development for the MR. FORD BRETT is recognized worldwide as a
Industrial Advisory Board. He is the author of numerous Westinghouse Trading Company. He has given leader in the area of Petroleum Project and Process
technical publications, the recipient of several presentations on numerous purchasing and contract Management. A registered Professional Engineer, Mr. Brett
professorship, research, teaching and merit awards and management topics to the Institute for Supply Management has consulted in over 45 countries on five continents.
listed in the Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. He (ISM/NAPM), major universities, and numerous in-house Formerly, Mr. Brett worked with Amoco Production
received a Chemical Engineering State Diploma from the seminars for industrial and services clients in the US and Company where he specialized in drilling projects in the
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Bering Sea, North Slope of Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, one of the largest integrated oil companies in Russia with phenol plants, polypropylene plants, crude oil treating
offshore Trinidad, and Wyoming. He has received many a daily production of 700,000 BOPD. During his career, facilities and crude oil pipelines, LNG/NGL liquefaction
honors, including the 2000 Crosby Medallion for Global Dr. Diyashev worked in R&D, consulting, and the service plants, and LNG receiving terminals. Specific equipment
Competitiveness by the American Society for and production sides of the business both in Russia and experience includes gas turbines, steam turbines,
Competitiveness for its work in global competitiveness internationally. Prior to his work with Sibneft, Dr. Diyashev cryogenic expanders, centrifugal compressors,
through quality in knowledge management, best practices was one of the key Schlumberger specialists to start the reciprocating compressors, centrifugal pumps, positive
transfer, and operations improvement. For his work on horizontal drilling project in Noyabrsk Western Siberia. displacement pumps, polymer extruders, refrigeration
improved drilling techniques he was also honored in He holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Texas systems, diesel engines, motors, generators, dryers,
1996 with a nomination for the National Medal of A&M University, and advanced degrees in Physics and chemical injection systems, cooling towers, boilers, and
Technology, the US Government’s highest technology Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and loading arms. Mr. Foerg holds a MS, Mechanical
award. In 2010, Mr. Brett advised the US Department of Technology. He has authored 30 technical papers. Dr. Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a
Interior as one of seven reviewers of the 30 Day Study Diyashev is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural BS, Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He
immediately following the BP Gulf of Mexico Tragedy, and Sciences, and served on the Board of Directors of the is a Registered Professional Engineer in Wyoming,
in 2011-2012 he served on the National Academy Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE International), and Colorado, Alberta, and Texas and is a CCHEST Safety
Committee to advise the US Bureau of Safety and on the boards of various private E&P, service and Trained Supervisor (STS). ME
Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), charged with engineering firms in the petroleum industry. Twice in his
evaluating the Effectiveness of Safety and Environmental career Dr. Diyashev was elected to serve as a DR. THEODORE (TED) FRANKIEWICZ
Management Systems for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Distinguished Lecturer of the SPE, in 2005-06, and in has over 30 years of experience in the oil industry with
Gas Operations. From 2015-2017, he served on the 2017-18. P&C MDT Occidental Petroleum, Unocal Corp., Natco Group (now
National Academy’s Gulf Research Program Advisory Cameron), and currently, SPEC Services, Inc. He has a
Board. Mr. Brett has authored or co-authored over 30 MR. WILLIAM (BILL) DOKIANOS has Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of
technical publications, and has been granted over 30 US over 35 years’ experience in engineering, production and Chicago, holds 15 patents, and has authored over 25
and International patents - including several patents pipeline. He is a Professional Engineer in the states of professional publications. At Unocal, he was responsible
relating to elimination of ‘Drill Bit Whirl’ (which the Oil Louisiana and New Mexico, and holds a General and for developing the water treatment systems, which were
and Gas Journal Listed as one of the 100 most significant Commercial Contractor License in the State of New installed in the Gulf of Thailand to remove mercury and
developments in the history of the petroleum industry). In Mexico. Over the last 7 years he has been instructing for arsenic as well as residual oil from the produced water. At
1999 the Society of Petroleum Engineers honored him as PetroSkills | John M. Campbell. He instructs the PF4 Natco Group he developed an effective vertical column
a Distinguished Lecturer. He served on the SPE course, ‘Oil Production and Processing Facilities’. He has flotation vessel design and used CFD to diagnose
International Board of Directors 2007 to 2010 where he actively consulted over the past 10 years with ExxonMobil, problems with existing water treatment equipment as well
served as Drilling and Completions Technical Director. Shell Exploration and Production, Sandridge Energy, as to design new equipment. He was an SPE Distinguished
Mr. Brett holds a BS in mechanical engineering and Repsol and Chevron. Mr. Dokianos’ onshore consulting Lecturer on Produced Water Treatment in 2009-10, and
physics from Duke University as well as an MS in has focused on optimizing production utilizing casing gas serves on the SPE Steering Committee for their Global
Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from systems, vessel and battery design, revising gun barrel Workshop Series on Water Treatment. His field/
Oklahoma State University. PM design for better separation, production optimization and operational experience in oilfield chemistry, design of
production troubleshooting (bad oil and or bad water). process equipment, and the development of process
MR. PAUL CARMODY has more than 34 years His offshore experiences include analyzing and solving systems has provided him with unique insights into the
of experience in the petroleum industry. During his 32 poor platform up time at GB 128, GC 65 and other issues that challenge operators as their water production
years with Hess Corporation and its predecessor, offshore locations. Activities included process control and water treatment complexity and cost escalates over
Amerada Hess Corporation, Mr. Carmody has been changes due to stacked separator vessels, revising safe time. PF
involved in nearly all aspects of oil and gas engineering charts, operating settings and reconfiguration of pipeline
from the reservoir sand face through the outlet of gas export pumps. He managed a subsea tieback project in MR. RONALD FREND is a registered engineer,
plants. He is a registered Professional Engineer in North which the platform modifications included high pressure and has extensive engineering and management
Dakota where his experience includes Bakken oil vessel redesign, dehydrator expansion, adding a second experience in the oil and gas sector. He rose to a senior
development, production engineering, pipelines, and vapor recovery unit, restaging high pressure and position in Shell International (Middle East) before
compressor station installations. West Texas experience intermediate gas compressors and modifying bulk oil opening a worldwide engineering consultancy based in
includes CO2 EOR flood gas gathering, CO2 pipelines, and process design. He has been responsible for DOT England. His entire career has been concerned with
gas plant engineering. His gas plant experience includes compliance activities and reporting. This compliance practical applications of maintenance and engineering
three expansions of a CO2 Gas plant, cryogenic gas responsibility has included development and implantation from a solid business foundation. Ron is experienced in
plants, and lean oil plant processes where he has supplies of federal risk programs and smart pigging. Mr. Dokianos a variety of maintenance analytical techniques as well as
process and design engineering services. He has served holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from possessing management skills suitable to a large multi-
as a board member of the CO2 Conference in Midland. Mr. Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. GP PF national corporation working in the oil and gas industry.
Carmody graduated from the University of Connecticut Ron has also undergone specialized training on the
with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. PF PL MR. BILL FINCH is a passionate operations following topics: management techniques, non-
leader for onshore oilfield, gas plant, and pipeline destructive testing, oil tanker cargo operations,
MR. JOHN CURRY is a recognized authority on operations. He is driven to deliver results through an instrumentation and control, resistance and gas welding,
the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, pressure action bias, is committed to safety, and strongly believes vibration analysis, infrared thermography, and ultrasonics.
vessel design, fabrication and metallurgy. He founded and in engineering and leadership operational presence in the He is a Registered Engineer with an MSc from
was President of Gulfex, Inc. for more than 37 years. This field or plant. Bill’s strengths include engaging people in Huddersfield University in England as well as being a
firm is a major producer of pressure vessels for the the workplace and building competencies. He uses a certified Chief Engineer Officer (marine). Ron is currently
refining, natural gas, oil production and petrochemical pragmatic, practical approach to engineering support and Technical Director of Facilities Training for PetroSkills
industries. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer on Section work processes. Regarding operational discipline, Bill with special responsibility for Mechanical Engineering
VIII, Div.1 of the Code teaching engineers worldwide on uses continuous improvement principles that often training. PF ME PL
pressure vessels. He consults in the field of upgrading exceed business goals. His core competencies include a
and rerating existing pressure vessels for new service. He strong process engineering background, leveraging MR. RICHARD (RICK) GENTGES has
continues to be a volunteer for the Boy Scouts of America human capacity, operational know-how, building over 36 years’ experience in the design, construction, and
promoting high adventure programs for older scouts. He competency, decision making, translating strategy to operation of underground natural gas storage facilities.
has been teaching Biblical History for over 25 years. After delivery, system integration, teacher/coach, and risk His experience includes assignments in operations,
completing his mechanical engineering training, he management. Bill is a registered Professional Engineer in technical support, engineering management, and project
completed an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Louisiana, Montana, and Texas. He has a BS in Chemical management. Most recently (2010-2012) he served as
He spent two years in night school studying metallurgy at Engineering from Montana State University and post Senior Project Manager for Cook Inlet Natural Gas
Rice University. ME graduate work toward a MChE at University of Houston. Storage Alaska, LLC, and was responsible for overall
O&M
construction of the first commercial underground gas
DR. ISKANDER DIYASHEV is a director and storage facility in Alaska. From 1982-2010 he worked for
a co-founder of Petroleum and Energy Technology MR. WOLFGANG FOERG has over 20 years’ ANR Pipeline Company where he held various technical
Advisors, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm based experience in plant system design, control system design and managerial positions involving gas storage assets.
in Houston, Texas, focused on drilling, completion and and selection, procurement, engineering management, His technical experience includes performing and
stimulation (www.1penta.com). Prior to that Dr. Diyashev and installation and commissioning of vendor proprietary analyzing well tests, reservoir performance analysis,
was an officer and a board member with Independent equipment. His experience includes assignments as reservoir simulation, and overall storage facility
Resource Development Corporation, based in Moscow project engineer, rotating equipment specialist, lead optimization. During his career he managed construction
with operations in Western Siberia Russia. Dr. Diyashev engineer for major EPC contractors, as well as experience projects that involved enhancements to existing gas
was responsible for the planning of field development, in construction, module design, commissioning and storage facilities and construction of new gas storage
reserves evaluation and addition, planning of exploration startup of plants. The types of plants include air separation facilities. The scope of construction included the drilling
activities, as well as engineering and technology. In 2001- plants, gas plants, gas storage facilities, power generation, and completion of vertical and horizontal wells, upgrades
2006 Dr. Diyashev served as a Chief Engineer for Sibneft, MTBE plants, refinery wastewater treatment facilities, to gathering systems, new compression, and gas
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processing equipment. Mr. Gentges is a past Chairman of State MOTEMS, and presently a member of PIANC Fortune 500 company, creating a successful organization-
the Underground Gas Storage Committee of the American working group, WG153, that is developing wide employee development plan, and developing the IT
Gas Association (1994). He also served as Chairman of recommendations for the design of marine oil terminals. infrastructure for a start-up company in both project
the Underground Gas Storage Research Committee for GP ME PL management and leadership roles. He completed his PhD
the Pipeline Research Council International (1998-2003), work at the University of Idaho and Corillins University.
and served on the National Petroleum Council Gas MR. GERALD GUIDROZ started out as a He earned an MA degree in Management/Leadership from
Storage Team (2003-2004). Mr. Gentes holds a BSc in vibration test engineer for the space shuttle main engines. the Claremont Graduate School and took classes with
Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan He then moved into the oil and gas industry on the North Peter F. Drucker, “the father of modern management.”
(1981). PF Slope on the production side of the business. He worked James is a contributing author of 140 Project Management
as a rotating equipment engineer for several years as well Tips in 140 Words or Less, 2010; Making Sense of
MR. ANDY GIBBINS is an experienced and as getting involved with projects involving well pads, Sustainability in Project Management, 2011; and Program
highly motivated oil, gas and petrochemicals consultant, pipelines, waterflood, and gas injection before moving Management: A Lifecycle Approach (2012). PPD
with experience in upstream and downstream. Andy over to the pipeline side of the business. He was able to
worked for many years in Operations Management and transfer some of his vibration experience into solving MR. MALCOLM HARRISON graduated in
Technical positions with Shell and NOVA and has complex piping and equipment problems. Mr. Guidroz Chemical Engineering in 1981 and completed an MBA in
significant experience in Operational Excellence and worked with the Trans-Alaska pipeline on pipeline and 1995. He has worked mostly in the areas of oil and gas,
Process Safety. He has excellent planning, organizational, tank corrosion monitoring and repairs and worked as a cryogenics and gas monetization. Mr. Harrison has
project and people skills, resulting in effective project construction engineer at the Valdez Marine terminal. He worked for BP, BOC, Foster Wheeler and BG. He was
coordination and successful achievement of business then transferred to the refinery side of the business Director of Process Engineering for Foster Wheeler and,
improvement goals. Andy has excellent interpersonal, working for multiple clients as an engineering consultant. most recently, was BG’s Chief Process Engineer. He has
communication and presentation skills; he is diplomatic, He has been involved with major refinery upgrades, travelled a lot, worked on all the continents except
with the ability to influence at all levels within an multiple turnarounds and greenfield projects. He has Antarctica, visited more countries and encountered more
organization. He has thorough knowledge of and acted as owner’s engineer on projects including a new cultures than he can remember. While his foundations are
experience with change management. Andy has over 20 spill response barge for drilling in the arctic. Mr. Guidroz in process engineering, the MBA sparked an interest in
years of industrial experience and 12 years of consultancy has been involved with all phases of projects from FEL1/ corporate strategy, in changing organizations and
and training experience in safety and leadership, project Conceptual Design to Detailed Design on through building high performing teams. GP
and change management. He holds a BEng (Hons) in construction. His areas of expertise are in piping
Chemical Engineering from University of Bradford, UK. specification and design, welding, pressure vessels, heat MR. RON HINN is the EVP for Sales and Member
GP exchangers, fired heaters, pumps, compressors, drivers, Engagement for PetroSkills. He is a people oriented
valves, pipelines, and stress analysis. Mr. Guidroz has a manager, possessing strong leadership and
MR. DAN GIBSON is a consulting engineer with broad knowledge base from over twenty 28 of experience communication skills. A registered professional engineer,
over 35 years of experience in production, completions, in the oil and gas business. ME Ron’s 39-year career has spanned numerous roles
and well integrity issues from oil and gas fields all over including staff engineering, engineering supervision,
the world. After working as a roughneck and roustabout MR. ROGER HADDAD, P.E., PMP, is a corporate knowledge management and professional
through college, he started his professional life as a practicing project manager with Occidental Petroleum staffing and competency development. Ron is an active
facility engineer in Alaska. He has worked his way through and has over 25 years of design and project experience in supporter of global engineering accreditation activities,
the value stream from facilities to completions with jobs the Oil and Gas and Chemical Industries. He started his having served in multiple roles for ABET up to and
in Anchorage, Denver, Houston, Gabon, Congo, Egypt, career as a structural engineer and progressed from including Executive Committee of the ABET Board. Ron
Scotland, Russia, and Australia. He is currently a design to construction to project management. He gained received a BS degree from the University of Tulsa in
consulting engineer, working on completions and well his project management skills while working on fast-track petroleum engineering. MDT
integrity problems for a wide range of independents and projects in North America where he held various positions
majors. He has worked as a Wells Technical Authority for in project and portfolio management. For the last 10 DR. RODNEY JACOBS is recognized as a
a large international independent with a varied portfolio of years, Roger has been managing large offshore and worldwide leader in the field of Instrumentation,
offshore oil and gas wells. He was the first Senior onshore oil and gas projects in the Middle East. With his Automation and Process Control. He has been involved in
Completion Advisor for a super major. As part of this role, extensive experience in design, construction, risk instrumentation for the last 35 years, and has presented a
he worked with teams on both major technical incidents management and project controls, he has been managing great deal of workshops in many countries around the
and on planning and assurance of high profile projects large project teams and contractors and working with JV world (with most of them being in countries that have an
around the world. These experiences have given him a partners as well as national oil companies. Roger earned interest in the oil and gas industries). Apart from in-house
unique viewpoint of how fields are developed; how wells a MS in Structural Engineering and a BS in Civil and public workshops, he has also presented hundreds of
are designed, constructed, and produced; how things can Engineering from the University of Buffalo, New York. He internet-based (e-learning) sessions, primarily related to
go wrong with a well during construction and production; is currently based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. process control and safety. His main area of focus
and how best to mitigate and manage well problems. He PM includes PLCs, SCADA, DCS, loop tuning,
has authored and co-authored a number of papers, instrumentation and other areas related to the control of
ranging from polymer flood management to ice mechanics MR. GERARD HAGEMAN is based in The processes. Although his primary focus has always been
and most recently a design of an innovative ICD system Hague (The Netherlands), where he settled after 33 years instrumentation, he does have qualifications in electrical
for a high rate water injection well. Dan graduated from in the downstream oil and gas business (including LNG). heavy current aspects, and has lectured this at university
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater and Studied Arctic He is equipped with thorough knowledge and experience level. In addition to presenting international seminars, he
Engineering at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. His in LNG, gas and refinery operations, start-up, design, is also actively involved as a consulting engineer, in his
teaching style focuses on first principles and developing process technology, teamwork, change processes, and area of expertise. He is a past recipient of the N&Z award,
an understanding of why things happen which then competency assessment. He started his career with the which is one of the highest awards, in the field of
dictates an appropriate response. P&C Gulf Oil refinery in The Netherlands as a process engineer, instrumentation, in South Africa. Apart from a Doctorate
followed by a job as economic analyst for Gulf Oil in Electrical Engineering, Light Current, he also has an
MR. JOSH GILAD, P.E., has 40 years of domestic Chemicals in London, after which he joined Shell for 29 Honors degree in Psychology, and is internationally
and international experience in the engineering, analysis, years. During his career with Shell, Mr. Hageman has certified in training and assessment. IC&E
inspection, troubleshooting, forensic investigation and worked in numerous countries including Malaysia,
expert witness for marine liquid bulk terminals for oil Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, MR. ROBIN JENTZ has 38 years of oil and gas
(crude, products) and gas (LNG, LPG), cargo handling United Kingdom, Denmark and, of course, The processing experience. His work has included most
and storage facilities, prime movers, piping and pipelines. Netherlands. He has been responsible for Process process areas of oil and gas production, including design
His experience includes pipeline flow and hydraulic Engineering, Design, Operation, Start-up, Process Safety and testing of low dewpoint glycol dehydration units,
transient analysis, pipe stress analysis, pipeline on- (Integrity), Interface Management, Change Processes, analysis of flare and relief systems using dynamic
bottom stability, pipeline integrity & fitness for service Competency Assurance and Training. He holds an MS in simulation programs, retrofitting gas/liquid separators to
assessment. Throughout his years with Brown & Root Chemical Engineering from Twente University in The increase capacity and eliminate entrainment, and
(now KBR), Han-Padron Associates (now CH2M-Hill), Netherlands. He is a member of KIVI, i.e. The Royal Dutch upgrading oil dehydrators. Mr. Jentz has worked for both
and as an independent consultant, Mr. Gilad has been Institute of Engineers. Mr. Hageman joined PetroSkills | operating and engineering contracting companies. He is
involved in the design and installation of numerous single John M. Campbell in 2012. GP PF a Registered Professional Engineer in Alaska and
point mooring (SPM) systems and other offshore Washington. Mr. Jentz received his BS in Chemical
petroleum terminals, fixed-berth and offshore cargo DR. JAMES L. HANER is the head of Ultimate Engineering from California State University Long Beach
transfer systems, oil and gas pipelines, Pipeline End Business Resources (UBR) Consulting, specializing in in 1974. PF
Manifolds (PLEMs), pig launching/receiving and oil “Building Better Businesses.” UBR is an independent firm
offering business consulting and project management MR. STEPHEN JEWELL is an independent oil
storage facilities. Mr. Gilad holds a BS and MS in and gas consultant and advisor with 30 years’ experience
mechanical engineering from the Technion, Haifa and is a services to Fortune 500 companies in the US, Europe,
Africa, and China. James has more than 30 years of in the upstream sector. He was previously the Managing
registered Professional Engineer in the States of TX, NY Director and co-founder of Xodus Subsurface Ltd, the
and CA. He is one of the original authors of the California experience in business and IT. His responsibilities have
included establishing a corporate web presence for a Wells and Subsurface company within the Xodus Group

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of technical consultants. He was also Chief Operating positions within the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. Mr. MR. CHRISTIAAN LUCA is associate partner
Officer and a founding shareholder of Composite Energy Kraus has obtained a sound basis in Facility/Processing in Community Wisdom Partners, a consultancy
Limited, a European Unconventional Gas company, Engineering with an emphasis on Plant and Field specialized in the creation of mutually beneficial
growing the company from seed capital of $500k to an Operations in Oil and Gas Production, both sweet and relationships between business and societal actors. He
ultimate sale value of over $60 million in 5 years. He has sour. He is also the President of D. Kraus Oil & Gas has 32 years prior experience in the oil and gas industry
over 16 years’ experience with Amerada Hess starting as Consulting Corp., a member of APPEGA and holds a BS with Shell starting as a petroleum engineer in various
petroleum engineer and progressing to Acting General in Chemical Engineering from the University of countries around the world before moving into senior
Manager of its North Sea Operations Base. He received a Saskatchewan. He currently resides by the lake in Wakaw, corporate positions in technical and commercial strategy.
BEng (Honors) degree in Electronic Engineering from the Saskatchewan. GP PF In his latest role he was responsible for the design and
University of Sheffield and speaks Norwegian and French. implementation of Shell´s global practice in non-
MDT MR. JAMES LANGER is a registered technical (or societal) risk management. This included
professional chemical engineer in Texas and California. training hundreds of advisors, engineers, managers, and
DR. SATISH K. KALRA is a petroleum Jim worked for Hess as a Senior Process Engineering executives in the practicalities of delivering a timely and
engineer with over 25 years of management, operations, Advisor for 8 years. He is retired from Shell having proactive response to pressures and challenges from the
teaching, research, and consulting experience with worked 28 years as a Senior Staff Process Engineer, and external world. His experience across technical,
national and private oil companies. As an Associate Principal Technical Expert for Shell / Shell Global commercial, and non-technical disciplines allows him to
Professor of Petroleum Engineering, he taught graduate Solutions. He has had a global job for the past 20 years communicate easily across all professional boundaries.
and undergraduate students at the University of and had experience in offshore / onshore, shallow water / Christiaan has a broad toolkit at his disposal to improve
Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette. He also worked for the deepwater, heavy oil / light oil, water treating, and natural governance, streamline processes, and create the cultural
University of Texas at Austin. His career includes gas processing. He has been a project manager working change needed for proactive management of non-
assignments with ONGC (National Oil Company of India), field development projects through all the phase gates technical risks in capital projects and operations. He has
ARCO Offshore (now BP), BJ Services, Agio Oil and Gas, and stages. He frequently travels the globe assisting a BSc in Mining Engineering and a MSc in Petroleum
Schlumberger / Holditch, Miller and Lents and SKAL-TEX operations with process issues, and showing them how to Engineering (Honors), both from Delft University of
Corporation. He is widely published in technical literature unlock additional barrels through the application of Technology in The Netherlands. PB
and was the Chairman of the National SPE Committee on production optimization. This has delivered over $2
Monographs. His technical expertise includes the design billion in value to sponsors. Jim installed Shell’s smallest, MR. KEN LUNSFORD is the Project
and supervision of production and well completion most expensive gas plant. The project took 8 years and is Management Discipline Manager for PetroSkills. He has
operations, formation damage and sand control, reservoir located on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach more than 38 years’ experience in engineering and
management, technology transfer and contract California. Jim graduated with a BS in Chemical management of oil, gas, chemicals and plastics
negotiations. He actively participated in several Engineering from UCLA and has an MBA from development. During his 32 years with ConocoPhillips,
technology transfer agreements with various Indian, Pepperdine. GP PF he led development teams on projects in the United
Chinese, and Russian companies. He is fluent in English, States, Norway, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates. His
Russian and several Indian languages. Recently he was MR. PERRY LOVELACE, CMRP, is a Senior diverse engineering and project management background
nominated as a member of the Russian Academy of Instructor/Consultant for Pathfinder Learning Solutions includes sour gas plants, oil, gas and petrochemical
Natural Sciences US Section. He received an M.S. and LLC. He specializes in Maintenance Management and pipelines, engineered plastics processes and materials
Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the Gubkin Oil Competency-based Training Programs and has over 35 handling, batch sulfur chemical processes, liquefied
Institute, Moscow, Russia and a degree in law from years’ experience in industrial training and consulting. natural gas projects and pilot plants. Additionally, he was
Gujarat University, India. P&C MDT After graduate studies, he worked for a large consulting corporate project controls manager for Phillips Petroleum
mechanical/electrical engineering firm applying rigorous with responsibility for developing business processes
DR. MOHAN G. KELKAR is a professor of systems analysis to industrial facility design and and training for asset development, value improving
petroleum engineering at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, construction. He has dedicated his career to providing practices, project controls, contracting strategy, risk
Oklahoma. His main research interests include reservoir high quality learning experiences, keeping in tune with management, reviews and assists and joint venture non-
characterization, production optimization, and risk the changing economic and technological environment, operated project assurance. He received his BS and MS
analysis. He is involved in several research projects, especially as applied to long-term facilities and equipment degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
which are partially funded by various national and management. He has assisted many organizations Missouri-Columbia. He is a registered professional
international oil companies, the US Department of Energy, through on-site consultation and training. Clients include engineer in the State of Texas. ME PM
and Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and petroleum, industrial and utility organizations of different
Technology. He has taught various short courses for many types and sizes in the United States, Kingdom of Saudi MR. HARVEY MALINO is an Instructor/
oil companies in Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Nigeria, Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Nigeria, Angola, Consultant for PetroSkills | John M. Campbell. He has
Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Scotland, India, Denmark and across Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, more than 40 years’ experience in the chemical and
the United States. He has been a consultant to many oil Singapore, Trinidad/Tobago, UK, Romania, Austria and hydrocarbon processing industries. During his 28 years
companies, as well as to the United Nations. He received Mexico. An engaging and popular speaker/facilitator, Mr. with Union Carbide Corporation/UOP, he held both
a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lovelace continually receives high marks from technical and commercial positions. These included:
Bombay, an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering and a Ph.D. participants. A CMRP member of the Society for Molecular Sieve Technical Manager- Design and Field
in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals, Mr. Lovelace Service; Licensing Manager for the Ethylene Oxide
Pittsburgh, and a J.D. from the University of Tulsa. P&C holds a BS in Science Education and an MS in Botany business; Area Sales and Marketing Manager for
from the University of Oklahoma, with pre-doctoral Southeast Asia; Business Manager for the Gas Processing
MR. BILL KEMP has 40 years of oil and gas studies in Plant Ecology at the University of California. In Business Group; and, World Wide Sales Manager for the
industry experience in engineering, operations, product March 2016, Mr. Lovelace was inducted into the Gas Processing Business Group. Mr. Malino has lived
development and commercialization, business University of Oklahoma, College of Education Hall of and worked in New Hampshire, Maine, New York,
development, sales, and marketing. Bill is responsible for Fame for his 50 years of innovative education and Singapore and Chicago. He is currently based in Sullivans
strategic member/client interaction in workforce outstanding teaching. O&M PPD Island, South Carolina where he is President of his own
development, consulting and software solutions in the consulting business. Mr. Malino is a registered
upstream, midstream and downstream segments. MR. PETE LUAN has over 25 years of Professional Engineer in the State of New Hampshire. He
Previously, Bill was manager, sales and marketing, for the international upstream project management experience. is a Senior Member of the Advisory Board of the Laurance
Oilfield Technology Group of Hexion in Houston, He has also consulted for the past 10 years helping Reid Gas Conditioning Conference in Norman, OK. Mr.
beginning in 2004. At Hexion Bill was responsible for energy companies improve their management of capital Malino earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the
new stimulation technology commercialization as well as projects. He has an extensive track record of helping E&P City College of New York; and, an MBA from Pace
managing strategic relationships with customers and companies improve their capital project performance. He University in New York. GP
industry organizations. He began his career with has been particularly successful with those clients who
Halliburton in 1977 as an engineer-in-training. He had are faced with large capital projects and require a step- DR. ANDREA MANGIAVACCHI is
numerous field engineering, sales, product marketing and change in organizational capabilities. Pete is a facilitator currently involved in international deep-water offshore
business development positions at Halliburton. As global and advisor to top management, many of whom continue projects on behalf of major oil and gas operators. He is
marketing manager for stimulation in the late 1990s, he to seek his advice even after the development of their also an active member of work groups involved in the
led the introduction of various innovative acidizing and project organizations has been completed. He has worked development of US and international standards for
fracturing technologies. He left Halliburton in 2000 to with numerous strategy, project execution plan offshore structures. After an early academic career with
start a consulting company specializing in oilfield market development, risk management, Lessons Learned, the University of Rome, Italy and with Rice University in
research and new technology commercialization. Bill has stakeholder alignment, etc. Pete worked for Amoco Houston, Andrea joined Brown & Root (today KBR),
been active in SPE and served numerous roles at both the Production Co. managing major capital projects in where over the next 25 years he was involved in a number
local and national level. Bill has a BSEE from the Azerbaijan, the Middle East, and Latin America. He holds of major international offshore oil and gas projects (Gulf
University of Texas at Austin. MDT a BS and an MS in Mechanical Engineering with higher of Mexico, North Sea, South America, West Africa, Asia-
honors from Rice University and has completed Pacific). He also held a number of corporate positions in
MR. DALE KRAUS has over 30 years of management training at Harvard Business School. He is the area of deep water technology, fixed and floating
progressive responsibility from staff to management PMP certified. PM offshore structures, and engineering systems. Andrea has
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extensive experience in conceptual field development (78) in Chemical Engineering, all from Oklahoma State programs targeted at enhancing management and
projects, structural analysis and design, hydrodynamics, University. GP PF ME employee productivity. He co-authored The Internal
naval architecture, Computer Aided Engineering and Outplacement Handbook and A Trainer’s Guide to
Design. Andrea holds a MSc in Nuclear Engineering and MR. M A N I C K AVA S A K A N Performance Appraisal. His peers have recognized him on
a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University (MANICKAM) S. NADAR is a consultant numerous occasions. The American Society for Training
of Rome. He has authored or co-authored over 30 Principal Petroleum engineer with 27 years of experience and Development recognized Ronnie in 1997 for his
technical papers, and holds two patents. PL OS in the upstream oil and gas industry and 6 years in contributions to the profession by awarding him with one
petrochemical process operations. With a strong of their highest honors, the “Torch” award. The Dallas
DR. HOWARD L. MCKINZIE is a petroleum background in Production Technology, Well Operations, Chapter of ASTD recognized him as the “Professional of
consultant from Sugar Land, Texas. His prior experience Well Completions & Workovers, Artificial Lift, Asset the Year” in 1989 and his alma mater; Texas A&M
includes 21 years with Texaco, Inc. and Getty Oil Modeling and Optimization, he has specialized in artificial University at Commerce, selected him as a “Distinguished
Company in areas of production and completions lift technologies, well and system designs, analysis, Alumni” in 1990. PPD
engineering. Specialties include sand control, downhole trouble-shooting, reliability improvement and production
oil/water separation, compact surface oil/water enhancement. He has made significant contribution in the DR. PHIL NOTZ is an offshore industry consultant
separation, artificial lift with progressive cavity pumps, artificial lift selection, design, operation, surveillance and for flow assurance issues. He worked as a chemical
formation damage, water shutoff, drag reduction optimization of large volume gas lifted and ESP wells for engineer for DuPont from 1968 to 1971, a research
techniques for fluid flow, and well stimulation by acidizing many operators. Mr. Nadar has worked for major scientist and reservoir engineer for Getty Oil Company/
and fracturing. He worked in the area of surface well international operating companies and handled various Texaco/Chevron from 1978 to 2002. He worked for
logging, and was one of the co-developers of QGM responsibilities in production engineering operations and offshore engineering and construction firms, Doris Inc.
(Qualitative Gas Measurement) and QFT (Qualitative artificial lift systems, onshore and offshore. In the service (2002-2004) and Technip USA (2004-2008) as flow
Fluorescence Technique). Prior to Getty, he was employed sector, he has delivered many challenging well and assurance manager. While at Getty/Texaco, Dr. Notz
by GTE Labs in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he network modeling and optimization projects that helped taught courses in surfactant polymer flooding, reservoir
worked primarily in the areas of catalyst development clients achieve substantial increase in production, engineering, carbon dioxide flooding, reservoir fluid
research and developing photo-catalytic techniques. He operation efficiency and cost savings. Recently he has properties and flow assurance to operations in the US,
was the Chairman of the Completion Engineering helped companies to implement real-time surveillance UK, Ecuador and Saudi Arabia. He was Texaco’s
Association in 1991-1992, after being Vice Chairman in and optimization systems that allows operators use representative on the GPA research committee, the
1989-1990. He was a member of the research team that collaborative work environments for achieving their KPIs. Colorado School of Mines Gas Hydrates Consortium and
received the Special Meritorious Award for Engineering A university topper and gold medalist, Mr. Nadar holds a the DeepStar Flow Assurance Committee. Dr. Notz has a
Innovation from Petroleum Engineer International in BSc degree in Chemistry from Madurai University, India BS from the University of Wisconsin in Chemistry
1999. He was a member of the team that received the and a degree in Chemical Engineering from Institution of (Chemical Engineering minor) and a PhD from Michigan
Hearst Newspapers Energy Award for Technology in 1998. Engineers (India). With several SPE papers and text book State University in Analytical Chemistry. OS
He has twice received Texaco’s Corporate Technology publications to his credit, he has conducted many
Innovation Award and holds numerous patents. He held a workshops, training seminars and short courses for SPE MR. WILLIAM K. OTT is an independent
post-doctoral appointment in Chemistry at Brown and other organizations. P&C MDT petroleum consultant and is the founder of Well
University, and subsequently taught engineering there for Completion Technology, an international engineering
several more years. He received a BS in Chemistry and MR. JOHN ROBERT (BOB) NICHOL is consulting and petroleum industry training firm
Mathematics from Central Oklahoma University, and a President of Petrobob Consulting Limited, located in established in 1986. Before consulting and teaching, he
PhD in Physical Chemistry from Arizona State University. Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada. He has over 35 years’ was division engineer for Halliburton’s Far East region
P&C experience in a broad range of petroleum engineering based in Singapore and a research field coordinator for
roles including field operations, reservoir engineering, Halliburton in Oklahoma. He works regularly with and on
MR. D. JOHN MORGAN is based in Denver, and engineering research. Bob received a BSc in Electrical wells requiring various well completions techniques,
Colorado, and is the Chairman Emeritus of Engineering, an MEng in Mineral Engineering, and a PhD principally in East Asia. He has conducted technical
PetroSkills|John M. Campbell. He has over 50 years’ in Petroleum Engineering, all from the University of petroleum industry courses worldwide and written
experience in the design, startup, and troubleshooting of Alberta. He is currently employed at the Alberta numerous technical papers relating to well completion
oil and gas facilities. He has published extensively on Government, Department of Energy in Edmonton. P&C and workover operations. He is a registered professional
sour gas treating, sulfur recovery, CO2 treating, materials engineer in Texas, and a 25-year member of SPE. He
of construction, LNG training, and cryogenic gas MR. TIM NIEMAN has 30 years of experience as received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the
processing. Mr. Morgan consults for both North American a risk and decision analyst, economist and petroleum University of Missouri. P&C
and international clients in the gas processing industry. scientist. His professional experience includes 20 years
He performs training in LNG facilities, oil and gas in leading and conducting projects of various sizes and DR. CARLOS PALACIOS is a National
production facilities, and gas plants around the world. Mr. scopes involving the application of decision and risk Association of Engineers (NACE) certified Chemical
Morgan has served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on analysis methodologies in the energy and environmental Treatment Corrosion Specialist and Internal Corrosion
LNG in 2005/06, 2008/09, and 2014/15. He is very active sectors, and 10 years as a practicing petroleum Specialist, and is the author of numerous technical
in the industry, including the Senior Advisory Committee geophysicist. His background includes work in decision publications on the subject of corrosion. He has a BS, an
of the Laurance Reid Gas Conditioning Conference; analysis, risk analysis, business modeling, financial MSc, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, and Post-
Brimstone Sulfur Symposium Technical Committee; forecasting, strategic planning, R&D portfolio Doctoral studies in Erosion/Corrosion from the University
International Committee of GPA/GPSA, and has served as management, software development, geology, and of Tulsa. His 30 years of experience in the oil and gas
Adjunct Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Colorado geophysics. He has also taught numerous training industry have resulted in his becoming a subject matter
School of Mines. Mr. Morgan is a recipient of the 2019 seminars in decision analysis, economics and quantitative expert on internal corrosion, erosion, chemical treatment,
Donald L. Katz Award for excellence in engineering modeling. He has a BS in geology, an MS in geophysics material selection, water treatment, oil treatment, and
education from GPA Midstream. For 30 years, he was a from Michigan State University, and an MBA from Rice corrosion monitoring in fields in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru,
member of the Editorial Review Board of the Gas University. PB Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Kuwait, and the
Processors Supplier’s Association. Mr. Morgan has many US. Dr. Palacios has been an instructor for about 20 years
MR. RONNIE NORVELL was Director of and has extensive experience in leading seminars, and
years of experience training non-native English speakers. Instructional Design and Quality at PetroSkills 2009-
He holds a BSc (Honors) in Chemical Engineering from developing and teaching industry courses in: Saudi
2012. Prior to joining PetroSkills, Ronnie served as a Sr. Arabia, Malaysia, Turkey, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Spain,
London University; and an ME in Chemical and Refinery Consultant and frequent appointments as Director of
Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, USA. GP UAE, Vietnam, Venezuela, and India. He has served as a
Continuing Excellence with the Saudi Aramco E&P professor for both undergraduate and graduate courses at
DR. MAHMOOD MOSHFEGHIAN is a Continuing Excellence Department. Prior to joining Saudi the University of Tulsa and various universities in South
Senior Technical Advisor and Senior Instructor for Aramco in 1998, Ronnie Norvell was the President and America. Dr. Palacios holds a US. Patent # 7,942,200 for
PetroSkills. He is the author of most Tips of the Month Managing Partner of Management Paradigms, a U.S. a Downhole Chemical Dispersion Device. He leads
and develops technical software for PetroSkills. He has 40 based consulting firm specializing in management and technical committees in NACE International to develop
years’ teaching experience in universities as well as for oil leadership development. Over the past forty years he has Standard Practices. He is a recipient of the NACE
and gas industries. Dr. Moshfeghian joined John M. provided senior management consulting to a large Distinguished Service Award in March 2013. He was
Campbell & Co. in 1990 as a part time consultant and spectrum of U.S. and foreign industries, managed the International Director for the NACE Foundation from 2005
then as full time instructor/consultant in 2005. Dr. training functions of two major corporations, and served to 2013. PF ME
Moshfeghian was Professor of Chemical Engineering at as a college administrator and instructor. Ronnie has
Shiraz University. Dr. Moshfeghian is a senior member of served on the Board of Directors of three international DR. DAVID PELTON has been a professional
AIChE and has published more than 125 technical papers organizations including the American Society for Training communicator for over 35 years and has performed for
on thermodynamic properties and process engineering. and Development and PetroSkills. He has also served on and spoken to audiences in the United States, Central and
Dr. Moshfeghian has presented invited papers at the continuing education faculty of the University of Texas Western Europe, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, The
international conferences. He is a member of the Editorial at Dallas and on the adjunct faculty of Amber University’s Ukraine, Africa, The Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He
Board for the International Journal of Oil, Gas, and Coal MBA program. Ronnie has authored numerous has taught at major colleges and universities and has
Technology. He holds a BS (74), an MS (75) and a PhD publications, designed and conducted a variety of been an active seminar/workshop facilitator for petroleum

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and non-petroleum businesses in many US states, and in | John M. Campbell. He holds BS and PhD degrees from exploration company. He has authored articles and
Canada, England, Holland, Ireland, Wales, the Czech and the University of London and a Diploma in Management manuals on various phases of petroleum engineering and
Slovak Republics, Benin, Nigeria, The United Arab Studies from the University of Coventry. GP PF personnel management. He is a member of API, SPE,
Emirates, Malaysia, and Singapore. Today he is a member IPAA, and TIPRO, is a Tau Beta Pi Fellow, and has various
of numerous training institutes and societies and enjoys DR. CLIFF REDUS is an independent petroleum outstanding lecturer awards. He received a BS in
a national and international reputation as a engineering consultant who specializes in production Engineering Science and an MS in Petroleum Engineering
communications consultant, lecturer, trainer, and coach. system optimization and subsea flow assurance. Prior to from the University of Texas at Austin. P&C
He received degrees from Cornell University, The New starting his consulting business, he was an Associate
England Conservatory of Music and the University of Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of MR. JOHN SCHUYLER, CAM, CCE, CMA,
Cincinnati. PPD Tulsa. He has 35 years of petroleum industry experience, CMC, CPIM, PMP and PE, is a decision analyst,
both in production research and field operations in the evaluation engineer, and investor. He founded his
MR. JASON PINGENOT has worked in the oil area of multiphase flow. His primary areas of interest are consulting practice, Decision Precision, in 1988. He has
and gas industry since 1994 with broad and deep multiphase flow in well bores, flow lines and production over 37 years of experience in analysis, consulting,
expertise in automation and power system planning, equipment, multiphase meters and pumps, computational training and management, primarily in the energy
design, engineering, system integration, management, fluid mechanics, advance separation technology and industry. His focus has been in feasibility analysis,
electrical safety, commissioning, and operations for a paraffin and hydrate deposition in production flow lines appraisals, corporate planning, and evaluation software.
wide range of oil and gas facilities including production and wells. He was in a supervisory capacity in production He has presented over 290 courses in 34 countries since
facilities, gathering systems, compressor stations, related industrial research for the last 10 years with 1989. He was vice president and petroleum engineer with
processing plants, metering facilities, and loading Texaco’s Upstream Technology Department in Houston Security Pacific National Bank, planning and evaluation
stations for projects worldwide. In his career he has Texas, with the last four years as Director of Texaco’s live analyst at Cities Service Oil Co., manager of business
served the industry as a drafting instructor and oil multiphase flows loop in Humble Texas. At Tulsa systems for Cities Service’s Petrochemicals Division, and
engineering consultant, and led the IC&E central University, he was actively engaged in teaching, research senior management consultant with a national accounting
engineering group at Encana Oil & Gas (USA) to execute in multiphase flow, and as executive director of Tulsa firm. He is a member of eight professional organizations
capital projects and develop technical and safety University Fluid Flow Projects. He received a B.S. in and is an author and speaker on modern analysis
standards. Recently, Mr. Pingenot was an owner, Vice Mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University in practices. He is the revision author of Decision Analysis
President of Engineering and IC&E Manager at a mid- Kingsville, Texas, an MS. and Ph.D., from the University for Petroleum Exploration, 2nd Ed., author of Risk and
sized consulting firm, GWD Design & Engineering based of Houston, both in Mechanical Engineering. P&C Decision Analysis in Projects, 2nd Ed., and has written
in Denver, Colorado. STV Energy Services has since over 40 articles, papers and handbook chapters. He
acquired GWD Engineering and Mr. Pingenot continues MR. GERRY H. ROSS has more than 39 years’ received BS and MS degrees in mineral-engineering
to perform a similar function as IC&E Engineering Chief formation evaluation and rock based Petrophysics physics from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA
and Senior Associate. In 2012 Mr. Pingenot joined experience. He has participated in global oil and gas from the University of Colorado. His website is www.
PetroSkills | John M. Campbell and now functions as an operations from exploration through production. From maxvalue.com. PB
instructor, consultant, content developer, and discipline 2002 until 2016, while at PetroSkills, he was an executive
manager for the IC&E discipline. Mr. Pingenot is a VP with responsibility for Alliance membership growth MR. STEPHEN SCOTT is a Chemical Engineer
registered professional engineer in the states of Colorado, and engagement. He is course director for Basic by qualification and an Atmospheric Storage Tank and
New Mexico, Utah, North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, and Petroleum Technology and the online ePetro industry Sludge Processing Specialist by experience. He is a
Oklahoma. He has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical overview program. While with Core Lab, he provided member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the
Engineering (with Special Honors) from the University of training to both majors and independents on a worldwide Energy Institute, and is qualified as an API Certified Tank
Colorado. IC&E basis. During this time, he was the instructor and co- Inspector (API 653). On leaving full time education, Steve
coordinator of an extensive internal Petrophysics joined ICI, and was involved as a key player in the
MR. WILLIAM (BILL) E. POWELL is an applications program. This multi-year program focused development of improved operational performance across
oil and gas professional with over 30 years of experience on the applications of rock and fluid data in log analysis, a broad range of chemical manufacturing plants. In 1985,
in field operations, technical sales, marketing, and formation evaluation, reservoir engineering and Steve became a member of the Institute of Petroleum team
management with autonomous operations and profit and production. He also worked with major research centers charged with the production of its ‘Tank Cleaning Safety
loss responsibility. Prior to entering the oil and gas and universities globally to provide reservoir conditions Code,’ which has become the definitive document
industry with Schlumberger, he served as a commissioned instrumentation for reservoir engineering, reservoir worldwide. In 1992, Steve became Managing Director of
officer in the US Marine Corps. Bill holds BS and MS description, and formation damage research. His Progressive Technical Services specializing in the
degrees in Physics. He is a member of the SPE, AAPG, international oil and gas knowledge was developed preparation for inspection of large diameter black oil
SEG, and EAGE. Over the course of his career, Bill has through extended assignments in South America, Asia, storage tanks and the subsequent processing of the
taught short courses and seminars on a variety of the North Sea and the US. He is a member of the SPE, resultant hydrocarbon waste for oil recovery, recycling
technical topics. Bill served as Vice President Marketing SPWLA, PESGB, SEAPEX and a past president of the and waste minimization. As a recognized industry expert,
for S.A. Holditch & Associates Inc., a well-known Aberdeen Chapter of the SPWLA. He received a BSc in Steve decided to offer his services to a wider audience
petroleum consultancy where he played a key role in Geology from Bedford College, London University. MDT and in 1997, formed Bro Nant International. As an
building the brand equity that was the basis of their independent, Steve can work for both contractor and
successful acquisition and integration into Schlumberger. DR. KENT SAUGIER is a hands-on scientific, industrial major alike and has built up an enviable
His most recent assignment with Schlumberger was as technology and business professional with 25 years’ reputation both in the UK and overseas. Strategic alliances
North America Business Development Manager for Data experience in upstream oil and gas, offshore technology, formed with leading oil industry service companies
& Consulting Services where he maintained close economics, economic modeling, international petroleum allows Bro Nant International to offer a full turnkey
relationships with numerous major and independent oil contracts, project management, software applications and capability from a single managed source. A
and gas companies. Bill currently performs the role of technology including design, licensing and comprehensive knowledge of the relevant industry
PetroSkills Integrated Disciplines Manager for commercialization. He has domestic and international standards including BS, EEMUA, and API ensures that all
Unconventional Resources. MDT experience, excellent presentation skills and strong projects are undertaken with a high degree of professional
customer awareness. He received both a B.A. and a Ph.D. integrity, all participants having been independently
DR. JAY RAJANI worked in Amsterdam, The in Chemistry from the University of California. OS audited by Bro Nant International. During the past 20
Hague and London for Royal Dutch Shell Group of PB MDT
years, Steve has provided training in Atmospheric Storage
Companies for 33 years. He started his career in the Shell Tank Management to literally hundreds of industry
Research Laboratories in Amsterdam where he was MR. RICHARD H. SCHROEDER is founder
and President of RHS Management, specializing in professionals worldwide. PL
involved in the development of refinery burners/furnaces.
He later moved to Separation Technology. He worked on technical and management consulting for the petroleum MRS. KINDRA SNOW-MCGREGOR is
the development of conventional as well as membrane industry. He has more than 45 years of experience in the Technical Director of Oil and Gas Processing with
based gas-liquid and liquid-liquid separators. From 1987 engineering, international operations, management and PetroSkills | John M Campbell. She has a master’s and
to 2005, he worked in the Gas/Liquid Treating and teaching experience in all phases of exploration, bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum
Sulphur Processes department as Principal Technologist, production, research and corporate development. He Refining from the Colorado School of Mines, and over 22
providing technical and operational excellence to all gas specializes in reservoir management, production years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She has
plants and LNG plants that were operated or advised by optimization, drilling, operations, completion and served as the technical lead on several significant projects
Shell. His last position (2005 to 2010) was as a Lead workover capabilities, personnel development, in the industry for clients such as BP, ExxonMobil,
Process Engineer with Qatargas 3&4 LNG Project (first communications and multi-discipline team building. His ConocoPhillips, Occidental, QatarGas, and XTO. Mrs.
with EPC contractor in Japan and then in Ras Laffan in professional experience includes: 9 years in engineering, Snow-McGregor has been active in the gas processing /
Qatar). The last three years of the project involvement was research and supervision with Exxon; 8 years as Senior midstream industry for many years, and is on the Board
in the construction, commissioning and start-up of the Vice President with May Petroleum, an independent of Directors for the GPSA. In addition, she serves on the
7.8 mtpy LNG trains. From 2011 to 2014 Jay worked with drilling fund company; 8 years as President of Rosewood GPSA Engineering Data Book Editorial Review Board. She
SBM Offshore in the Netherlands on the development of Resources, a privately-owned international integrated oil has published 9 technical papers at international
gas treating modules for FPSO and FLNG. Jay is now an company; and 7 years as President/Vice Chairman/ conferences, served as project coordinator for GPA
independent consultant and an instructor with PetroSkills Consultant of Harken Energy Corp., an international research report 221, and is a coinventor on two
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technology patents in the gas processing industry. GP affairs and business managers, and executives in started his own engineering consultancy supporting both
corporate social responsibility and proactive response to mechanical and process disciplines. In 2009 he started
MR. KENNETH (KEN) SOURISSEAU pressures and challenges from the external world. instructing part time for John M. Campbell and Co. in
has 34 years’ experience with Shell. Assignments have Katinka’s academic background, including her PhD mechanical engineering and operator training. Currently,
been in front end development, process design, project dissertation on how multinational companies and Mr. Watson supports PetroSkills in a full time role to
engineering, operations technical support, and operations religious institutions manage business ethics, provides a ensure technical and quality assurance in ICE, Pipeline,
management primarily in the areas of sour gas and in situ solid theoretical foundation to all the practical work she Mechanical and Offshore engineering. ME PL O&M
heavy oil recovery. Mr. Sourisseau has worked throughout does. At CWP she focuses on online and in-house
Alberta, in Abu Dhabi, and the Netherlands. He has training and consultancy coaching of business managers. MR. PETER WILLIAMS has over 35 years of
authored a number of technical papers for international Katinka is a columnist at The Post Online and is authoring industrial experience, most of which were in oil and gas
conferences, provided training for Shell in numerous a book with the working title “Between Manager and processing. His experience includes plant process
countries, and has taught Gas Processing at the University Human Being.” She has a PhD in Management from the engineering, operations supervision, project development
of Calgary. He earned BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Rotterdam School of Management and an International and business case definition, project technical support,
Engineering from the Universities of Saskatchewan (76) MBA from the HES, University of Amsterdam. PB plant engineering management, and internal consulting,
and Minnesota (78) respectively. He is a registered primarily with Saudi Aramco. Canadian experience
professional engineer in Alberta. GP PF MR. PAUL VERRILL has over 25 years’ includes plant engineering in phosphorus production,
experience working in the chemicals, petrochemicals, heavy water, and bitumen upgrading, and project
MR. CHRIS SPRAGGON is a Chartered hydrocarbon processing and power sectors. He has held engineering. He also has experience with benchmarking,
Mechanical Engineer with APM Level D qualifications and a number of technical and senior management positions implementation of a safety management system, and the
15 years of mechanical and project engineering including Mechanical and Piping Designer, Machinery application of lean Six Sigma methods to engineering
experience. The last 11 years has been spent specifically Engineer, Project Manager, Engineering and Maintenance management. He has Masters’ degrees in Chemical
in the engineering and management of offshore work Manager and other Senior Plant and Business Engineering and in Economics, is a Professional Engineer
packages with flexible pipes and associated ancillary Management roles. He has worked for a number of in Alberta and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. GP
components to major clients in the UKCS, Middle East international operating and engineering companies PF
and West Australia. Chris is well versed in all aspects of including ICI, Rolls Royce and Enron E & C. His
design, manufacture, quality, installation and integrity of experience includes piping and mechanical equipment MR. WES WRIGHT has 32 years’ experience in
flexible pipelines to API and ISO standards including design, rotating equipment engineering, project oil and gas producing facilities. Mr. Wright began
significant exposure to failure analysis and pipeline management, gas processing project development teaching with PetroSkills in 2004 where he has been
integrity, and the ongoing development of flexible pipeline including FEED study management and operations and delivering courses in CO2 Surface Facilities, Oil and Gas
integrity data and inspection technologies. Chris has a turnaround management. For the previous 3 years Mr. Processing and Operator Training world-wide. Previously,
BEng with Honors in Mechanical Engineering from Verrill has been working in the senior management team Mr. Wright was the lead on-site engineer at the Weyburn
Northumbria University. ME of an 800mmscfd gas processing facility which has been CO2 Miscible flood where he was closely involved in the
developing the onshore assets for a new UK gas field. In development, design, construction, start-up and
MR. DAVID TENHOOR, CPIM, has been 2011 Mr. Verrill started working with JM Campbell as an operations. Through the 1980’s, Mr. Wright performed
consulting and teaching APICS (The Association for Instructor in addition to providing project development contract research at the University of Calgary in Enhanced
Operations Management) CPIM certification courses and asset management services through his own Oil Recovery and was a consultant on a wide range of
since 2005. He has taught in many different industries consultancy company. Mr. Verrill is based in Yorkshire, sweet and sour oil and gas projects throughout Western
from chemical processing to discrete manufacturing. England and graduated with a BEng degree in Mechanical Canada. Mr. Wright graduated in 1983 with a BSc in
Companies include BASF, National Oilwell Varco, Engineering from Newcastle University and he is a Engineering from the University of Calgary. He is a
Halliburton, ExxonMobil Chemical and Cameron. David Chartered Member of the Institute of Mechanical Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada and is a member
brings a well-rounded package of industry experience to Engineers. GP ME of the SPE. He has been published in the ASME-OMAE,
PetroSkills/JMC. He has held positions in Inventory CSCE, IAHR, and in Carbon Sequestration and Related
Control, Manufacturing Management, Strategic Sourcing MR. COLIN WATSON has over 41 years’ broad Technologies (Wiley, 2011). PF
and Transportation/Distribution Management. He also experience in petrochemicals, primarily in engineering
has experience in Finance and Product Development. support and process safety management. He joined
David received his undergraduate degree in Geology from PetroSkills as an instructor in 2014. His experience
Hope College in Holland, Michigan and an MBA in includes assignments in technical support, operations,
Supply Chain Management from Michigan State turnarounds, project execution and HSE and engineering
University. He is a member of the Houston Chapter of management. From 2006 he has worked as an
APICS and served two terms on the Board of Directors as independent Engineering and Process Safety Consultant
Treasurer. SC working with oil and gas clients. He has worked primarily
MR. KYLE TRAVIS is a Petroleum Engineer with with BP to design, develop and facilitate their global
32 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas Process Safety training and awareness programs both for
industry. He has a proven track record of effectively engineering and operations teams. In a varied 28-year
building oil and gas companies from infancy to career in BP he latterly worked to develop strategic
significance. His experience includes managing oil and structures and governance systems to manage Process
gas companies from the initial formulation of a business Safety and Integrity Management for the BP Grangemouth
plan and establishment of goals through the execution of Complex and the European BP Chemicals Sites. His
such. He has built and supervised a staff of experienced operations experience providing technical support and
oil and gas professionals, evaluated drilling prospects, engineering management extends across a variety of
acquired producing properties, managed the operations petrochemical and refining processes. He holds a BSc in
of drilling and the production of oil and gas properties. He Engineering Science (Mechanical) from Edinburgh
is experienced in all phases of petroleum engineering University (1978) and is a Chartered Engineer with the
including economics, drilling, log analysis, completion, Institute of Mechanical Engineers. HSE
production and reservoir. He has a BS degree in MR. STUART WATSON has over 18 years of
Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. experience in oil and gas processing. His experience has
P&C taken him to facilities around the world in regions
DR. KATINKA C. VAN CRANENBURGH including Australia, Africa, the Middle East and the US.
is a founding partner of Community Wisdom Partners Mr. Watson graduated with honors in 1995 from Curtin
(CWP), a consultancy specializing in the creation of University, Perth, Australia, with a BS in Mechanical
mutually beneficial relationships between business and Engineering. After graduating he worked in Perth,
societal actors. For over 16 years, she has contributed to Australia supporting Woodside’s offshore facilities. In
Heineken’s social performance policy and program, January 2000, Stuart accepted a position with Pearl
focusing on developing countries and complex Development Company of Colorado where he worked
environments. She created the Heineken Africa over the next eight years at many of the gas production
Foundation, a corporate philanthropic institution, and was and processing facilities in the western US. His work
responsible for the design and implementation of 45 included expansions for Unocal Alaska, facilities
health-care projects at a value of several million euros. In engineering at the El Paso Field Service’s 650MMscfd
her last position as global employees’ and human rights Chaco Plant and various other projects in Colorado and
manager, she contributed to Heineken’s global practice in Wyoming. In 2008, he oversaw and commissioned a
non-technical (or societal) risk management. This 92MMscfd amine sweetening and cryogenic NGL train for
included training commercial, human resources, public the Government of Ras Al Khaimah (UAE). Thereafter, he

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