TRAINING

Protekz provides specialized, world-class well and production engineering training to individuals and organizations. All courses are taught by highly skilled and experienced well and production engineering professionals. The mode of training delivery can be virtual or in person at client's preferred location worldwide.

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Formation Damage: Causes, Prevention & Treatments

Learn how to prevent, diagnose, and treat formation damage in oil wells in this 5-day master class. This course goes beyond theory. Learn through real-life examples of how to implement the theory and strategy for your wells. It will fill in the gaps in your formation damage knowledge so you can better lead project teams or advise others at your company.

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Key Topics

Introduction to formation damage
Formation damage mechanism
Darcy’s law and skin
Laboratory techniques & case studies
Stimulation of sandstone reservoir
Stimulation of carbonate reservoir

Matrix treatment design methodology
Introduction to hydraulic fracturing
Multistage fracturing technology
Sand control stimulation techniques
Production problems: scale, paraffin/wax asphaltenes and hydrates

About the Trainer

Mike has 30 years of oil and gas industry experience. He consults and trains worldwide in well completion, sand control, well interventions, formation damage prevention and treatments, and well integrity management. His expertise in these vital technical areas includes challenging environments with specifics such as high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT), sour and sweet gas, deep water, and extended reach departure (ERD).

Successful Well Completion & Workover Practices: A practical approach from design to field operations

Learn how to implement a practical approach from design to field operations for well projects. Fill in critical gaps in well completion and workover practices through the study of real-life examples taken from different operating environments and conditions to gain a better all-round understanding of best practices.

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Key Topics

Introduction to well completion
Darcy’s law and skin
Reservoir completion
Perforations
Well Stimulation
Hydraulic fracturing
Sand control
Artificial lift
Tubing performance
Well performance

Tubing performance
Production chemistry
Tubing stress analysis
Material selection
Completion components
Completion preparations
Completion installation process
Emerging completion techniques
Well control
Workover operations

About the Trainer

Mike has 30 years of oil and gas industry experience. He consults and trains worldwide in well completion, sand control, well interventions, formation damage prevention and treatments, and well integrity management. His expertise in these vital technical areas includes challenging environments with specifics such as high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT), sour and sweet gas, deep water, and extended reach departure (ERD).

Advanced Well Integrity Management

In this 5-day master class, deepen your knowledge of well integrity management so you can optimize your well management practices. Learn how to mitigate well integrity-related production downtime, incidents, and fatalities throughout the life cycle of your well.

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Key Topics

Why well integrity?
Well construction/configuration
Downhole and surface equipment
Wellhead & Xmas tree selection
Hydrates
Well integrity challenges
Annular Fluid Expansion calculations
Annular Pressure management
MAASP calculations
WIMS at Well operational phase
Bow-Tie construction

How to mitigate Well Integrity Challenges
Wellhead & Xmas tree Valves Maintenance
Subsurface Safety Valve & Criticalities
Well integrity diagnostic & monitoring tools
Flow Assurance issues
Understanding ISO 16530
Understanding API RP 90
Well Integrity Risk Assessment

About the Trainer

Mike has 30 years of oil and gas industry experience. He consults and trains worldwide in well completion, sand control, well interventions, formation damage prevention and treatments, and well integrity management. His expertise in these vital technical areas includes challenging environments with specifics such as high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT), sour and sweet gas, deep water, and extended reach departure (ERD).