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Who should attend?
Financial analysts and advisors, exploration & production professionals and support personnel, credit officials, accounting personnel, human resource managers, land professionals, land techs, investments bankers, portfolio managers & investors or anyone desiring more knowledge of the petroleum and natural gas industries.
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Understand drilling.
Exploring for oil & gas.
3D Seismic
Tools of the trade.
Natural Gas: Past & Future
Leasing, PSA's, etc.
And much, much more...
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The Petroleum Industry - An Overview
This nontechnical course is an uncomplicated overview of the petroleum and natural gas industries with an emphasis on the upstream aspects. This introductory course covers a broad range of oil and gas topics including the latest technologies, trends, and outlook for this fascinating business. It is ideal for the beginner or for those wishing to fill in the gaps of their energy knowledge. Although we bill this class as nontechnical in nature, we include as much detail as possible. The presentation is extremely visual employing hundreds of photos, graphics, videos & charts.
Course Objectives
 Brief history of oil and gas; basic company organization; current events
 How the world events affect the energy picture
 Basic geology, source rocks, gas and oil traps and geologic time
 Exploration for oil and gas; 3-D seismic, well logging 101, mapping
 Drilling and completing wells; horizontal drilling; well stimulation
Shale gas operations; drilling & completions; trends
 Production operations; offshore and arctic operations
 Oil and gas reservoirs & their management; producing mechanisms and recoveries
 Unconventional gas and oil reservoirs: how they are alike and differ
 Oil/Gas leases and international agreements; conservation concepts; interests
Trends in leasing, royalty and bonus offerings in hot areas
 The Natural Gas Industry, yesterday and today
 A quick look at environmental issues; will we drill in restricted USA areas?
 The latest energy trends: local, national and worldwide
 Class exercises and videos
 And much more
About This Course
Included in each course is a 400+page workbook of slides, charts, illustrations, exercises, outlines and articles. Attendees find this book makes a good reference long after taking the class.
A continental breakfast for morning classes plus midmorning and afternoon break with refreshments will be served.
Prerequisites For This Course
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Continuing Education Credits
Continuing education credits, CPE, CPL., etc., have been granted for our courses by most states. Please call about your particular professional educational credits. We will do whatever we can to make sure you obtain those valuable CPE credits.
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