Gas Field Development: Offshore Projects
Disciplines: Projects, Facilities, and Construction | Reservoir
Course Description
This course on Gas Field Development Planning: Offshore Projects covers significant gas projects dealing with the three key physical elements: reservoir, wells and facilities. The first day emphasises geoscience and subsurface aspects, including wells; while the second day considers projects more from a macro-point of view, including commercial, project management and facilities concepts. This course will give participants an understanding of all major aspects of gas field development planning and project management.
The course is illustrated by a series of case histories and examples that demonstrate novel solutions to various project challenges. Participants will also be involved in two group exercises followed by discussions.
Learning Level
Intermediate
Course Length
2 Days
Why Attend
Course participants will:
- Gain an understanding of all major aspects of gas field development (offshore environment): involving reservoirs, wells and facilities
- Appreciate today’s challenges and how to meet these with innovation and novel solutions
- See the multidisciplinary nature of gas field development planning
- Gain an overview of key project management aspects
- Appreciate the diversity of field situations and the deployment of appropriate facilities concepts
- Gain insight into important commercial aspects such as contracts and marketing
Who Attends
Professionals who are or will be responsible for gas field development projects to senior management within the company or externally from these disciplines:
- Assets and Commercial Management
- Drilling and Well Completion Engineering
- Facilities and Production Engineering
- Geoscience
- Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering
- Project Engineering
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning and Risk Management
Special Requirements
Attendees are asked to bring their own laptops for use during the course.
CEUs
1.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this 2-day course.
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.
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We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.
Instructor
Prof Peter Behrenbruch is a consultant and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian School of Petroleum at the University of Adelaide (UoA), specialising in reservoir engineering, field development planning and petroleum management. He also teaches at the Ho Chi Minh University of Technology and recently taught at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University. He has worked for over 40 years in the petroleum industry, most recently as Chief Operating Officer and Project Director for AED Oil and East Puffin (2007-09) for the Puffin offshore development, Timor Sea.
Prior to his academic career (2001-2006), commencing in 2001 as head of the new School of Petroleum Engineering and Management at the UA, he worked for 16 years for BHP Billiton, most recently as Chief Reservoir Engineer for their worldwide petroleum operations. Other positions with BHP Billiton involved mainly technical and project management, and general management positions. He was the project manager (feasibility) for two FPSO projects, the Skua and Griffin area fields, offshore Australia. He was also the Technical Manager for the Dai Hung project, offshore Vietnam where first oil was achieved in just 18 months from sanction. Before that time, he worked for Shell International (8 years) in the Netherlands, including two years as Senior Lecturer Reservoir Engineering at Shell’s training centre and in Australia, seconded to Woodside Energy, involved in Australia’s largest capital project (at the time), the Northwest Shelf Gas development. He started his career in Calgary, Canada, first with Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas and then with the US consulting company Scientific Software Corporation.
Peter holds a BSc degree in Physics from the University of British Columbia and a MS degree in Nuclear Engineering from Stanford University. He has been an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, including Director for the Asia-Pacific region (1996-98) and as a member of the Board. He was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer during 2001-02 and a PESA Distinguished Lecturer during 2002. He has lectured at many institutions and was a visiting professor at Stanford University in 2000. He has published over 40 papers, technical and managerial topics. His professional interests are in optimal planning and project management of offshore petroleum discoveries. His primary research interests are in the area of special core analysis and the development of predictive models for reservoir characterisation.
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