Heavy Oil Exploitation
Disciplines: Completions | Drilling | Production and Operations | Projects, Facilities, and Construction | Reservoir
Course Description
This is a comprehensive overview of heavy oil exploitation covering full life cycle heavy oilfield development. The course highlights the key challenges associated with their development and their associated remedial measures.
The main topics covered include heavy oil chemistry, non-thermal and thermal recovery processes including SAGD, advanced recovery processes, well construction and completion, surface handling and processing, transportation and upgrading.
- Types and expectations of ESP teardowns and failure analyses
- How to incorporate failure analysis into daily operations
- Who should participate in the failure analysis process
- ESP failure modes caused by various operating conditions
- Vendor nomenclature and procedures for failure analysis
- Determining root cause
Learning Level
Introductory to intermediate
Course Length
2 days
Why Attend
Due to unique chemical nature, heavy crude oils pose many technical challenges. Owing to its high viscosity and complex hydrocarbon chemistry, heavy oil asset development requires technical personnel to use innovative
approaches to enable it to flow in a porous formation and in the wellbore and flowlines, and finally, to treat and convert it into usable products.
Participants will be exposed to the full spectrum. This is a unique opportunity to gather an overview of all aspect of the full life cycle development.
Who Attends
This course is intended for engineers and chemists who are involved in heavy oil asset development. This course will also benefit the department head, asset and technology managers with an overview of various challenges and complexities involved in developing heavy oil fields.
Special Requirements
Students should have an existing understanding of ESP equipment and operations.
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.
Training sessions attached to SPE conferences and workshops follow the cancellation policies stated on the event information page. Please check that page for specific cancellation information.
SPE reserves the right to cancel or re-schedule courses at will. Notification of changes will be made as quickly as possible; please keep this in mind when arranging travel, as SPE is not responsible for any fees charged for cancelling or changing travel arrangements.
We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.
Instructor
Dr. Abul Jamaluddin recently joined ENNOVA as CEO with the aspiration to be the industry leader in deploying cost-effective solutions to energy industry’s key issues and be the game changer. Prior to joining ENNOVA, he was with Stratum Reservoir, PETRONAS, KFUPM, RFSAdvisory, Schlumberger, Hycal Laboratories and Noranda Technology Center. Dr. Jamaluddin was involved in various roles with these organizations and conducted R&D, captured intellectual property, and converted innovation into cash flow. He worked in the Americas, the Middle East and South East Asia.
He has extensive hands on experience in resolving complex PVT and flow assurance issues (asphaltene, wax and hydrate); designed optimum well-testing, formation testing, sample collection and analysis program; designed and implemented gas-injection as an enhanced-oil recovery (EOR) process; developed acid gas management strategy, optimized thermal and non-thermal heavy-oil production operations; developed and deployed innovative formation damage treatment technologies; deployed real-time production management strategy.
Dr. Jamaluddin earned his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary, Canada. He is a co-inventor of eight patented processes and has co-authored 100+ technical papers. He received three Best Technical Paper awards from GPA and CIM and has been heavily involved in volunteering for SPE including chairing various Forums and ATWs. Recently, he is involved as a member of the SPE award committee and also a Technical Committee Co-Chair for PetroPhase2023. Dr. Jamaluddin was named the SPE Distinguished Lecturer for the 2004 – 2005 season and the SPE Distinguished Member in 2012.
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