This course provides a non-technical but comprehensive overview of petroleum production systems and their major components. It begins at the well, describing the functions and configurations of the casing, production tubing, completion and wellhead equipment, along with the considerations involved in completion planning and design for both surface and subsea environments.
Moving on from the subsurface, the course then looks at upstream production facilities, including the equipment and methods used to separate produced well fluids, handle and treat individual oil, gas and water streams, and meter fluids for custody transfer. As part of this discussion, the course outlines some of the special considerations involved in operating offshore facilities.
A major focus of this course is the synergistic nature of the production system: how each of its surface and subsurface elements depends on and, in turn, influences the other elements, and how all of these elements are considered both separately and as a whole to optimize field performance. The course provides an in-depth discussion of a systems analysis approach for flowing wells, demonstrating the integration of inflow performance, lift performance and surface flow performance relationships, and providing examples of analysis application.
The course concludes with a discussion of artificial lift methods and how these are used to increase well production rates. It describes the operating principles and equipment used in continuous gas lift, intermittent gas lift, reciprocating rod pump systems, progressing cavity pump systems, hydraulic pump systems, electric submersible pump systems, and plunger lift systems. For each of these lift methods, it summarizes the relative advantages and disadvantages, along with general design considerations, areas of application and selection criteria.
$125
