D444 Development Planning For Mature Fields (Distance Learning)
D444 Development Planning For Mature Fields (Distance Learning)
Business Impact: This course equips participants with the knowledge and decision-making skills to create a robust development plan for mature fields.
This multidisciplinary course is designed to give participants a broad appreciation of the evaluation and planning activities associated with incremental development planning. This course takes groups through a wide range of associated issues, fills any knowledge gaps in the essential technical fundamentals required for mature field development planning and uses a case-based exercise which will run through the whole course.
A virtual classroom course divided into 5 webinar sessions, comprising lectures, discussion, case studies, and practical exercises to be completed by participants during and between sessions.
Challenges of mature field developments
Mature field development strategies
Mature oil fields
Mature gas fields
Economics
Decision making
Implementing and development managing the selected plan
Wrap-up
The course is designed for mid-career subsurface professionals, specifically petroleum engineers and geoscientists who play a part in evaluating, screening and maturing oil and gas field development opportunities in mature fields. Participation would also benefit technical team leaders and managers who want to gain an insight into the challenges, uncertainties and preparations involved in development planning for mature fields.
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. This course is complimentary to other courses in the Nautilus Training Alliance programme focusing more generally on economics and risk including N014 (Petroleum Economics and Risk Analysis).
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Background
Mark has 33 years industry experience, initially as a production geologist with Shell, working in the UK, Oman and the Netherlands and subsequently training and consulting with TRACS. He has spent most of his career working in integrated study teams on a wide variety of reservoir assets. His specialist fields of expertise are 3D reservoir modeling and scenario-based approaches to handling subsurface uncertainty and risk. He publishes widely on the topic and co-authored the reference text 'Reservoir Model Design' with Phil Ringrose.
In addition to his role as Training Director at AGR TRACS, he is also an Associate Professor in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, holding a Chair in the field of Mature Field Management.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University College of Wales, (Aberystwyth) - Structural Geology
BSc University College of Wales, (Aberystwyth) - Geology
Fellow of the Geological Society, London
Fellow of the Society of Petroleum Engineers
EAGE Member
Courses Taught
N033: Characterisation, Modelling, Simulation and Development Planning in Deepwater Clastic Reservoirs (Tabernas, Spain)
N106: Advanced Reservoir Modelling (Elgin, Scotland)
N310: Carbonate Reservoir Modelling and Field Development Planning (Provence, France)
N356: Production Geoscience (Pembrokeshire, UK)
N386: Reservoir Model Design (Pembrokeshire, UK)
N427: Reservoir Model Design, classroom based
N431: Reservoir Modelling of Deepwater Clastic Systems (Gres d’Annot, SE France)
D427: Reservoir Model Design (Distance Learning)
N444: Development Planning For Mature Fields
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