Follow a barrel of fluid from the rock to the wellhead. This course builds the complete inflow-to-outflow picture every productivity decision rests on, and ends with the nodal analysis that ties the whole system together.
Refined over 15 years of classroom delivery to national and international operators, now rebuilt as a problem-based, self-contained online programme for working petroleum engineers.
Course 01 is the foundation the entire programme stands on. By the end you can quantify what a well should deliver, explain why it doesn't, and model how to recover the difference.
Build an IPR from rock and fluid properties and read what a reservoir can deliver into the wellbore.
Separate formation damage, completion and geometry effects to find where productivity is being lost.
Predict tubing pressure loss, multiphase behaviour and select the right artificial lift method.
Bring inflow and outflow together to find the operating point and test sensitivities across the system.
The modules are ordered the way production physics unfolds, from the rock and fluids that set deliverability, through inflow and skin, up the tubing and lift, to the nodal analysis that optimises the whole well.
Where productivity begins — the fluids and rock that set the ceiling on what a well can deliver.
Putting numbers on inflow with Darcy's law and the productivity index.
Isolating damage, completion and geometry effects to locate lost productivity.
Inflow when more than one phase flows, and the deliverability of gas wells.
Lifting fluids up the tubing: pressure loss, holdup and flow regimes.
Adding energy to the system when the reservoir can no longer lift alone.
Bringing inflow and outflow together to optimise the well as one system.
Every module opens with a real well problem. You work the engineering, then the theory is introduced to explain what you found: the way the material was honed in the classroom over fifteen years.
Each topic is anchored to a field scenario with real data, not an abstract derivation.
You build the curves and run the numbers, then the theory frames why the well behaves as it does.
Skills compound module to module, ending in a full nodal model of the system you started from.
Run Course 01 as a pilot for a cohort, or licence the full eleven-course programme. We'll tailor the rollout around your assets and engineering levels.
