A well is always telling you something, in its pressures, its flow profile, its pump cards and its produced fluids. This course is a guided tour of the diagnostic toolkit: pressure transient analysis, production logging, downhole monitoring, artificial-lift diagnostics and laboratory fluid analysis.
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.
Good diagnostics turn raw data into a decision. Course 07 trains you to read each surveillance signal, recognise its characteristic signatures, and converge on the real cause before committing to a fix.
Interpret drawdown and buildup tests and derivative plots for flow regime and total skin.
Use production logs and cement evaluation to locate flow contribution and zonal leaks.
Match downhole-gauge data to IPR/VLP and watch for sand and deposition trends.
Read echometer, dynagraph and gas-lift signatures, and what produced-fluid chemistry reveals.
Pressure, flow, gauges, pump cards, monitors and the laboratory: each module takes one class of diagnostic and teaches you to read its signatures with confidence.
Reading the pressure signal: drawdown, buildup and the diagnostic plots that reveal flow regimes and skin.
Logging the flowing well to see which zones produce, and which are leaking.
Continuous pressure from downhole gauges, matched back to IPR and VLP.
Echometer, dynagraph and gas-lift signatures that tell you what the lift is doing.
Catching sand and deposits early with the right monitoring systems.
What the produced fluids reveal: water and oil chemistry as a diagnostic.
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 read the actual signatures and converge on the cause, then the theory frames why.
The diagnostic skills here drive the prevention and remediation course that follows.
Run Course 07 as a pilot for a cohort, or licence the full eleven-course programme. We'll tailor the rollout around your assets and engineering levels.
