When damage can't be avoided, it has to be treated. This course is the engineer's toolkit for protecting and restoring productivity, preventing damage, dissolving it with acid, fracturing past it, cleaning perforations mechanically, and shutting off unwanted water and gas.
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.
The wrong treatment can do more harm than the damage it targets. Course 08 trains you to choose between prevention, chemical, hydraulic and mechanical remedies, and to design each one to actually recover productivity.
Design fluid quality, fluid-loss control and compatibility testing to keep damage out.
Select and stage matrix acidizing for sandstone and carbonate, with effective diversion.
Apply fracture mechanics, proppant transport and tip screen-out to create new conductivity.
Use mechanical clean-up, reperforating and shut-off to recover and keep zones in line.
Keep damage out, dissolve it, fracture past it, clean it away, or shut off what you can't fix: each module is one branch of the remediation decision tree.
Stopping damage before it starts: clean completion fluids, fluid-loss control and compatibility testing.
Dissolving the damage: sandstone and carbonate acidizing, staging and diversion.
Creating new conductivity: fracture mechanics, proppant transport and tip screen-out.
Physical clean-up: washing, surging, jetting, milling and reperforating.
Shutting off the unwanted: squeezes, mechanical isolation and chemical shut-off.
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 match the right treatment to the diagnosed damage and design it, then the theory frames why.
These remedies complete the diagnose-to-treat loop that runs through the programme.
Run Course 08 as a pilot for a cohort, or licence the full eleven-course programme. We'll tailor the rollout around your assets and engineering levels.
