Stimulation is how a well exceeds its natural deliverability, by dissolving the rock or by splitting it. This course covers both arms in depth: matrix acidizing chemistry, placement and additives, and the mechanics, fluids and proppant transport of hydraulic fracturing.
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.
Stimulation rewards engineering and punishes guesswork. Course 11 trains you to design acid systems and frac treatments from the chemistry and mechanics up, and to know which arm the well actually needs.
Design carbonate wormholing and sandstone mud-acid jobs with the critical pre-flush.
Direct the treatment with mechanical and chemical/particulate diversion.
Specify iron control, corrosion inhibitors and mutual solvents for downhole behaviour.
Apply in-situ stress, FCD, fluid rheology, leak-off, proppant selection and TSO design.
Dissolve the rock or split it: these five modules build matrix acidizing and hydraulic fracturing from first principles to a designed, deliverable treatment.
The chemistry of dissolving rock: carbonate wormholing, sandstone mud acid and the critical pre-flush.
Putting the acid where it's needed: mechanical and chemical diversion.
The supporting cast: iron control, corrosion inhibitors and mutual solvents.
How fractures grow and stay contained: in-situ stress, breakdown, and the PKN/KGD/radial geometry models.
Carrying the proppant: fluid rheology, leak-off, proppant selection and TSO design.
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 choose the arm of stimulation and design the treatment to the rock, then the theory frames why.
Stimulation brings the whole productivity story together, from diagnosis to deliverable treatment.
Run Course 11 as a pilot for a cohort, or licence the complete eleven-course programme. We'll tailor the rollout around your assets and engineering levels.
