Problem-based learning · Well productivity

Engineering judgement, built on real wells.

WellProd™ hands production, completions, intervention and reservoir engineers a well with a symptom, and asks them to diagnose, decide and defend.

No lecture first. The problem pulls in the theory it needs, from a single module to a multi-course capstone, so the knowledge lands where it is used: on the engineer's own wells.

90real-well problems
11courses
54modules
187topics
nodal_analysis.live · well GK-22 CONSTRAINED
Nodal analysis: inflow and outflow curves meeting at the operating point Bottom-hole pressure against rate. The inflow line steepens as skin rises and the operating point slides to a lower rate. 015003000 100020003000 p_wf (psi) rate q (stb/d) IPR · inflow VLP · outflow IPR at skin 0
Operating rate
— stb/d
Flow efficiency
—
Δp lost to skin
— psi
+6.0
Drag the skin. Watch what the near-wellbore costs the well. This is Course 01, Module 3.
§ 02 How a problem runs

Learn by deciding, not by watching.

Each problem is a hub with guided sub-problems and defined deliverables. The theory is one click away, and only when the problem demands it.

STEP 01

Meet the well

A scene-setting page hands you a real well, its symptoms and its operating context. What is actually wrong here?

STEP 02

Find the gaps

Guided sub-problems surface what you know, what you need to know, and which topic will teach it.

STEP 03

Pull the theory

Topic pages deliver concise theory, interactive simulators and a formative check, on demand.

STEP 04

Decide and defend

You submit the deliverables each sub-problem defines. The problem completes when your decision is made and argued.

§ 03 What is different

Not a course library. A capability programme.

Operators do not need more slides about well productivity. They need engineers who can look at a well and say what is wrong, and why.

01 · THE WELL FIRST

Start with the well, not the slide.

Ninety real-well problems across four tiers, from a single-module diagnosis to a two-course capstone. Theory is pulled in by need, not pushed by a timetable.

02 · AUDITED CONTENT

Every number checked.

Every topic page was read in full by a petroleum-engineering reviewer. Worked examples were recomputed, quiz keys checked against their own explanations, simulator code checked against the equations it claims to implement. The method and results are published.

03 · EVIDENCE

Evidence, not attendance.

Managers see problems solved and the modules each engineer had to pull in to solve them, per learner, exportable. That is a competency map, built from work rather than from a sign-in sheet.

04 · OPERATOR PRACTICE

Written from thirty years on the wells.

Every problem was set by an operator-side engineer who has diagnosed wells like these, not by an instructional-design agency working from a textbook.

§ 04 For managers

See the judgement forming, engineer by engineer.

The admin console records every problem completed and every topic an engineer visited on the way to completing it. The pattern of what each person needed to learn is the competency map.

  • Progress per engineer, per problem, per course
  • Organisation-scoped access, with course packs you choose
  • CSV export for your own competency framework or LMS
  • Per-user watermark and server-side access log on every page
What a pilot includes →
EngineerProblems solvedModules pulled inStatus
Engineer 01
M02 M03 M07 M31T2 COMPLETE
Engineer 02
M02 M05 M06T1 IN PROGRESS
Engineer 03
M12 M14 M36 M38 M50T3 COMPLETE
Engineer 04
M01 M02T1 IN PROGRESS
Engineer 05
M16 M18 M19 M40T2 IN PROGRESS
Illustrative view of the organisation ledger. Names and figures are placeholders.
§ 05 The knowledge behind the problems

Eleven courses, one productivity system.

From fundamentals to diagnosis, prevention and remediation. Fifty-four modules and 187 topics, each with a formative check, most with an interactive simulator.

§ 07 Who it is for

Built for engineers at every capability level.

Problems are tiered so the programme meets engineers where they are, and stretches them toward independent, defensible judgement.

Early career

Graduate and junior engineers

Start at Tier 1 to build core diagnostic skills, inflow, outflow, skin and flow efficiency, one well at a time.

Experienced

Production technologists and completion engineers

Use Tier 2 and 3 problems to connect disciplines and pressure-test reasoning against unfamiliar well behaviour.

Organisations

Discipline leads and competency managers

Configure the pathway around asset challenges and competency gaps. Track progress per learner and export it.

Pilot programme

Put ten engineers on real wells for six months.

A pilot gives your team the full programme, an admin view for the discipline lead, and a problem review with the author. Pricing on request.

Try it first

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