A dominant response from asset team staff to the CWCC program is summarized as “We need to have our managers hear this!” In response, we have developed a short, 1-day, executive version of the program.
This crash course provides a fast paced and intense overview of the application, capabilities, and limitations of modern exploitation technologies, specifically designed for managers and executives. The four-part program provides a practical description of all the advanced technologies and methodologies currently being applied to more effectively extract oil and gas reserves.
The seminar begins with a review of terminology of advanced complex well construction, production and intervention systems; it then provides a review of industry trends and universal lessons learned regarding success and failure in applying these novel technologies.
The program continues with an overview of effective asset team structure and function, and then reviews each technical discipline, with emphasis on how they are each affected by new capabilities. The material concentrates on all the new cause/effect relationships between the key disciplines: so that the asset team leader, manager, etc., is better equipped to evaluate the viability of a complex well application.
With a primary focus on complex well design and application, each operational function is reviewed from development project screening through to multiwell applications. Focus is concentrated on the many common misconceptions held in respect to the applicability, costs, technical risks, and challenges inherent in applying these technologies. Each technology is covered with a concentration on the most common failure modes and optimal application, including a treatment of MPD, resource play stack-frac, extended-reach technology, coiled-tubing technology, multilateral well design and smart completions.
The seminar concludes with a senior management tool, providing a suite of challenges and checklists to provide effective direction to the asset team and service providers when evaluating and applying these exploitation technologies. A course manual is provided which includes hard copy slide manual with summary text of all figures presented. The program is very fast paced and informal. Time is provided for a question/answer session following each chapter.
Course Contents
- Chapter 1 – Introduction
- Chapter 2 – Geology and Reservoir Engineering
- Chapter 3 – Directional Drilling, Guidance and Geosteering, Completion
- Chapter 4 – Logging, Intervention and Production
Who Should Attend
This practically-based and continuously updated program provides an excellent overview for all Technical, Non-Technical & Operational Managers (Earth Science, Reservoir, Drilling, Completion, Production, Intervention), Support, Service Provider, Regulatory and Academia.
The program offers a vastly focused “lay-man’s” view of all the novel issues being faced by the asset team when exploiting with complex wells. This crash course for managers and executives delivers an excellent opportunity for the non-technical managers to ask simple questions to give them a much clearer and updated appreciation of what the asset teams are actually doing with these advanced exploitation programs. The manager will take away a much better understanding of the challenges and risks being faced by the team, and the universal failure modes to avoid; and will be of immediate benefit to anyone involved in O&G exploitation from the most junior executive to the CEO level.
Administration and Arrangements
The program is provided on a base fee and incremental charge per person over 10 attending, which includes all instructor travel, prep and delivery time, and all class materials. The host provides all classroom facilities, projector, screen, white board, lunch arrangements for staff, etc.
Note: A master copy of course notebook (slides and text) with full printing/binding instructions can be provided @ $500 plus shipping for local reproduction by the host as required. The instructor brings a laptop for power-point presentations. Class should be staged off-site, if possible; practical start and end times can be customized to staff requirements. For a full cost quote to stage this program for your executives and managers, please contact Bob Knoll directly.
Some Attendee Response − Written Responses from Evaluation Forms:
“Bob, thank you again for the very effective and timely training you have provided to Enerplus technical, management and executive staff over the last year. Both the 5-day asset team cross-training program (Complex Well Core Competency, one of the best technical training events I have attended in my career) and the 1-day executive version are great programs. I really do want to thank you for your persistence in getting Enerplus to “taste the wine” of these programs earlier last year. The two executive versions we have internally staged recently for over 40 of our managers were a great success as both technical and non-technical executives and managers have a far better understanding of the complexities with execution in our business. What the unique 5-day asset team program teaches is so fundamental to our business model for the future that it is important that we get a majority of our technical teams to participate. We have had three full team courses in-house this year, and have plans for additional courses in the future. It is clear from the average course ratings of 4.5 out of 5 from all participants that the delivery and content value is excellent and we are seeing the direct effect the training is having on our asset teams during their day-to-day efforts to improve on all our complex well exploitation pursuits.” Chris Stephens – Manager, Canadian Gas Business Unit – 2010.