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GeoPressure Technology offers highly acclaimed training courses, which are available as open courses at several oil centres each year, or taught in-house. Bespoke courses are also available. All courses are a combination of taught topics, exercises and case studies.
In-house training has been provided for Shell, ConocoPhillips, Maersk, Nexen, Hess, BG, Devon Energy and Marathon - view previously held training events.
Current pressure courses
Introduction to Pressure in the Subsurface
This is a two-day introductory course where topics include:
- Units
- Hydrostatic, lithostatic and fracture gradients
- Fluid gradients and contacts
- Recognition of abnormal pressure
- Overview of pressure mechanisms and
- Significance for planning wells
- Extensive exercises
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Overpressure - causes and effects
A two-day intermediate level course which follows on from the introductory course, topics include:
- Mechanisms
- Lateral transfer
- Lateral drainage
- Overpressure prediction from seismic, drilling & wireline
- Influence of overpressure on petroleum systems
- Pressure compartments and seals
- Seal risk analysis
- Overpressure in deep water
- Planning and drilling high pressure well
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Advanced Pore Pressure Prediction Workshop
A three-day workshop style course. Participants will work exercises on computers and become familiar with work flows for pressure prediction, seal breach analysis and hydrocarbon column length estimation. Topics on this advanced course will include:
- Advanced prediction methods applied to logs
- Basin modelling and advanced techniques
- Handling fluid expansion and chemical compaction
- Using more than one normal compaction curve
- Developing robust velocity-effective stress relationship - Application of pressure prediction for seal integrity, hydrocolumn height and well planning
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Pressures and Overpressure in the Subsurface
This is a combined introductory and intermediate level training course which is run over three or four days and includes most of the elements in the above mentioned two-day courses, with many exercises and case study material.
HPHT Well Planning
The aim of this 2-day course is to equip participants with knowledge of HPHT conditions and thier prediction, the data components required for well planning and issues which influence successful drilling in such conditions. The course is run in collaboration with Think-Well, who offers drilling solutions in marginal and complex environments.
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RokDoc-PressureView
1 day software training course
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