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Overview
Dharmattan has worked with petroleum exploration companies across Africa to provide services supporting and promoting their search efforts for oil and gas deposits.
Tools and services deployed in these areas include:
Geology and Geophysics
Introduction to Log Analysis
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
Starts with a review of basic petroleum geology, introduces logs and different curves and finally teaches practical steps to evaluate basic petrophysical parameters using the workstation. The course has class exercises to help with proper understanding of the concepts.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Earth Sciences, Physics, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering and similar disciplines
Introduction to Seismic Interpretation
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
It provides the fundamentals and the practical application of seismic principles, including aspects of acquisition, processing, and interpretation and then teaches practical seismic interpretation steps using the workstation. The course has class exercises to help with proper understanding of the concepts.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Earth Sciences, Physics and similar disciplines
Intro. to Subsurface Mapping and Volumetrics
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
Starts with a review of basic petroleum geology, then teaches the primary techniques of construction of subsurface maps and sections, including integration of well data and key surfaces defining the framework of geologic units in the subsurface as the foundation of subsurface evaluation and also teaches participants how to estimate subsurface resources using the workstation.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Earth Sciences, Physics and similar disciplines
Fault Seal Analysis
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
The course introduces concepts and methods in trap and seal analysis, then teaches fundamental concepts for faulting in the prediction of fault behaviour in subsurface traps and finally describes the workflow of fault seal analysis using the workstation. The course has class exercises to help with proper understanding of the concepts.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for new hires and experienced staff in the Earth Sciences.
Introduction to 3D Static Modeling
Duration: 2 weeks
Course Summary
The course teaches the participants practical methods of building realistic 3D geocellular models of clastic reservoirs on workstations. It covers basic geostatistics, data preparation, data analysis, facies and petrophysical modeling then finally volumetrics.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires and experienced staff in the Earth Sciences.
Petroleum Engineering
Introduction to PVT Analysis
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
Starts with a review of basic petroleum geology, introduces logs and different curves and finally teaches practical steps to evaluate basic petrophysical parameters using the workstation. The course has class exercises to help with proper understanding of the concepts.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Earth Sciences, Physics, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering and similar disciplines
Decline Curve Analysis
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
This course begins with a brief description of the theory of decline curve analysis and its background. Both type-curve fitting and type curve matching techniques will be explained and demonstrated. The more common type curve fitting methods are demonstrated using examples from fields in the Niger Delta. The class includes a variety of hands-on exercises, and exposure to computer-based decline curve analysis tools.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Reservoir Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering and similar disciplines
Material Balance Analysis
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
This will introduce the principle of material balance analysis, then discuss workflow of carrying out material balance. There shall be hands-on exercises and problem solving using industry standard software to demonstrate reservoir and production performance analysis using material balance approach.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Reservoir Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering and similar disciplines and other professionals in the oil & gas industry tasked with the responsibility of analyzing production performance and supporting surveillance activities.
Introduction to Nodal Analysis
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
The course starts with a description of Reservoir Rock and Reservoir Fluids, followed by an explanation of Inflow and Outflow performance then discusses the design and optimization of artificial lifts. The course involves exercises to explain the impact of different variables in well production and production optimization process.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Reservoir Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering and similar disciplines and other professionals in the oil & gas industry tasked with the responsibility of analyzing production performance and supporting surveillance activities.
Reservoir Simulation
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
This course will introduce participants to the theory and practice of reservoir simulation. Participants will learn about the fundamentals of reservoir simulation using the standard industry software. This course will also cover data preparation, calibration of the reservoir model, forecasting of future performance, and interpretation of simulation results.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Reservoir Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering and similar disciplines and other professionals in the oil & gas industry tasked with the responsibility of analyzing production performance and supporting surveillance activities.
Training Attachments
PRACTICAL EARTH SCIENCE TRAINING FOR OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
DURATION-Mon-Fri ; 8am-4pm. (8 weeks)
Course Summary
This is a two-month professional training course which gives the participant the opportunity to experience day to day activities of a trainee earth scientist. It starts with the teaching of the basic petroleum geology, then introduces participants to log analysis, seismic interpretation and subsurface mapping using the workstation. Finally, the participants will be taken through report preparation and presentation.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Earth Sciences and other professionals in the oil & gas industry tasked with the responsibility of estimating hydrocarbon volumes or exploration activities..
PRACTICAL RESERVOIR ENGINEERING TRAINING FOR OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
DURATION: Mon-Fri; 8am-4pm; 3 Months
This is a three-month professional training course which gives the participant the opportunity to experience day to day activities of a trainee reservoir engineer. It starts with the teaching of the basic petroleum geology, then introduces participants to log analysis, PVT analysis, decline curve analysis, material balance analysis, nodal analysis and 3D dynamic simulation using industry standard softwares. Finally, the participants will be taken through report preparation and presentation.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Reservoir Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering and similar disciplines and other professionals in the oil & gas industry tasked with the responsibility of analyzing production performance and supporting surveillance activities
Facilities Engineering
Introduction to Oil and Gas Facilities
Duration: 5 Days
Course Summary
The course starts by introducing participants to the oil and gas facilities detailing their components and functions and then discusses typical processing plants. Finally, participants will learn how to design processing plants using industry standard software.
Target Audience
This course is suitable for final year students, new graduates, jobseekers, as well as new hires in the Chemical Engineering and similar disciplines.