This course is focusing on the processes and technologies used to bring gas from reservoirs to processing and delivery facilities. Participants will gain an understanding of production systems, well operations, surface facilities, gas treatment, and the monitoring of production performance.
The course covers key aspects of reservoir-to-surface production, well completion and operation, production equipment, flow assurance, measurement, and operational safety. It also introduces troubleshooting and optimization techniques that support reliable, efficient, and safe natural gas production.
- Production engineers, petroleum engineers, and natural gas operations personnel.
- Well services, completion, and workover engineers and technicians.
- Process, facilities, and maintenance engineers working in gas production.
- Supervisors, field operators, and technical professionals seeking to strengthen their knowledge of natural gas production technology.
To equip participants with the technical knowledge and operational insight required to understand, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize natural gas production systems while maintaining safe, reliable, and efficient operations.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the natural gas production process from the reservoir and wellbore to surface facilities.
- Identify major well completion components and production equipment.
- Describe common gas production methods and factors affecting well performance.
- Understand gas gathering, separation, dehydration, and treatment fundamentals.
- Recognize common production problems and apply systematic troubleshooting approaches.
- Explain the importance of production measurement, monitoring, and optimization.
- Apply key health, safety, and environmental principles relevant to gas production operations.
- Introduction to Natural Gas Production
- Overview of the natural gas industry and production value chain.
- Natural gas properties, composition, and key production terminology.
- From reservoir deliverability to sales gas: a production-system overview.
- Reservoir and Well Performance Fundamentals
- Basic reservoir characteristics affecting gas production.
- Pressure, flow rate, deliverability, and decline concepts.
- Factors influencing well productivity and recovery.
- Well Completion and Production Equipment
- Well completion components and their functions.
- Tubing, casing, wellheads, and Christmas trees.
- Downhole safety valves, well barriers, and production accessories.
- Natural Gas Production Methods and Well Operations
- Natural flow and the role of reservoir pressure.
- Production surveillance, well testing, and routine operating practices.
- Overview of artificial lift and deliquification options for gas wells.
- Gas Gathering and Surface Production Facilities
- Flowlines, manifolds, gathering networks, and inlet facilities.
- Gas-liquid separation and produced-water handling.
- Compressors, pumps, valves, and associated utility systems.
- Gas Treatment and Flow Assurance
- Gas dehydration and overview of acid-gas removal.
- Hydrates, corrosion, scaling, and liquid loading: causes and prevention.
- Fundamentals of gas conditioning and meeting delivery specifications.
- Production Measurement, Monitoring, and Optimization
- Gas metering principles and production data quality.
- Key performance indicators and production reporting.
- Using operating data to identify losses and improve production performance.
- Troubleshooting, Safety, and Environmental Management
- Common production issues, diagnostics, and corrective actions.
- Process safety, pressure control, hazardous-area awareness, and permit-to-work.
- Emergency response, environmental protection, and operational risk management.
