Northwest Territories and Nunavut Petroleum 30 PDH Discount Package

This online engineering PDH course provides information on how to analyze natural gas composition data to determine specific gravity, molecular weight, critical temperature, critical pressure, heating content, liquid yield, and shrinkage.

Due to the structure of its hydrocarbon components, natural gas deviates from the Ideal Gas Law and must be modified using the gas compressibility factor. Additionally, as natural gas is brought to the surface, certain components may liquify and cause operational issues. The properties determined from the analysis of natural gas composition are needed for calculation of the gas compressibility factor, behavior of gas at reservoir and surface flow rates, the estimation of condensate and natural gas liquid yields, and gas processing requirements.

This online engineering PDH course provides information on how to use decline curves to forecast oil and gas production.

The production of oil and gas from most wells under primary production (no injection of fluids into the reservoir) typically follows a pattern of production decline.  A graph of daily or monthly production on a time scale will show a curved pattern known as a decline curve.  A curve fit to this pattern allows one to forecast future production from oil and gas wells.  This forecast can then be used as input to an economic model to estimate the reserves and future net income from the wells.

This online engineering PDH course will help explain the complexities of HVAC design for offshore installations and how to go about carrying out the selection of a proper system and related equipment.

Oil & Gas (O&G) facilities are fraught with numerous challenges related to health and safety, logistics, economics, quality assurance and overall performance. HVAC design for such facilities needs special considerations not only to minimize the potential loss to capital investment but also to isolate the personnel from life-threatening environment. The main objectives of HVAC systems in O&G facilities include:

1. Maintain acceptable working and living environment for personnel and non - destructive conditions for equipment.
2. Prevent ingress of potentially explosive/toxic gas-air mixtures into non-hazardous areas, electrical switch rooms and equipment rooms.
3. Prevent formation of any combustible mixture and maintain an atmosphere where the gas/air mixture is kept below LEL during normal operation.
4. Provide dilution ventilation for all enclosed hazardous areas in order to reduce the risk from build-up of potentially explosive/toxic gases within these spaces.
5. Prevent smoke spreading and keep enclosed escape ways free of smoke in case of fire.

This 4 PDH online course is applicable to mechanical and HVAC engineers, process engineers, architects, building designers, contractors, energy auditors, facility managers who are involved in the design and installation of HVAC for oil and gas facilities.

This online engineering PDH course covers the steady state analysis of compressible fluid flow through pipelines. In particular, we will cover natural gas pipeline transportation including how pipelines are sized for a particular flow rate, the pressure required to transport a given volume of gas and the compression horsepower required.

The properties of natural gas that affect pipe flow will be reviewed first followed by the concepts of laminar and turbulent flow and Reynolds number. Frictional pressure loss and the method of calculating the friction factor using the Moody diagram and the Colebrook and AGA methods will be illustrated with examples. Several other popular flow equations, such as the Weymouth, IGT and Panhandle formulas will be introduced and explained with example problems. Increasing pipeline throughput using intermediate compressor stations as well as pipe loops will be discussed. The strength requirement of pipes, allowable operating pressure and hydrostatic test pressure will be reviewed with reference to the DOT code requirements.

This 6 PDH online course is intended for civil, mechanical and process engineers involved in the planning, design, and construction of gas pipelines, or seeking to gain a better understanding of the hydraulics of gas pipelines.

This online engineering PDH course covers the steady state transportation of liquids in pipelines. These include water lines, refined petroleum products and crude oil pipelines.

Common forms of equations relating to flow versus pressure drop due to friction are introduced and applications illustrated by example problems. In a long distance pipeline the need for multiple pump stations and hydraulic pressure gradient are discussed.

The use of drag reduction as a means to improving pipeline throughput is explored. Batching of different products in a pipeline simultaneously, with minimum commingling, is discussed next. The internal design pressure in a pipeline and the hydrostatic test pressure for safe operation are explained with illustrative examples.

This 6 PDH online course is intended for civil, mechanical, pipeline and petroleum engineers involved in the planning, design, and construction of liquid pipelines, or seeking to gain a better understanding of the hydraulics of liquid pipelines.

This online engineering PDH course provides information on how to perform economic analyses of oil and gas projects.

The exploration and production of oil and gas is a commercial enterprise. Therefore, projects in which an oil and gas production company expands its capital and effort must be evaluated for their economic worth. The first step in performing a proper economic evaluation involves creating an economic model of the project. This model can then be used to calculate the profitability of the project. Once the model is built, the input to the economic model (i.e., prices, expenses, and capital costs) can be varied to determine the sensitivity of each variable to the outcome of the project.

This online engineering PDH course provides basic understanding of rock and fluid properties as related to petroleum reservoirs.

Oil and gas are becoming more costly to find and many operators are competing intensively for every barrel found. Every operator should, therefore, recognize that the economic future of his company is based on only a small portion of oil originally occupying the reservoir. Sound operations based on proper engineering and planning usually result in great financial gains through increased oil recoveries. This scarcity of oil and gas required the emergence of reservoir engineering in the late of 1940’s that deals with occurrence and movement of fluids in reservoirs and their recovery. Reservoir engineering applications embodies a thorough study and evaluation of all factors affecting recovery of oil and gas to determine the most efficient and profitable method of production commensurate with economic trends.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME has reported that an alarming amount of oil is being left in the ground, either because we have not known how to recover it economically or because we have not applied the improved recovery techniques known for a number of years to be highly successful. Therefore, this course will describe and illustrate the complex science of reservoir behavior and control in a simple, straightforward, and practical manner without using complex formulas or mathematics.