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PetroSkills Tech Tuesdays
PetroSkills is committed to providing our industry with valuable knowledge through a variety of options. In addition to public and in-house face-to-face training, virtual courses, e-learning, and simulation courses, we are proud to offer technical webinars free of charge.
Each Tuesday for the length of the series, PetroSkills will conduct a live webinar on a different technical topic. Attendees may attend live, or view the recording on-demand afterward. Make sure and check this list again in the future, as we are frequently adding new topics.
Building Your Resilient Oil & Gas Career
Presented by Gerry Ross
2 March 2021, 10:00 am CDT (GMT - 6:00)
This webinar is designed for those of us who strive to build and maintain a career in our boom-and-bust industry.
Typically, oil and gas careers, begin as commodity prices rise and reserves replacement accelerates. This webinar will share ideas and lessons learned on how to sustain your career through low and high oil prices, be it a technical or business path. Once there is an understanding of the oil and gas business cycle, then a professional can anticipate the skills, experience and knowledge to acquire in the good times to better ride out the "hard times" which are a normal part of our business. More Information
My New-Hire Engineers have a lot of Theory Training, But No Operations SEnse ... How to Instill Practical Operations, Control, and Safety Sense to New-Hire Engineers
Presented by Donald Glaser and Matthew Garvey
16 March 2021, 10:00 am CDT (GMT - 5:00)
So you are an early career engineer, or have recently hired a cohort of engineers, and find that gaining practical operations sense is a challenging barrier. Engineers rarely have an opportunity to “drive the car,” and at times this lack of operations experience can cause friction between engineers and plant operators.
The webinar shows you how to examine your process from an operations mindset. This includes developing cause and effect relationships for the process that may be based on system inefficiencies or other unknown external factors, rather than what the theoretical performance of all equipment and systems should be. A general example of a fractionation column will be used in the webinar. More Information
Watch Recordings of Previous sessions
Subsurface Topics
► What's a Geoscientist to do in an Era of Unlimited Oil & No Exploration? Adding Value to Existing Fields... More Information
► Black Oil Basics - An Introduction to PVT More Information
► Volatile PVT: Diving Into Gas Condensate and Volatile Oil More Information
► Four Key Elements of Problem-Solving in Reservoir Geomechanics - An Overview for All Disciplines More Information
►"The Perfect Well" - How to Uncover Invisible Lost Time in Drilling Operations by Using Physics-Based Models More information
► Well Integrity: What are the Key Aspects for the Life of Well Cycle? More information
►"To Squeeze Cement or Not to Squeeze Cement?" That is the Question... More information
► Clear as Mud? How to Read a Mud Report, and What Does it Tell Us? More information
► Solids in Drilling Fluids... ...Friend or Foe? More information
► Why You Need a Nodal Model Built for EVERY Flowing Conventional Well More information
► Recognizing Additional Productive Potential in Existing Fields - Do you Have Underestimated Resources? More Information
FACILITIES Topics
► Are You Scared of Vibrating Pipework? You Should Be... More Information
► Avoid Fires and Explosions! Introduction to Asset Integrity Management of Non-Rotating Equipment More information
► CO2 Capture: What Is It and How Would I Do It? More information
► Fractionation: Understanding Your Column From First Principles More information
► Help! My Distillation Products are Off-Spec! How Can I Fix This Efficiently? More information
► Help! My Distillation Column is Flooding! How Can I Get it Operating Again? More information
► Hydrates and Hydrate Inhibition: What are Your Options? More information
► Molecular Sieve Dehydration: How Does it Work and What Could Go Wrong? More Information
► Propane Refrigeration Basics More information
► Propane Refrigeration: Minimizing Power Requirements for Greenfield Projects With Economizers More Information
► Pumping System Hydraulics and System Curve Development, or... Don't Buy the Wrong Pump and Get Into Trouble with the Boss! More Information
► Reliability Analytics: Using Weibull Analysis to Maximize Equipment Reliability More Information
► TEG Dehydration: Process Principles and Key Performance Parameters More information
► Why Does My Pump Keep Blowing Seals? - Getting Longer Life From Pump Mechanical Seals More Information
HSE, Project Management, and Multi-Discipline Topics
► Efficient and Safe Shift Operations in Reduced Staffing Situations More information
► How to Avoid Surprises During a Turnaround and Deliver Your Brownfield Project Successfully More information
► International Best Practices in Process Safety More information
► Just How Much is Project Management Worth? Using Incremental Economics to Value Cycle Time, Cost, and Revenue of Petroleum Projects More information
► Operations Crew Resource Management: The Next Step in Optimizing Safety and Efficiency More information
► Understanding the Economics of the Oil and Gas Industry More Information