JOS provides technical training and consulting for the complete life-cycle of offshore oil and gas systems; from exploration and development to decommissioning. The curriculum includes courses that provide attendees the knowledge to understand and participate in evaluating the major offshore development alternatives: fixed structures, floating systems and subsea systems. Other key elements stressed in all offshore courses include life-cycle costs, constructability, operability and interface management. Offshore instructors have extensive real world experience managing offshore development projects, well construction and servicing, asset management and producing operations. Their broad knowledge blends the unique technical and operational issues of offshore into an integrated approach to enhance understanding of the full scope of offshore facilities.

This course presents a unified approach to the well design process. It is an overview of the operational sequences, from spudding the well through drilling and completion, to startup and production. Participants will learn elementary rock mechanics and a simple way to analyze borehole stability. The information is then used to design a fracture gradient curve, which serves as input to the well design process. That is followed by a discussion of the potential for optimization. During this course participants will learn about: Methods for improving borehole stability; High-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) wells; Hydraulic optimization and the interpretation of ballooning in deep wells; Deepwater, multilateral and long-reach wells; Well integrity issues with examples.

This course describes the petroleum value chain from prospect identification, to project commissioning and to final abandonment. Participants will leave this course with a firm understanding of the petroleum industry including, the knowledge and tools necessary for understand the relationships and dependencies across the E&P industry. This course offers a fresh look at a range of critical, inter-related topics and will be taught with the modern learner in mind. Uncertainties, risk management, business practices and project management lessons are learned through these team based events.

This course applies fundamental instrumentation and control engineering principles to oil and gas facilities design and operation. Through the use of individual and group problem solving, attendees will learn about field measurement devices, final elements and actuators, pressure relief and regulation, documentation, programmable logic controllers, power supplies, SCADA, DCS, SIS, hazardous areas, and installation methods. Participants will gain a better understanding of instrumentation and control components and systems and will gain a greater appreciation for instrumentation and control engineering.

This comprehensive course covers the full spectrum of well treatment and stimulation options for carbonate and sandstone reservoirs. It begins with a review of the various mechanisms that can damage a formation and ways to avoid them. Next, the discussion turns to acid systems for carbonate and sandstone formations, treatment design the selection of additives, and the use of coiled tubing in extended reach and multilateral wells. The course will end with an introduction to new technologies for carbonate acidizing. Case histories illustrate some of the treatment options.