This course focuses on oil spill or discharge prevention and response to spill during oil well drilling, production, and work-over operations. Participants will learn about oil spill or discharge prevention, response to spill, spill containment, air and water monitoring, hazard evaluation and introduction to oil spill trajectory model simulation. Participants will also learn to develop a plan that meets legal regulations.

This course is most effective when attended by an entire team. Team members will develop and refine the skills essential for high performance teams. Emphasis is placed on learning more effective ways to enhance total team functionality and maximum team productivity. Individual communication styles will be assessed and examined to identify the most appropriate uses of team strengths. This course has been constructed to maximize opportunity for intact teams to strengthen team performance and team productivity.

This course examines the fundamentals of well test interpretation for oil and gas wells. It covers the analysis of tests in vertical and horizontal wells: drillstem tests, wireline formation tests, flow/build-up tests, injection/fall-off tests interference/pulse test. Determination of permeability and damage, estimation of stabilized flow rates from short tests, detection of boundaries etc. The practice of well test interpretation will be emphasized along with the theory. 

This intermediate level course for project managers, project engineers, and integrated project team discipline members addresses the key areas associated with capital project risk management. The course focuses on managing risk throughout the entire project life cycle. This course is very much hands-on with class exercise case studies that focus on participant development of risk management deliverables. The class also addresses the methods that project team leaders can utilize to ensure that project team members and management buy in and are part of the risk management process.

Project success depends on the effectiveness of all project decisions, not just the few made formally via structured methods. This course applies a variety of insights from diverse fields including psychology, cognitive science, naturalistic decisionmaking, action science, sense making, mathematics, and communication theory to improve engineering decision-making. Learnings and insights from the course are used to develop a strategy for improving decision-making and to develop answers to four questions of key importance in project design: