Best Practices in Surface Production Operations Management

What are the Goals?

The goal of this course will focus on the following objectives:

• Understand the challenges associated with production operations management
• Highlight best practice in metering, deferment administration and planning
• Generate strategy to meet the business-driver in an asset using case study
• Provide appropriate improvement process

By the end of this training course, you will learn to:

• Manage an operating asset with best-in-class practice initiative
• Understand the best management approach peculiar to your asset
• Recognize what to watch for in production operations practice
• Develop asset-specific integrated production plan
• Develop asset specific metering and deferment framework

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Production Operators
• Field Production Personnel / Supervisors / Superintendents
• Production Engineers
• Asset Managers and Senior Managers
• Asset Support Engineers
• Process Engineers
• Reservoir Engineers
• Planning Engineers
• Production Accountants/Engineers

Daily Agenda

Day One: Overview of Surface Production Operations

• Introduction to Surface Production Operations
• Tools Supporting Operations Management
• Overview of Well, Reservoir & Facility Management (WRFM) process
• Metering Systems
• Operations Integration

Day Two: Production Deferment Administration

• General Principles of Deferment Administration
• Measurements
• Deferment Coding
• Roles & Responsibilities
• HCA Applications

Day Three: Production Allocation & Reconciliation

• Principles of Production Allocation & Reconciliation
• Domain Experts & Required Technology
• Populating and verification/validating process of data
• Allocation & Reconciliation
• Standard HCA Business Workflow

Day Four: Integrated Production/Injection Planning

• General Principles of Activity Planning
• Overview of Water-Injection System
• Business Objective for Integrated Production Planning
• Common Tools Required
• Challenges in Integrated Production Plan
• Integrated Production Plan Workflow
• Strategy in Generating Robust Plan linked to the Business

Day Five: Performance Review

• Case Study
• General Course Review
• Assessment of Participants
• Feedback
• Closing Remarks