We offer a range of e-learning courses on our Skills Designer Academy platform.
This module is intended for participants with either very little or no prior experience of a processing workshop or processing plant environment.
It is also suitable for individuals wishing to progress to a career as a Process Technician and also for individuals who would like an overview of processing operations.
Learning Objectives :
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Briefly explain how oil and gas is formed
- Describe the basic characteristics of oil & gas reservoirs and hydrocarbon properties
- Outline main techniques throughout the oil and gas value chain: from exploration, production, refining, storage and transfer
- Explain how the oil and gas industry operates in terms of infrastructures, organizations, job roles and economic factors
Teaching methods :
- The course will be delivered by means of 20 e-learning sessions.
- No workshop practice content is required for this course.
- Ongoing course tests are performed to measure knowledge acquisition during the e-learnings.
E-Learning Program
- Introduction to hydrocarbons
- Origins of oil and gas
- Oil and gas reservoirs
- Identifying reservoir rock
- Searching for oil and gas
- Drilling for oil and gas
- Well development and completion
- Oil and gas extraction and gathering
- Oil production facilities
- Gas production facilities
- Oil and gas metering
- Oil and gas flow meters
- Oil and gas storage
- Oil and gas transport systems
- Downstream processing
- Key organizations in the oil and gas industry
- Oil and gas industry supply chain
- Essential job roles in the upstream oil and gas industry
- Understanding the dynamics of the oil and gas industry
- Example of field development architectues