Denver Section

Society of Petroleum Engineers

Continuing Education Short Course Offering

Advanced Natural Gas Engineering

Instructors:      Michael Economides, Ph.D., University of Houston
Dates:                     Tuesday - Wednesday, November 9-10, 2010, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location:                621 Seventeenth Street, Suite 1120, Denver, CO 80293 (Corner of 17^th and Welton)
1.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded by SPE-Americas Office for this 2-day course.

Course Description
This 2-day course discusses the increased role of natural gas in meeting the world energy demand because of its abundance, versatility, and its clean burning nature. As a result, new gas exploration, field development and production activities are under way. Because a significant portion of natural gas reserves worldwide are located across bodies of water, gas transportation (pipelines, LNG, and CNG) are becoming an issue. Natural gas is now targeted for a new generation of gas to liquid (GTL) technologies. All of these necessitate a seminar to cover the unique issues and challenges related to natural gas from upstream to midstream and downstream.  Each participant will receive a textbook with the course entitled Advanced Natural Gas Engineering (Gulf Publishing, 2009).

Course Contents

Natural Gas Basics

• Geological Settings, Natural Gas Origin and Accumulation
• Natural Gas Composition and Phase Behavior
• Hydrates
• Natural Gas Properties and Useful Correlations

Unique Issues in Natural Gas Exploration, Drilling, and Well Completion
Natural Gas Production for both Vertical and Horizontal Wells

• Darcy and non-Darcy Inflow
• Hydraulic Fracturing
• Performance of a Hydraulically Fractured Well with Turbulence

Natural Gas Processing

• Natural Gas and Liquid(s) Separations
• Two- and Three-Phase, Horizontal and Vertical Separator Design Procedure
• Natural Gas Dehydration – Water Removal
• Natural Gas Hydrates

Natural Gas Transportation – Pipeline and Compressed Natural Gas

• Pipeline Sizing
• Marine CNG Transportation
• Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

Gas-To-Liquids (GTL)

• GTL Processes
• Direct and Indirect Conversion of Natural Gas
• Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
• GTL Economics and Outlook

Underground Natural Gas Storage

• Types of Underground Storage Underground Storage
• Storage Measures: Gas Volume, Loss, and Injectivity

Who Should Attend
All disciplines in the oil and gas and processing industries.

About the Instructor
Dr. Michael Economides holds many positions such as professor at the University of Houston, managing partner of an industrial consulting firm and Editor-in-Chief of Energy Tribune. He has written 14 textbooks and over 200 journal papers and articles and is considered by many as the premier world expert on petroleum production engineering. In addition, he has written extensively on the geopolitics of energy. He is a frequent guest on national and international media such as CNBC, Fox News, Dow Jones Wire, NPR, Bloomberg, and BBC World Service.

Registration
The registration deadline is October 22, 2010.  The registration fee is $1,000.00 for members and $1,200 for nonmembers and is fully refundable until that time.  For more details, contact Darien O’Brien, P.E. at dgobrien@mines.edu or (303) 934-5979.  Make your check payable to SPE Denver Section and mail to: Darien O’Brien, 1632 South Lamar Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80232-7038.  Please include the course name, your FULL name (as you would like it to appear on the course completion certificate), SPE member number (if applicable), Title, Company, e-mail address, postal address, phone and fax number.  You may also register and pay on-line at http://denver.spe.org/.