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Professional Training

Addis & Yassir  provide on-site training to our clients in a number of areas in which we specialize, through module-based training. Our aim is to ensure that any sub-surface geoscientist or engineer becomes competent by providing a solid understanding of the mechanics included in the standard industry software and avoiding the software being used as a black box. 

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Dr. Najwa Yassir

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Dr. Tony Addis

We also provide customized courses based on requests from our clients, to address any specific technical needs or interests of the asset teams. This may involve pre-course surveys and post-course evaluations.

 

Addis & Yassir draw on industry experience and field examples to illustrate the impact on operations and field developments and demonstrate how theory can be brought into practice to solve practical problems, to improve field development planning, improve well productivity, reduce CAPEX and OPEX and reduce non-productive time.

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We combine formal training methods, with hands-on exercises, round-table discussion, and where possible incorporate the experience and challenges encountered by our participants.

 

Our training can be customized to focus around specific issues being encountered by asset teams or companies.

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Addis & Yassir collaborate with experts in different technical specialities from around the world, to bring our clients the best and most informed professional training.

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Training Levels

In line with industry best practice and in-house discipline capability building and technical competence profiles, our courses are targeted towards specific levels of technical competence and expertise. Our modules are ranked, and target four competency levels:

  • Awareness

  • Knowledge

  • Skill

  • Mastery

Most of our modules target the Awareness, Knowledge and Skilled competency levels, the Skill competency levels are longer than the Knowledge level, and contain more exercises. Mastery is normally achieved through extensive and continual specialised hands-in (and often application-based) learning based on actual on field problems. However, where specialised courses are required, we offer customised modules to address these areas.

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Contact: Dr. Najwa Yassir (Najwa.Yassir@addis-yassir.com)

Our courses are modular, and comprise topics which can be taught individually or as comprehensive courses. For an introduction to Petroleum Geomechanical Engineering we have combined a number of these modules into the 'Practical Geomechanics' course.

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Practical Petroleum Geomechanics 

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Audience: Sub-surface Disciplines, Asset teams, Field Development Staff, First Assignees, Young Professional Development.

Levels: Awareness / Knowledge 

Experience: 0-10 years in the Petroleum Industry.

Duration of Course: 5 days

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Our Practical Petroleum Geomechanics training course includes the following modules:

  • Petroleum GeomechanicalEngineering in Field Development Planning,

  • Fundamentals of Petroleum GeomechanicalEngineering,

  • Introduction to Pore Pressure Prediction,

  • In situ Stress Evaluation and Fracture Gradient Estimation,

  • 1D Mechanical Earth Modelling,

  • Wellbore Stability Models & Theory,

  • Practical Wellbore Stability,

  • Sand and Solids Production Prediction for Completion Selection and Design,

  • Geomechanics in Hydraulic Fracture Design,

  • Geomechanics in the Completion Design for Unconventional Development (Tight Gas and Oil),

  • Stress Evolution During Field Development,

  • Introduction to 3D Mechanical Earth Modelling,

  • Subsidence and Compaction Estimation,

  • Rock Mechanics Testing for Petroleum Geomechanics Applications,

  • The Financial Benefits of Addressing Geomechanical Challenges in Field Development Planning.

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Optional training modules may include the following:

  • Geomechanics of Secondary and Tertiary Recovery, (EOR/IOR): Waterflooding and Thermal Stimulation,

  • Geomechanical Analysis for Produced Water Re-Injection (PWRI) and Cuttings Re-Injection (CRI),

  • Fundamentals of Minifrac Interpretation for Stress Analysis,

  • Log-Based Strength Estimation for Geomechanical Analysis,

  • Strength and Stress Anisotropy in Geomechanical Analysis,

  • Deepwater Wellbore Stability Analysis,

  • Geomechanical Forward Modelling for Stress Analysis in Exploration Regions,

  • Geomechanical Analysis in Tectonically Compressive Regions,

  • Rock Physics Applied to Field Wide Geomechanical Analysis: 3D and 4D Time-lapse Seismic Analysis and Interpretation,

  • Advanced Wellbore Stability Analysis: Wellbore Strengthening and Stress Caging,

  • Advanced Wellbore Stability Analysis: The Impact of the Failure Criterion on Wellbore Stability Analysis.

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Planned Courses:

1.    Practical Geomechanics

       Trainer: Addis & Yassir

       Location: Abu Dhabi

       Date: Q1 2022

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