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Petroleum Industry and
No. MINIMUM COMPETENCE BREADTH/DEPTH engineering company design
terminology standards
1 Understand general terminology of all sub-disciplines.
12 Select appropriate kickoff points, build rates, required hole angles and
bottom hole assemblies.
13 Recommend wellhead/BOP ratings to maintain well integrity. Understand
performance properties of drill string and BHA components.
14 Determine BOP stack arrangements, establish test requirements.
Calculate ton miles to slip and cut drill line. Calculate slip crushing forces
on a landing string.
15 Understand hole considerations for successful open hole logging.
18 Calculate pressure drop through the system and optimize bit hydraulics.
Understand principals of equivalent circulating density.
19 Understand operations of basic solids control
20 Size standard solids control equipment (shaker, desander, and desilter) for
mud and hydraulics programs.
21 Understand regulatory requirements (fresh water protection, zone
isolation, etc.). Understand application of basic cement additives.
22 Design cement slurries and procedures with sufficient pump time and
other characteristics to successfully complete a job. Understand
application of specialty cement additives.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILL
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Formation properties Lithology from well
No. MINIMUM COMPETENCE BREADTH/DEPTH
from well logs logs
2 Determine properties from log readings in both clean and shaly sands.
State most common water saturation models.
3 Determine lithology from combination of porosity log reading in clean
sands.
4 Determine lithology from combination of porosity log readings in sands
with mixed lithology.
5 State what can be learned about a well and reservoir from conventional
well testing procedures.
6 Given a set of property values needed from a given reservoir, specify the
tests available to measure those properties.
7 Determine duration of well test required to measure specific near-well and
reservoir properties in homogeneous, isotropic reservoirs.
8 Determine duration of well test required to measure specific near-well and
reservoir properties in homogeneous, isotropic reservoirs.
9 Determine duration of well test required to measure specific near-well and
reservoir properties in homogeneous, isotropic reservoirs.
10 Determine duration of well test required to measure specific near-well and
reservoir properties in homogeneous, isotropic reservoirs.
11 Determine formation properties for single-phase flow of oil or water in
buildup or constant rate flow tests. Boundaries limited to single no-flow
boundaries. Formation homogeneous and isotropic.
12 Determine formation properties for single-phase flow of oil, gas, or water in
buildup or multirate flow tests. Boundaries include single, multiple, or
complete closure. Formation can be heterogeneous and anisotropic.
13 Specify objectives of wireline testing program.
14 Given a set of property values needed from a given reservoir, specify the
conventional tools available to measure these properties.
15 Determine gradients and thus densities and contact location from pressure
in wireline formation testers. Estimate productivity directly from test data.
16 Determine gradients and thus densities and contact location from pressure
in wireline formation testing. Estimate productivity using results of analysis
of transient test data.
17 State the procedures commonly used to sample black oil, volatile oil, dry
gas, wet gas, and gas condensate wells.
18 Specify bottomhole and surface sampling procedures to sample black oil,
volatile oil, dry gas, wet gas, and gas condensate wells.
19 State the properties obtained in routine and special laboratory procedures,
conventional laboratory procedures used in these tests, and their
limitations.
20 State the properties obtained in routine and special laboratory procedures,
conventional laboratory procedures used in these tests, and their
limitations. State the applications of this information to construct geological
and engineering models of a reservoir.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILL
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Tubing design for
No. MINIMUM COMPETENCE BREADTH/DEPTH production/ P&A Procedure
stimulation
1 Awareness that tubing shortens or lengthens because of changes in
pressures and temperatures during the stimulation process and production
life
2 Can calculate the specific length changes or packer forces due to the
piston effect, ballooning, temperature, helical buckling.
3 Calculate proper kill fluid density, demonstrate general awareness of need
to conduct operations safely, following company and regulatory guidelines
and honor geometry of wellbore in recommended steps.
4 Possess specific knowledge of sequential steps, e.g. safely kill well and
R/U for initial operations; throughout all operations maintain prudent well
control; ability to properly sequence operations with several stages of
operations including equipment retrieval and zone isolation.
5 Aware of basic fracture-gradient models and key parameters. Calculate
basic system pressure drop due to friction given all parameters and bottom
hole treating pressures.
6 Calculate required flow rate accounting for pressure losses and velocity
constraints. Vary perforating density to direct fracture volume for a given
rate and fixed surface pressure to different zones along with size and
strength considerations in proppant selection. Also able to incorporate
desired P/I increases in job design and economics.
7 Awareness of use of cement bond log to define problem area, GR/cased
hole log to correlate zones, able to calculate hydrostatic pressure involving
two or more fluids of different density, simple cement yield volume, tubing
capacities, general awareness of need to conduct operations safely
following company and regulatory guidelines and honor geometry of
wellbore in recommended steps.
8 Possesses specific knowledge of sequential steps, e.g. pumping schedule
for a walking squeeze or a balanced plug. Ability to calculate appropriate
shot density/perforation size for desired production conditions.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILL
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Initial oil and gas in Well test analysis for Oil and gas reserves Oil and gas recovery Flow characteristics
place determination reservoir analysis definitions estimation of oil in reservoirs
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Decision and risk
Secondary or
Flow characteristics Non-conventional analysis for
improved recovery Reservoir simulation
of gas in reservoirs gas reservoirs performance
mechanisms
prediction
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Reservoir
Surveillance