Course Description: Explores the principles, design, and execution of acidizing, matrix treatments, and hydraulic fracturing to enhance production from oil and gas wells. Includes candidate selection, treatment fluids, and post-job evaluation.
Who Should Attend: Production/completion engineers, stimulation specialists, petroleum engineers.
Training Format: Technical lectures, case studies, design workshops.
📅 Day 1: Stimulation Fundamentals
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 09:00 |
Course objectives |
| 09:00 – 10:30 |
Reservoir damage and need for stimulation |
| 10:30 – 10:45 |
☕ Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 |
Candidate well selection |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Formation evaluation for stimulation |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Matrix vs. fracturing treatments |
📅 Day 2: Acidizing Techniques
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Acid types & reaction mechanisms |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
☕ Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 |
Acidizing design considerations |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Additives and diverters |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Case study: acidizing carbonate formations |
📅 Day 3: Hydraulic Fracturing
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Fracture mechanics and propagation |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
☕ Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 |
Fracturing fluids, proppants, additives |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Frac design parameters |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Frac execution and monitoring |
📅 Day 4: Stimulation Design and Execution
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Stimulation design software workflows |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
☕ Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 |
Job execution planning & HSE |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Post-treatment evaluation |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Hands-on design exercises |
📅 Day 5: Advanced Topics & Case Studies
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Multistage fracturing & horizontal wells |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
☕ Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 |
Real-world stimulation case studies |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Economic evaluation of stimulation jobs |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Group discussion & course wrap-up |