Production efficiency is the fraction of potential production actually achieved. Where it is low, the causes are usually not dramatic. They are small deferments repeated many times: wells left down after a trip because nobody noticed, chokes left back after a test, separators run at higher pressure than necessary, chemical pumps not refilled, compressors tripping on the same fault every week and wells waiting for a simple intervention because the request was never raised.

Good operations run on routine and on data. Every well has expected values for rate, pressures and temperatures, and daily comparison against those values finds problems quickly. Every facility has a set of constraints, and knowing which one is binding at any moment tells the operations team where production is being lost. Every deferment event should be recorded with a cause, because the list of causes is what drives improvement.

The other half is discipline: doing things the same way each time, handing over shifts properly, following procedures for isolation and permits, and keeping records that the next crew can use. This is unglamorous and it is what separates well-run fields from the rest. The course covers both the technical practice and the operating discipline.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Define production efficiency, uptime and deferment and measure them correctly.
• Apply good well operating practice for start-up, choke management and drawdown limits.
• Operate production facilities stably and avoid avoidable trips.
• Design and run daily, weekly and monthly surveillance routines.
• Manage chemical treatment and integrity checks within daily operations.
• Identify, record and classify deferment and target its main causes.
• Apply operating procedures, permit to work and isolation practice.
• Run effective shift handover and daily operations meetings.
• Manage contractors and services in day-to-day operations.
• Build a continuous improvement cycle from operations data.

Organisations sending participants to this training will:

• Increase production efficiency without capital spend.
• Reduce avoidable deferment and repeat trips.
• Improve consistency of operating practice across crews and shifts.
• Improve handover, records and procedure discipline.
• Build an improvement cycle driven by deferment data.

Participants will:

• Understand what drives production efficiency in daily operations.
• Be able to run effective surveillance and operating routines.
• Be able to identify and classify deferment causes.
• Understand operating discipline, procedures and handover practice.
• Be able to lead improvement work in an operating team.

• Production engineers
• Operations engineers and supervisors
• Field and shift supervisors
• Production technologists
• Operations managers
• Maintenance and integrity staff working with operations

Upon successful completion of this training course, delegates will be awarded an official Certificate of Completion issued by the Petroleum Engineers Association (PEA), an ISO 9001:2015 certified training organization. The certificate carries 10 Credits and formally records the total learning hours completed.

Each certificate is signed by the Course Facilitator and the CEO of the Petroleum Engineers Association, and serves as verifiable proof of professional training that delegates can present to employers and professional bodies worldwide.