The question that matters in daily production management is simple to state and difficult to answer: what is stopping this field producing more today. The answer is rarely uniform. Some wells are limited by reservoir pressure. Some are limited by lift capacity, scale or a failing pump. Some are constrained by header pressure caused by a compressor running below capacity. Some produce below potential because nobody has tested them recently and the potential itself is unknown. Others are shut in for reasons nobody has recently reviewed.

Establishing the answer requires the same measurement discipline across all three domains. Production potential must be determined and maintained, because loss cannot be measured without it. Loss must be attributed to a cause and to a domain, since a loss recorded as compressor downtime and a loss recorded as reservoir decline lead to entirely different responses. Surveillance must cover the reservoir, the wells and the facilities at a frequency matched to how fast each can change. Without this, production management becomes reactive and the organisation responds to whatever failed most recently rather than to what is costing most.

The second half of the discipline is turning findings into work. A surveillance programme that generates observations nobody acts on is an expense rather than an asset. Effective practice runs a structured funnel: observations become candidate opportunities, opportunities are screened and matured with increasing technical and economic rigour, surviving candidates enter a ranked work programme, and delivered work is reviewed against what it was expected to achieve. This course covers both halves, because either without the other fails.

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

• Establish an integrated framework covering reservoir, well and facility management
• Determine production potential at well and field level and maintain it as conditions change
• Implement loss and deferment accounting attributed by cause and by domain
• Design surveillance programmes covering reservoir, well and facility performance
• Diagnose where the binding constraint sits and whether its origin is reservoir, well or facility
• Identify production opportunities from surveillance data and mature them through a structured process
• Apply production optimisation across lift, choke settings, network routing and injection allocation
• Plan intervention and maintenance campaigns against ranked value and resource availability
• Manage integrity across wells, reservoir and facilities without sacrificing production delivery
• Assemble, deliver and review an annual work programme with measurable targets

The course is delivered as an operational management programme covering the complete production system. Each subject is developed through what must be measured, what must be decided and what must be delivered, rather than through discipline theory. Case material follows assets through a full management cycle, from surveillance findings to work programme delivery and review, including cases where opportunities were identified and never executed and cases where domain-by-domain optimisation lost production overall. Participants work through constraint diagnosis and opportunity ranking on field data.

Organisations sending participants to this training will:

• Increase production by identifying and removing the constraint that is actually binding
• Reduce deferment through systematic loss accounting and targeted response
• Convert surveillance findings into delivered work rather than reports
• Improve capital and intervention allocation through ranked opportunity maturation
• Reduce losses at the interfaces between subsurface, wells and operations functions
• Establish measurable production management performance and an improvement cycle

Participants will:

• Manage the production system as a whole rather than one domain of it
• Determine potential and quantify loss credibly
• Diagnose production constraints quickly and correctly
• Build and mature an opportunity portfolio that delivers
• Plan and deliver an annual work programme
• Take asset-level accountability for production delivery

• Production, reservoir and petroleum engineers with asset responsibility
• Well, reservoir and facility management practitioners and coordinators
• Production operations supervisors and superintendents
• Surveillance and production optimisation specialists
• Well intervention and workover planning engineers
• Facilities and maintenance engineers working with production teams
• Asset and subsurface managers accountable for production delivery

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.