Courses and Training

Hycal's qualified staff will customize training to your company's needs. The following are some of our courses and seminars:


Courses:: Reservoir Optimization Through Gas Injection
Application of Equation-of-State in Miscible Flooding and PVT Experiments
Principles of Reservoir Fluid PVT Analysis
Special Core Studies, Coring, Preserving & Testing
Formation Damage
Principles of Waterflooding
Heavy Oil
Applied Thermodynamics
Specialized Training
Seminars: Principles of Formation Damage
Tailor Designed Formation Damage
Fluid Sampling and Characterization
How to Deal With Solids Precipitation Problems
Relative Permeability - A Tool for Reservoir Optimization
Optimizing Tight Gas Reservoirs
Designing a Coring Program for Formation Damage Evaluation
Optimizing Underbalanced Drilling Programs
Use of Petrophysical Measurements to Determine By-Passed Pay Potential

Reservoir Optimization Through Gas Injection: Duration: 3 days
Instructor: Dr. Brent Thomas
The course has been updated this year and is designed to provide valuable information on the use of laboratory data to design miscible flood projects.

Application of Equation-of-State in Miscible Flooding and PVT Experiments: Duration: 2 days
Instructor: Dr. Brent Thomas
The course is designed to provide an overview of where equation-of-state (EOS) can be used in miscible flooding and PVT experiments.

Principles of Reservoir Fluid PVT Analysis: Duration: 2 days
Instructor: Dr. Brent Thomas
The course is designed to provide an overview of reservoir fluid PVT experiments, how they are conducted, equipment utilized and applications in reservoir engineering.

Special Core Studies, Coring, Preserving & Testing: Duration: 3 days
Instructor: Brant Bennion
The course provides a broad range of information regarding how data can be collected from representative core samples and how to design an effective special core analysis program.

Formation Damage: Duration: 1 day
Instructor: Brant Bennion
The course is designed to provide a better understanding of formation damage and how it is affecting productivity.

Principles of Waterflooding: Duration: 2 days
Instructor: Brant Bennion
The course is designed to provide an overview of the engineering principles required for successful waterflood implementation.

Heavy Oil: Duration: 5 to 10 days
The course is designed to provide an overview of the geology and engineering principles required for successful exploitation of heavy oil reservoirs.

Applied Thermodynamics: Duration: 5 days
Instructor: Dr. Brent Thomas
Theory and basis for applied thermodynamics in petroleum engineering, introduction to equations of state (EOS), discussion of PVT principles and applications of EOS models.

Specialized Training: The specialized training takes place in a classroom setting at Hycal with half of the day spent on petroleum engineering subjects such as: special core analysis, fluid analysis, PVT, equation of state modelling, thermodynamics, rising bubble technology (RBA), miscible flooding, waterflooding, reservoir engineering, numerical simulation, and computer skills to perform and evaluate all tests.
The other half day will be spent working on various laboratory projects such as: corefloods related to secondary and tertiary recovery, simulation, phase behavior studies, formation damage studies and horizontal drilling.

All seminars are one-half day in length and are conducted at the client's office.

Principles of Formation Damage: Instructor: Dr. Brant Bennion, P.Eng.
Tailor Designed Formation Damage: Instructor: Dr. Brant Bennion, P.Eng.
Fluid Sampling and Characterization: Instructor: Dr. Brent Thomas, P.Eng.
How to Deal With Solids Precipitation Problems: Instructor: Dr. Brant Bennion, P.Eng.
Relative Permeability - A Tool for Reservoir Optimization: Instructors: Dr. Brant Bennion, P.Eng.
Optimizing Tight Gas Reservoirs: Instructors: Dr. Brant Bennion, P.Eng.
Designing a Coring Program for Formation Damage Evaluation: Instructor:

Key Contact: Colin Thiessen