Who:

This seminar is designed for persons with little or no experience in drilling and production technology.

What:

This seminar will give a non-technical overview of oilfield operations in Western Canada. The major topics of drilling, well completion, and production operations will be covered. In the drilling section, the instructor will discuss drilling and other operations such as logging, drill stem testing, coring and cementing. The completion section will include a discussion of the service rig, perforating, stimulation and downhole equipment. Production operations will cover production facilities and equipment, methods of artificial lift and enhanced recovery techniques.

Registration Fee includes beverages and snacks.

Instructor(s):

Gregor Schoenberg, B.Eng., B.Ed., P.Eng.

Gregor Schoenberg started working in the Canadian Oil and Gas Industry in the summer of 1979 as an engineering co-op student.  That first job was in the Drilling Department of Home Oil Company Ltd., and it was enough to convince him that this was indeed a very interesting line of work.

He moved to Calgary in 1981, and has since worked for a number of large Operating companies and several Service companies, as well as doing some contract and consulting work.  Most of this experience has been in the technical planning and monitoring of drilling projects and operations in Western Canada - in short, drilling engineering.

He decided to pursue education late in the nineties, and did his B.Ed. degree at the University of Calgary.  He currently teaches Introductory Drilling, Drilling Fluids, Advanced Drilling, Project Management, and Industry Overview courses at SAIT Polytechnic.

He is also engaged in teaching Industry courses and recently taught a two week course on drilling fluids and solids control equipment to CUPET employees in Varadero, Cuba.

He is married and has two grown children - one in Vancouver, one in Australia - lots of options for vacations!  When not teaching, he can often be found performing at the Pumphouse Theatre in a play or a musical.

Ron Linder, P.Eng

Ron is a Petroleum Engineer with over 35 years of experience in production, drilling and well completions.  In addition, he has spent the past five years as an instructor in Production and Well Completions at SAIT.

Ron's work area has included western Canada, as well as several countries overseas.  Ron has been involved in many challenging and interesting projects such as:

• Initial development of the Deep Basin west of Grande Prairie, plus many of the small sweet gas fields in and around Alberta.
• Offshore multi-zone completions in Greece and Malaysia.
• Implementing a water flood in a fully depleted oil field in Indonesia.
• Production and well operations in Asia.

Ron enjoys helping people understand this business which has been fascinating to him, as well as good to his family.

Schedule:

Main Event: 2011-11-10 08:30:00 - 2011-11-10 16:30:00

Main Event: 2011-11-24 08:30:00 - 2011-11-24 16:30:00