Oil & Gas Exploration

Course Description:

Thanks to advances in exploration and production technology, today's industry is better equipped than ever to find and produce valuable oil and gas - even as these resources become concentrated in deeper, more remote, and more technically challenging areas.  Many of the same advances also support our Nation's goal for environmental protection.  With each step up in performance and efficiency, the industry can recover more resources with fewer wells drilled, resulting in smaller volumes of cuttings, drilling muds and fluids, and produced waters.  Technologies such as slimhole, directional, and multilateral drilling reduce the footprint of the drilling rigs and minimize surface impacts.  Other benefits of advanced technology include reduced energy consumption, reduced noise from operations, decreased visibility of facilities, reduced emissions of greenhouse gases and hazardous air pollutants, better protection of water resources, preservation of habitats and wildlife, and enhanced worker safety.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the quality of life relies on oil and gas
• Know the environmental benefits of advanced E&P Technology
• Know the technology fact sheets