Course curriculum

    1. Introduction to Energy and Natural Gas

    2. Understanding the Need

    3. Divisions of the Oil & Gas Industry

    4. Conventional vs. Unconventional

    5. Understanding the Resource, Conventional v. Unconventional

      FREE PREVIEW

    6. Deciding Factors

    7. Course Overview

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. Locating the Resource

    2. Leasing Process

    3. Selecting Where to Drill

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Permitting

    5. Thermal Maturity

    6. Designing the Well

    7. Construction of the Wellpad

    1. Drilling 101

    2. General Drilling Operations

    3. Rig Workers & Components

    4. Drilling Bits

    5. Drilling Fluids & Blowout Prevention

    6. Directional Drilling

      FREE PREVIEW

    7. Casing & Cementing

    1. Pre-Frac Prep

    2. Cellar Prep

    3. Toe Prep

    4. Water Transfer

    1. Why Frac?

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Hydraulic Fracturing Process

    3. Surface Equipment/Setup

    4. Plug Drill Out

    5. Completions: Completions of Conventional Wells

    1. Flowback

    2. Wellhead Setup

    3. Production Separation and Equipment

    4. Pipelines and Hauling

    5. Natural Decline of Production

    6. Types of Artificial Lift

      FREE PREVIEW

    7. Economics of Decisions

    8. Brine Disposal/Injection

    9. Plugging and Abandonment

About this course

  • $499.00
  • 41 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Instructors

Derek & Sebastian

Co-Founders & Student Authors

Derek Krieg & Sebastian Ziaja, co-founders of Oilfield Basics, partnered up early on to author perhaps the most basic, yet comprehensive overview of our industry ever put together. As petroleum engineering students at Marietta College at the time of publication, much of their insight was gained through on-site visits, job shadows, and research. Today, Derek & Sebastian both work for reputable upstream oil & gas producers as engineers.

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Perks of this Course

  • Up-to-Date Content

    Tired of finding old or confusing material online or in textbooks? Our course focuses on relevant operations that are happening all over the country today.

  • Built for Maximum Learning

    We appreciate simplicity, organization, and visual learning tools. Thus, our course includes many images, diagrams, and exclusive videos to maximize your learning.

  • Receive a Certificate

    After completing the course and passing the knowledge check at the end, you'll be issued a certificate.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

  • Understand common operations & processes that occur during the exploration and production of oil & gas

  • Be able to better communicate to those inside & outside of the industry

  • Understand the difference between conventional & unconventional reservoirs

  • Understand why companies drill where they do

  • Understand how wells are horizontally drilled, cased, cemented, hydraulically fractured, produced, and plugged

  • Understand the common tools & equipment utilized in our operations

  • Understand a well's declining production rate and what can be done to elongate it's productive life

Testimonials

“The course is very helpful. It gave me the basic knowledge of oil and gas industry besides what I have learnt till now. Each and everything is well explained and managed that makes it more interesting as you keep going ahead.”

Sunita Pathak, Texas Tech

“Thank you so much Oilfield Basics for such an amazing and informational course. Definitely the best in the market for a beginner. ”

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