Learning Objectives

• Understand the basic steps, technology, and people involved in getting petroleum resources from the ground to the consumer.


• Connect the petroleum industry to regional and global events, issues, and economics, and explore how the industry affects all Canadians.


• Recognize the names and roles of various organizations working in the Canadian oilpatch.


• Recognize the value of your personal contribution to your employer and to the sustainability of the industry.

Oilpatch 101 Classroom: Day 1
Content Overview

• • Global, regional & local dynamics.
• • Geology: traps, core samples, hydrocarbon regions in Canada.
• • Land Access: Surface & mineral rights, Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) and public & aboriginal involvement.
• • Seismic: Surveying & 2-D & 3-D processing.
• • Drilling: rigs, processes, personnel, bits & fluids, directional & multilateral wells and Canadian well statistics.
• • Well Completion: casing, cementing, Perforation and abandonment & reclamation.
• • Production: statistics, crude oil, natural gas and offshore production.

Oilpatch 101 Classroom: Day 2
Content Overview

• • Unconventional Gas: coal bed methane (CBM), tight gas, shale gas, gas hydrates & protecting ground water.
• • Unconventional Oil: Heavy oil & oilsands reserves, mining vs. insitu upgrading and challenges.
• • Processing: natural gas, oilsands and heavy oil & facilities.
• • Transportation: pipelilnes, trucking & shipping.
• • Marketing: supply & demand, commodity prices & price differentials.
• • Sustainability: consumption forecasts, environment, labour, safety and technology.