RPS Energy is launching its 2022 Nautilus Training Alliance Program for the Energy sector - Diversifying their portfolio to support the drive to net-zero carbon.

RPS delivers field, classroom and online courses focusing on core skills development and current challenges facing the Energy industry. Courses are delivered by instructors recognised as leading subject matter experts in their field, including industry leaders, professors and distinguished lecturers.

The Nautilus Training Alliance Program delivers a wide range of courses, in various subject areas and disciplines covering:

• Oil and Gas - Exploration, Development and Production
• Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization (CCUS)
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
• Professional Skills Development for Energy Professionals

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Upcoming courses include: 

TCFD [Task Force on Climate-related Disclosure] Oil and Gas Reporting

This interactive course will highlight the key steps to achieve TCFD compliance and keep your organisation's reporting on track.

Summary

Business Impact: The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) UK, has clearly set an expectation in March 2021 that all UK operators and non-operators alike, should be reporting to Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) standards by 2025. We anticipate that other international jurisdictions' O&G authorities will follow this ‘gold standard’ of reporting in the future.
Organisations signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has made reporting on TCFD indicators for strategy and governance mandatory. As our industry transitions through the realities of a low-carbon economy, staying ahead of the reporting and disclosures curve, will help organisations maintain access to funding.

This interactive course will highlight the key steps to achieve TCFD compliance and keep your organisation's reporting on track.

Virtual classroom: 15 February 2022   l   Click here to find out more.

Reservoir Modelling for Storage

This course will summarise the unique issues when modelling for storage. Participants will learn to consider fluid properties, heterogeneity, geomechanics, seismic monitoring, and scale when carrying out reservoir modelling for storage.

Summary

Business Impact: We will never cease to be interested in fluid flow in the subsurface. The same reservoir and simulation technologies that have been developed in the pursuit of producing oil and gas resources will continue to be required in the future, not only for a declining production of hydrocarbons, but for disposal of CO2 and the storage of energy itself. Although sharing common areas, the models we build for storage will nevertheless differ in a number of ways compared to those we use for production. 

Modelling the ‘storage complex’ requires us to build models that encompass not just the target reservoir for drilling, but also the surrounding rock volumes, including the lateral volumes where the injected fluid plume is expected to migrate to. This draws on a need to capture the geomechanics of these rock volumes, and also to model on a scale that can support seismic monitoring of the moving plume – a larger scale than we would normally model for production alone. However, the supercritical fluids involved are particularly sensitive to reservoir heterogeneity. Rather than hindering our objective, as in the case of production, heterogeneity can be an advantage for storage either through the creation of compartments or through direct capillary trapping – a smaller scale than we might normally model for production. 

This course will summarise the unique issues when modelling for storage. Participants will learn to consider fluid properties, heterogeneity, geomechanics, seismic monitoring, and scale when carrying out reservoir modelling for storage.

Virtual classroom: 9-13 May 2022   l   Click here to find out more.

Subsurface Characterization, Screening and Site Selection for Geologic CO2 Storage Sites

This course empowers attendees to develop and apply their skills to the growing industry of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage.

Summary

Business Impact:  Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a key means of mitigating climate change and is the only option currently available to decarbonize industries such as cement, steel, petrochemicals and LNG.  As opportunities in oil and gas decline, they are growing in CCS. Human activities now generate about 35Gt of CO2 (1 gigatonne=1 billion tonnes) per year. At ~$50/ton for sequestration, the potential opportunity is enormous, both in new business revenue and in repurposing old assets and delaying decommissioning costs. Mitigation of the worst effects of climate change will require storing billions of tons per year, with an industry to match. In the US alone, the National Petroleum Council estimates that CCS could employ ~230,000 people, similar to the current oil industry. 

This course empowers attendees to develop and apply their skills to the growing industry of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage. Attendees will be guided through the subsurface characterization and risk assessment of a storage site. Focus will be on the geologic needs for site definition, screening and development.

Virtual classroom: 28-30 June 2022   l   Click here to find out more.

Transforming 60-years of CO2-EOR Experience into Shale Oil Recovery and CO2 Sequestration

This course provides clear, concise and practical information for understanding and implementing the CO2 enhanced oil recovery into unconventional reservoirs.

Summary

Business Impact: Application of the learnings of this course will empower participants to improve their unconventional oil and gas production performance by developing new CO2 injection-based EOR and carbon sequestration operations in the field.
This course provides clear, concise and practical information for understanding and implementing the CO2 enhanced oil recovery into unconventional reservoirs. The recovery discussions will be complemented with technical discussions on the depleted wells for CO2 sequestration and carbon credit. Pilot projects and case studies are used to demonstrate evaluation and predictive techniques using experimental, analytical and numerical methods. Operational aspects including transportation, injection, separation, reinjection and corrosion are discussed.

Virtual classroom:  19-28 July 2022   l   Click here to find out more.