
Identify how civil engineering professionals fit into the oil and gas industry, covering key players, exploration basics, construction equipment, and civil works across upstream, midstream, and downstream.
The course targets a broad audience from civil engineering students to seasoned professionals in oil and gas, including construction workers, consultants, project managers, safety professionals, and journalists.
Identify the key players in the oil and gas industry, including oil companies, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and vendors, and understand how they collaboratively find, produce, and sell oil and gas.
Navigate oil and gas upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors, detailing exploration, gathering and processing, separating crude into products, and selling them, with players like Schlumberger, Chevron, and Marathon Petroleum.
Define the oil and gas facility and hydrocarbons, outline brownfield and greenfield projects with examples, explain hazardous area zoning and the permit to work system.
Microscopic marine organisms store solar energy and, under burial, pressure, and temperature, become petroleum and gas. These substances migrate toward the surface and trap in reservoir rocks beneath cap rock.
Explore oil and gas exploration, where geologists identify reservoir rocks and seismic surveys image subsurface layers beneath cap rock, under government licences for oil blocks.
Explore oil and gas civil construction equipment, from excavators and loaders to graders, concrete pumps, dump and water trucks, trenchers, horizontal directional drilling, and tree cutting tools.
Discover how rig roads connect oil well locations to move rigs and equipment between drilling sites, with specifications tailored to topography, weight, and equipment configuration, including eight-meter-wide routes.
Coordinate rig down, transport, and rig up to move the rig and camp facilities between locations, following route survey. Handle site prep, road work, and fence installation.
This course is designed for learners who want to broaden their knowledge about the services that civil engineering professionals provide to the oil and gas industry.
Civil engineering professionals with a keen interest in the oil and gas industry often do not have much information or knowledge about how or where they fit into the industry. While information is abundant on the internet, it is hardly in the required format and takes hours to assemble, for those who try. In response to this challenge, I have developed this course primarily for students with a civil engineering background who want to gain a better understanding of the services that civil engineering professionals provide to the petroleum industry. The course will assist interested students to upgrade their knowledge about the industry, prepare for a rewarding career in oil and gas and serve as good reference material for those already in the industry.
The course is divided into 25 sections with each section providing insight into a specific civil work, construction equipment, or relevant oil and gas topic. The knowledge gained from all the sections will enable the learner to build a complete picture of where the services of civil engineering professionals are required in the oil and gas industry.