Course Listings
SCA’s full training course listing is below. Click on any individual course title for the complete description as well as upcoming public session dates.
- Advanced Artificial Lifting with ESP – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD
- Advanced Sucker Rod Pumping – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD or Gabor Takecs, PhD
- Applied Biostratigraphy in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production – William N. Krebs, PhD
- Applied Contouring Workshop – Sia Agah
- Applied Deep-Water Sedimentology & Stratigraphy – Jon R. Rotzien, PhD
- Applied Drilling Engineering Optimization for Drilling Engineers – Robello Samuel, PhD
- Applied Drillstring Mechanics for Drilling Engineers – Robello Samuel, PhD
- Applied Seismic Interpretation Workshop – James J. Willis, PhD
- Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping – Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup or Sia Agah or Jim Brenneke
- Artificial Lift and Production Optimization Solutions – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD
- Artificial Lift and Real-Time Optimization for Unconventional Assets – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD
- AVO, Inversion and Attributes: Principles and Applications – James J. Willis, PhD
- Basic Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers – Susan Howes, PE, PHR
- Basic Petroleum Engineering Practices – Kirk Boatright, PhD, PE
- Basic Petroleum Operations – Ruben O. Caligari
- Basic Reservoir Engineering for Non-Petroleum Engineers – Christine Ehlig-Economides, PhD
- Basics of the Petroleum Industry – Hal Miller or Susan Howes, PE, PHR
- Basin-Floor Fan Systems (South-Central Pyrenees, Spain) – Steve Cossey, PhD
- Best Practices for New Well Fracs and Legacy Well Refracs – Robert ‘Bob’ Barba
- Big Bend Field Course – Eric D. Carlson
- The Book Cliffs, Utah: A Case Study in Coastal Sequence Stratigraphy – William Little, PhD
- Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage – An Engineering Perspective – Christine Ehlig-Economides, PhD and Dimitrios Hatzignatiou, PhD
- Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage – A Geological Perspective – Stephen A. Sonnenberg, PhD
- Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy – Oscar Lopez-Gamundi, PhD
- Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation – James Smolen, PhD
- Cement Evaluation and Repair Workshop – William K. “Bill” Ott, PE and James Smolen, PhD
- The Daniel J. Tearpock Geoscience Certification Program – SCA Staff
- Deepwater Deposits Field Course (Arkansas – Oklahoma) – Lesli J. Wood, PhD
- Deepwater Operations Geology and the Technology to Acquire & Evaluate Data During Operations – John Keasberry
- Deepwater Systems, Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees: Application to Hydrocarbon Prospectivity and Unconventional Plays – Kevin Pickering, PhD and Steve Cossey, PhD
- Developing Robust Production Forecasts: Do’s and Don’ts – Srini Prasad
- Drilling Fluids – Lee A. Richards, PhD, PE
- Economic Evaluation of Petroleum Opportunities – Ed Savage
- Effective Petroleum Systems Analysis – Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup
- Effects of Mechanical Stratigraphy and Structure on Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (Central Wyoming) – John C. Lorenz, PhD and Scott P. Cooper, MS
- Electrical Submersible Pump – Design and Optimization Using Nodal Analysis – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD or Gabor Takecs, PhD
- Elements of Petroleum Geology – Stephen A. Sonnenberg, PhD
- Energy Transition for Petroleum Professionals – D. Nathan Meehan, PhD, PE
- Folds, Faults, and Hydrocarbons in the Southern Canadian Cordillera: Short Course and Field Trip – Peter Jones, PhD
- For Safe Drilling: Formation – Fracture Pressure Interpretations and Analysis – Selim Shaker, PhD
- Foundation of Petrophysics – James J. Willis, PhD
- Gas-Lift & Deliquification Applications – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD
- Gas Lift Design and Optimization Using NODAL Analysis – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD or Gabor Takecs, PhD
- Geology-Based Topical Contouring Workshops – Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup
- Geomechanics Aspects of CCS Projects – Subsurface Alliance
- Geomechanics for Geothermal Projects – Subsurface Alliance
- Geothermal Energy – Silviu Livescu, PhD and Birol Dindoruk, PhD
- Geosteering: Best Practices, Pitfalls & Applied Solutions – Jamie Woolsey and Sara Callner
- High-Continuity Sandy Turbidite System: Application to Hydrocarbon Prospectivity (Haute Provence, SE France) – Kevin Pickering, PhD and Steve Cossey, PhD
- How to Maximize Upstream Exploitation Value (Conventional Reservoirs) – Srini Prasad
- Hydraulic Fracturing: Theory & Application – Jennifer Miskimins, PhD
- Hydraulic Pumping – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD
- In-Well Fiber-Optic Sensing – Dennis Dria, PhD
- Integrated Deepwater Depositional and Petroleum Systems – Bradford E. Prather
- Introduction to Drilling Engineering – Lee A. Richards, PhD, PE
- Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty Management – Susan Howes, PE, PHR
- Introduction to Subsurface Machine Learning – Siddharth Misra, PhD
- Managing Mature Oilfields with Capacitance-Resistance Modelling – Larry W. Lake, PhD and Jerry Jensen, PhD
- Mapping & Interpreting Clastic Reservoirs – Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup
- Mapping Seismic Data Workshop – Alan Cherry
- Modern Coastal Systems of Texas Field Course (Galveston, Texas) – Julia Smith Wellner, PhD
- Navigating CCUS In the Gulf Coast Region – Opportunities and Participation – PK Pande, PE
- Nodal Analysis in Self-Flowing and Artificial Lift Wells – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD or Gabor Takecs, PhD
- Nodal Analysis (Petroleum Experts IPM Software) – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD
- Petroleum Engineering Fundamentals – Ruben O. Caligari
- Petroleum Systems Modeling – Lothar Friberg, PhD
- Plunger Lift – Rajan N. Chokshi, PhD
- Pore Pressure, Fracture Pressure and Well-Bore Stability – Selim Shaker, PhD
- Practical Interpretation of Open Hole Logs – Robert ‘Bob’ Barba
- The Practice of Seismic Stratigraphy in Deepwater Settings – Bradford E. Prather, PhD
- Predicting Organic Shale Well Performance – Robert ‘Bob’ Barba
- Pressure Transient Well Test Design and Interpretation – Christine Ehlig-Economides, PhD
- Principles of Mapping with Petrel© – Laurie Green, MSc, PG
- Principles and Practices of Mud Motor – Robello Samuel, PhD
- PRMS and SEC Reserves and Resource Regulations – W. John Lee, PhD
- Production Forecasting for Low Permeability Reservoirs – W. John Lee, PhD
- Project Management for Exploration and Development Projects – Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup
- Project Management Professional Exam Prep Course – Jill Almaguer, PE, PMP
- Quality Assurance/Quality Control Skills in Subsurface Mapping (QAQC) – Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup
- QC Techniques for Reviewing Prospects & Acquisitions – Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup
- Reserves Estimation – W. John Lee, PhD
- Reservoir Characterization for Mudrock Reservoirs – Stephen A. Sonnenberg, PhD
- Reservoir Characterization of Clastic (Sandstone) Reservoirs – Lesli J. Wood, PhD
- Reservoir Geomechanics I & II – John T. Foster, PhD
- Reservoir Management of Unconventional Reservoirs: From Inception to Maturity – Shah Kabir
- Resource Assessment and Risk and Uncertainty Management – Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup
- Seal and Reservoir Pressures Analysis for E&P Prospect’s Risk Assessment – Selim Shaker, PhD
- Seismic Geomorphology – Lesli Wood, PhD
- Sequence Stratigraphy Applied to O&G Exploration – Oscar Lopez-Gamundi, PhD
- Shale Reservoir Workshop: Analyzing Organic-Rich Mudrocks from Basin to Nano-Scale – Ursula Hammes, PhD
- Shale Reservoir Core Workshop: Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Assessment of Organic-Rich Mudrocks – Ursula Hammes, PhD
- Structural Geology & Tectonics as Applied to Upstream Problems – Catalina Luneberg, Phd and James Granath, PhD
- Structural and Sequence Stratigraphic Field Course (Hill Country, Texas) – Lansing Taylor, PhD
- Structural Styles and Tectono-Stratigraphy for the Mid-Continent – Lansing Taylor, PhD
- Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration and Production – Lansing Taylor, PhD
- Unconventional Resource Plays – Workshop – Stephen A. Sonnenberg, PhD
- Visual Rock Characterization – Robert Merrill, PhD
- Well Control for Drilling Engineers and Senior Rig Personnel – Lee A. Richards, PhD, PE
- Well Stimulation Workshop: Practical and Applied – Leo Roodhart, PhD and Gerrit Nitters
- Well Tie Workshop – Alan Cherry