Sub-Saharan Africa Oil & Gas Training Centre

Advances in Well Drilling & Completion Technology have assisted the Oil & Gas Industry in discovering new sources of oil and natural gas to meet the growing demand worldwide.

SAOGTC aims to continue this trend by providing quality and advanced training courses and seminars in technical topics such as Casing Design, Drilling Best Practices, Well Integrity Management, Well Completion Design, Stuck Pipe Prevention & Fishing Operations, SIPROD (Simultaneous Drilling and Production) and Log Quality Control and Petrophysics, among others.

For the complete list of Well Drilling & Completion Technology Training Courses offered by SAOGTC, please browse below:

January 2025

Coiled Tubing Operations

This course features equipment, tubing applications, job design, acidizing and stimulation techniques used in well control and coiled tubing applications

Course code:	DCT103
Date:	06 - 10 Jan 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Well, Reservoir and Facility Management

This training course covers value loops, structured reviews, production system optimisation, maturation process for effective well, reservoir & Facilities management

Course code:	WRM117
Date:	27 - 31 Jan 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

February 2025

Workover and Completion Operations

This training course features the types of Completions, Work-overs and well preparation, Surface and Subsurface Well-bore Equipment and Procedures, barriers, work-over fluids, risk awareness and Organizing a Well Control Operation

Course code:	DCT113
Date:	03 - 07 May 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Well Interventions
This course will contain in-depth information on the impact of workovers and completion design in maximizing field production and increasing recoverable reserves. It also emphasizes the importance of well interventions methods (slickline, Electrical line and Coiled tubing) during lifetime of the well to keep well productivity under optimum conditions.

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Course code:	DCT312
Date:	10 - 14 Feb 2025
Location:	Port harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Sand Control Techniques

This training course features rock mechanical processes that lead to sand production, operational measures taken to identify a sand problem well and how to control it, completion operations required for the installation of sand control to achieve a positive well operation and economical oil or gas production.

Course code:	PDT312
Date:	24 - 28 Feb 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

March 2025

Cementing Technologies

This Cementing Technologies training course covers cement placement, calculations, additives and evaluation that are critical for well life

Course code:	DCT122
Date:	3 - 7 Mar 2025
Location:	Port harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Stuck Pipe Prevention & Fishing Operations

This stuck pipe prevention & fishing operations training course is designed to inform and educate attendees to prevent and mitigate stuck pipe problems through assuring industry gained best practice, means and methods are translated and sustained to reduce stuck pipe events.

Course code:	DCT324
Date:	10 - 14 Mar 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

FundamentalsofReservoir Engineering

This course introduces concepts and methods to enable cross-disciplinary exchange and gain foundational understanding of reservoir engineering

Course code:	SSR141
Date:	17 - 21 Mar 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Stimulation Technologies

This training course covers the main aspects of Well Stimulation whose main objective is to repair formation damage in order to restore/increase production

Course code:	PDT213
Date:	24 - 28 Mar 2025
Location:	Lagos
Fee:	$2,000

April 2025

Well Integrity Technologies

This SAOGTC training course covers the main aspects of Well Integrity, including with well construction and technologies

Course code:	DCT134
Date:	31 Mar - 04 Apr 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Applied Reservoir Engineering & Management

This training course identifies the sources of reservoir engineering data, benefits of integrating the engineering data & requirements for successful operation of matured reservoir in reservoir management of the mature fields.

Course code:	SSR222
Date:	14 - 18 Apr 2025
Fee:	$1,500

Well Completion Design

This training course provides in-depth information on the functions of well completion, developing a high-level completion strategy for wells, select tubing, packers, and completion flow control equipment as well as cost minimisation of initial completion & maintaining production

Course code:	PDT245
Date:	21 - 25 Apr 2025
Location:	Lagos
Fee:	$2,000

Cementing Planning, Operation and Evaluation

This course provides an in-depth knowledge of cementing fluid design and selection, cement placement and mud removal, strategies to prevent gas migration, HPHT, horizontal well and Deepwater cementing, long term zonal isolation and cement evaluation as well as remedial cementing techniques

Course code:	DCT136
Date:	28 Apr - 02 May 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

May 2025

Uncertainties & Geostatistics for
Subsurface Managers

This training course features geostatistics, subsurface & centrifuge data analysis and management, quantification of uncertainty and risk qualified decision making associated with the oil and gas field development as well as management of subsurface teams

Course code:	SSG121
Date:	12 - 16 May 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Best Practice inSurface
Production Operations Management

This training course will show how an integrated production operations approach is applied in current industry practices and challenges.

Course code:	PDT232
Date:	19 - 23 May 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

June 2025

Xmas TreesandWell Heads: Operation and Testing

This training course covers all the components of a Well Head and Xmas tree and analysis of the problems that may affect well integrity

Course code:	DCT141
Date:	02 - 6 Jun 2025
Location:	Port Hacourt
Fee:	$1,500

FundamentalsofFormation Evaluation

This course provides an in-depth understanding on the concepts of the petrophysical interpretation and well logging covering the complete interpretation workflow for formation evaluation

Course code:	SSP101
Date:	09 - 13 June 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

July 2025

Data AnalyticsforDrilling Optimisation

This SAOGTC training course focuses on data mining, management, modelling, analysis and the role of big data analytics in well & drilling operations.

Course code:	DCT152
Date:	30 Jun - 04 Jul 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

PVTPressure-Volume-Temperature)
Properties of Reservoir Fluids

This training course provides an understanding of the reservoir fluid properties and the tools required for the estimation of hydrocarbon in place and reserves

Course code:	PDT102
Date:	07 - 11 Jul 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Advanced Casing Design

The training course will cover the key drivers behind casing design for exploration, appraisal and development wells and their risks, challenges and solutions

Course code:	DCT201
Date:	28 Jul - 01 August 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$2,000

August 2025

Basic Cased Hole Logging Tools

This course focuses on the various types of cased hole logging and how they can be used to provide critical information to define production problems and diagnose remedial actions.

Course code:	SSP123
Date:	04 - 08 Aug 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Production Technology

This course focuses on essential components of designing, analysing and optimising wells and production systems

Course code:	PDT101
Date:	11 - 15 Aug 2025
Location:	Lagos
Fee:	$2,000

September 2025

Essentials of Surface Well Test
Design & Execution

This training will highlight the key elements for an effective well test campaign, as well as a sustainable process in well test design and execution.

Course code:	DCT214
Date:	01 - 05 Sept 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Gas Lift Design, Operation & Troubleshooting

This training course focuses on all aspects of gas lift equipment selection, design, installation, commissioning, operation monitoring, troubleshooting and maintenance as well as gas lift systems and recent innovations in gas lift technology as applied in global Oil production operations

Course code:	PDT111
Date:	15 - 19 Sept 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$2,000

October 2025

Advanced Well Log Interpretation

This training course highlights the techniques and principles of advanced well log interpretation for oil industry professionals working with wireline and LWD logs

Course code:	SSP202
Date:	06 - 10 Oct 2025
Location:	Port harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Managing Natural &
Artificial Flowing Wells

This training course focuses on the management of natural and artificial flowing wells through production technology, introducing reservoir concepts, highlighting formation damage mechanisms and nodal analysis

Course code:	PDT122
Date:	13 - 17 Oct 2025
Location:	Lagos
Fee:	$2,000

November 2025

Directional, Horizontaland Sidetrack Drilling

This Drilling training course will highlight the operations carried out by drillers and how directional and horizontal wells are planned and optimized

Course code:	DCT224
Date:	03 - 07 Nov 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Open and Cased
Hole Log Interpretation

This training course will highlight the techniques and principles of the main open and cased hole logging tools used in the oil industry

Course code:	SSP214
Date:	10 - 14 Nov 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

Selecting&Testing Zonal Isolation Materials

This SAOGTC training course features in-depth knowledge of cementing additives, cement properties and laboratory procedures used to select cost efficient cement formulations fit for the well condition

Course code:	PDT145
Date:	17 - 21 Nov 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$1,500

December 2025

Advanced Drilling Best Practices

This SAOGTC Advanced Drilling Best Practices Online training course provides all the fundamentals necessary to drill a well, whether it is a shallow well or a complex, high pressure well

Course code:	DCT255
Date:	01 - 05 Dec 2025
Location:	Port Hacourt
Fee:	$1,500

Wireline and Logging-while-Drilling (LWD) Log
Quality Control and its Impact on Interpretation

This training explores the most common open hole logging technologies, petrophysical concepts & techniques, log QA/QC analysis, metrology concepts & applications on wireline and LWD logs as well as multiple log quality control exercises

Course code:	SSP216
Date:	08 - 12 Dec 2025
Location:	Port Hacourt
Fee:	$1,500

Subsurface Production Operations
& Artificial Lift Technologies

This course covers well-performance evaluation leading to determination of well conditions necessitating application of artificial lift and stimulation operations

Course code:	PDT214
Date:	15 - 19 Dec 2025
Location:	Port Harcourt
Fee:	$2,000

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