The Applied Petroleum Technology Academy ("APTA") is a non-profit organization created to teach energy companies how to apply cost-effective technology in order to extend the lives of aging oil and gas fields around the world. APTA's mission statement is simple:
"To provide practical training of oilfield practices in a mature oilfield environment emphasizing cost savings with ample opportunity for field visitation."
Hands-on Practical Training
Headquartered in Midland, Texas - in the heart of the Permian Basin - APTA can provide access to hands-on practical training based on decades of experience. Our curriculum can be customized to meet the specific needs of our clients with respect to both their levels of experience and to the types of fields they are dealing with. APTA's curriculum is designed to cover all aspects of petroleum production.
2008/2009 Accomplishments
During the calendar year 2009, APTA conducted our four-day CO2 School twice, once in January and again in August. We strive to limit the audience size to less than 25 for the purposes of better audience participation and for the field trip on the third day of the school. Also, in January we held a dedicated CO2 school to a group from Japan. Late in the year we began developing a 4 to 4 ½ day school to the general topic of CO2 sequestration. This school will likely be presented in 2010 and emphasize the practical aspects of CO2 capture, handling and storage but expand the subject matter to include more detailed monitoring of the in-situ injectant. This work is being accomplished under a grant from DOE and the National Energy Technology Laboratory in cooperation with the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. For more information see the Carbon Capture & Storage Technology website
APTA is also working closely with a group from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin on a research contract from the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America to better describe the origins and distribution of residual oil zones. These are oil bearing water zones below the oil/water contacts in many of the fields of the world. These zones are being exploited using CO2 EOR in the Permian Basin in eight different EOR projects. For more information see the Residual Oil Zones Symposium website.
During 2008, APTA developed and presented a CO2 "Operations Workshop" in Casper, Wyoming, in August. It was a 2 1/2 day classroom and 1/2 day field trip workshop for the RMOTC (Rocky Mountain Oilfield Training Center) who asked for the workshop for the DOE CO2 pilot at Tea Pot Dome. In addition we had our normal twice-yearly CO2 school in Midland, Texas, one in January and one in August.
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