An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Advanced Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling

Well Performance, System Constraints & Production Optimisation

Advanced Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling

Scheduled Dates

21 - 25 Dec 2026
Amsterdam - The Netherlands
$5,950
03 - 07 May 2027
London - UK
$5,950
13 - 17 Sep 2027
London - UK
$5,950
20 - 24 Dec 2027
Amsterdam - The Netherlands
$5,950

Why Choose this Training Course?

Advanced Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling training course develops practical capability to diagnose well constraints, model production behaviour, and evaluate optimisation opportunities. Participants learn to integrate reservoir inflow, wellbore performance, artificial lift, and surface-system behaviour within one engineering framework. This enables production limitations to be identified before operational or investment decisions are made.

Production performance depends on the interaction between the reservoir, completion, wellbore, artificial-lift system and surface production network. A restriction in any part of this system can limit well deliverability, and improving one component without understanding the complete system may simply move the production bottleneck elsewhere. This Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling training course develops the practical capability required to analyse these interactions, identify production constraints and evaluate technically sound optimisation opportunities. Participants will examine Inflow Performance Relationships (IPR), Vertical Lift Performance (VLP), well operating points, pressure losses, multiphase flow behaviour and production-system constraints. 

This Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling Training Course Will Feature:

  • Advanced nodal analysis for oil and gas wells
  • IPR, VLP and production-system matching
  • Well deliverability and pressure-loss analysis
  • Model calibration and data-quality assessment
  • Sensitivity analysis for operating and design variables
  • Gathering-network and surface-system constraints
  • Integrated production modelling

What are the Goals?

At the end of this Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling training course, participants will be able to:

  • Apply nodal-analysis principles to producing oil and gas wells
  • Analyse IPR and VLP behaviour under changing operating conditions
  • Evaluate reservoir, completion, wellbore, and surface-system constraints
  • Calibrate production models against available field information
  • Assess artificial-lift and well-configuration alternatives
  • Prioritise production-improvement opportunities using integrated system analysis

Who is this Training Course for?

This Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling training course is designed for professionals responsible for analysing, modelling and optimising producing wells and production systems.

It will be particularly valuable for:

  • Production Engineers
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Well Performance Engineers
  • Production Technologists
  • Production Optimisation Engineers
  • Artificial Lift Engineers
  • Reservoir Engineers
  • Completion Engineers
  • Asset Engineers
  • WRFM Engineers

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This Advanced Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling training course combines expert-led instruction, technical discussions, engineering calculations, practical exercises, sensitivity studies, applied production scenarios, and real-world examples. Participants construct and interpret well-performance relationships, evaluate constraints, compare production alternatives, and develop technically justified optimisation recommendations.

Organisational Impact

Organisations will benefit from:

  • More accurate diagnosis of production-system constraints and bottlenecks
  • Improved well-performance evaluation and production-system optimisation
  • Reduced unnecessary field interventions through stronger pre-implementation analysis
  • Better artificial lift and production-enhancement decision-making
  • Improved collaboration between Reservoir, Production and Facilities teams
  • Stronger production forecasts, asset reviews and investment decisions

Personal Impact

Participants attending this Advanced Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling training course will develop the ability to:

  • Analyse well deliverability and interpret IPR and VLP behaviour
  • Build, calibrate and challenge well-performance models
  • Identify dominant production constraints and conduct meaningful sensitivity studies
  • Evaluate tubing, wellhead and artificial lift alternatives
  • Understand interactions between wells and shared production infrastructure
  • Compare optimisation scenarios and recommend technically justified production actions

Daily Agenda

Day 1: Nodal Analysis & Production-System Fundamentals
  • Understanding the reservoir-to-surface production system
  • Defining nodes, system boundaries and pressure relationships
  • Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR) concepts and applications
  • Vertical Lift Performance (VLP) and tubing behaviour
  • Determining and interpreting the well operating point
Day 2: Well Deliverability, IPR & Model Calibration

  • Productivity index, inflow behaviour and reservoir deliverability
  • Oil-well IPR models and nonlinear inflow behaviour
  • Gas-well deliverability and high-rate gas considerations
  • Skin, near-wellbore effects and completion efficiency
  • Calibrating well-performance models against production and pressure data
Day 3: Vertical Lift Performance & Sensitivity Analysis

  • Multiphase flow behaviour and pressure losses in producing wells
  • Tubing diameter, roughness and completion configuration
  • Wellhead pressure, choke behaviour and surface backpressure
  • Sensitivity to reservoir pressure, water cut, gas-liquid ratio and fluid properties
  • Using sensitivity analysis to identify high-impact production variables
Day 4: Artificial Lift & Well Performance Optimisation

  • Using nodal analysis to assess the need for artificial lift
  • Gas Lift influence on well operating conditions
  • ESP interaction with reservoir and production-system performance
  • Rod Lift and alternative artificial-lift considerations
  • Comparing lift and well-configuration alternatives
Day 5: Integrated Production Modelling & Optimisation Decisions

  • Moving from individual-well models to integrated production systems
  • Flowlines, manifolds and gathering-network behaviour
  • Interaction between wells sharing common production infrastructure
  • Facility backpressure and system bottlenecks
  • Integrated production optimisation and opportunity ranking

Certificate

  • Upon successful completion of this training course, delegates will be awarded an official PetroKnowledge Certificate of Completion, signed by the course facilitator. The certificate confirms successful participation and records the total learning hours completed.
  • Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance.

Accreditation

NASBA Approved Training Courses

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Frequently Asked Questions

The training course develops the engineering capability required to understand how reservoir inflow, wellbore performance, artificial lift, and surface infrastructure interact. Participants learn to diagnose constraints and evaluate production-improvement opportunities using an integrated reservoir-to-surface perspective.

Nodal analysis evaluates pressure and flow relationships throughout a production system to determine the operating condition of a well. It helps engineers identify whether production is being limited by reservoir inflow, completion performance, tubing, wellhead conditions, artificial lift, or surface infrastructure.

Inflow Performance Relationship describes how the reservoir delivers fluids into the well, while Vertical Lift Performance represents the pressure required to move those fluids through the wellbore. Evaluating both relationships together allows engineers to determine the well operating point and assess how production responds to changing conditions.

Participants learn to compare model predictions with field production and pressure information and adjust assumptions where appropriate. This helps ensure that well-performance models reflect actual operating behaviour rather than relying solely on theoretical inputs.

The training course examines factors such as reservoir pressure, tubing configuration, wellhead pressure, water cut, gas-liquid ratio, fluid properties, completion configuration, and surface backpressure. Participants learn to identify which variables have the greatest influence on production performance.

The Advanced Nodal Analysis & Integrated Production Modelling training course examines how Gas Lift, ESP, Rod Lift, and other lift approaches affect system performance and well operating conditions. Participants use nodal analysis to assess whether artificial lift is justified and compare alternative lift or well-configuration options.

Single-well analysis focuses primarily on the relationship between reservoir inflow and wellbore performance. Integrated production modelling extends this analysis to flowlines, manifolds, gathering networks, facility backpressure, and interactions between wells sharing common infrastructure.

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