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The Performance Assessment and Optimization Using Nodal Analysis Course gives production engineers, petroleum engineers, and well performance professionals a comprehensive, practically grounded understanding of nodal analysis covering inflow and outflow performance, wellbore hydraulics, nodal analysis software, artificial lift optimisation, and integrated asset modelling.
Nodal analysis is one of the most powerful and widely applied tools in production engineering. It provides the systematic framework for understanding how a production system performs as a whole — from reservoir inflow through tubing, wellhead, and surface facilities and for identifying where constraints exist and how removing them will improve production. Professionals who apply nodal analysis rigorously and confidently consistently deliver better production performance and more informed field development decisions.
This course addresses the full nodal analysis workflow from production system fundamentals and fluid properties through inflow performance relationships, pressure transient analysis, tubing performance, gas lift design, and software application, to artificial lift selection, integrated asset modelling, and field development planning. Practical exercises are built into every day to ensure immediate competence development.
The Performance Assessment and Optimization Using Nodal Analysis Course is built for production and petroleum professionals who want to master nodal analysis as an integrated production optimisation tool — not just a theoretical concept.
The Performance Assessment and Optimization Using Nodal Analysis Course is designed to develop complete nodal analysis capability — from production system fundamentals and inflow performance through outflow modelling, software application, and real-world field development and artificial lift applications.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
The Performance Assessment and Optimization Using Nodal Analysis Course is designed for production engineers, petroleum engineers, and well performance professionals who need a rigorous, hands-on understanding of nodal analysis across its full range of production engineering applications.
This course is suitable for:
The Performance Assessment and Optimization Using Nodal Analysis Course is delivered through a structured, application-focused learning approach that moves progressively from nodal analysis principles and fluid properties through inflow and outflow performance modelling, software application, and real-world applications in artificial lift, integrated asset modelling, and field development planning. Each day builds directly on the previous — ensuring delegates develop both conceptual understanding and practical analytical capability.
Practical exercises are built into every day of the course — ensuring delegates apply each concept before advancing to the next and leave with immediate, hands-on nodal analysis competence.
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This course is designed for production engineers, petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, well intervention professionals, artificial lift specialists, and development planners who need a rigorous, hands-on understanding of nodal analysis across its full range of production engineering applications. It is suitable for both those newer to nodal analysis who need a comprehensive structured foundation and experienced engineers looking to deepen their analytical capability and software proficiency.
Day 3 focuses on outflow performance — covering tubing performance modelling for different fluid types and flow conditions, and applying outflow analysis to gas lift system design. Delegates develop the ability to evaluate how tubing size, deviation, and fluid properties affect lifting performance, and how gas lift injection rate and depth decisions are optimised through nodal analysis — a directly applicable skill for production engineers managing gas lift wells.
Integrated asset modelling extends nodal analysis from the individual well level to the full production system — incorporating surface facilities, pipeline networks, and separator constraints alongside wellbore and reservoir performance. Day 5 introduces integrated asset modelling principles and how they connect to nodal analysis workflows giving delegates the conceptual understanding to contribute to whole-system performance evaluation and to identify where surface or network constraints are limiting field-wide production potential.
Day 2 covers inflow performance analysis in full — including the different types of inflow models, inflow performance relationship (IPR) development, and pressure transient analysis. Delegates develop the ability to characterise reservoir inflow accurately using appropriate models for different reservoir and fluid types — the foundational input that determines the validity and usefulness of any nodal analysis model.
Day 4 is dedicated to nodal analysis software covering how to build nodal analysis models, run optimisation and sensitivity analyses, and troubleshoot model performance when results diverge from expected outcomes. Delegates complete practical exercises in software application developing the hands-on confidence to build, run, and interpret nodal analysis models that support real production engineering decisions rather than theoretical exercises.
Practical exercises are built into every single day of the course covering nodal analysis principles, inflow performance, outflow and gas lift design, software application, and field development applications. These exercises are not supplementary to the course they are central to it. Delegates who work through all five days of practical exercises leave with a genuine, immediately applicable nodal analysis competence that they can deploy from day one back in their organisations.
