This document contains a training proposal from Sigve Hamilton Aspelund for a "Rig Inspection" course to be delivered to Aquinas Oilfield Services. The proposal provides details on Aspelund's experience and qualifications, an outline of the course contents which will cover topics like drilling operations, wellhead equipment, rig components, drilling fluids, downhole fundamentals, and rig inspection practices. It also lists previous courses Aspelund has taught on related topics for organizations in various countries.

1. A Training proposal
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund, Independant consultant
Reevegen 43, 4340 Bryne,
NorwayPartner with Aquinas Oilfield Services
Raph Ikpe
Managing Director
9, Asiata Solarin Crescent
By Zenith Bank Plc
Oregun Road, Ikeja
Lagos, NIGERIA
Tel: +234 802 313 7330, 08170994159Email:
rikpe@aquinasoilfield.comAlternate
Email:aquinasoilserv@hotmail.com
My name is Sigve Hamilton Aspeund,
I have been working in oil and gas industry since 2001.
I have been teaching at Talisman, Ocean rig as staff and international
oil companies as a freelancer.
I have been teaching petroleum engineering at Stavanger Offshore
Technical School ant Peteka.
I was teaching production at Talisman and QHSE at Ocean rig.
My CV describe the courses I have held and is listed here:Mellitha Oil
& Gas (Libya), “Offshore Structure Design”. Location: Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia Mellitha Oil & Gas, “Inspection & Maintenance of Subsea
Pipelines”, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia CCED (Oman), “Rig inspection”,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2. RigInspection
Course Contents:
Module (01) Drilling & Work-over
Operations
1.1 Drilling Operations
1.2 Vertical / Horizontal Wells
1.3 Extended Reach 1.4 Deviated
Holes
1.5 Under-Balance Drilling Operations
1.6 Rig Types/ Classifications/
Functions
Module (02) Wellhead & Downhole
Equipment
2.1 Well Types
2.2 Well Casing System
2.3 Well Cementing
2.4 Well Completion Types /Functions
2.5 X-mas Tree Types/ Functions
2.6 Wellhead Types/ Functions
2.7 Oil & Gas Platform
Module (03) Rig Components
3.1 Introduction to Rigs Components
3.2 Drill String Components
3.3 Marine Riser and Riser Tensioner
3.4 BHA 3.5 BOP Types, Functions and
Components
3.6 BOP Mounted Gate Valves &
Lifting Equipment
3.7 BOP Hydraulic Power Unit
3.8 Drilling Fluids System
Components
3.9 Mud Gas Separator
3.10 Choke Manifold
3.11 Entry Test
3.12 Draw-works
3.13 Crown Block, Travelling Block and
Swivel
3.14 Lifting and Handling Equipment
3.15 Mud Pumps
3.16 Diesel Engines, Emergency
Engines and Air Compressors
Module (04) Drilling Fluids
4.1 Drilling Fluids (types, classification,
calculations)
4.2 Drilling Fluids Circulation System
4.3 Main Factors Influencing Drilling
Fluids Performance
4.4 Drilling Fluids Programs
4.5 Loss Circulation Problem
Module (05) Downhole Fundamentals
5.1 Loss Circulation Material
5.2 Drilling Fluids System Components
5.3 Well Killing & Securing
Methodologies
5.4 Formation Damage impact on Well
Killing and Prevention
5.5 Pressure Basics and Basis
5.6 Case Study
Module (06) Managed Pressure Drilling
(MPD)
6.1 Definition of MPD
6.2 Objectives and Variations
6.3 MPD Components
6.4 Process & Procedures
6.5 Conventional and MPD Well Control
Practices
Module (07) Rig Inspection
7.1 Inspection Concept and Objectives
7.2 Inspection Practices, Standards and
Principles 7.3 API Inspection Standards
7.4 Inspection Procedures
7.5 Inspection Checklists

3. KAZGUUBusinessschool,
“Global geopolitical Oil & gas management & Distribution” course.
Kazakhstan Business University,
AstanaJSC Ontustik Munaigaz,
Neftserviceholding LTD, OJSC, “Managed pressure-drilling systems”,
“Multilateral wells”, “Coiled tubing underbalanced drilling”Managed pressure drilling
systems. Multilateral wells. Coiled tubing underbalanced drilling.
Course content:
* geophysical well logging
* under reaming following multistage underbalanced drilling
* cement plug placing
* emergency and fishing operations
* selection criteria for well bore candidates
* job planning and risk analysis
* CT ground equipment
* coiled tubing pipes
* coiled tubing machinery (capillary units, injectors, reels etc.)
* equipment for flow control and completion (drilling motors, drilling jars, intensifiers, reamers,
Collars, etc.)
* high tech drilling bits
7.6 Types of Rig Inspection 7.7 Qualifications
Required for Rig Inspection
7.8 Existing Practices Compared to Industrial
Standards
Module (08) Rig Maintenance
8.1 Maintenance Concept and Objectives
8.2 Maintenance Practices and Standards 8.3
Maintenance Procedures
8.4 Maintenance Checklists
8.5 Types of Rig Maintenance
8.6 Existing Practices Compared to Industrial
Standards
Module (09) Basics of Well Intervention
9.1 Drilling Fluids Circulation
System/Components
9.2 Well Control Theory
9.3 Well Intervention Operations
9.4 Barrier requirements for Well Intervention
Operations
9.5 Examples of Barrier Envelopes
9.6 Barrier Types
9.7 Well Killing & Securing Methodologies Module
(10) Drilling Operational Problems &
Troubleshooting
10.1 Well Kick
10.2 Well Kick Control Methodologies
10.3 Work-over Operations
10.4 Production Platform
10.5 Types of Blowouts/ Causes of Blowouts
10.6 Offshore Blowouts
Module (11) Well Control Basics
11.1 Well Control Operations
11.2 Factors Governing Well Control Success
11.3 Oil Spill Types
11.4 Oil Classes
11.5 Calculating the amount of Spilled Oil

4. Nitrogen equipment
application for coiled
tubing drilling
* gas liquid mixtures *
nitrogen compressor
stations * pumping units
* vaporiser systems for CT
* continuous circulation
systems and agitators *
management and control
systems Separation
systems for drilling fluids
* centrifuges *
hydrocyclones * shakers
* pumps * management
and control CNOOC,
Surgutneftegas, Gazprom
Mining Orenburg Ltd,
BelNIPIneft “Belorusneft”.
StavangerNNPC,
“Petroleum drilling
fundamentals (Well
control)” and “Reservoir
modeling and
characterization”
Course content:
Pages covered 186
Day 1
The origins of oil and gas and how they
are formed
Conventional Oil and Gas
Unconventional oil
Sources of unconventional oil
Sedimentary basins and the dynamic
nature of Earth’s crust
Sedimentary basin
Sedimentary Illustration of the rock cycle
Concepts of finite resources and
limitations on recovery
M. King Hubbert's original 1956
prediction of world petroleum
production rates
Global distribution of fossil fuels and
OPEC’s resource endowment
Components that constitute natural gas
Uses and markets for oil and gas BP
Statistical Review of World Energy
Oil: Reserves to production Oil:
Distribution of proved reserves
Production and consumption by region
Consumption per capita 2011 Crude oil
prices 1861-2011 Gas: Reserves to
production Gas: Distribution of proved
reserves

5. Day 2 Gas: Production
and consumption by
region Consumption per
capita
2011 Gas prices An
introduction to petroleum
geology CLASSIFICATION
OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
Texture in Granular
Sediments Grain size
Sorting Grain shape
Packing Sand and
sandstone Classification
of sands and sandstones
Porosity Permeability
Controls on Porosity and
Permeability Grain size
Porosity: Function of grain
size and sorting
Diagenesis (e.g.
Compaction,
Cementation) Changes of
porosity with burial depth
Reservoir Rock & Source
Rock Types: Classification
Shales: Source rocks and
seals
Day3
Sandstones and Sandstone
Reservoirs Carbonate and carbonate
reservoirs Geomodelling
Videos
Geomodelling inputs
Geostatistics
Videos: Geostatics
Videos: Structural modelling
Stratigraphic modelling
Stratigraphy Video: Stratigraphic
modelling
Property modeling
Property & heterogeneity modelling
Structural modelling
Building a fault model
Stratigraphic modelling
Stratigraphic Stochastic Simulation
Typical Reservoir Modeling
Workflow Simulation grid building
principles Optimized grid size

6. Day4+Day5
Flow-based orientation
Hierarchical fault
incorporation Corner
point geometry Upscaling
of heterogeneity Defining
the re-scaling process
Weight parameter
Sampling method Direct
sampling Reservoir
simulation videos Defining
and calculating resources
and reserves Discovered &
undiscovered resources
Definitions of Resources
Original Resources
Discovered Resources
Reserves Contingent
Resources Definitions of
Reserves Development
and Production Status
General Guidelines for
Estimation of Reserves
General Requirements for
Classification of Reserves
Procedures for Estimation
and Classification of
Reserves Volumetric
Methods Rock Volume
Elevation of Fluid Contacts
Recovery Factor Material
Balance Methods Production
Decline Method Future
Drilling and Planned
Enhanced Recovery Projects
Additional Reserves Related
to Future Drilling Reserves
Related to Planned
Enhanced Recovery Projects
Validation of Reserves
Estimate

7. Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company,
“Introduction to oil & gas industry”
Course content:
INTRODUCTIONOFOIL&GASINDUSTRY-
UNDERSTANDINGTHEINDUSTRYFROMUPSTREAMTO
DOWNSTREAM
Oil and gas are amongst the most important resources we
have. Apart from providing the majority of our energy,
petroleum is used to create countless products upon which
we rely in every part of our lives. It is not surprising, then, that
the oil and gas industry is a principle driver of the global
economy. The systems and processes used to produce and
commercialise oil and gas are complex, involving large
amounts of capital, state-of-the-art technology and vast
numbers of skilled personnel serving supply chains that span
the globe.
The oil and gas industry also poses significant and diverse
risks and opportunities for those organisations working along
its supply chains. This course provides a comprehensive
grounding in all aspects of the oil and gas industry. After a
broad overview of the distribution of petroleum resources
and the organisations that constitute the industry, it
introduces the techniques used to detect and assess the
commercial viability of deposits.

8. Attend this interactive course and enhance your
knowledge on the following key areas:·
Types of petroleum: conventional and unconventional·
Concepts of finite resources and limitations on recovery ·
Components that constitute natural gas·
Introduction to the supply and value chain: upstream to
downstream·
Assessing exploration chance of success· Seismic and other
geophysical surveying technologies·
Blowout preventers (BOPs) and blowout contingency
planning·
Production technologies·
Subsea technologies·
Oil Refining and Gas Treatment·
Refinery configurations and processes·
Gas processing and treatment·
Oil inventories and strategic stocks·
Geopolitical risks and opportunities·
Prudent operators and best practices·
Forecasts for fossil fuels and the primary energy
Next, it looks at the extraction process and the technologies
used to process, store, transport and refine oil and gas.
Finally, it explores the processes of selling, trading and
marketing gas and petroleum products, before finishing
with a survey of environmental and geopolitical risks and
opportunities, and an assessment of the industry’s future.

9. Who should attend
■Lawyers, investment managers and other specialists
needing a wider understanding
■Experts working on a temporary basis in the industry
■Professionals working alongside the oil and gas industry
■Employees moving into a new sector of specialisation
■New starters and recent recruits entering the industry
Course Content
Introducing Oil and Gas
• The origins of oil and gas and how they are formed
• Types of petroleum: conventional and unconventional
• Sedimentary basins and the dynamic nature of Earth’s
crust
• Concepts of finite resources and limitations on recovery
• Global distribution of fossil fuels and OPEC’s resource
endowment
• Industry overview and segments
• Components that constitute natural gas
• Uses and markets for oil and gas
• Role of government agencies in the oil and gas industry
• Introduction to the supply and value chain: upstream to
downstream
• Organisations involved along the supply chain
• Distinct economic issues for oil and gas supply chains

10. Finding Oil and Gas
• An introduction to petroleum
geology
• Defining and calculating
resources and reserves
• Assessing exploration chance of
success
• Reservoir characterisation,
performance and engineering
• Conventional and non-
conventional petroleum
resources
• Exploration and prospecting:
broad surveying techniques
• Remote detection methods
• Seismic and other geophysical
surveying technologies
• Exploration and appraisal
drilling
• Types of borehole and reasons
for drilling them
• Types of exploration and
production contract and fiscal
system
• Accounting for risk
• Economics of exploration:
financing, time value and
expected value
Extracting and Processing Oil and
Gas
• Well planning and design
• Authority for expenditure (AFE)
• Subsurface pressure and temperature
• Hole sections and well trajectory
• Deviated and horizontal drilling
• Types of drilling rigs, systems and
equipment
• Drilling procedures, problems and
remedies
• Blowout preventers (BOPs) and
blowout contingency planning
• Wireline logging and measurement
while drilling (MWD)
• Production engineering
• Allocation of historical production to
reservoirs and wells
• Production technologies
• Marine operations
• Fixed and floating production
facilities (including FPSOs)
• Subsea technologies
• Well completion
• Artificial lift and reservoir stimulation
• Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
techniques
• Typical timings and cost

11. OilRefiningandGasTreatment
• Crude oil evaluation and classification
• Compositional differences between light and heavy
crude oil
• Organic chemistry of petroleum relevant to refining
• Transporting and storing crude oil: pipelines and
tankers
• Refining oil: historical and geographic trends
• Characteristics of refined petroleum products
• Refinery configurations and processes
• Distilling, cracking, reforming, blending, treating
• Supply and demand trends and markets of petroleum
products
• Refinery margins and crack spreads
• Transporting and storing gas: pipelines and other
methods
• Underground gas storage (UGS)
• Refining gas and gas to liquids (GTL) technologies
• Gas processing and treatment: dehydrating,
sweetening
• NGL and LPG extraction from natural gas
• Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
• Gas to power: combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT)
• Petroleum product and natural gas distribution
networks

12. SellingOilandGas
• Global markets and key players
• Physical and paper trading markets
• Market segments: wholesale and retail
• Aviation fuels, marine bunker fuels and lubricants
• Spot and term sales
• Benchmark prices and formula pricing
• Brent, WTI and Dubai crude benchmarks
• Contango and normal backwardation market conditions
• Commodity exchanges, electronic trading and over-
thecounter (OTC) trades
• Trading instruments: forwards, futures, swaps and
options
• Hedging from various supply chain perspectives
• Margin swaps and collar hedges
• Risk management in trading and exploiting arbitrage
opportunities
• Retail fuel marketing and distribution logistics
• Network analysis of retail fuel sites: location and facilities
• Retail fuel margins and non-fuel margins from
convenience stores at fuel stations
• Biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) and road transport fuel
markets
• Fuel station pump technology and process
• Oil inventories and strategic stocks

13. Selling Oil and Gas
• Global markets and key players
• Physical and paper trading markets
• Market segments: wholesale and retail
• Aviation fuels, marine bunker fuels and lubricants
• Spot and term sales
• Benchmark prices and formula pricing
• Brent, WTI and Dubai crude benchmarks
• Contango and normal backwardation market conditions
• Commodity exchanges, electronic trading and over-
thecounter (OTC) trades
• Trading instruments: forwards, futures, swaps and options
• Hedging from various supply chain perspectives
• Margin swaps and collar hedges
• Risk management in trading and exploiting arbitrage
opportunities
• Retail fuel marketing and distribution logistics
• Network analysis of retail fuel sites: location and facilities
• Retail fuel margins and non-fuel margins from convenience
stores at fuel stations
• Biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) and road transport fuel
markets
• Fuel station pump technology and process
• Oil inventories and strategic stocks

14. Managing Oil and Gas
• Geopolitical risks and opportunities
• Techniques for quantifying political risks
• Environmental and sustainability issues
• Gas flaring, emissions and contamination
• Prudent operators and best practice
• Triple bottom line approach to decision making
• Industry and regulatory bodies
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF)
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• Legal concepts and contractual frameworks
• Sole risk and non-consent
• Farmout and joint venture arrangements
• Dispute resolution and arbitration
• Fiscal elements and designs
• Production sharing and mineral interest systems
• Cost recovery from government and producer perspectives
• Future of energy: challenges and opportunities
• Trends in uses of energy and per capita energy intensity
• World primary energy mix and substitutes for oil and gas
• Forecasts for fossil fuels and the primary energy balance to
2050

15. Rig Selection and basic
planning steps
Exploration and production
licences
Exploration, development and
abandonment
Well planning and design
Drilling pipes, casing, collar,
kelly, tubing
Oil & gas delivery pipes
Drilling bits
Drilling personnel
Drilling economics
Drilling cost estimates
Communications and safety
issues
Crisis management
Risk evaluation
Risk definition
Mapping of HSE & risks
Cause assessment
HSE analysis
Risk reduction
Barriers
Accidents
Offshore blowouts
Economics in accidents
Collapse of rigs
Sunk rigs
Pressure in fluids at rest
Hydrostatic pressure
Atmospheric pressure
Pore pressure
Darcy`s law
Hole sections and well
trajectory
Units
Primary well control
Secondary well control
Tertiary well control
Formation pressure
Normal formation pressure
Abnormal pressure
Salt beds
Mineralisation
Tectonic causes
Formation fracture pressure
Leak-off tests and procedure
Rig components
Liner
Sementing
Wire line operations
Measurement while drilling
Systems
Directional tools
Gamma ray tools
NGT tool
SP log
Sonic tool
Density tool
Neutron tool
Daily drilling report
Material balance equations
Drilling fluid economics
Drilling fluid properties
Pressure
Hydrostatic pressure
Pump pressure
Imposed pressure
Pressure imposed by the pump
Pressure imposed by the formation
Kicks
Swabbing of formation fluids into the borehole
Insufficient mud density
Poor well planning
Lost circulation
Recognition of kicks
HPHT subsea technology
Introduction to petroleum geology
Sedimentology
Classification of sedimentary rocks
Texture in granular sediments
Grain size
Sorting
Grain shape
Packing
Sand and sandstone and classification
Porosity
Permeability
Controls on Porosity and Permeability
Diagenesis
Changes of porosity with burial depth
Completion/ workover fluids
Foam drilling fluids
Oil based muds
Synthetics
Water based muds
Casing
Conductor
Suface casing
Intermediate casing
Production casing

16. Finding petroleum, “Offshore safety related to computer interfaces and information. People and
the digital oilfield“TransEuropean Centre. Stavanger, “Offshore security and HSE. Bringing
businesses from east and west together”Petroleum Teknisk Akademi; “Petroleum Geology”,
“Drilling technology and casing”, “Hydraulic and pneumatic” and “Production technology”
courses held in NorwayOil Plus. Newbury, England, (07.14 - 09.14) Petroleum eng. team lead
Business development proposal: Reservoir simulation: H2S analysis with CMG (Geochemistry/
HSE)RCC Stavanger, Training of offshore personnel At Stavanger Offshore Technical School I was
teaching following:
Production technique
1 & 2Drilling technology
Geology and formation evaluation
Health, Safety and Environment for the oil industry
Well control
Drilling fluids
Operating and control systems
Mathematics
Chemistry process
Alternative energy
At Peteka I was teaching following:
· Petroleum geology in Trondheim
· Drilling technology and casing in Bergen and Ålesund
· Hydraulic and pneumatic in Bergen and Trondheim
· Production technology in Ålesund
Today I am a private teacher at UNAK.
My first project is mathematics. I have installed the software Zoom for holding course. If the client
want to use other software, this should be communicated.I would be honoured to teach oil
companies in Nigeria in all the courses mentioned above.
References
Reference 1: Thore Bergsaker: (Peteka now AkerBP) thore.
bergsaker@gmail.com 93482745
Jim Tarlton: jtarlton@wellexperts.com
Phone+6012 341 4665 (Talisman)
Reference 2: Arie Romer:
(Geoservices) arie.romer@gmail.com 40538304, 974 02 867
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