Skip to main content

The Global Oilfield Chemicals Market

About This Course

Oilfield chemicals cover a range of products used in almost every segment within the oilfield in the oil & gas industry. Their application in operations include drilling, cementing, workover & completion, stimulation, production and enhanced oil recovery (EOR), among others. Oilfield chemicals themselves can be derived from oil, natural gas and renewable resources.

North America is now the largest consumer of oilfield chemicals and the regional industry is expected to present high growth over the next years.

The course will be analyzing the oilfield chemicals industry according to applications and the way products are used by operation engineers. It starts with drilling, continues with production and covers oil spills as well.

Typical professional who might find this course useful include petroleum engineers as well as production, drilling, completion and operation engineers, drilling and operations managers and project managers.

Requirements

No requirements needed.


Course Staff

Course Staff Image #1
Mauricio Davila
(Course Coordinator)

As Co-founder and Managing Director of EnerChemTek, Inc., Dr. Mauricio Dávila oversees all management activities of the company, including the firm’s natural gas/LNG and petrochemicals technical advisory services, as well as all the web-based services such as an online corporate training platform (EnerChemTek Academy), and interactive databases, market simulation models and polyolefins process technologies (EnerChemTek Analytics). Mauricio has more than 20 years of experience and has been recently a technical advisor devising feedstock and raw materials purchasing strategies for North American petrochemical players, and has advised in four different international projects involving evaluating the global natural gas/LNG value chain from source to final consumer for utilization in the oil refining, power generation, industrial, and transportation sectors in North and Latin America.

Frequently Asked Questions

What web browser should I use?

The Open edX platform works best with current versions of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, or with Internet Explorer version 9 and above.

Enroll