Course Overview

Poor measurement and allocation process accounts for the major losses in the oil and gas industry. According to Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) audit reports 2014-2023, Nigeria lost over 362Million barrels of crude oil due to poor metering and allocation with additional 110Million barrels from production deferment. The urgency to address this impact is key.
Accurate production data for effective monitoring and allocation has always been a challenge to efficient well, reservoir and facilities management in the oil and gas industry. Oil and Gas Hydrocarbon Accounting principally involves, allocation of volumes, storage of data, effective production deferment administration and data reporting. In almost all assets globally, metering and production allocation process has always been a challenge, and this course is designed to address and manage such limitations. There are several factors that influence metering but majorly the linearity, the turndown ratio and the repeatability are key. This course will equally highlight some of these challenges with mitigations and come up with how it fits into the overall HCA process in order to facilitate improved definition, selection, design, operation and troubleshooting of production numbers or data.
Training and retraining of domain experts have been identified as crucial in fully understanding the concept and managing the process of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering. Hence, this course will elicit the fundamentals of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering across assets, while also highlighting the common challenges encountered during this process and how to mitigate them in future HCA processes.

Course Outline

General Principles of Hydrocarbon Accounting

• Introduction to Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering
• Hydrocarbon Accounting Activities During Asset Lifecycle
• Required Infrastructure for the installation of HCA tool
• Data Acquisition Business process
• Well Test Business Process
• Introduction to Hydrocarbon Allocation.

Demystifying Hydrocarbon Accounting Framework

• Data Democratisation: Data Recording, Verification and Validation
• Hydrocarbon Accounting Case studies
• Why Carry-out Production Allocation?
• Types of Back-Allocation
• NUPRC (Upstream Regulator) Methodology in Allocation & Penalties
• HCA Critical Reports
• HCA Matrix in Well Integrity Management
• HCA Process Demonstration Using Excel Spreadsheet
• HCA (Tools) Software Demonstration (Using Standard Industry Application)

Introduction to Metering Systems

• Metering Functions
• Meter calibration and maintenance
• Types of Meters
• Principles of manual and auto sampling
• Custody Transfer Process
• Meter Selection Criteria

Production Deferment Concept in Hydrocarbon Accounting

• Integrated Production System Capacity (IPSC) Concept
• Production deferment administration
• Planned & Unplanned Production Deferment
• Production deferment coding
• Key Objective of Production Deferment Tracking
• Impact of Production Deferment in Hydrocarbon Accounting

Performance Review

• General Course Review
• Team Assessment
• Feedback
• Closing Remarks

RELEVANT AUDIENCE

This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Metering Engineers
• Allocation Engineers
• Asset Support Engineers
• Project Managers
• WRFM Team
• Commercial & Legal Teams
• Investors & Auditors
• Production Operations Team
• Field Production Supervisors / Superintendents
• Production Engineers
• Asset Managers and Senior Managers
• Reservoir Engineers
• Process Engineers
• Planning Engineers
• Production Schedulers & Curtailment Teams
• Production Chemist
• Operations Manager
• Instrument Engineers
• Maintenance Engineers

Course Objectives

By the end of this Course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the concept of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Fiscal Metering.
• Know the key elements for effective Hydrocarbon Accounting process.
• Provide solutions on identified Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering challenges.
• Fully engage injectors, regulators and other partners in the HCA process
• Put a structured sustainability model in the Hydrocarbon Accounting embedment process.

Delivery Method

The training will be delivered in a workshop format with strong emphasis on industry best practice alongside an interactive approach from all participants.

The training tutors are highly seasoned industry experts and have designed this course to help participants fully understand the concept of Hydrocarbon Accounting and Metering in the present-day Energy Industry.

Other Details

Location: Lagos
Cost: N2,200,000: 00 (US$1,450) per participant (Large-pool registration attracts discount)
Date: 18th - 22nd May, 2026

Location: Uyo, Nigeria
Cost: ₦2,200,000.00
Date: 12th - 16th October, 2026

THE COURSE FEE COVERS:
Experts Facilitation, Buffet Lunch, Tea breaks, Course Manual, Branded Writing Materials, Certificate, Optional Tour (only in Uyo), Branded Souvenir, and Worldclass Conducive Learning Environment.

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