About this Training Course Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) offers opportunities to improve safety and efficiency in drilling, and it is increasingly recognised by operators and regulators. MPD aims to cost effectively resolve chronic drilling problems that contribute to non-productive time. This 3 full-day course provides participants with an understanding of the MPD techniques and equipment. The course starts with the design requirements for an MPD operation. It covers all MPD methods, including constant bottom hole pressure and mud cap drilling operations. It also includes all of the rig types - both onshore and offshore - and MPD. MPD equipment is presented in detail and the design aspects of the well are also examined. Training Objectives This course aims to provide participants with a good understanding of the various aspects of managed pressure drilling. It also enables participants to gain knowledge of planning MPD operations, type of equipment and the equipment requirements for both onshore and offshore and MPD operations. At the end of the course, participants will be able to: Understand the variations in MPD Design MPD operations for various techniques Understand the engineering requirements of MPD Define MPD equipment requirements Understand operational and well control aspects of MPD Target Audience This course is designed for engineers, managers and service providers who are about to use MPD techniques and are trying to better understand the associated complexities and challenges surrounding MPD. Trainer Your expert course leader was born and raised in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He holds an MSc in Drilling Engineering from The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and has over 39 years of oilfield experience. He started in the industry back in 1977 as a Mud logger before becoming a wellsite drilling engineer in 1980 working mainly in the Middle East and West Africa. In 1988, he joined Shell in in the Southern North Sea. In 1995, he joined Smedvig in Norway and worked on a number of deepwater wells as well as on underbalanced drilling operations. In 1999, he started Leading Edge Advantage in Aberdeen and worked in coiled tubing, underbalanced and managed pressure drilling. In 2004, he joined Weatherford as Regional Engineering Manager in Singapore and developed the first ultra deepwater MPD systems. In 2010, he joined SPT Group specializing in well control and hydraulics modelling. SPT Group was later acquired by Schlumberger in 2012. At Schlumberger, he was Drilling Adviser, with a focus on well control, relief well planning and MPD. During that time, he was also an instructor for NExT teaching numerous well engineering courses. In 2015, he joined Wild Well as Engineering Manager in Asia and in February 2017, he became an independent consultant concentrating on provision of drilling engineering training. He has written and presented numerous papers and authored several chapters in the SPE Advanced Technology books. He is an active committee member and speaker on numerous SPE Workshops around the world. POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL) To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized 'One to One' coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster. Request for further information post training support and fees applicable Accreditions And Affliations
This half-day course provides an introduction to promote mental health awareness in the workplace for all employees. Group activities are designed to encourage and empower individuals to prioritise their mental wellbeing and recognise signs of mental ill health in both themselves and others. The session emphasises the importance of mental wellbeing conversations, self-care and how to access further support.
Definitive Puppet training course description Puppet is a framework and toolset for configuration management. This course covers Puppet to enable delegates to manage configurations. Hands on sessions follow all the major sections. What will you learn Deploy Puppet. Manage configurations with Puppet. Build hosts with Puppet. Produce reports with Puppet. Definitive Puppet training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with Puppet. Prerequisites: Linux fundamentals. Duration 2 days Definitive Puppet training course contents Getting started with Puppet What is Puppet, Selecting the right version of Puppet, Installing Puppet, Configuring Puppet. Developing and deploying Puppet The puppet apply command and modes of operation, Foreground Puppet master, Developing Puppet with Vagrant, Environments, Making changes to the development environment, Testing the new environments with the Puppet agent, Environment branching and merging, Dynamic Puppet environments with Git branches, Summary, Resources. Scaling Puppet Identifying the challenges, Running the Puppet master with Apache and Passenger, Testing the Puppet master in Apache, Load balancing multiple Puppet masters, Scaling further, Load balancing alternatives. Measuring performance, Splay time, Summary, Going further, Resources. Externalizing Puppet configuration External node classification, Storing node configuration in LDAP, Summary, Resources. Exporting and storing configuration Virtual resources, Getting started with exported and stored configurations, Using exported resources, Expiring state resources, Summary, Resources. Puppet consoles The foreman, Puppet enterprise console, Puppetboard, Summary, Resources. Tools and integration Puppet forge and the module tool, Searching and installing a module from the forge, Generating a module, Managing module dependencies, Testing the modules, Developing Puppet modules with Geppetto, Summary, Resources. Reporting with Puppet Getting started, Configuring reporting, Report processors, Custom reporting, Other Puppet reporters, Summary, Resources. Extending Facter and Puppet Writing and distributing custom facts, Developing custom types, providers and functions, Summary, Resources, Complex data structures, Additional backends, Hiera functions in depth, Module data bindings, Hiera examples. Jiera-2, Summary, Resources. Mcollective Installing and configuring Mcollective, testing, Mcollective plugins, accessing hosts with Metadata. Hiera Lists, initial Hiera configuration, Hiera command line utility, complex data structures, additional backends, Hiera functions in depth, module data bindings. Hiera-2.
SIP in IMS training course description The IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (IMS) is defined by 3GPP as a new mobile infrastructure. This advanced course looks at the use of SIP in the IMS. What will you learn Describe the role of SIP in the IMS. Explain how SIP works in the IMS Describe the SIP architecture in the IMS. Explain how SIP and SDP are used in basic IMS procedures. SIP in IMS training course details Who will benefit: Technical telecommunications staff. Prerequisites: SIP for engineers. Duration 2 days SIP in IMS training course contents Introduction SIP review, SIP elements, Simple SIP call flow, What is IMS? Why IMS? Why SIP in the IMS? SIP and IMS relationship. Standards 3GPP, IETF, 3GPPr5, 3GPPr6, 3GPP SIP extensions. SIP and IMS IMS architecture, SIP interfaces. Server functions Registration, home and away, location and directory services, stateful and stateless servers. SIP servers P-CSCF, I-CSCF, S-CSCF, PSTN gateways SIP registration in the IMS SIP REGISTER, IMS identities, registration process, P-CSCF discovery, S-CSCF assignment, IMS subscriber and IMS registrar signalling flow. IMS routing in the registration process. Re and De-registration. SIP sessions in the IMS SIP INVITE, Establishing IMS SIP sessions, User at home network, user roaming, IMS offer answer architecture, SIP preconditions, QoS, reserving resources, IMS bearer network interactions, IMS subscriber and IMS service signalling flow. Typical call flows. SIP services in the IMS IMS specifications, IMS service procedures, call scenarios, call services. IMS multimedia related procedures. IMS presence, IMS messaging, IMS conferencing, IMS PoC. SIP-T SIP and the PSTN, URIs and ENUM, NAPTR, SRV, ISUP numbers and URI mapping, IAM and INVITE, SIP to PSTN/ISUP mapping, PSTN/ISUP to SIP mapping, PSTN to PSTN over SIP. MIME media types for ISUP, DTMF transmission, CLIP and CLIR in SIP, ring tone, split gateways SIP-I ISO standards, translation versus tunnelling. IMS SIP extensions Security (RFC 3310, 3329), Resource reservation (RFC 3312), Media authorisation (RFC 3313), SigComp (RFC 3320), P Headers (RFC 3325, 3455), Mobile registration (RFC 3327, 3608), Reg event (RFC 3680), Preconditions (RFC 4032) Security IMS security architecture, identities, HTTP digest, TLS. Affect of security on SIP media sessions.
Introduction to Virtualization course description A comprehensive tour of virtualization. The course concentrates on the actual technologies involved as opposed to any one vendor solution. What will you learn Explain the concepts of virtualization. Partition servers. Create Virtual Machines. Introduction to Virtualization course details Who will benefit: Anyone looking for an introduction to Virtualization. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days Introduction to Virtualization course contents Virtualization Concepts What is Virtualisation? What are virtual machines (VMs)? Virtualisation Landscape. Network Virtualisation. Suitability for Organisations. Advantages of deploying Virtualisation. Downsides of deploying Virtualisation. Overview of Virtualisation products. Hypervisors What is a hypervisor? Difference between type 1 and 2 hypervisors. Available hypervisors. Hypervisors and device drivers. Hands on: Installing Oracle VirtualBox on Windows. Creating/Importing/Configuring VMs. Virtualization Hosts Hardware and resource requirements. Installation of the hypervisor. Hands on: Installing Hyper-V role into Windows Server. Creating/Importing/Configuring VMs. Virtual Machines Creating virtual machines. Resource requirements. Settings. Installation of the guest OS. Additional tools/ extensions for hypervisor integration. VM files and their uses. Virtual hard disk and their formats. Hardware pass through. Hands on: Connecting to VMWare ESXi via WebGUI and using ESXi to create/import/configure VMs. VM Snapshots/Checkpoints What is a snapshot? How to use them and how they impact performance? Creating/deleting/merging of snapshots. Hands on: Using ESXi to create/manage snapshots. Command Line use on the Hypervisor Interacting with the hypervisor through the command line. Simple commands to configure the hypervisor and VMs. Simple scripts. Hands on: Connecting to VMWare ESXi via PowerCLI to manipulate VMs and snaphshots. Virtualization Storage Different types of storage: local vs remote. Local and remote storage technologies. Configuring storage. Hands on: Using ESXi to deploy VMs on remote NFS storage. Virtual Networking How is networking done in virtualization environments. What is a virtual switch and vNIC and what are their performance characteristics? NIC teaming and trunking in the virtual world. Port groups and isolation. Physical NICs and their use in virtual switches. Hands on: Using ESXi to create and configure vswitches and networking. Templates and clones What is a template? What is a clone? When to use templates and clones to optimize VM deployment. Migrating/Importing VMs What is migration? Migrating compute and storage. Importing VMs from files or physical machines. Hands on: Using VMWare vCenter Server to clone/ template/migrate VMs, tag resources, create local user accounts and assign permissions. VMs and Backups Taking backups of your VMs. Restoring your VMs from backups. Virtualization and Licensing Different licensing models and costs. Containerization Concepts What is a container and how is it different from a virtual machine. When to use containers. Docker and Kubernetes
Total NetFlow training course description A comprehensive hands on course covering NetFlow. The course starts with the basics of flows moving swiftly onto configuring NetFlow and studying the information it provides. What will you learn Describe NetFlow. Configure generators and collectors. Recognise how NetFlow can be used. Describe the issues in using NetFlow. Compare NetFlow with SNMP, RMON and sflow. Total NetFlow training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with NetFlow. Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation Duration 2 days Total NetFlow for engineers What is NetFlow? Flows. Where to monitor traffic. Hands on Wireshark flow analysis. Getting started with NetFlow NetFlow configuration. Hands on Accessing NetFlow data using the CLI. NetFlow architecture Generators and collectors. When flows are exported. NetFlow reporting products. SolarWinds. Hands on Collector software. NetFlow features and benefits Real time segment statistics, real time top talkers, traffic matrices. Hands on Traffic analysis with NetFlow. NetFlow issues NetFlow impact, agent resources, server resources, comparing NetFlow with SNMP, RMON and sflow. Hands on Advanced NetFlow configuration. Export formats Flow aging timers, NetFlow versions, export formats, templates, IPFIX. Hands on NetFlow packet analysis. NetFlow MIBs The NetFlow MIB, configuration, retrieving NetFlow statistics. Hands on Integrating NetFlow with SNMP.
LTE training course description This course is designed to give the delegate an understanding of the technologies used within a 3G UMTS mobile network. During the course we will investigate the UMTS air interface and the use of Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) to facilitate high speed data access, together with HSPA to offer mobile broadband services. We will describe the use of soft handover rather than hard handover procedures and soft capacity sharing. The course includes a brief exploration of the UMTS protocol stack and the use of PDP Context and QoS support features. What will you learn Explain the 3G UMTS architecture. Describe the role of a Drifting & Serving RNC. Explain the use of ARQ & HARQ for mobile broadband. Describe how IMS integrates into the architecture. Describe the use of Media Gateway Controllers. Identify the temporary identities used within 3G UMTS. LTE training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working within the telecommunications area, especially within the mobile environment. Prerequisites: Mobile communications demystified Telecommunications Introduction Duration 2 days LTE training course contents LTE Introduction The path to LTE, 3GPP. LTE to LTE advanced. LTE Architecture The core, Access, roaming. Protocols: User plane, Control plane. Example information flows. Bearer management. Spectrum allocation. LTE technologies Transmission, reception, OFDMA, multiple antenna, MIMO. LTE Air interface Air interface protocol stack. Channels, Resource Grid, cell acquisition. Up and downlink controls. Layer 2 protocols. Cell acquisition Power on, selecting networks and cells. RRC connection. Attach procedure. Mobility management Roaming, RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED, cell reselection, handover, interoperation with UMTS and GSM networks. Voice and text IMS, QoS, policy and charging.
Docker for engineers training course description Docker is the container platform of choice. This course covers how to use Docker to package your applications with all of their dependencies and then test, deploy, scale and support your containers. Hands on sessions follow all the major sessions. What will you learn Work with Docker images, containers and command line tools. Deploy and test Docker containers. Debug Docker containers. Describe Docker networking, deployment tools, orchestration and security. Docker for engineers training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with Docker. Prerequisites: Introduction to virtualization. Duration 2 days Docker for engineers training course contents Introduction The birth of Docker, the promise of Docker, what Docker isn't. Docker at a glance Process simplification, broad support and adoption, architecture, getting the most from Docker, the Docker workflow. Installing Docker Important terminology, Docker client, Docker server, test the setup. Working with Docker images Anatomy of a Dockerfile, building an image, running your image, custom base images, storing images. Working with Docker containers What are containers? creating a container, starting a container, auto-restarting a container, stopping a container, killing a container, pausing and unpausing a container, cleaning up containers and images, next steps. Exploring Docker Printing the Docker version, server information, downloading image updates, inspecting a container, getting inside a running container, exploring the shell, returning a result, docker logs, monitoring Docker, exploration. The path to production containers Deploying, testing containers. Debugging containers Process output, process inspection, controlling processes, network inspection, image history, inspecting a container, filesystem inspection, moving along. Docker at scale Docker swarm, centurion, amazon EC2 container service. Advanced topics Pluggable backends, containers in detail, security, networking. Designing your production container platform The twelve-factor app, the reactive manifesto. Conclusion The challenges, the Docker workflow, minimizing deployment artifacts, optimizing storage and retrieval, the payoff, the final word.
ITIL® 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support: In-House Training The ITIL® 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver, and Support module is part of the Managing Professional stream for ITIL® 4. Candidates need to pass the related certification exam for working towards the Managing Professional (MP) designation. This course is based on the ITIL® 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver, and Support exam specifications from AXELOS. With the help of ITIL® 4 concepts and terminology, exercises, and examples included in the course, candidates acquire the relevant knowledge required to pass the certification exam. What You Will Learn The learning objectives of the course are based on the following learning outcomes of the ITIL® 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver, and Support exam specification: Understand how to plan and build a service value stream to create, deliver, and support services Know how relevant ITIL® practices contribute to the creation, delivery, and support across the SVS and value streams Know how to create, deliver, and support services Organization and Culture Organizational Structures Team Culture Continuous Improvement Collaborative Culture Customer-Oriented Mindset Positive Communication Effective Teams Capabilities, Roles, and Competencies Workforce Planning Employee Satisfaction Management Results-Based Measuring and Reporting Information Technology to Create, Deliver, and Support Service Integration and Data Sharing Reporting and Advanced Analytics Collaboration and Workflow Robotic Process Automation Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning CI / CD Information Model Value Stream Anatomy of a Value Stream Designing a Value Stream Value Stream Mapping Value Stream to Create, Deliver, and Support Services Value Stream for Creation of a New Service Value Stream for User Support Value Stream Model for Restoration of a Live Service Prioritize and Manage Work Managing Queues and Backlogs Shift-Left Approach Prioritizing Work Commercial and Sourcing Considerations Build or Buy Sourcing Models Service Integration and Management
ITIL® 4 Specialist: High Velocity IT: In-House Training The ITIL® 4 Specialist: High-Velocity IT module is part of the Managing Professional stream for ITIL® 4. Candidates need to pass the related certification exam for working towards the Managing Professional (MP) designation. This course is based on the ITIL® 4 Specialist: High-Velocity IT exam specifications from AXELOS. With the help of ITIL® 4 concepts and terminology, exercises, and examples included in the course, candidates acquire the relevant knowledge required to pass the certification exam. This module addresses the specifics of digital transformation and helps organizations to evolve towards a convergence of business and technology, or to establish a new digital organization. It was designed to enable practitioners to explore the ways in which digital organizations and digital operating models function in high-velocity environments. Working practices such as Agile and Lean, and technical practices and technologies such as Cloud, Automation, and Automatic Testing are included. What You Will Learn At the end of this course, participants will be able to: Understand concepts regarding the high-velocity nature of the digital enterprise, including the demand it places on IT. Understand the digital product lifecycle in terms of the ITIL operating model. Understand the importance of the ITIL guiding principles and other fundamental concepts for delivering high-velocity IT. Know how to contribute to achieving value with digital products. Course Introduction Let's Get to Know Each Other Course Learning Objectives Target Audience Characteristics ITIL® 4 Certification Scheme Course Components Course Agenda Module-End Exercises Exam Details Introduction to High-Velocity IT High-Velocity IT Digital Technology Digital Organizations Digital Transformation High-Velocity IT Approaches Relevance of High-Velocity IT Approaches High-Velocity IT Approaches in Detail High-Velocity IT Operating Models Introduction ITIL® Perspective High-Velocity IT Aspects High-Velocity IT Applications ITIL® Building Blocks for High-Velocity IT Digital Product Lifecycle Service Value Streams Four Dimensions of Service Management ITIL® Management Practices High-Velocity IT Culture Key Behavior Patterns ITIL® Guiding Principles Supporting Models and Concepts for Purpose Ethics Design Thinking Supporting Models and Concepts for People Reconstructing for Service Agility Safety Culture Stress Prevention Supporting Models and Concepts for Progress Working in Complex Environments Lean Culture ITIL® Continual Improvement Model High-Velocity IT Objectives and Techniques High-Velocity IT Objectives High-Velocity IT Techniques Techniques for Valuable Investments Prioritization Techniques Minimum Viable Products and Services Product / Service Ownership A/B Testing Techniques for Fast Developments Basic Concepts Related to Fast Development Infrastructure as Code Reviews Continual Business Analysis Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Continuous Testing Kanban Techniques for Resilient Operations Introduction to Resilient Operations Technical Debt Chaos Engineering Definition of Done Version Control Algorithmic IT Operations ChatOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Techniques for Co-created Value Basic Concepts of Co-created Value Service Experience Techniques for Assured Conformance DevOps Audit Defense Toolkit DevSecOpsPeer Review