Technical Training Services

 

Customized Training Courses and Workshops, and Extended Skill-Building and Development Programs, for Oil & Gas and Energy Professionals — Worldwide

 

Technical expertise, vast experience, and a genuine passion for teaching — assign your company's professional-development and skill-building needs to A&A, and let the high-level, seasoned consultants of the A&A Consulting Team put decades of hands-on industry experience to work for your professionals and managers, around the world.

 

Nearly half of the oil & gas industry's workforce is now over age 45, and only about 1 in 8 workers is under 30 — a gap the global energy sector needs to close with roughly 40% more qualified new entrants by 2030 to avoid a deepening skills shortage, in a training and competence-management market already valued near $4.2 billion in 2025 and growing toward $7.1 billion by 2034. A&A has been closing exactly that gap for more than 45 years: the high-level, seasoned consultants of the A&A Consulting Team, each with 15 to 45+ years of hands-on industry experience, have conducted 26 training courses and workshops at 17 locations worldwide, training more than 600 professionals in formats from 1 day to 5 days — and, for programs that need more depth, in multi-week skill-building formats as well.

Avasthi & Associates, Inc. (A&A) is an independent petroleum engineering and geoscience consulting firm. A&A's instructors are the same high-level, seasoned consultants who provide A&A's consulting services — not dedicated training staff reading from a vendor's slide deck — which means every course is taught by someone who has actually done the work being taught, and can bring live project and consulting experience into the classroom.

A&A's training practice spans customized training courses and workshops, and extended skill-building and development programs. If your company needs training delivered live online or in person, at A&A's Houston office or at your own offices anywhere in the world, please contact us — the high-level, seasoned consultants and subject-matter experts (SMEs) of the A&A Consulting Team, and collaborators, are available to help your company, around the world.

1. Customized Training Courses and Workshops

The customized, state-of-the-art training courses and workshops A&A designs and develops at the request of its clients are taught or conducted at the client's offices, around the world, whenever mutually convenient — developed and delivered by the same high-level, seasoned consultants who have spent their entire careers working in the topic being taught. Representative recent courses and workshops include:

•     Practical Engineering Aspects of CO₂ Injection for EOR & Sequestration (CCS/CCUS): including Sustained Casing Pressure (SCP) mitigation

•     Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) / Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) / Geologic CO₂ Storage: a refresher course covering all aspects of CCS/CCUS

•     Designing CO₂ Injection Schedules for Class VI Wells: an advanced course on CO₂ injection-schedule design for Class VI wells

•     Field Piloting of EOR/IOR Schemes: practical guidance on designing and executing EOR/IOR field pilot tests

•     Gas / Gas-Condensate / Volatile Oil Reservoir Development & CO₂ Sequestration: reservoir development for gas, gas-condensate, and volatile oil systems, paired with CO₂ sequestration

•     Advanced PROSPER for ESP, High-CO₂-Content Fluids, CO₂-EOR, CCS/CCUS, and Integrated Digital Workflows: advanced nodal-analysis modeling for artificial lift, high-CO₂ fluids, and CO₂ projects

2. Extended Skill-Building and Development Programs

The high-level, seasoned consultants of the A&A Consulting Team have been conducting skill-building activities — teaching training courses and hands-on training workshops — for national oil companies and other governmental agencies, as well as for oil & gas companies, around the world, since the early 1970s. Unlike A&A's 1-to-5-day customized courses, these extended skill-building programs are custom-designed on a subject of interest — such as oil & gas reservoir development, comprising several component topics — to meet the specific needs of the client's personnel, considering their educational background and oil & gas industry experience level (beginning and/or intermediate-level professionals), and can run several weeks, normally meeting seven to eight hours per workday, with problem sessions comprising about 25 to 50 percent of class time.

•     Extended Skill-Building Programs: multi-week, subject-focused training programs custom-designed around a client's professional-development needs and staff experience level

•     Advisory and Mentoring Support: assigning seasoned engineering and geosciences consultants of the A&A Consulting Team as advisors on a client's projects, and/or as mentors to a client's less-experienced professionals, at the client's offices, around the world

3. A&A's Specialized Training Practices

 

•     Specialized CCS/CCUS, CO₂-EOR, and Class VI well training — including a course originally developed for the U.S. EPA at the request of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in 2005, and taught, together with a complementary CO₂-EOR course, at least 26 times at about 17 locations worldwide since then.

•     Customized Training Courses and Workshops on other topics of interest to the clients — With so much consulting talent at A&A's disposal, A&A can design and develop a training course or workshop on any professional topic within A&A's areas of expertise described on this website, and conduct it at a client's offices, around the world, whenever mutually convenient. All a client has to do is ask.

A&A Training, By the Numbers

•     26 courses and workshops: delivered around the world, to date

•     17 global locations: including Abu Dhabi, Anaheim, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Calgary, Dallas, Denver, Edmonton, Florence, Houston, Jackson, Midland, Muscat, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, San Antonio, and Tulsa

•     600+ professionals trained: across A&A's customized, and SPE training courses

•     1-day to multi-week formats: from a focused 1-day refresher to a multi-week extended skill-building program, live online or in person

Why Companies Choose A&A for Training

•     Taught by practitioners: every course is developed and taught by the same high-level, seasoned consultants who provide A&A's consulting services — not dedicated training staff

•     Flexible formats: 1-day refreshers, multi-day courses and workshops, and multi-week skill-building programs, live online or in person, at A&A's Houston office or the client's own offices worldwide

•     Any topic within A&A's expertise: if it's on this website, A&A can build a customized course or workshop on it

What A&A Delivers

An A&A training engagement is built around your company's professional-development goals, including, but not limited to:

•     A customized 1-to-5-day training course or hands-on workshop on a topic of your choosing

•     A multi-week extended skill-building program tailored to your staff's experience level

•     Advisory and mentoring support from a seasoned A&A consultant, assigned to your team

•     Access to A&A's dedicated CCS/CCUS training courses

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between a customized training course and an extended skill-building program?

A customized training course or workshop runs 1 to 5 days on a focused topic. An extended skill-building program runs several weeks, covers a broader subject area made up of several component topics, and is tailored to the trainee group's experience level — typically used by national oil companies, government agencies, and companies developing less-experienced professional staff.

Does A&A only teach CO2/CCS-related courses, or other technical topics too?

A&A can design and develop a training course or workshop on any professional topic within A&A's consulting expertise — the full range of subjects described across this website, spanning upstream, EOR/IOR, shale/unconventional, CCS/CCUS, energy transition, and LNG topics. A&A's dedicated CCS/CCUS Training practice reflects strong, sustained client demand for that subject in particular, not a limit on what A&A can teach.

Can A&A provide mentoring in addition to formal training?

Yes. Alongside formal courses and workshops, A&A assigns seasoned engineering and geosciences consultants to act as advisors on a client's projects, and/or as mentors to a client's less-experienced professionals, at the client's offices, around the world.

Can A&A training be delivered live online?

Yes. A&A regularly teaches courses live online, as well as in person at A&A's Houston, Texas office or at a client's own offices, around the world, depending on what is most convenient for the client.

 

Whether your company needs a focused 1-day refresher, a multi-day hands-on workshop, a multi-week skill-building program, or ongoing mentoring for your less-experienced professionals, the A&A Consulting Team can help your company's professionals and managers build the skills your projects need. Please contact us and let A&A know how it can help.

 

 

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