subsurface integration program (SIP)
Multidisciplinary Reservoir Characterization
Our highly acclaimed, nine-month, premium training program, SIP, has been designed to maximize learning-by-doing for the individual while generating solutions to company projects that deliver a real return on the investment for the program.
This flagship project-based program delivers:
- staff with proven practical skills in reservoir characterization
- solutions to complex reservoir problems
- workflow processes to predict reservoir flow units and capacity efficiently.
It is particularly applicable for:
- characterization of exploration appraisal wells
- early understanding of development projects
- characterizing and identifying new opportunities in mature fields, including evaluating advanced recovery processes.
The SIP is based on the BP-Amoco Petrophysics program that ran for almost 30 years until it was added to NExT’s training portfolio in 2000. Since then, the focus on multidisciplinary, project-based work in subsurface integration has been maintained while the program’s design, content, and execution have been extensively enhanced.
Today, SIP is a multidisciplinary project-based program with 20-plus learning modules that are centered on your organization’s subsurface project needs, proprietary data, and objectives. The program is currently offered at the University of Tulsa in the USA.
Attendance on SIP and the completion of four additional graduate courses entitle participants to receive an accredited Master of Science in Petrophysics† from the University of Tulsa.
† Acceptance on the university graduate program is required.
Solve complex reservoir characterization problems while developing the skills of your asset team 
Why use SIP?
- Use your own data and SIP tools and workflow processes to solve your reservoir problems and gain value-based business solutions
- Apply the techniques and practice new skills immediately with your data
- Flexibility in project design to meet your business objectives
- Use proven, integrated process workflow modules that build solutions
- Apply new tools for reservoir analysis and modeling—Interactive Petrophysics™ and Petrel™
- Develop competencies in a mentored environment with world-class technical instructors and coaches
Global versions of SIP
The mini SIP programs are designed for asset or multidisciplinary teams and involve live, problem-based projects.