Edward J. Chesny, Jr., PE
Edward Chesny is a professional petroleum engineer with over 40 years of experience in drilling, completions production operations, and trouble shooting. He has a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from West Virginia University. He has worked for Major Oil companies, independent producers, and small family operators – experience that provide him with a broad perspective on the petroleum industry.
Courses Provided by Edward Chesny
Live Webinars
CH-02-601W Live Webinar – Introduction to Oil Production Facilities – 1 PDH
This Live Webinar course provides an overview of oil production and conveyance facilities. It is intended for all engineering disciplines.
CH-02-602W Introduction to Oil Well Completions – 2 PDH
This live webinar introduces the concept of what an oil well “completion” is. It covers the basic parameters used in choosing the equipment and services needed to complete an oil well.
CH-02-603W Introduction to Oil Well Drilling Operations – 2 PDH
This live webinar introduces the basic parameters used in choosing the equipment and services needed to drill an oil well. The presentation displays what drilling equipment looks like, describes its function, and how it is used in the drilling operation.
CH-02-604W Introduction to Oil & Gas Production Separators – 2 PDH
This live webinar introduces the basic equipment used in crude oil and natural gas separation at a field tank battery facility. The course reviews what separators look like, describes their function, and how they are used in processing hydrocarbon products for sale.
CH-02-606W Introduction to Oil Well Artificial Lift Systems – 2 PDH
This live webinar course provides an overview of the basic equipment used in lifting crude oil and natural gas from the subsurface reservoir to a tank battery facility in preparation for sale and use. It presents five different systems, what the equipment looks like and how it functions to facilitate the production and sales of hydrocarbon products.
CH-02-607W Introduction to Gas Lift Systems – 2 PDH
This live webinar course provides an overview of the basics of a gas lift production system, a method of lifting crude oil and natural gas from a subsurface reservoir to a tank battery facility in preparation for sale and use. This course displays what the equipment used in gas lift looks like and how it functions to facilitate the production and sales of hydrocarbon products.
CH-02-608W Introduction to Plunger Lift Systems – 2 PDH
This live webinar course provides an overview of the basics of a plunger lift production system, a method of lifting crude oil and natural gas from the subsurface reservoir to a tank battery facility in preparation for sale and use. This webinar illustrates what the equipment used in plunger lift looks like and how it functions to facilitate the production and sales of hydrocarbon products.
CH-02-609W Introduction to Waterflooding Operations – 2 PDH
This live webinar course provides an introduction to oil waterflooding projects and the equipment utilized to produce, transport, aggregate, separate, and sell crude oil through this operation. This course covers the pumping equipment, separation processes, and producing facilities and their function. It also reviews the roles of pipe, tanks, and other vessels required in transporting, preparing the fluids pumped out of the ground from wells for sale as an almost pure crude oil product for sale and refining.
CH-02-610W Introduction to Oil Well Production Chemicals – 2 PDH
This live webinar course introduces the problems associated with oilfield production and the chemical treatment methods that are used to solve them. This course details the numerous underlying problems that chemicals work to rectify when producing, separating, transporting, and processing crude oil and natural gas products from the wellhead to the refinery.
CH-02-611W Introduction to Oil Well Acidizing Operations – 2 PDH
This Live Webinar course introduces the basics of oil well acidizing, one of the major oil and gas stimulation methods. An acidizing project is the process of preparing the reservoir then pumping a designed and blended acid downhole to stimulate the flow of oil and gas from a subsurface reservoir or boost the injectivity into a disposal zone.
CH-02-612W Introduction to Oil Well Progressive Cavity Pump Systems – 2 PDH
This Live Webinar course introduces the basics of a progressive cavity pump (PCP) systems, one of the five major oil and gas artificial lift systems and the three crude oil pumping systems. This is a method of lifting crude oil and natural gas from the subsurface reservoir and moving it to a tank battery facility in preparation for sale and use.
CH-02-613W Introduction to Oil Well Sucker Rods – 1 PDH
This Live Webinar course introduces the basics in sucker rod oilwell applications, construction, and manufacturing. It discusses the various forms of this downhole equipment, the many materials of which they are made, and the rigorous standards to which they are constructed for use in both reciprocating beam unit pumped wells and rotationally driven progressive cavity pumped wells.
CH-02-614W Introduction to Oil Well Fluid Level Analysis – 1 PDH
This Live Webinar course introduces the basics of oil well fluid level data collection including an overview of analytical methods that can determine the downhole condition of a well and the reservoir supplying it with oil and gas. It describes the tools evaluations that are used to evaluate a well’s artificial lift performance and the productive capacity of the oilfield around it.
CH-02-615W Introduction to Oil Well Bottom Hole Pumps – 1 PDH
This live webinar course introduces the basic types and parts of an oil well bottom hole sucker rod pump and how they are designated when constructed. It presents the many types of downhole pumps used for lifting crude oil fluids to surface under problematic downhole conditions such as, entrained gas, sand and other solid trash materials, and the circumstances brought about by an over pumped well.
CH-02-616W Introduction to Oil Well Hydraulic Fracturing Operations – 2 PDH
This live webinar course introduces the basic science, materials, and equipment used to hydraulically fracture an oil well. It defines the oilfield processes used and defines the fracking practices in detail. It also covers the methodology used to design the operation, subsurface geological setting in which it is pumped, and the chemicals used in the process. The tools and equipment on site to pump the costly engineering project are also displayed and discussed.
CH-02-617W Oil Well Bottom Hole Pump Design – 1 PDH
This live webinar course introduces the basic types and parts of an oil well bottom hole sucker rod pump and how they are designed to perform under the given downhole reservoir conditions.
CH-02-618W Oil Well Dynamometer Card Analysis – 1 PDH
This live webinar course introduces the basic tools used to diagnose how this oil well sucker rod pump can be analyzed to evaluate the system condition and performance without the cost of pulling it out of the hole.
CH-02-619W Oil Well Dynamometer Testing – 1 PDH
This live webinar course introduces the basic tools used to conduct a dynamometer test. Which diagnoses how an oil well sucker rod pump is functioning in place, evaluating it for performance without the cost of pulling it out of the hole.
CH-02-622W Natural Gas Infrastructure – 2 PDH
This Live Webinar course provides an overview of the fundamental natural gas production, processing, pipelining, transportation, and distribution necessary to meet the challenges of a growing world economy. It is intended for all engineering disciplines.
CH-02-623W Horizontal Directional Drilling – 2 PDH
This Live Webinar course provides an overview of the fundamentals of horizontal directionally drilled (HDD) holes for utility infrastructure under roads, lawns, buildings, creeks, and other geographic obstacles. It is intended for all engineering disciplines.
CH-02-624W Pipeline Chemical Maintenance – 2 PDH
This Live Webinar course provides an overview of the basic chemical products used to counter the challenges of process vessel integrity and robust pipeline transportation of crude and manufactured products. It is intended for all engineering disciplines.
Recorded Webinars
CH-02-601 Introduction to Oil Production Facilities – 1 PDH
This on-demand webinar course provides an overview of oil production and conveyance facilities. It is intended for all engineering disciplines.
CH-02-602 Introduction to Oil Well Completions – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar introduces the concept of what an oil well “completion” is. It covers the basic parameters used in choosing the equipment and services needed to complete an oil well. The course explains what a service rig and its associated tools are, describes their function, and how it is used to conduct completion operations.
CH-02-603 Introduction to Oil Well Drilling Operations – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar introduces the basic parameters used in choosing the equipment and services needed to drill an oil well. It reviews drilling equipment, describes its function, and how it is used in the drilling operation.
CH-02-604 Introduction to Oil & Gas Production Separators – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar introduces the basic equipment used in crude oil and natural gas separation at a field tank battery facility. The course reviews what separators look like, describes their function, and how they are used in processing hydrocarbon products for sale.
CH-02-606 Introduction to Oil Well Artificial Lift Systems – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar provides an overview of the basic equipment used in lifting crude oil and natural gas from the subsurface reservoir to a tank battery facility in preparation for sale and use. It presents five different systems, what the equipment looks like and how it functions to facilitate the production and sales of hydrocarbon products..
CH-02-607 Introduction to Gas Lift Systems – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar provides an overview of the basics of a gas lift production system, one of the five major oil and gas artificial lift systems used to lift crude oil and natural gas from a subsurface reservoir to a tank battery facility in preparation for sale and use.
CH-02-608 Introduction to Plunger Lift Systems – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar provides an overview of the basics of a plunger lift production system, one of the five major oil and gas artificial lift systems that lifts crude oil and natural gas from the subsurface reservoir to a tank battery facility in preparation for sale and use. It presents the equipment used in plunger lift systems and how it functions to facilitate the production and sales of hydrocarbon products.
CH-02-609 Introduction to Waterflooding Operations – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar provides an introduction to oil waterflooding projects and the equipment utilized to produce, transport, aggregate, separate, and sell crude oil through this operation. This course covers the pumping equipment, separation processes, and producing facilities and their function. It also reviews the roles of pipe, tanks, and other vessels required in transporting, preparing the fluids pumped out of the ground from wells for sale as an almost pure crude oil product for sale and refining.
CH-02-610 Introduction to Oil Field Production Chemicals – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar introduces the problems associated with oilfield production and the chemical treatment methods that are used to solve them. This course details the numerous underlying problems that chemicals work to rectify when producing, separating, transporting, and processing crude oil and natural gas products from the wellhead to the refinery.
CH-02-611 Introduction to Oil Well Acidizing Operations – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar introduces the basics of oil well acidizing, one of the major oil and gas stimulation methods. An acidizing project is the process of preparing the reservoir then pumping a designed and blended acid downhole to stimulate the flow of oil and gas from a subsurface reservoir or boost the injectivity into a disposal zone.
CH-02-612 Introduction to Oil Well Progressive Cavity Pump Systems – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar introduces the basics of a progressive cavity pump (PCP) systems, one of the five major oil and gas artificial lift systems and the three crude oil pumping systems. This course shows what surface and downhole equipment used in progressive cavity pumping systems look like and how it functions to facilitate the production and sales of hydrocarbon products under both normal and challenging reservoir conditions.
CH-02-613 Introduction to Oil Well Sucker Rods – 1 PDH
This on-demand webinar course introduces the basics in sucker rod oilwell applications, construction, and manufacturing. It discusses the various forms of this downhole equipment, the many materials of which they are made, and the rigorous standards to which they are constructed for use in both reciprocating beam unit pumped wells and rotationally driven progressive cavity pumped wells.
CH-02-614 Introduction to Oil Well Fluid Level Analysis – 1 PDH
This on-demand webinar course introduces the basics of oil well fluid level data collection including an overview of analytical methods that can determine the downhole condition of a well and the reservoir supplying it with oil and gas. It describes the tools and evaluation methods that are used to evaluate a well’s artificial lift performance and the productive capacity of the oilfield around it.
CH-02-615 Introduction to Oil Well Bottom Hole Pumps – 1 PDH
This on-demand webinar course introduces the basic types and parts of an oil well bottom hole sucker rod pump and how they are designated when constructed. It presents the many types of downhole pumps used for lifting crude oil fluids to surface under problematic downhole conditions such as, entrained gas, sand and other solid trash materials, and the circumstances brought about by an over pumped well.
CH-02-616 Introduction to Oil Well Hydraulic Fracturing Operations – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar course introduces the basic science, materials, and equipment used to hydraulically fracture an oil well. It defines the oilfield processes used and defines the fracking practices in detail. It also covers the methodology used to design the operation, subsurface geological setting in which it is pumped, and the chemicals used in the process. The tools and equipment on site to pump the costly engineering project are also displayed and discussed.
CH-02-622 Natural Gas Infrastructure – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar course provides an overview of the fundamental natural gas production, processing, pipelining, transportation, and distribution necessary to meet the challenges of a growing world economy. It is intended for all engineering disciplines.
CH-02-623 Horizontal Directional Drilling – 2 PDH
This on-demand webinar course provides an overview of the fundamentals of horizontal directionally drilled (HDD) holes for utility infrastructure under roads, lawns, buildings, creeks, and other geographic obstacles. It is intended for all engineering disciplines.