The digital learning ecosystem An efficient management approach to capability development, delivering smarter teams, improved productivity and better business outcome for the managers.
Bridging industry with academia An immersive and collaborative learning experience event, using OilSim simulator, providing highly relevant industry knowledge and soft skills.
The digital learning ecosystem Digitally and seamlessly connecting you, the learner, with pertinent learning objects and related technologies ensuring systematic, engaging and continued learning.
Industry and client recognition
Best Outreach Program Finalist: WorldOil Awards
Overall Customer Satisfaction Score
Training provider of the year: 2013, 14 and 15
Upstream learning simulator With more than 50,000 participants instructed in various disciplines, data driven OilSim runs real-world oil and gas business scenarios and technical challenges.
Engaging. Educational. EnjoyableUpstream learning simulator With more than 50,000 participants instructed in various disciplines, data driven OilSim runs real-world oil and gas business scenarios and technical challenges.
Engaging. Educational. EnjoyableBridging industry with academia An immersive and collaborative learning experience event, using OilSim simulator, providing highly relevant industry knowledge and soft skills.
The digital learning ecosystem Digitally and seamlessly connecting you, the learner, with pertinent learning objects and related technologies ensuring systematic, engaging and continued learning.
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Upstream learning simulator With more than 50,000 participants instructed in various disciplines, data driven OilSim runs real-world oil and gas business scenarios and technical challenges.
Engaging. Educational. EnjoyableUpstream learning simulator With more than 50,000 participants instructed in various disciplines, data driven OilSim runs real-world oil and gas business scenarios and technical challenges.
Engaging. Educational. EnjoyableBridging industry with academia An immersive and collaborative learning experience event, using OilSim simulator, providing highly relevant industry knowledge and soft skills.
Placing you at the center of everything we do
Our approach to learning is based on the belief that an effective training program is one which adheres to established proficient practices and systematic processes while addressing the needs of an individual and the company. Our goal is to partner with our customers to develop the capability of their valuable workforce through connected learning opportunities that complement their jobs and promote individual growth driving organizational success.
From leading edge resources to technological innovations, as new industry challenges and opportunities evolve, NExT continually adapts its curriculum and capability development programs to meet our customers needs. Being a SLB company, this rapid adaptation is made possible through collaboration with industry peers on their E&P training perspectives and experiences.
Our learning solutions are designed to reduce operational complexity, accelerate the usage of technical capabilities, and ultimately deliver quantifiable business impact. With a global reach in more than 85 countries coupled with strong local experience and the diversity in thought, background and knowledge, the NExT team of technical and technology experts are committed to excellence.
Our learning solution design, a component of NExTtrac, our practice, takes into account the learners real-life experience, before, during and after the course, as well as the environment in which they’re learning. This helps us create high quality, engaging, enriching, and immersive experiences for learners.
The NExT directors of curriculum (DOC), directors of software training (DOST) and training managers are responsible for maintaining the superior standards of our course materials and ensuring the high-quality delivery of our training solutions worldwide. With their respective peer review boards, the DOCs and DOSTs continuously evaluate the technical content of our courses to ensure that we are delivering the latest technology to our clients.
The DOCs and DOSTs are responsible for ensuring that our virtual faculty members are not only leaders from a technical viewpoint but are also competent instructors. Through the NExT comprehensive course and instructor evaluation system, a continuous quality assurance process is in place that enables us to react immediately to any quality assurance issues. All of our DOCs routinely teach in the NExT programs and direct competency assessment projects.
“Being recognized as the 'Education/Training Provider of the Year’ for three consecutive years followed by winning the ‘Localization Award’ for local capacity building reinforces the fact that NExT is the industry's trusted partner for training and competency development. NExT training programs meet industry objectives and support oil and gas companies in their strategic growth.
The Education and Training Provider of the Year Award—voted on by the public and not a panel of judges—is given to the company, college or university that has consistently developed and delivered industry-leading programs.
Established best practices and technology applications.
E&P technical knowledge
NExT leverages the breadth of expertise and experience including SLB’s best in class international and national capability development experience.
SLB experts globally:
8 | Fellows |
233 | Advisors |
777 | Principals |
6300 | Senior I, II and III |
Service delivery excellence
NExT is committed to upholding professional standards that set high benchmarks for
Our QA involves compliance, delivery standard, audit process aimed at ensuring excellence of execution.
Learning solution design
Our practice which combines the science and the art of creating effective learning experiences.
It provides the design, structure and expertise to execute and deliver training solutions that meet the optimum client outcome.
Hands-on experience
Access to well equipped global network of practical, state of art training centers and technical facilities
Industry-leading training
Technology Adoption Programs help customers derive maximum value from SLB technology, taking them from learning about technology to actually solving problems with it.
NOC, Majors, IOC
Deep domain knowledge, industry’s strongest technical foundation and a track record of consistent customer recognition delivering competency solutions for IOCs, NOCs and Majors across the globe makes NExT the most reliable competency development solution provider in the E&P industry.
Digital learning ecosystem
NExTpert is the digital learning ecosystem that delivers a connected learning environment for individuals, teams and their managers and helps track and monitor employee’s skill progression status at any time.
Global & local expertise
Working on real-world industry applications, NExT has more than 3,000 expert instructors who train more than 15,000 technical professionals each year in 11 core disciplines—from characterization and exploration through development and production—and in industry-spanning domains.
NExT training in industry-leading SLB
software helps develop the petrotechnical skills needed to meet today's complex industry challenges.
With access to well-equipped, global SLB
training centers and technical facilities, participants gain practical, hands on experience.
The Petrel subsurface software brings various disciplines together, such as geosciences, reservoir engineering, production engineering, and drilling. This shared earth approach enables companies to standardize workflows from exploration to production, so they can make better decisions based on a clear understanding of both opportunities and risks.
Successfully drilling challenging wells requires an in-depth understanding of the hydraulics during all phases of the operation. Drillbench software provides a user-friendly tool that targets all drilling engineers involved in challenging wells. The software is built around the well-control workflow, covering pressure control, well control, and blowout control.
The Intersect high-resolution reservoir simulator goes beyond the capabilities offered by other current-generation simulators. It is designed to improve accuracy and efficiency in field-development planning and risk mitigation—for even the most complex fields.
Techlog wellbore software offers cross-domain workflows based on a data management layer, extending across different disciplines: petrophysics (core and log), geology, drilling, reservoir and production engineering, and geophysics. The platform has a tightly integrated environment with everything you need to process your data and deliver results.
The Eclipse industry-reference reservoir simulator offers the industry’s most complete and robust set of numerical solutions for fast and accurate prediction of dynamic behaviour for all types of reservoirs and development schemes.
Malcom interactive fluid characterization software offers geochemical engineering solutions by processing gas chromatography data from different vendors (including GC-FID, GC-MS, GC-MS-MS, and GC-2D experiment data). Comparison of oil fingerprints from gas chromatography provides information on biomarkers, reservoir connectivity, reservoir size estimation or production allocation calculation. A comprehensive suite of tools process chromatographic data and perform statistical calculation so data interpretation can be delivered quickly.
Avocet production operations software solution enables E&P companies to hit production targets consistently. The platform allows users to get a clear, complete, and up-to-date picture of production operations, so they can understand the reasons for shortfalls and act with confidence to reduce the gap between actual and potential production.
Geox exploration risk, resource, and value assessment software provides easy-to-use and scalable decision support solutions for risk, resource, and economic evaluation of exploration projects and portfolios. The software provides a common assessment framework for both unconventional plays and conventional exploration targets.
Merak planning, risk, and reserves software delivers the industry’s most comprehensive offerings for standardized economics, modeling of international fiscal regimes, decision and risk analysis, reserves tracking and reporting, portfolio optimization, and planning.
Studio E&P knowledge software environment offers a new level of usability and productivity to support organizations in streamlining workflows across the asset lifecycle, as well as capturing vital knowledge to maximize personal and team productivity. The powerful set of tools allows geoscientists and engineers to access, review, and use information in the context of their subsurface Petrel platform workflows—with key capabilities that increase productivity.
GPM geological process modeling software is a simulator for forward modeling of stratigraphic and sedimentary processes that works with the Petrel subsurface software. It provides a methodology to model siliciclastic and carbonate reservoirs based on the principle of mass and energy conservation.
The MEPO multiple realization optimizer works in conjunction with simulation engines, using a powerful run management system for better and faster results. By bringing science, structure, and objectivity to simulation projects, the MEPO optimizer enables geoscientists and engineers to evaluate the complete range of options, and fully understand and manage development and production challenges.
Ocean software development framework was created to extend SLB platforms through plug-in development. The Ocean framework allows oil and gas companies to build or integrate specialized technologies and workflows within the platforms: Petrel subsurface software (since 2005), Studio E&P knowledge software (since 2014), Techlog wellbore software (since 2015), and Avocet production operations software solution.
IAM software offers the flexibility to couple any combination of models into one fully integrated asset model while preserving the fidelity of individual detailed models. From production forecasting for reservoirs, wells, and networks to complex optimization problem-solving based on field constraints and enables you to solve a range of complex technical challenges.
OFM well and reservoir analysis software provides a cost effective and integrated environment in which to accomplish complex workflows, forecasting analyses, and visualization of reservoir and production data. The OFM software enables early detection of production problems and their cause, allowing engineers to manage more wells in less time.
The Omega geophysical data processing software integrates comprehensive workflows and advanced algorithms with leading science, scalable processing, and unparalleled flexibility to unleash the potential of your geophysics data. Omega offers unequaled breadth and depth of capabilities providing you with the tools needed to solve all of your complex challenges.
InnerLogix data quality management solution is designed to assess, analyze, correct, and synchronize data. This new generation of tools provides flexible and comprehensive assessment measurements to allow an extensive range of client-defined business rules.
The Olga dynamic multiphase flow simulator models time-dependent behaviors, or transient flow, to maximize production potential. Transient modeling is an essential component for feasibility studies and field development design. Dynamic simulation is essential in deepwater and is used extensively in both offshore and onshore developments to investigate transient behavior in pipelines and wellbores.
Petromod basin modeling software combines seismic information, well data, and geological knowledge to accurately model the evolution of sedimentary basins over time and optimally predict if and how reservoirs have been charged with hydrocarbons.
Pipesim steady-state multiphase flow simulator is used for the design and diagnostic analysis of production systems. Pipesim simulator tools model multiphase flow from reservoir to wellhead, as well as flowline and surface facility performance, to generate comprehensive production system analysis. With advanced modeling algorithms for nodal, PVT, gas lift, and erosion and corrosion analysis, Pipesim optimizes production and injection operations.
The Prosource E&P data management and delivery system streamlines essential workflows for data managers and end-user community. The Prosource system features domain specific technology including Prosource Enterprise, Prosource Logs, Prosource Seismic, and Prosource Front Office.
…course was arranged according to the high international standards…
Training, Technology and Scholarships
Fund Coordinator LUKOIL
…captured all our requirements and understood the specifics of our operations…
Training Advisor
Dragon Oil
…enabled greater collaboration and integration… embeded best practices…
Exploration and Production, Greece
Shell
…The program was carried out at a high level with no deviation on the plan…
Acting Superintendent of Career and Development
…The training was the most complete program…
VP HRD
PERTAMINA
The practical sessions are really helpful to visualize what the realities in the field are
Senior Reservoir Engineer