Advanced Reservoir Engineering
Consultant/Trainer: Wim Swinkels/Thorsten Viertel
The Petrogenium (in collaboration with EPTS) Advanced Reservoir Engineering course provides a deeper understanding of both fundamental and advanced reservoir engineering concepts, which are essential for handling, analyzing, and interpreting subsurface and production data in the E&P (exploration and production) business. They will learn about the key tools used by modern reservoir engineers and have opportunities to practice applying these tools in real-world scenarios. This will enable them to contribute more effectively to field development plans and optimize the economic production of hydrocarbons.
Participants
This Petrogenium course designed for Reservoir Engineers with a few years of practical experience and Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists that require more than general knowledge of reservoir engineering.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the Advanced Course participants will have a deeper knowledge of modern reservoir engineering principles and practices for reservoir development and production, including the estimation of oil and gas reserves. They will also have an awareness of the construction and use of reservoir models. A broad spectrum of modern practical reservoir engineering methods are addressed. Extensive use is made of practical and actual field problems to illustrate relevant subjects.
Day 1
Fluid behaviour and fluid modeling
1. Course Introduction
2. Fundamentals recap
3. Capillary pressure and saturation height relations, Leveret-J function
4. Distribution of hydrocarbon fluids
5. Exercise: permeability averaging and water breakthrough
6. Laboratory experiments, constant volume depletion, differential liberation
7. PVT & fluid sampling
8. Exercise PVT correlations for oil and gas
Day 2
Reserves and DCA methods
1. Reserves Classification systems- the SPE Petroleum Resource Management System
2. The probabilistic method
3. Decline Curve Analysis and Production forecasting
4. Exercise: oil production forecasting
Day 3
Reservoir models, wells. well behaviour and well tests
1. Oil and Gas Material Balance, aquifers, straight line methods
2. Wells, inflow performance, skin, horizontal wells
3. Exercise: use of well inflow calculations
4. Exercise: gas production forecasting
5. Modern well test analysis, Pressure Draw Down and Build Up analysis
Day 4
Displacement, sweep, flow and reservoir modelling
1. Relative permeability and capillary pressure, wettingness, drainage vs. imbibition
2. Displacement and Recovery, sweep, heterogeneity, Buckley-Leverett, movable oil
3. Pseudo relative permeability
4. Exercise mobility ratio
5. Reservoir Simulation – modelling construction and history matching, QA/QC
6. Reading and discussion of simulation field cases
Day 5
Recovery and development planning
1. Fractured reservoirs
2. Secondary Recovery, Enhanced Oil Recovery
3. Oil Field Development Planning
4. Gas field development planning
5. Exercise: development planning regulations
6. Handling uncertainty
7. Course Recap, Quiz and Evaluation
Programme
Day 1
Fluid behaviour and fluid modeling
1. Course Introduction
2. Fundamentals recap
3. Capillary pressure and saturation height relations, Leveret-J function
4. Distribution of hydrocarbon fluids
5. Exercise: permeability averaging and water breakthrough
6. Laboratory experiments, constant volume depletion, differential liberation
7. PVT & fluid sampling
8. Exercise PVT correlations for oil and gas
Day 2
Reserves and DCA methods
1. Reserves Classification systems- the SPE Petroleum Resource Management System
2. The probabilistic method
3. Decline Curve Analysis and Production forecasting
4. Exercise: oil production forecasting
Day 3
Reservoir models, wells. well behaviour and well tests
1. Oil and Gas Material Balance, aquifers, straight line methods
2. Wells, inflow performance, skin, horizontal wells
3. Exercise: use of well inflow calculations
4. Exercise: gas production forecasting
5. Modern well test analysis, Pressure Draw Down and Build Up analysis
Day 4
Displacement, sweep, flow and reservoir modelling
1. Relative permeability and capillary pressure, wettingness, drainage vs. imbibition
2. Displacement and Recovery, sweep, heterogeneity, Buckley-Leverett, movable oil
3. Pseudo relative permeability
4. Exercise mobility ratio
5. Reservoir Simulation – modelling construction and history matching, QA/QC
6. Reading and discussion of simulation field cases
Day 5
Recovery and development planning
1. Fractured reservoirs
2. Secondary Recovery, Enhanced Oil Recovery
3. Oil Field Development Planning
4. Gas field development planning
5. Exercise: development planning regulations
6. Handling uncertainty
7. Course Recap, Quiz and Evaluation