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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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All content can be customised for awareness, intermediate, or experienced staff. Post-course consultancy and help-desk support is also available.
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