In the E&P business, Reservoir Engineers play a key role in handling, analysing and interpreting subsurface and production data at all stages of field development. Reservoir Engineering data and models are used in field development plans to optimise economic production of hydrocarbons.
In this course understanding of fundamental and advanced reservoir engineering concepts is deepened and key tools of modern practical reservoir engineers are discussed, explained and exercised.
Who should attend
Target categories of staff for the advanced course include Reservoir Engineers with a few years of practical experience and Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists that require more than general knowledge of reservoir engineering.
Distribution of hydrocarbon fluids, pressure regimes, fluid gradients and contacts
Hydrocarbons-in-place estimation
The SPE PRMS and SEC system for reserves and resource classification and estimation
Fluid properties and phase behaviour, PVT correlations, fluid sampling and laboratory procedures
Recovery drive-energy, material balance equations, aquifer models and straight line methods.
Gas reservoir engineering concepts.
Radial flow equations and well behaviour
Skin: source and how to minimize it.
Theory and practice of oil and gas well testing and pressure analysis techniques.
Design and interpretation of pressure transient well tests
Production forecasting and Decline Curve Analysis
Relative permeability, Corey model, movable oil
Immiscible, incompressible and the Buckley Leverett 1D displacement theory, application to water flooding. Mobility ratio
Determination of fractional flow curves and oil recovery.
Reservoir simulation modelling principles
Secondary recovery and EOR principles
Field Development Planning
Carbonate and fractured reservoirs
Handling uncertainty
Learning, methods and tools
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.
Topics are introduced by lectures and discussion, and learning is re-inforced by practical small classroom exercises. Active participation and use of laptops and other handheld devices for the exercises is encouraged and facilitated. Hand-out material in paper and/or electronic format will be provided.
Day by day programme
Day 1 - Fluid behaviour and fluid modeling
Course Introduction
Fundamentals recap
Capillary pressure and saturation height relations, Leveret-J function
Distribution of hydrocarbon fluids
Exercise: permeability averaging and water breakthrough