Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A geologist, reservoir engineer, petroleum engineer, production or completion engineer
• A business development manager, asset manager or project manager

How we build your confidence

• The course will be delivered using well-designed PowerPoint presentation slides
• Participants will engage in a group project during the course
• Q&A sessions and discussions

The benefits from attending

• Evaluating and preparing the data for reservoir engineering calculations; gas reservoir fluid properties, sampling, production analysis, diagnostic plots
• Determining in place volumes; material balance calculations for various drive mechanisms, reservoir fluid types, decline curve analysis and alternate plotting techniques
• Gas reservoir fluid flow and well testing; deliverability testing, non-darcy flow, testing for different well completions (horizontal well) and stimulation (hydraulic fracturing)
• Prediction of ultimate recovery and future production; optimisation of gas well spacing and infill drilling, decline curves analysis, RTA (rate transient analysis) coupled with material balance applications

Topics

• Reservoir fluids and fluid types
• Drive mechanisms
• Properties of natural gas
• Volumetric gas in place

• Material balance and determining gas in place volumes
• Introduction to well testing, well deliverability and productivity index
• Minimum tested volume
• Design, execution, and interpretation of well test including horizontal wells and hydraulic fractured wells, PTA
• Inflow and outflow performance for gas wells
• Vertical multi-phase flow
• Production data analysis

• Decline curve analysis, estimate reserves and future production
• Type curve analysis
• Flow regimes and diagnostic plots
• RTA, DCA coupled with material balance
• Gas reservoir simulation and modelling

• Development planning, well spacing, pattern optimisation
• Selection of completion and perforation techniques
• Reservoir surveillance and monitoring
• Cost-benefit analysis of reservoir management options
• Risk assessment and mitigation strategies