Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A petroleum or chemical engineer
• A geologist or geoscientist

How we build your confidence

• Hands-on examples and exercises are used throughout the course to help participants understand key concepts
• Participants are encouraged to bring their own reservoir / field production data to discuss in class
• Participants will receive the following software as part of the course material:
  - Numerical black-oil simulator
  - PVT-EOS based software

The benefits from attending

• Expand and deepen your knowledge on already familiar reservoir engineering topics
• Develop new skills to improve hydrocarbon recovery and work performance that can contribute added value to your company
• Apply an analytical approach to predict the performance of water-drive reservoirs, without the need of applying the trial-and-error approach, or the prior verification of aquifer type classification or the size of the gas-cap
• Effectively and efficiently conduct a comprehensive reservoir study

Topics

• Capillary pressure and initial saturation profile
• Reservoir vertical stratification
• Rock quality characterisation parameters
• Applications of the J-Function
• The FOIL function
• Relative permeability and normalisation approach
• Generating relative permeability from field data
• WAG flood 3-phase relative permeability
• Hysteresis models
  - Land’s Trapping Coefficient
  - Carlson’s Model
  - Impact on WAG flood recovery

• The Covariance
• The Correlation Coefficient
• Pearson Coefficient
• Spearman Rank Correlation (SRC) method
• Multivariate Linear Regression (MLR)
• Capacitance Model (CM)

• Logistic Growth Model (LGM)
• Duong’s Method
• The T-Model
• Generating reservoir type curves
• Generating the P10, P50, and P90 type curves

• Vogel’s Equation
• Traditional Back-Pressure Test
• Laminar-Inertial-Turbulent (LIT) treatment test
• Modified Vogel’s approach
• A practical and efficient approach for estimating reservoir pressure

• Aquifer classifications
• Estimating aquifer pressure
• Water influx methods
• Van Everdingen and Hurst (VEH) method

• Primary driving mechanisms
• Generalised material balance equation
• Havlena and Odeh MBE
• Diagnostic plots
• MBE for volatile oil
• Water-drive reservoirs
• Issues with VEH

• Calculating cumulative water influx independently of the aquifer classifications
• Eliminating the need of applying the trial-and-error approach for:
  - Water drive reservoirs
  - Gas-cap drive reservoirs
  - Combination drive reservoirs
  - Gas reservoirs
• Water influx warning signs
• Aquifer level strength (activity)
• Reservoir opportunity index

• Maximising the recovery from oil & gas fields by using:
  - Infill drilling
  - Water injection
  - Gas injection
  - Horizontal well
  - Transverse fractures