Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A reservoir or production engineer, a supervisor, or a professional from related disciplines looking for the tools to analyse reservoir performance, optimise field development, and enhance hydrocarbon recovery in an integrated manner

How we build your confidence

• Each topic will be introduced by a lecture, and learning re-enforced by practical exercises (at least two exercises each day plus several case studies, linking theory with real-world examples)
• Time will be reserved for recapitulation, short quizzes, questions, and discussions
• Participants are encouraged to share specific case studies, opportunities, or challenges for discussion, either in advance or during the course. These will be addressed as part of exercises or group discussions.

The benefits from attending

• Characterise and evaluate reservoir rock properties
• Understand reservoir fluid composition and behaviour over time (PVT)
• Know how to determine fluid contacts and calculate volumes initially in place
• Identify reservoir drive mechanisms and assess various recovery processes
• Conduct well performance analysis, advise on well test design and interpretation
• Express key static and dynamic data requirements for production forecasting
• Explain the objectives and benefits of various reservoir surveillance techniques
• Do reservoir performance analysis and production forecasting (DCA, Mbal)
• Know and advise when to implement dynamic, numerical simulation techniques
• Evaluate deployment of various EOR methods to optimise hydrocarbon recovery
• Provide subsurface insights to integrated production system optimisation chores
• Assess and quantify key uncertainties in various phases of field development
• Deliver scenarios to support development planning and investment decisions
• Estimate reserves and resources in accordance with PRMS and SEC guidelines
• Articulate the value added by petroleum engineers in conjunction with other disciplines in reservoir assessment and production enhancement

Topics

• Rock properties
  - Porosity - primary, secondary and factors affecting reservoir porosity
  - Permeability - measurements, variations, and fluid flow
• Fluid distribution and rock fluid interaction
  - Saturation, capillary pressure, drainage, and imbibition
  - Wettability and rock-fluid interaction
• Fluid contacts and hydrocarbon in-place volumes
  - Original contacts, depletion effects, and impact of fractures
  - In place volume calculations and recoverable volumes
• Throughout the day: Real world examples and small group exercises

• Fluid composition and phase behaviour
  - Fluid type, composition, and phase behaviour
  - Compositional grading and the impact of contaminants
• Reservoir fluid properties and sampling
  - PVT properties and relationships
  - Fluid sampling and laboratory analysis
• Oil and gas drive mechanisms and recovery processes
  - Oil and gas drive mechanisms
  - Primary and secondary recovery processes, gravity drainage
• Throughout the day: Real world examples and small group exercises

• Well models
  - Vertical and horizontal well inflow performance
  - Skin effect, coning, cusping, and productivity improvement factor
• Well testing
  - Well test principles, design and analysis
  - Extended well tests in greenfield or marginal settings
• Reservoir surveillance techniques
  - Reservoir monitoring including 4D seismic
  - Pressure monitoring, production logging, and other techniques
• Throughout the day: Real world examples and small group exercises

• Reservoir performance analysis
  - Expansion and fluid displacement, relative permeability, moveable oil
  - Analytical models – decline curve, material balance
• Recovery improvement methods
  - Infill drilling, well recompletions, active pressure management
  - Thermal, chemical, and miscible EOR processes
• Reservoir simulation fundamentals
  - Key aspects of reservoir simulation
  - History matching, forecasting, and scenario analysis
• Throughout the day: Real world examples and small group exercises

• Production system optimisation
  - Integrated production system modelling
  - Data driven decision making
• Uncertainty and field development planning
  - Capturing and specifying uncertainty, avoiding forecasting bias
  - Field Development Planning objectives and requirements
• Reserves & resources volumes
  - Reserves & Resources Classification according to PRMS & SEC guidelines
  - The importance of reserves for companies, investors, and regulators
• Throughout the day: Real world examples and small group exercises