Practical Reservoir Engineering
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Practical Reservoir Engineering Course
Introduction:
This course gives a sound foundation in reservoir engineering theory, and applies it to well performance, simulation, reservoir surveillance, production optimization and work over operations. There are numerous case studies and practical examples.
Who Should Attend?
This course is suited for junior level reservoir engineers, production engineers and development geologists who require a strong background in understanding reservoirs, and how to monitor and improve their production performance.
Course Outlines:
Reservoir characterization.
- Static reservoir description.
- Essentials of seismic acquisition and interpretation.
- Essentials of field geology and of geological characterization.
- Essentials of petrophysics.
- Reservoir geometry and volumetrics.
- Characterization and estimation of reserves.
Reservoir rocks and fluid displacement
- Essentials of fluid flow through porous media.
- Reservoir fluid displacement. Permeabilities, wettabilities.
- Capillary pressure. Drainage and imbibition.
- Reservoir drive mechanisms and drainage methods.
- Displacement processes. Irreducible and residual fluid saturations.
- Essentials of secondary recovery methods.
Reservoir fluids.
- Importance of early characterization.
- Phase behavior of hydrocarbons.
- Bubble point hydrocarbon systems.
- Dew point hydrocarbon systems.
- PVT sampling techniques.
- PVT characterization and quality of analysis.
Well Performance.
- Inflow performance and productivity index, AOF potential.
- Outflow performance and VLP characteristics.
- Well testing: objectives and target parameters. Types of well tests.
- Interpretation of well tests: flow tests, build-up tests, multirate tests.
- Gas well testing.
- Advanced purpose well tests.
Perforating.
- Productivity and completion skin.
- Perforating techniques and hardware.
- Underbalance and perforation clean-out.
- Overbalance and hydraulic fracturing.
- Perforating in weak formations.
- Perforating without killing the well.
- Specific perforating requirements and hardware.
Well Stimulation.
- The need for stimulation.
- Essentials of rock mechanics.
- Hydraulic fracture geometry.
- Proppants and fracture screen out.
- Hydraulic fracturing operations.
- Matrix acidizing and operations.
- Acid-fracturing and operations.
Reservoir Performance.
- Material balance. Dynamic determination of IOOP, of energy sources.
- Field-wide analytical history matching and applications.
- Interference testing. Reservoir compartmentalization.
- Essentials of geostatistics.
- Gridding, upscaling and component properties distribution.
- Essentials of numerical reservoir simulation.
Reservoir Surveillance.
- The numerous uses of wireline pressure and sampling techniques.
- Pressure profiling in developed reservoirs.
- Pressure and permeability data acquisition.
- Flow data acquisition and production logging.
- Saturation monitoring methods.
- Use of 'permanent' sensors.
- Integration of data into the reservoir model.
- Time-lapse monitoring techniques.
Reservoir Optimization
- Single well diagnosis: transient testing, production profiling, well flow modeling.
- By-passed hydrocarbons detection.
- Single well remedy programs.
- Well flow modelling and optimization.
- Gas lift and operations.
- Techniques for reservoir optimization.
- Reservoir pressure management.
- Aquifer and gas cap management.
- Fractional phase flows and incremental oil and gas recovery.
- Horizontal wells and drainholes.
- Optimization of surface facilities.
Workover operations.
- Corrective cementing.
- Water shut-off and gas shut-off.
