Applied Reservoir Engineering

This course represents the core of our reservoir engineering program and the foundation for all future studies in this subject.

who should attend :

Engineers or geoscientists who will occupy the position of reservoir engineer.

YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

1. Determine critical properties of reservoir rocks fluid (oil, water, and gas) PVT relationships.
2. Assess reservoir performance with dynamic techniques.
3. Calculate hydrocarbons initially in place using several methods.
4. Determine reservoir drive mechanisms for both oil and gas reservoirs.
5. Determine the parameters that impact well/reservoir performance over time.
6. Analyze well tests using standard well testing principles and techniques.
7. Characterize aquifers.

Apply oil and gas field development planning principle.

COURSE CONTENT

1. Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions.
2. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data.
3. Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling, and understanding PVT laboratory reports.
4. Calculate original hydrocarbons in- place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines.
5. Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive, and compartmentalized reservoirs.
6. Oil well testing: radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships.
7. Gas well testing: pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability.
8. Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description.
9. Immiscible displacement: fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge.
10. Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications .
11. Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive and compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured and critical reservoir fluid reservoirs.