INTRODUCTION
This course that is designed to provide the participants with a solid understanding of reservoir engineering and associated modern theories in order to manage and maximize hydrocarbon recovery. Hands-on examples and exercises are used throughout the course to help participants with understanding key performance concepts.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
- Determining critical properties of reservoir rocks Fluid (oil, water, and gas)
- Calculating hydrocarbons initially in place using several methods
- Assessing reservoir performance with dynamic techniques
- Determining the parameters that impact well/reservoir performance over time
- Analyzing well tests using standard well testing principles and techniques
- Characterizing aquifers
- Determining reservoir drive mechanisms for both Oil and Gas reservoirs
- Applying oil and gas field development planning principles
- Forecasting production decline
- Screening reservoirs for the appropriate enhanced oil recovery processes
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Petroleum engineers
- Technical/ reservoir engineers
- Processing engineers
- Commercial analysts
- Decision makers/ investors in oil and gas sector
PROGRAM OUTLINE
- Basic Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Systems
- Capillary Pressure and Fluid Distributions
- Two and Three Relative Permeability
- Normalization of Relative Permeability
- Relative Permeability Upscaling
- Basic Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Systems
- Capillary Pressure and Fluid Distributions
- Two and Three Relative Permeability
- Normalization of Relative Permeability
- Relative Permeability Upscaling
- Fluid Flow Equations
- Principles of Superposition
- Transient Well Testing
- Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow
- Fluid Flow Equations
- Principles of Superposition
- Transient Well Testing
- Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow
- Water and Gas Coning
- Vertical Oil Well Performance
- Horizontal Oil Well Performance
- Vertical Gas Well Performance
- Horizontal Gas Well Performance
- Water and Gas Coning
- Vertical Oil Well Performance
- Horizontal Oil Well Performance
- Vertical Gas Well Performance
- Horizontal Gas Well Performance
- Decline Curve Analysis
- Type Curve Analysis
- Recognition of Natural Water Influx
- Water Influx Models
- Decline Curve Analysis
- Type Curve Analysis
- Recognition of Natural Water Influx
- Water Influx Models
- Gas Recovery Mechanisms and Material Balance Equation
- Oil Recovery Mechanisms and Material Balance Equation
- Principles of Waterflooding
- Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods
- Gas Recovery Mechanisms and Material Balance Equation
- Oil Recovery Mechanisms and Material Balance Equation
- Principles of Waterflooding
- Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods
