Course Description

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. 

Course Objectives

·         Determine critical properties of reservoir rocks Fluid (oil, water, and gas) 

·         Calculate hydrocarbons initially in place using several methods

·         Assess reservoir performance with dynamic techniques

·         Determine the parameters that impact well/reservoir performance over time

·         Analyze well tests using standard well testing principles and techniques

·         Characterize aquifers

·         Determine reservoir drive mechanisms for both Oil and Gas reservoirs

·         Apply oil and gas field development planning principles

·         Forecast production decline

·         Screen reservoirs for the appropriate enhanced oil recovery processes

Who Should Attend?

·         Reservoir engineers

·         Geologists, geophysicists

·         petroleum exploration/production 

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         Basic Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Systems

·         Capillary Pressure and Fluid Distributions

·         Two and Three Relative Permeability

·         Normalization of Relative Permeability

·         Relative Permeability Upscaling

DAY 2

·         Fluid Flow Equations

·         Principles of Superposition

·         Transient Well Testing

·         Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow

DAY 3

·         Water and Gas Coning

·         Vertical Oil Well Performance

·         Horizontal Oil Well Performance

·         Vertical Gas Well Performance

·         Horizontal Gas Well Performance

DAY 4

·         Decline Curve Analysis

·         Type Curve Analysis

·         Recognition of Natural Water Influx

·         Water Influx Models

DAY 5

·         Gas Recovery Mechanisms and Material Balance Equation

·         Oil Recovery Mechanisms and Material Balance Equation

·         Principles of Waterflooding

·         Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods