Applied Reservoir Engineering - RE

Target Audience

Engineers or geoscientists who will occupy the position of reservoir engineer, and any other technically trained individual who desires a more in-depth foundation in reservoir engineering than is offered in the one-week Basic Reservoir Engineering and Reservoir Engineering for Other Disciplines courses.

You Will Learn

Participants will learn how to:

• Determine critical properties of reservoir rocks fluid (oil, water, and gas) PVT relationships
• 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

Course Content

• Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions
• Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data
• Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling, and understanding PVT laboratory reports
• Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines
• Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive, and compartmentalized reservoirs
• 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
• Gas well testing: pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability
• Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description
• Immiscible displacement: fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge
• Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications
• 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
• Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, contracts, planning tools - oil field developments: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep and recovery, production policies
• Reservoir simulation: why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

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