COURSE TITLE: Practical Reservoir Engineering Training for Fresh Oil Iindustry Hires
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FULL TIME Mon-Fri; 8am-5pm; 3 Months)
WEEKENDS (Saturday; 8am – 4pm; 12 WKENDS),
TRAINING CONTENT
BASIC RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
PVT ANALYSIS
- Introduction to the physics of petroleum reservoirs
- Concepts of fluid flow through porous media
- Rock and fluid properties in reservoir engineering
- Evaluation & recovery of oil and gas reserves
- Material balance calculations
- Introduction to well testing and decline curve analysis
- Reservoir simulation concepts
- Introduction to PVT Analysis
- Introduction to Reservoir Fluid and Basic Phase Behaviour
- Fluid Sampling
- Evaluation of Empirically-derived PVT Properties DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS
- Decline Analysis Overview
- Basic Facts and Definitions
- Constant Rate Versus Pressure
- Production Data Typecurves
- Typecurves as Diagnostic Tools
- Gas production with Pressure
- Fluid-in-Place versus Reserves
- Oil Reservoir Drive Mechanism
- Effect of Well Stimulation on Decline Curves MATERIAL BALANCE ANALYSIS (Using MBAL)
- Introduction to Material Balance
- Reservoir Allocation
- Monte Carlo Volumetrics
- Decline Curve Analysis
- 1-D Model (Buckley-Leverett)
- Multi – Layer (Relative Permeability Averaging)
- Tight Gas Type Curve Tool NODAL ANALYSIS (Using PROSPER)
- Introduction to Nodal Analysis
- Well completions design and optimization (multilateral, multilayer & horizontal)
- Wellbore modeling (PVT, VLP correlations, IPR)
- Surface pipeline performance and design
- Prediction of flowing temperature in wells and pipelines
- Design, diagnosis & optimization of artificial lifts (gas lift, hydraulic pumps,ESP)
- Monitoring of well performance
- Determination of total skin and breakdown
- Production allocation between wells PETROPHYSICS (Using PRIZM)
- Review of different log types: Gamma ray, SP, Resistivity, Neutron, etc,
- Familiarization with different curves on paper Logs
- Lithology differentiation and hydrocarbon indication on log curves
- Log correlation on workstation
- Evaluation of basic Petrophysical parameters, porosity, water saturation permeability and pay on workstation RESERVOIR SIMULATION (Using ECLIPSE)
- Reservoir Simulation Overview
- Theory of Numerical Simulation
- Elements of a Reservoir Simulation Study
- Gridding and Layering
- Reservoir Characterization for Simulation
- Reservoir Fluid Properties
- Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure
- History Matching
- Calibration.
- Predicting Performance.
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