Description
This is five days lecture to present the reservoir engineering practices and methods applied to maximize the hydrocarbons recovery, though the life cycle of oil and gas fields, emphasizing in integrated studies principles, best practices and lessons learned in assets value optimization. Describes the framework for planning and executing reservoir engineering studies from the stage of the field discovery, though appraise, development and production under primary recovery, secondary recovery and enhanced oil recovery methods.
The course address classical calculation methods of reservoir engineering to determine representative reservoir parameter, reserves estimations by deterministic and probabilistic methods, topics of numerical reservoir simulation and a summary of the methods to increase the recovery factor by secondary and Enhanced Oil Recovery process.
- Understand the fundamentals and applications of Reservoir Engineering
- Have a better knowledge on reservoir fluid and rock properties
- Learn how to calculate the original hydrocarbon in place
- Learn how to identify new infill opportunities using conventional Reservoir Engineering
- Understand production optimization concept and applications
- Discuss Reservoir Surveillance and Monitoring Plans
- Understand principles of water and gas coning
- Learn well testing concepts and principles
- Get understanding on Gas Reservoir performance
- Gain basic knowledge on numerical reservoir simulation modeling practices
- Reservoir Engineers
- Reservoir Managers,
- Production
- Engineers,
- Geologists,
- Geophysicists
- Technical field personnel from oil companies or service companies that need to gain or increase their understanding of reservoir performance under Enhanced Oil Recovery projects
This training can be delivered in house, based on work shop sessions for groups of delegates with interest in understanding the principles of Enhanced Oil Recovery methods; it can be tailored to specific company needs.
Day 1
Introduction & Objectives
- History of Reservoir Engineering
- Fluid Properties
- Rock Properties
- Driving mechanisms
- Types and Classification of Reserves
DAY 2
INTEGRATION OF RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
- Roles of the Reservoir Engineer
- Reserves Determination, Volumetric Reserves Estimation
- Development Planning,
- Production Operations Optimization
- Geological Model
- Reserves Definition, Uncertainties, Proved Reserves, Economics, Reserves Progression
- Probabilistic Reserves, evolution of reserves & recovery factor
- Dynamic Characterization
- Material Balance equations
- Decline Curve Analysis
DAY 3
DYNAMIC RESERVOIR MODEL & WELL TESTING
- Introduction to Dynamic Reservoir Modelling
- Geologic and Engineering Activities for Reservoir Description
- Well testing Objectives, Concepts and Applications
- Skin, Wellbore Storage,
- Modern Well Test Analysis
- Drawdown & Build Up, Horner time,
- Superposition, semi-log and log- log Analysis, Type Curves,
- Fractures, Sealing Faults, Horizontal Wells, Dual Porosity, Dual Permeability,
- Intersecting Faults, Close Reservoirs
- Flow Regimes identification
Day 4
Secondary RECOVERY
Waterflooding & Gas flooding
Efficiencies of Secondary Recovery Methods
Fundamentals of Water Injection, Displacing oil with Water, Frontal Advance & Fractional Flow.
Water Oil Relative Permeability
Injection Patterns
Mobility Ratios
Gas and Water Viscous Fingering
Sweep Efficiency
Sources of Water, Water Disposal
Optimum Timing for a Waterflood
ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY PART 1
EOR Fundamentals
EOR Thermal Flooding
Steam-flooding, Cyclic Steam Injection
In situ Combustion
SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage)
Constrains for EOR Thermal Methods
DAY 5
ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY PART 2
Miscible Gas Flooding, CO2 flooding
Nitrogen and Flue Gas
Constrains for Gas Injection
Chemical EOR
Polymer, Surfactants & Alkalis
Microbial EOR
Wrap Up Summary of the Week.
Discussion and Conclusions
End of the training
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