Basic Reservoir Engineering
Who should attend:
Petroleum engineering team leaders, production and reservoir engineers, petrophysicists and geologists involved with exploration and development of oil and gas reservoirs.
Overview:
In the E&P business, integrated petroleum engineering studies and field development plans are management tools which are used to maximise economic production of hydrocarbons. Reservoir engineers fulfil a key role in handling, analysing and interpreting subsurface and production data at all stages of field development. In this course fundamental concepts and a broad spectrum of modern practical reservoir engineering methods are addressed. Extensive use is made of practical and actual field problems to illustrate relevant subjects.
Content:
- Geometry of oil & gas accumulations
- Reservoir rock properties
- Distribution of hydrocarbon fluids
- Hydrocarbon composition, properties and phase behaviour, gas reservoir engineering concepts.
- PVT parameters, basic laboratory experiments, reservoir fluid sampling, formation water properties.
- Pressure regimes, fluid gradients and contacts, capillary pressures, surface tension, wettability.
- Hydrocarbons-in-place estimation, uncertainties, probabilistic methods.
- Relative permeability, movable oil, mobility, drainage and imbibition.
- Viscous flow, flow conditions.
- Reservoir heterogeneity and sweep.
- Recovery drive-energy, general material balance equation, recovery factors and production forecasts.
- Radial differential fluid flow equation.
- Introduction to analysis and interpretation of pressure tests: drawdown and build-up.
- Skin: source and how to minimize it.
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