Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation for Geologists

Who should attend?

The course is directed towards non-engineering disciplines. It is intended for those who require an awareness and understanding of the components necessary to evaluate oil and gas accumulations.

Overview:

The objective of an evaluation of a petroleum reservoir by geoscientists is to be able to answer the following questions:

• How much petroleum is in place?
• How much can be recovered?
• At what rate can it be recovered?
• What is the uncertainty?

The aim of the course, therefore, is to enable geoscientists to analyse basic data obtained from different disciplines in order to establish a comprehensive picture of an accumulation, to recognise where these data can be of value in contributing to their part of a final interpretation, and to show how this will influence the final outcome and interpretation. It will, therefore, assist them in answering the above questions. Each session of the course will involve extensive worked example exercises.

Content:

• Introduction
• Petrophysics
• Permeability
• Saturation dependent properties
• Nature of reservoir fluids
• Estimation of oil and gas in place
• Fractured reservoirs
• Recovery mechanisms in oil reservoirs
• Recovery mechanisms in gas reservoirs
• Demonstration of reservoir simulation using a contemporary software package

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