Applied Reservoir Engineering Training

Day 1
• Introduction
• Course Objectives
• Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals

– Reservoir Drive Mechanisms
– Original Oil in Place Determination
– Reservoir Life Cycle
– Reservoir Ultimate Recovery Factor
– Reservoir Factors to be Considered While Recovery
– Wettability & Relative Permeability
– Capillary Pressure
– Imbibition and drainage
– Hysteresis
– Reservoir Fluid Properties

• Oil Recovery Methods
– Primary Recovery
– Secondary Recovery
– Water Flooding
– Flooding Patterns
– Factors Affecting Water Flooding
– Fractional Flow Curve
– Enhanced Oil Recovery
– EOR Concept
– EOR Screening Criteria
– EOR Types

Day 2 
• Original Hydrocarbon in Place Determination

– Volumetric Method
– Material Balance
– Examples
– Decline Curve Analysis
– Examples

• Conventional RE Techniques to identify new infill Opportunities

– Normalized Production Bubble Maps
– Wells Completion Matrix
– Wells Correlation Panel
– Stick Plots
– Estimation of Initial Rates for new Infill Wells

Day 3 
• Production Optimization (Nodal Analysis Approach)

– Objective of Nodal Analysis
– Production System Pressure Losses
– Nodal Analysis Approach
– Inflow/Outflow Curves
– Applications of Nodal Analysis

• Reservoir Surveillance

– Importance of Reservoir Surveillance
– Reservoir Measurements Parameters
– Reservoir Monitoring Program

Day 4
• Water and Gas Coning
– Coning/Breakthrough Concept
– Effect of Reservoir Parameters
– Critical Rate Calculation
– Coning Control
– Smart Horizontal Wells
– Exercises for Team/Solutions

• Well Testing

– Well Test Objectives
– Define Test Input/output Data
– Types of Well Tests
– Diffusivity Equation
– Derivative Analysis

Day 5
• Gas Reservoir Performance

– Fluid Properties of Gas
– Gas Reserves Estimation
– Testing of Gas Wells
– Gas-Condensate Reservoirs

• Introduction to Reservoir Simulation

– Reservoir Simulation Concept
– Types of Simulators
– Reservoir Simulation Model
– Building the Reservoir Simulation Model
– Input Data Required
– Steps to run the simulation model
– Define Reservoir Initial Conditions
– Parameters used for History Match
– Prediction Scenarios
– EOR Simulation Modeling
– Fractured Reservoirs Simulation

• End Session/Discussion