At the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Determine critical properties of reservoir rocks fluid (oil, water, and gas) PVT relationships
• Calculate hydrocarbons initially in place using several methods
• Assess reservoir performance with dynamic techniques
• Determine the parameters that impact well/reservoir performance over time
• Analyze well tests using standard well testing principles and techniques
• Characterize aquifers
• Determine reservoir drive mechanisms for both oil & gas reservoirs
• Apply oil & gas field development planning principles

• PVT fundamentals and EOS tuning
• Reservoir rock properties and rock-fluid interaction properties
• Inflow performance relationship determination
• Material balance in oil & gas reservoirs using MBAL software
• Pressure transient application
• Production forecast using decline analysis
• Secondary and tertiary recovery schemes
• Numerical simulation theory and practices
• Production forecast
• Field development planning

Day 1

Rock Properties

• Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure and wettability
• Relative permeability and averaging reservoir property data
• Rock Properties
• Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties and PVT sampling
• Understanding PVT laboratory reports

Day 2

Volumetric Calculation of Reservoir Fluids in Place

• Oil in place, gas in place, uncertainty and probabilistic methods
• Recovery efficiencies
• Material Balance Methods
• Oil recovery material balance, Havelena-Odeh method
• Gas material balance, volumetric, compaction and water drive
• Compartmentalized reservoirs
• Oil Well Testing
• Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes and type curve solutions
• Interference testing, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships

Day 3

Gas Well Testing

• Pressure, pressure squared and real gas pseudo pressure solutions
• Rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas and well deliverability
• Immiscible Displacement
• Fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett and Welge
• Coning, Cusping, Over/Under Running
• Description of each process, critical rates calculations
• Breakthrough times, horizontal well applications

Day 4 and 5

Horizontal Wells

• Applications and uses, analysis techniques and industry experience
• Reservoir Types and Drive Mechanisms

Gas reservoirs

• Oil reservoirs
• Critical reservoirs
• Fluid reservoirs

Reservoir Simulation

• Why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types
• Setting up a simulator model

Production Forecasting

• Types of forecasts, purposes, methods, tools, practices and procedures

Field Development Planning

• Gas field developments
• Oil field developments

At the end of this course participants will be able to

• Understand the physics of oil & gas fields
• Have an awareness of modern reservoir engineering principles and practice
• Develop subsurface skills for integrated analysis of rocks, pore and fluids
• Solve problems associated with identifying and exploiting reserves
• Understand various methods applied to predict reservoir performance and to enhance recovery
• Apply tools for analysis of the underlying uncertainty and assumptions used in many reservoir analysis techniques
• Understand various processes for solving reservoir engineering problems and analyses
• Predict reservoir performance and to determine recoverable reserves using different techniques

• Rock and fluid properties
• Basics of recovery mechanisms
• Types of reservoirs
• Basics of fluid flow in porous media
• Performance analysis
• Forecasting production decline
• Enhanced oil recovery processes
• Introduction to reservoir simulation

Day 1

Reservoir Rock and Volumes

• Introduction
• Reservoir rock properties, permeability and fluid flow
• Distribution of hydrocarbon fluids, fluid gradients and contacts
• Volumetric Oil in Place and Gas in Place calculations (STOIIP and GIIP)
• Reserves basic principles

Day 2

Fluid Behaviour and Material Balance

• Fluid properties of oil & gas, composition and phase behaviour
• Oil material balance and drive mechanisms
• Gas material balance and applications

Day 3

Well Behaviour and Well Tests

• Radial flow
• Well, inflow performance, skin
• Oil well testing, pressure draw
• Down and build-up analyses
• Gas well testing
• Decline curve analysis, production forecasting

Day 4

Recovery and Sweep

• Relative permeability and capillary pressure, movable oil
• Displacement and recovery, sweep, heterogeneity
• Reservoir development

Day 5

Reservoir Modelling

• Reservoir simulation – basic principles
• Fractured reservoirs

At the end of this course participants will be able to

• Appreciate the strengths and weaknesses and how chemical EOR can be optimized through specific activities and actions
• Have an understanding of how chemical EOR techniques are applied in field development planning and project management aspects

• EOR techniques
• Polymer flooding
• Surfactant flooding
• Alkaline surfactant polymer flooding
• Project management aspects

Day 1

Current EOR Production

• Landscape of EOR techniques
• Timing of EOR as part of the field life cycle and the impact of external conditions

Interplay of Geology and Displacement Processes

• Complexities to further enhance recovery
• Fundamentals of displacement by water flooding
• The concept of low salinity flooding and current state of implementations

Day 2

Polymer Flooding

• Properties of polymers and operational limitations
• Flow through porous media and derivation of the benefits
• Injectivity
• Some operational aspecs
• Pitfalls and failures
• Screening criteria

Day 3

Surfactant Flooding

• Basic principles and desaturation curves
• Properties of surfactants and phase behavior with oil
• Role of emulsions and of polymers
• Adsorption and retention
• Displacement description in ternary diagrams
• Screening criteria

Day 4 and 5

Alkaline Surfactant Polymer Flooding

• Role of alkaline
• Optimum salinity design
• Reservoir simulation of ASP flooding
• Screening criteria

Facility Aspects

• Pitfalls
• Pilot testing
• Design aspects
• Introduction in microbial EOR

Project Management Aspects

• Role of well and reservoir management
• Technical aspects
• Economical aspects
• Organization aspects
• Political aspects
• Commercial aspects

At the end of this course participants will be able to

• Calculate injection requirements for a reservoir
• Estimate the reservoir response and recovery
• Design wells, surface installations and monitoring systems
• Understand when and where it is appropriate to use certain techniques

• EOR fundamentals
• Thermal recovery
• Miscible/gas injection processes
• Chemical floods

Day 1 and 2

Introduction and Fundamental Processes

• EOR: What, why and how
• Screening criteria
• Viscous, capillary and gravity forces
• Pore scale trapping/displacement
• Mobilisation of trapped oil
• Phase mobility
• Geologic factors in EOR
• Areal and vertical sweep efficiencies
• Displacement efficiencies
• Fractional flow theory and linear displacement

Day 3

Thermal Recovery

• Introduction to thermal EOR
• Heat transfer in reservoirs
• Steam generation and properties
• Heat losses in flow lines and in wellbores
• Reservoir heating
• Stream drive

Day 4

Miscible/Gas Injection Processes

• Minimum miscibility determination
• First contact miscible vs multi-contact miscible
• Optimising WAG ratios
• Hydrocarbon: LPG, enriched gas and lean gas
• VAPEX/Heavy Oils
• CO2 properties and required volumes
• Estimating recovery
• Well and facility requirements
• Corrosion protection

Day 5

Chemical Floods

• Common chemical and properties
• Thermal stability
• Adsorption/Chemical loss
• Slug size requirement
• Polymer/Water viscosity
• Surfactant/Reducing IFT
• Alkali and ASP floods
• Microbia

At the end of this course participants will be able to

• Evaluate gas reservoir data and prepare this data for engineering calculations.
• Apply frequently used gas reservoir engineering techniques
• Perform production decline type curve analysis and use other advanced reservoir calculations such as simulation.
• Solve reservoir engineering calculations through the use of many practical exercises

• Introduction to tight gas reservoirs
• Gas reservoir fluid properties
• Reservoir considerations
• Geological and development consideration
• Gas reservoir fluid flow and well testing
• Well completion for gas wells
• Prediction of future performance and ultimate recovery

Day 1

Gas Reservoir Fluid Properties

• Gas condensate
• Sampling and understanding laboratory reports

Gas Reservoir Fluid Flow and Well Testing

• Deliverability testing and non-darcy flow
• Testing for hydraulically fractured wells, horizontal wells
• Gas condensate reservoirs

Day 2

Determination of Original Gas-In-Place

• Material balance techniques for various drive mechanisms
• Reservoir types
• Alternate plotting technique
• Production decline type curves

Day 3

Gas Flow in Wellbores and Pipelines

• The gas production system
• Pressure drop in wellbores and flowlines
• Restrictions to gas production

Day 4

Prediction of Future Performance and Ultimate Recovery

• Decline curves, coupled material balance and deliverability techniques
• Reservoir simulation
• Gas well spacing
• Infill drilling

Day 5

Special Topics

• Reservoir management of water-drive gas reservoirs
• Predicting gas condensate performance
• Coalbed methane reservoirs

At the end of this course participants will be able to

• Understand the oil & gas chain, and learn how departments work and integrate together in the company
• Know new terminology in the oil & gas industry and improve communication between departments in the company
• Understand the current technical, commercial and operation issues
• Be familiar with all engineering and development aspects of the industry
• Be familiar with various geological and geophysical exploration methods
• Explain the principal objectives and some key challenges in the petroleum industry

• Oil & gas industry overview
• Oil & gas geology
• Exploration phase
• Drilling operations
• Conventional and unconventional oil & gas recourses
• Formation evaluation
• Well completion
• Oil & gas production facilities
• Reservoir management
• Pipeline and other transportation modes
• Gas storage facilities
• Fundamentals of LNG production and transportation
• Crude oil refinery production and processes
• Commercial & legal issues
• Oil & gas prices’ volatility
• Oil & gas trading and transportation
• Roles of NOC, IOC, I-NOC

Day 1

Overview of the Oil and Gas Industry

• The main value creation steps from exploration to end-user products
• Upstream, midstream and downstream sectors
• Geographical distribution of resources
• Main consumption markets
• Industry and market participants
• Important industry trends

Day 2 and 3

Upstream Sector

• Origins of oil & gas
• Physical and chemical quality characteristics of oil & gas
• Conventional and unconventional oil & gas resources
• Obtaining commercial access to resources
• Creating value by locating oil & gas reservoirs
• Creating value by turning resources into bookable reserves
• Basics of oil & gas production
• Enhancing the value of mature resources
• Arrangements for sharing of risk, investment and rewards
• Roles of national oil companies and independent oil companies

Day 4

Midstream Sector

• Marine transportation of oil
• Pipeline and other oil transportation modes
• Oil storage logistics
• Creating value by getting gas to market
• Fundamentals of LNG production and transportation
• Gas pipeline operations
• Gas storage facilities
• Creating value through the use of transport and storage
• Wholesale trading of crude oil, LNG and natural gas

Day 5

Downstream Sector

• Refining processes and the main petroleum products
• Economics of refinery operations
• Blending and storage of refined products
• Biofuels and additives
• Regulation of end-user markets
• Retail and wholesale marketing of transport fuels
• Retail and wholesale marketing of natural gas
• Lubricants, asphalt and other specialty oil products
• Overview of petrochemicals markets
• Trading of refined products

At the end of this course participants will be able to

• Apply the principles of sound reservoir management
• Use the interdisciplinary synergistic approach to efficient reservoir management.
• Understand each reservoir management component and the importance of timing and cost/benefit analysis.
• Develop checks and balances

• Definition of reservoir management
• Goal setting, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating reservoir performance
• Field development and field operating plans
• Efficient monitoring of reservoir performance
• Wellbore and surface systems
• Well testing and automated production systems
• Economic impact of operating plans
• dentifying and acquiring critical data, data acquisition, and analysis
• Maximizing economic recovery
• Minimizing capital investment
• Risk and operating expenses
• Timing of field implementation of reservoir management plan
• Importance of reservoir characterization

Day 1

Introduction

• Sound reservoir management
• Scope and objective
• Organization

Reservoir Management Concepts

• Definitions
• Fundamentals
• Integration of geosciences and engineering
• Integration exploration and development

Day 2

Reservoir Management Process

• Setting goals
• Developing plans and economics
• Surveillance and monitoring
• Evaluation
• Revision of plans and strategies
• Reasons for failure of reservoir management

DATA Acquisition, Analysis and Management

• Data type
• Data acquisition and analysis
• Data validation
• Data storing and retrieval
• Data application

Day 3 and 4

Reservoir Model

• Role of reservoir model
• Geosciences
• Seismic data
• Geostatics
• Integration

Reservoir Performance Analysis and Forecast

• Natural producing mechanisms
• Reserves
• Volumetric method
• Decline curve method
• Material balance method
• Mathematical simulation

Reservoir Management Economics

• Economic criteria
• Economic evaluation
• Risk and uncertainties

Day 5

Improved Recovery Process

• Water flooding
• Enhanced oil recovery process
• EOR process concepts
• Thermal methods
• Chemical methods
• Miscible methods

At the end of this course participants will be able to

• Understand the key aspects of well testing and analysis
• Planning and designing of well tests, including equipment requirements

• Pressure transient concepts
• Types of tests and models
• Transient solution
• Well and near well effects
• Infinite acting reservoirs
• Pressure build-up analysis
• Bounded reservoirs
• Gas well test analysis
• Layered reservoirs
• Horizontal well testing

Day 1

Introduction

• Testing objectives
• Pressure transient concepts
• Types of tests and models
• Outline of pressure transient formulation
• Historic development
• Interpretation and modelling process

Theoretical Foundation

• Flow in porous media
• Radical diffusivity equation
• Analogous systems
• Boundary and initial conditions
• Dimensionless variables
• Transient solutions

Well and Near Well Effects

• Wellbore storage and after-flow
• Skin effect concepts
• Limited entry and partial penetration
• Horizonal wells and stimulation
• Condensate skin

Day 2

Infinite Acting Reservoirs

• Drawdown response
• Horner analysis
• Type curves

Pressure Build-Up Analysis

• Build-up response and superposition in time
• Horner and MDH analysis
• Type curve analysis

Bounded Reservoirs

• Concepts and superposition in space
• Radius of investigation and distance to fault
• Closed drainage analysis (MBH and Dietz)
• Productivity index (PI)

Day 3

Theoretical Foundation

• Non-Darcy flow
• Diffusivity equation for gas flow
• Superposition of rates

Gas Well Test Analysis

• Concepts and parameters
• Modified Essis-Thomas method
• Deliverability relationship

Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (Dual Porosity)

• Concepts and parameters
• Formulation
• Test analysis

Day 4

Layered Reservoirs

• Two-layered commingled system
• Cross flow system
• Two-layer composite example

Day 5

Introduction to Horizontal Well Testing

• Concepts and parameters
• Formulation and flow regimes
• Analysis methods

Overview of Interference and Pulse Testing

• Interference tests
• Pulse tests