DURATION: 5 days

 

LEVEL: Intermediate to skill

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DESIGNED FOR YOU, IF YOU ARE...

A Geoscientist, Petroleum Engineering, Well Engineering, Surface Facility Engineering, Production, Operations Reservoir engineer and Maintenance Engineering. Numerous engineering themes

 

HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE

We will use PowerPoint presentations and paper exercises.

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THE BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING

Participants will learn how to:

• The basics reservoir properties

• Reservoir Fluid Types

• Reservoir Fluid Systems

• Drive Mechanisms

• Gas Reservoir

• Viscosity

• Reservoir Pressures

• Some information about Reservoir Simulation

• RF and Production Profiles estimation

• Well performance and productivity

• Some knowledge about Production testing

• Artificial Lift Systems

 

DAILY AGENDA

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Day 1: Reservoir basic property definitions

• Formation volume factor (FVF)

• Solution gas-oil ratio (GOR)

• Solution oil-gas ratio (OGR)

• Liquid specific gravity

• API specific gravity

• Gas specific gravity

• Bubble point pressure

• Retrograde dewpoint pressure

• Saturation pressure

• Critical point

• Composition or feed

• Saturated condition

• Undersaturated condition

• Reservoir fluid types and their properties, system and classification

  • Black oil

  • Volatile oil

  • Condensate (retrograde gas)

  • Wet gas

  • Dry gas

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Day 2: Reservoir fluid system

• Single-component system

• Two component system

• Three component system

• Determining reservoir-fluid properties

• Reservoir drive mechanism

• Water drive

• Gas expansion

• Solution gas

• Rock or compaction drive and gravity drainage

• Gas reservoirs

• Definitions

• Phase behaviour of natural-gas reservoirs

• Pressure/volume/temperature (PVT) behaviour

• Gas density and formation volume factor

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Day 3: Reservoir pressures

• Measuring retrograde behaviour

• Fluid displacement in the reservoir

• Reservoir simulation

• Introduction

• Basic concept of a reservoir simulator

• Dimensional grid models

• Initialisation of a grid model

• Estimating the recovery factor

• Methods

• Deterministic and probabilistic

• Estimating the production profile

• Decline Curve analysis

• Production forecasts by drive mechanisms: physical constraint, regulations, reserves or by well geometry

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Day 4: Well performance and productivity

• Reservoir types and well performance

• Well performance and productivity

• IPR’s and OPR’s - well inflow and outflow performance

• Perforations and productivity

• Well productivity impairment (well damage) and well stimulation

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Day 5: Production testing

• What is production testing?

• Why is production testing important?

• Well testing in oil & gas production

• Artificial lift systems

• What is artificial lift in the oilfield? Artificial lift vs natural flow

• Why is artificial lift used?

• Examples of artificial lift