Advanced Reservoir Engineering

Wim Swinkels 
5 * 4 hours online

Business context

In this course reservoir engineering methods will be addressed which are of use in the daily reservoir engineering practice. Focus will be on practical applicability. Use is made of practical and actual reservoir engineering problems and examples to illustrate relevant subjects.

Through attending the Advanced Reservoir Engineering Course you will have a deeper knowledge of modern reservoir engineering practices for reservoir development and production, including the construction and use of reservoir models.

Who should attend

The course is designed for experienced reservoir engineers with prior technical or engineering exposure to production activities. Petroleum engineers and geoscientists who require more than general knowledge of reservoir engineering will also find this course useful.

Course content

The course will emphasise reservoir engineering applications and include topics such as:

  • Rock properties of clastic and carbonate reservoirs
  • Reservoir characterisation
  • Reservoir fluid behaviour
  • Identification of main production mechanisms
  • Design and analysis of well tests
  • Production forecasting
  • Application of Decline Curve Analysis in mature fields
  • Detailed modeling of wells and reservoirs
  • Water flooding
  • Application of EOR methods
  • Reserves and resource estimation
  • Reservoir simulation approaches, model construction and well, aquifer and fluid modelling
  • Development planning
  • Uncertainty handling and scenario methods

Depending on the background and requirements of the participants some topics may get more emphasis.

Learning, methods and tools

The course will be run online over 5 days as a Virtual Instructor Lead Training course. There will be 2 blocks of two hours per day, including lectures, discussion, quizzes  and short classroom exercises. Additionally some self study will be requested.  Short breaks will be provided.

Participants are invited but not obliged to bring a short (max.15 minute) presentation on a practical problem they encountered in their work.  This will then be  explained and discussed in-class. A short test or quiz will be held at the end the course.

Day by day programme

 

  1. 1.    Day 1 - Reservoir characterisation and fluids

(hrs.)

1.1.  Course Introduction - Reservoir case study I

1

1.2.  Rock properties, flow units, permeability and fluid flow

1

1.3.  Fluid properties, phase behaviour and PVT, fluid correlations

1

1.4.  Fluid sampling and laboratory experiments for simulation models

1

 

 
  1. 2.    Day 2 - Reservoir dynamics and drive mechanisms

(hrs.)

2.1.  Drive mechanisms

1

2.2.  Oil material balance applications-aquifers

1.5

2.3.  Gas material balance

1

2.4.  Reserves Classification - the SPE Petroleum Resource Management System

0.5

 

 
  1. 3.    Day 3 - Wells and field performance forecasting

(hrs.)

3.1.  Oil and gas wells, inflow and vertical flow performance, horizontal wells

1

3.2.  Well test options, transient tests, interference tests, extended well tests

1

3.3.  Well test design and analysis

1

3.4.  Decline Curve Analysis in practice - Case study II

1

 

 
  1. 4.    Day 4 - Displacement and simulation

(hrs.)

4.1.   Relative permeability and capillary pressure, wettability, movable oil

1

4.2.  Displacement and Recovery, mobility ratio. pseudo relative permeability. fractional flow curve,

1

4.3.  Reservoir Simulation - Model construction, upscaling,  aquifer and well modeling, history matching, QA/QC. Case study III

2

 

 
  1. 5.    Day 5 - Field development planning

(hrs.)

5.1.  Field Development Planning,secondary recovery and EOR - field cases

1.5

5.2.  Gas fields and gas field development planning

0.5

5.3.  Uncertainty handling, the scenario method - Exercise

1

5.4.  Course Recap and Quiz

1

 

 

Total lecture, exercise and discussion hours:

20