Reservoir engineers who are investigating reservoir behavior, optimizing reservoir performance and providing the basis for risk management.

Summary:

The participant will be trained in the methods and possible uses of reservoir simulators and will use simulation software for practical exercises throughout this course. Attendees should have a basic knowledge of reservoir simulation, upscaling and some experience in use of commercial reservoir simulators.

·        General purpose model formulation versus conventional formulations.

·        General review of griddling techniques.

·        Black oil simulation

·        Compositional simulation.

·        Modeling structural elements (e.g sloping faults, channels, etc..)

·        Representing complex wells in reservoir model.

·        Simulation of fractured reservoirs and transient well test.

·        Model building procedure: from seismic to simulation.

·        Development planning & reservoir forecasts.

Senior Reservoir engineers as well as team leaders and supervisors who require more advanced knowledge about reservoir fluids and need to improve their competencies in applying laboratory PVT data to help solving their field problem(s).

This course is designed to improve the knowledge of phase behavior and how it controls, to a great extent, the EOR processes. It covers the practical use of both laboratory experiments and correlation to obtain PVT data to be used for accurate representation of reservoir rocks and fluid characteristics for reliable reservoir geology and engineering calculations

·        Difference between traditional & modified black-oil PVT properties

·        Lab techniques

·        Correlation data/laboratory data

·        Gas condensate genesis & composition and sampling systems

·        Equations of State

·        Regression Technique for tuning EOS

·        Simulation of experiments

·        PVT for Simulation

·        Slim tube simulations & NMP calculation

·        Problems and Solving

 

 

Senior reservoir engineers who have previous experience dealing with well test analysis. Those who attend the basic PTA course are good candidates for this advanced course.

This course is designed for senior engineers with reasonable well

testing experience. It aims to develop the understanding of pressure transient testing, how to use the results from pressure transient testing in well/reservoir management, and be able to design and analyze advanced well tests. A «hands on» approach using a state-of-the-art well test

design and analysis software program will be utilized for class problems.

·        Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow

·        Rock properties

·        Pressure Draw down Test

·        Multi Rate Testing

·        Pressure Build Up Test

·        Well Model

·        Reservoir Model

·        Boundary Model

·        Gas Well Testing

·        Injection well testing

·        Well Test Design

·        Production Data

Reservoir/Production Engineers, Geoscientists and senior staff who are involved in reservoir modeling studies, Engineering calculations and simulation who wish to understand the special core analysis needs.

This course covers the technique to be used for accurate representation of reservoir rocks and fluid characteristics for reliable reservoir geology and engineering calculations. Participants will learn how to describe accurately the reservoir rocks, their contained fluids and the rock/fluid systems (fluid description and flow performance).

·        Introduction & General Discussion

·        Reservoir rock properties

·        Coring operation, handling sample preparation procedures

·        Conventional & Special core analysis

·        Fluid properties: distribution & analysis

·        Porosity and Permeability measurements and evaluation

·        Wettability Studies

·        Electrical Properties

·        Capillary Pressure Measurements

·        Water Sensitivity Tests

·        Relative Permeability

·        Acoustic Properties

·        Fluid flow regimes

·        Planning a SCAL program

·        Integration of SCAL data into reservoir models

·        Role of SCAL Data into recovery calculation Upscaling and simulation

Reservoir, production and petroleum engineers as well as other staff

working in a multidisciplinary team who want to gain some familiarity with the terminology, concepts, practices, benefits, and limitations of EOR techniques.

This course covers recovery enhancement methods that may be considered during all stages in the reservoir life cycle -primary production, water- flood, and gas injection periods. Example case studies are presented on projects from around the world; these enable participants to under- stand the technical and financial strengths and limitations of the methods.

·        Reservoir life cycle

·        Recovery process.

·        Recovery limitations of depletion

·        Pressure maintenance projects

·        Rate/recovery enhancement approaches

·        Modified waterfloods, approaches, designs, pros and cons,

·        EOR (enhanced oil recovery) methods

·        Mechanisms, and limitations of EOR methods

·        Miscible and Thermal methods.

·        Design procedures analog

·        Laboratory tests, field pilots.

·        Facilities modifications and Personnel training

·        Case Studies

Reservoir and production engineers and geoscientists who are currently gas reservoir characterizing, modeling and managing.

The main aim of this course is to help participants understand the

engineering drivers on gas reservoir management and the technique to be

used to maximize the gas reservoir’s value.

·        Petroleum chemistry

·        Five reservoir fluids

·        Gas properties

·        Equation of state

·        Well testing

·        Original gas in place calculations

·        Gas flow in well bore

·        Gas flow in pipe lines

·        Prediction of future performance

·        Ultimate recovery

·        Case studies

Senior Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and reservoir, drilling & production engineers, as well as team leaders who are involved in reservoir studies.

 

The course is designed to highlight the benefits of integrating the geological, geophysical, petrophysical and engineering data in reservoir study. Requirements for successful operation of a reservoir throughout its entire life will be emphasized. Case studies reflecting different fields will be presented.

 

·        Field life cycle

·        Why integrated reservoir studies?

·        Data needed for integrated study

·        Integrated geoscience and engineering models

·        Deterministic and stochastic modeling

·        Facies and object-based modeling

·        Fractured-reservoirs modeling

·        Upscaling techniques (Conventional and flux based)

·        Simulation techniques

·        Reservoir management plans

·        Drilling, production operations

·        Pressure maintenance

·        Production monitoring & nodal analysis

·        Case studies

 

Geoscientists and petroleum engineers involved in reservoir simulation.

 

The course is designed to give participants a basic understanding of reservoir simulation techniques and simulators. It presents methods for preparation of data for input into a reservoir simulator to run a model and perform history matching of actual production data and prediction. Specific examples will be detailed and personal work will allow the participants to become familiar with reservoir simulation.

 

·        Modeling concepts and flow simulation philosophy

·        Single-phase, miscible and immiscible flow

·        Description of reservoir simulator: black-oil compositional, fractured systems and streamline simulation

·        Data collection & selection: geological model, petrophysics, PVT and production data

·        Reservoir simulation methodology: introduction to history matching and prediction case

·        Reservoir simulation and exploitation strategies

·        Field cases

Junior Reservoir & Petroleum engineers, senior geoscientists as well as team leaders and supervisors who require more knowledge about reservoir fluids.

This course covers the technique to be used for accurate representation of reservoir rocks and fluid characteristics for reliable reservoir engineering and geology calculations. Participants will learn how to describe accurately the reservoir rocks, their contained fluids and the rock/fluid systems (fluid description and flow performance).

·              Petroleum systems

·              Gas condensate genesis & composition and sampling systems

·              Substances properties

·              Lab techniques

·              Equations of State

·              Simulation of experiments

·              Regression: theory and rules

·              PVT for Simulation

·              Problems and Solving

Engineers, geologists, geophysicists, field personnel, and management who have limited knowledge and experience with pressure transient

testing. No prerequisites are required.

The objective of this course is to learn the basic principles of pressure

transient testing. Upon completion of the course the attendee will be able to identify what reservoir and well properties can be obtained from pressure transient testing, how to use the results from pressure transient testing in well/reservoir management, and be able to design and

analyze basic well tests.

·        What can be obtained from pressure transient testing and what are the reasons from conducting a pressure transient test?

·        Basic theory

·        Wellbore storage effects

·        Drawdown/Buildup tests

·        Gas well testing

·        Drill stem testing

·        Interference tests

·        Basic analysis steps for drawdown/buildup tests, what to look for, pitfalls, and non uniqueness

·        Designing pressure transient tests

·        Discuss attendee supplied data sets

Geoscientists, petrophysicists and fresh-graduate engineers who need to enhance their knowledge of the fundamentals of petroleum reservoirs engineering.

 

This course aims to provide participants with a general introduction to reservoir engineering. It helps geoscientists and other technical and non-technical people to understand the required data, limitation, usages and benefits of the engineers analysis and interpretation.

 

·        Introduction to the physics of petroleum reservoirs

·        Reservoir Rock properties

·        Reservoir Fluid properties

·        Reservoir Drive mechanisms

·        Reserves evaluation and performance: volumetric, material balance, decline curves

·        Introduction to well testing

·        Concepts of reservoir simulation

·        Introduction to Enhanced oil recovery techniques

·        Field appraisal and development

 

Reservoir Geoscientists and engineers, drilling and completion engineers who are interested to know the role of rock mechanics in the E&P phases.

This course is designed to provide the basic concepts of applying rock mechanics to perform laboratory demonstrations, hands-on exercises, computer modeling demonstrations that demonstrate geomechanical concepts. Applied rock mechanics is designed to familiarize engineers and geoscientists with the necessary tools for immediate field application.

·        Basics of geomechanics

·        Rock behavior and mechanical properties

·        Stress and Strain

·        Geomechanics and structural geology

·        Rock mechanics lab techniques

·        Borehole Stability (definitions & models)

·        Sand Control

·        Fractural mechanics

·        Reservoir engineering applications

·        Prediction tools (logs, seismic)

·        Data integration

·        Case Studies

Reservoir Engineers, Geologist, and Petrophysicist.

 

Waterflooding has long been proven as the simplest and the lowest cost approach to maintaining production and increasing oil recovery from an oil reservoir. However, these benefits may fall short of expectations unless the time-tested concepts and practices are clearly understood and judiciously implemented.

 

·        Reasons for water flooding and history

·        Water flood data, acquisition, analysis, management, laboratory and field data

·        Integrated Geosciences and Engineering reservoir model

·        Reservoir engineering aspects of water flooding – immiscible displacement theory, heterogeneity, flood pattern, recovery efficiency

·        Factors influencing water flood recovery- timing, layer permeability, vibration, critical gas saturation, oil gravity

·        Design of water flood, geological, engineering and operational aspects.

·        Water flood production performance and reservoir forecast, volumetric, empirical decline, curve and reservoir simulation

·        Water flood surveillance techniques – Key factors, water quality and monitoring

·        Field operation – water system, compatibility and treatment, methods of increasing injectivity

·        Water flood project optimization and economic evaluation