Fundamentals Of Reservoir Engineering

Introduction

This Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering training course introduces reservoir engineering concepts and methods to enable cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and experience. It provides the required input to help you understand questions crucial to the reservoir engineer: How much oil & gas is there (accumulation)? How much can be recovered (reserves)? How fast can it be recovered (rate)? Through this training course, participants will gain a foundational understanding of reservoir engineering that they can use while moving forward in this programme.

This Energy Training Centre training course will feature:

• Discussions on the role of reservoir engineering in exploration and production as well as how reservoir engineers interact with other disciplines in the Petroleum Industry
• A description of Reservoir rock properties, Darcy’s Law and Fundamentals of fluid flow in a porous media
• A description of Reservoir fluid phase behaviour and reservoir fluid properties
• An overview of well testing and application of the diffusivity equation
• An outline of different drive mechanisms and discussion of the recovery factors
• Principles of Material Balance and Decline Curve Analysis
• Use of fractional flow equations and Immiscible displacement concepts
• Definition of reserves, estimation of oil and gas in place and Production Forecasts

Course Objectives:

By the end of this Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering training course, participants will:

• Describe a hydrocarbon reservoir and list the fluids found in it
• Illustrate with diagrams how these fluids are distributed in a hydrocarbon reservoir
• Describe and explain porosity, permeability and fluid saturations
• Determine the properties of natural gas, oil and water
• Explain and define saturated reservoirs, undersaturated reservoirs, bubble point pressure, oil and gas formation volume factors, gas oil ratio
• Calculate the volume of hydrocarbon in place and recovery factors
• Derive the general material balance equation, modify it and use it to calculate hydrocarbon in place for gas reservoirs, saturated reservoirs and under saturated reservoirs
• Use the Havlena and Odeh technique to determine oil in place for saturated reservoirs and under saturated reservoirs
• Use of well testing data in determining average reservoir pressure, productivity index, permeability, and skin effect
• Discuss the recovery factors of different drive mechanisms
• Explain the use of fractional flow equations and Immiscible displacement concepts
• Perform decline curve analysis

Who Should Attend?

This Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Petroleum and Reservoir Engineers
• Production and Operations Engineers
• Reservoir, Production and Operations Engineers
• Petro-physicists, Geo-physicists
• Geologists and Non–Engineers
• Managers who seek to derive greater decision making on field development