This Energy Applied Reservoir Engineering & Management training course is designed to explore the sources of reservoir engineering data and emphasize the importance of integrating this data into the management of mature fields. It will cover data acquisition and integration, highlighting the key requirements for successfully operating a mature reservoir throughout its lifespan.
The training course will also delve into the reservoir life cycle and various production recovery mechanisms. It will clarify how effective integration and sound reservoir management are critical for developing a successful operational plan and maintaining efficient operations throughout the reservoir's life. Additionally, the course will present the essential principles for managing reservoirs and optimizing recovery from the remaining oil and gas in place. Proper application of these concepts will lead to improved recovery factors.
Reservoir engineering and management blend scientific principles with practical expertise. This training course will explore how scientific concepts are applied to resolve challenges in the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs. It will also cover reservoir behavior analysis and production performance evaluation. The training course will introduce various tools and techniques to enhance the reliability and effectiveness of reservoir engineering and management practices. Topics such as reservoir management economics and improved recovery processes will be discussed, along with case studies from different fields.
The Applied Reservoir Engineering & Management training course will cover the following key areas:
- The reservoir management process, its components, and planning
- Reservoir engineering data
- Reserves estimation and classification
- Reservoir drive mechanisms and production characteristics
- Determining hydrocarbon in place
- Waterflooding techniques
- Waterflood monitoring and management
- Oil recovery enhancement methods
By the end of this Applied Reservoir Engineering & Management training course, participants will be able to:
- Apply effective approaches to reservoir engineering and management.
- Understand the processes for collecting, analyzing, validating, and integrating data.
- Identify how different disciplines (such as geoscience and engineering) integrate during the application of reservoir management concepts.
- Ensure the successful execution of the reservoir management process.
- Utilize an interdisciplinary, synergistic approach to enhance reservoir management efficiency.
- Recognize the importance of each component in reservoir management, including the significance of timing and cost/benefit analysis.
- Implement various methods for analyzing and forecasting reservoir performance, emphasizing the integration of production/injection data, pressure data, and other subsurface data.
- Stay current with improved recovery processes, including waterflooding, thermal methods, chemical techniques, and guidelines for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) screening.
This Energy training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The course is designed as a blended environment of presentation; workshops; group work; practical exercises; field application/ analysis and several industry videos showing all processes; and general discussions.
Participants will gain the knowledge necessary to understand the theories behind the practical implementation of Reservoir Management Concepts. This will enable them to:
- Boost performance in their workplace.
- Strengthen collaboration within the reservoir management team across the company.
- Utilize effective methodologies for data analysis and integration.
- Implement suitable approaches for applying reservoir engineering and management techniques.
- Apply an interdisciplinary, synergistic approach to optimize reservoir management.
- Develop and assess new development plans for the company's fields.
By the end of the Applied Reservoir Engineering & Management training course, delegates will have a solid understanding of reservoir management concepts. They will be able to:
- Comprehend the correct processes for data collection and validation.
- Employ various methods to effectively monitor reservoir performance.
- Gain familiarity with advanced recovery techniques.
- Apply economic principles to choose the best reservoir development plan.
- Understand the key components of reservoir management.
- Contribute effectively and in an organized manner within the reservoir management team.
This Energy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Petroleum, production & reservoir engineers
- Process engineers and field operation staffs
- Geologists and geophysicists
- Managers and government officials and others involved with reservoirs
- Engineers who are new to the profession
Day One: Reservoir Management Process, Components and Plan
- Definition of reservoir management: an integrated, interdisciplinary team effort
- Reservoir life cycle
- Scope and objective for integrated reservoir management
- Fundamentals and resources of reservoir management
- Reservoir management concepts and processes
- Reservoir management plans
- Synergy and team
- Responsibilities for team members
- Integration of geoscience and engineering
- Setting goals: goal setting, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating reservoir performance
- Developing plan and economics (scenarios): field development and field operating plans to optimize profitability
- Why integrated reservoir studies
- Revision of plan & strategies
- Reasons for failure of reservoir management programs
Day Two: Reservoir Engineering Data
- Data needed for integrated study
- Data types: reservoir rock & fluids properties
- Data acquisition, validation, analysis and management
- Integration of production/injection data, log data, pressure data and any subsurface data for analysis
- Efficient monitoring of reservoir performance
- Identifying and acquiring critical data, data acquisition, and analysis
- Reservoir performance analysis and forecast
- Static geological model and reservoir simulation
- When simulation models are required
- History matching and identification of by-passed oil
- Total integration of surface and sub-surface
Day Three: Reserves Estimation and Classification / Reservoir Drive Mechanisms and Producing Characteristics
- Induction of new technologies to maximizing economic recovery and minimizing capital investment, risk and operating expenses.
- Timing of field implementation of reservoir management plan: during the primary recovery, pressure maintenance, and secondary and tertiary recovery
- Reservoir management plans and scenarios
- Economic model, uncertainties and risks
- Maximizing economic recovery and minimizing capital investment, risk and operating expenses
- Oil reserves types and classification & reservoir engineering and evaluation
- Natural producing mechanisms
- Reservoir performance analysis and forecast
- Estimation of reserves and prediction of reservoir performance
- Determination of hydrocarbon in place (volumetric method, decline curve method, material balance method, and mathematical simulation
Day Four: Waterflood Monitoring and Management
- Secondary recovery and pressure maintenance process
- Waterflood management in mature fields: surface as well as sub surface issues.
- Describing water flooding definition and objectives, candidates, patterns, factors affecting pattern selection, well spacing, fractional flow, performance measures, practices and problems
- Design aspects of water injection system
- Water injection systems: water sources (produced water, aquifers and seawater), water compatibilities and scale, and basic water treatment
- Water quality: quality issues and associated risks, effect of injection water quality on injectivity
- Waterflood monitoring and management
- Reservoir performance with waterflooding projects
- Effects of water injection on the recovery factor and reserves
Day Five: Oil Recovery Enhancement Techniques
- Introduction to Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques
- Conventional and non-conventional EOR processes
- Chemical, thermal, and miscible EOR methods
- EOR processes concepts and mechanisms
- Screening criteria guidelines of the EOR processes
- Performance of the EOR processes and expected recovery factors
- Development plans of the EOR processes
- Stages of the EOR projects
- Role of the reservoir management for the application of the EOR processes
- Reservoir management case studies of mature fields: several development plans for waterfloods and EOR projects