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Basic Reservoir Engineering
Principles & Applications
Duration: 5 Days
Target Audience: Early-Career Reservoir Engineers, Production Engineers, Geoscientists, Petroleum Engineering Students, Technical Staff Transitioning into Reservoir Engineering Roles
Delivery Mode: Classroom / Virtual with Practical Exercises and Examples
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Course Overview
This course provides a solid foundation in the core concepts of reservoir engineering. Participants will learn the principles of reservoir rock and fluid properties, material balance, reservoir drive mechanisms, fluid flow in porous media, well performance, and reserves estimation.
Day-by-Day Outline
Day 1 – Fundamentals of Reservoir Rocks and Fluids
- - Basic reservoir rock properties: porosity, permeability, saturation
- - Types of reservoir rocks and their characteristics
- - Reservoir fluids: oil, gas, water properties
- - Phase behavior and PVT basics
- - Exercise: Calculate porosity and permeability from core data
Day 2 – Reservoir Drive Mechanisms
- Types of drive mechanisms: solution gas, gas cap, water drive, combination
- Characteristics and performance of each drive
- Recovery efficiency associated with different drives
- Recognizing drive mechanisms from production data
- Workshop: Identify the dominant drive mechanism in field case examples
Day 3 – Material Balance and Reserves Estimation
- Volumetric reserves estimation for oil and gas reservoirs
- Fundamentals of material balance equations
- Applications of the general material balance method
- Estimating oil and gas initially in place (OOIP, OGIP)
- Exercise: Perform material balance calculations using example field data
Day 4 – Fluid Flow in Reservoirs
- Darcy’s law and fundamentals of flow in porous media
- Radial flow to a well: steady-state and pseudo-steady state
- Concepts of skin, well damage, and productivity index (PI)
- Multiphase flow considerations
- Workshop: Calculate expected production rates for different reservoir conditions
Day 5 – Well Performance and Reservoir Management Basics
- Inflow performance relationship (IPR) for oil and gas wells
- Decline curve analysis basics
- Introduction to reservoir monitoring and surveillance
- Key concepts in reservoir management and optimization
- Capstone Project: Estimate reserves and propose a reservoir management plan for a hypothetical field
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Understand basic properties of reservoir rocks and fluids
- Recognize and analyze primary reservoir drive mechanisms
- Estimate reserves using volumetric and material balance methods
- Apply fundamental fluid flow concepts to predict well performance
- Appreciate the role of reservoir engineering in efficient field development
Customizable Add-ons
Tailored content for local geology (e.g. Nile Delta, Western Desert)
Lab visit or simulation hands-on demo
Integration with economics or production courses
Special Customization for Regional NOCs
- Includes legal and fiscal case examples from MENA (Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Algeria)
- Arabic-English bilingual delivery available
- Tailored licensing round simulation exercises
- Optional site visits to local oilfields or regulatory agencies
Trainer Profile
- Senior reservoir and exploration engineers from IOCs and NOCs
- Former advisors to government ministries
- Experts in petroleum contracts and economic modeling
Certification
Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion and a performance report including assessment outcomes and instructor feedback.
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