| Who Should Attend: Reservoir engineers and subsurface engineers contributing to asset teams. Course Description: The course moves from introductory to practical topics in reservoir engineering. The course focus is on practical reservoir engineering concepts- such as identifying fluid types- role of rock and fluid-rock properties in selecting the field development concepts- calculation of fluids in place- material balance analysis- decline curve analysis- RFT analysis- well performance and forecasting under variety of conditions. Major portion of the course will be dedicated to solving practical reservoir engineering problems using real examples and exercises. Topics Covered: 1. Reservoir fluids. 2. Rock properties and rock-fluid properties (porosity- permeability- saturation- wettability- capillary pressure- relative permeability). 3. Routine and SCAL reports. 4. Reservoir drive mechanisms. 5. Reserves estimates and recovery factors. 6. Volumetric calculations. 7. RFT analysis. 8. Material balance methods. 9. Decline curve analysis. 10. Introduction to waterflooding and EOR. Course Schedule: Day 1: Reservoir fluid types- differences between reservoir fluids- use of PVT correlations to generate fluid properties- use of PVT laboratory reports. Introduction to rock properties- porosity- permeability- and saturation. Definition of rock properties and calculations. Day 2: Rock fluid properties. Definition and use of wettability- capillary pressure- effective and relative permeability- measurements of routine and SCAL data- use of routine and SCAL laboratory reports. Extracting information from laboratory reports. Averaging of rock properties. Day 3: Reservoir drive mechanisms- typical reservoir performance under different drive mechanisms- input data for volumetric calculations- volumetric methods- reserves definitions and recovery factors- correlations for estimating recovery factors- RFT data and analysis. Day 4: Material balance concept- types of material balance models- material balance calculations- aquifer models- practical examples to calculate fluids in place- material balance forecast- practical examples to forecast material balance models. Day 5: Decline curve analysis approaches- conventional decline curve analysis- decline curve analysis for wells with water production- practical examples in decline curve analysis- introduction to water flooding- EOR methods- candidate selection for water injection- water flooding calculations. |