Oil and Gas

Participants will learn to:

1. Examine the role of the reservoir engineer
2. Differentiate basic geologic processes
3. Compare reservoir trapping mechanisms
4. Address the implications of different styles of reservoir architecture
5. Calculate rock and in-place hydrocarbon volumes
6. Contrast rock types and their properties that are of interest to a reservoir engineer
7. Determine and apply principles of phase behaviour for multi-component hydrocarbon mixtures
8. Manipulate and apply the Material Balance Equation
9. Interpret and apply the Real Gas Law
10. Examine the diffusivity equation and the implications of various boundary conditions
11. Apply and interpret traditional decline curve models; distinguish weaknesses and strengths of decline curve analysis
12. Differentiate between the various oil recovery drive mechanisms
13. Apply basic waterflood screening criteria
14. Be conversant with reservoir simulation engineers

Day 1

• Reservoir geological description.
• Hydrocarbon phase behavior including example PVT Studies

Day 2

• Reservoir rock properties including porosity, permeability, capillary pressures and relative permeability
• Fluid Flow and Well Inflow
• Volumetric reserve estimates including examples, resource classifications, probabilistic reserves estimates

Day 3

• Well test objectives and planning including typical production test designs
• Pressure transient analysis methods including build-up curve examples
• Gas well testing and AOF analysis
• Production Forecasting, including Decline Curve Analysis theory and example

Day 4

• Reservoir drive mechanisms
• Material Balance for oil reservoirs including exercise
• Material balance methods for gas reservoirs including p/z example
• Recovery from oil reservoirs under solution gas drive and natural water influx

Day 5

• Waterflood displacement mechanisms and analytical techniques for estimating recovery including example calculations
• Introduction to numerical simulation methods

The course is geared toward recently graduated petroleum engineers, engineers from other disciplines who are entering the petroleum industry and geoscientists with some background in reservoir geology and/or production.