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Development Geology Program
Course Description
Effective field appraisal, development, and management necessitate a fundamental grasp of reservoir pore space distribution. Through hands-on exercises, participants will learn to compile a development plan that emphasizes optimal recovery. The course focuses on rock, log, and test data to distinguish between reservoir and non-reservoir rock properties. Structural, stratigraphic, depositional, and diagenetic concepts are employed to locate drill sites and describe reservoirs. The input required to construct a geologic reservoir model is reviewed. Participants will also learn the importance of modifying development plans as a field matures, with discussions on techniques for rejuvenating mature fields through case histories.

Participants will learn to:

  • Select optimal drill sites for field development
  • Utilize log and rock data to identify reservoir and non-reservoir rock, and pay zones
  • Determine fluid distribution and identify reservoir compartments
  • Estimate field reserves throughout the life of the field
  • Characterize carbonate and clastic rocks by productivity
  • Construct geological reservoir models
  • Determine field drive mechanisms
  • Apply seismic analysis to reservoir development
  • Optimize development through depositional characteristics
  • Compile comprehensive development plans
  • Use economic techniques to evaluate different development plans
  • Understand the impact of drive mechanisms on recovery
  • Apply seismic techniques for field development
  • Optimize hydrocarbon recovery through development drilling
  • Assess the economic impacts on field development
  • Identify key factors affecting the development of fractured reservoirs
  • Understand the impact of barriers on field development
  • Implement secondary and tertiary field development strategies
  • Rejuvenate old, marginal fields

This course is designed for reservoir, development, and exploration geologists; geophysicists; petrophysicists; log analysts; petroleum engineers; and experienced technicians.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

  • Lectures
  • Workshop & Work Presentation
  • Case Studies and Practical Exercise
  • Videos and General Discussions

Day 1: Development Projects and Subsurface Data

  • Life cycle of oil and gas fields
  • Oil and gas development projects
  • Subsurface data and data gaps
  • Reservoir rock and fluid properties
  • Characteristics impacting field development

Day 2: Measurements and Evaluation of Subsurface Data

  • Basic well technology, including horizontal wells, and well data
  • Log and core data, uncertainties, and mapping
  • Characteristics of carbonate reservoirs
  • Subsurface pressures, with practical exercises

Day 3: Subsurface Models

  • Application of geostatistics in reservoir characterization
  • Seismic attributes for development geology
  • Use of conceptual models and analogue field data
  • Construction of reservoir geological models (static models)
  • Design and upscaling of dynamic grids
  • Reservoir dynamic models
  • Model validation and ranking

 

Day 4: Volumetric Reserve Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis

  • Influencing elements in volumetric reserve estimation
  • Methods for volumetric estimation
  • Deterministic and probabilistic reserve estimation
  • Conducting uncertainty analysis
  • Reserves classification and reporting
  • Techniques for optimizing hydrocarbon recovery through development drilling

Day 5: Subsurface Development Options

  • Field development planning (FDP)
  • Use of analogue fields in development planning
  • Project economics and sensitivity analysis
  • Decision-making processes in field development
  • Project planning and risk management strategies
  • Strategies for secondary and tertiary field development

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
GE141-02
2026-04-05
Manama
USD 5450
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GE141-03
2026-07-27
Istanbul
USD 5950
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GE141-04
2026-11-29
Dubai
USD 5450
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