Introduction to Reservoir Management
- What is reservoir management?
- Definition of reservoir management: an integrated, interdisciplinary team effort.
- Goal setting, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating reservoir performance.
- Field development and field operating plans to optimize profitability.
- Efficient monitoring of reservoir performance.
- Minimizing drilling of unnecessary wells.
- Wellbore and surface systems.
- Well testing and automated production systems.
- Basic components of reservoir management.
Framework of an Asset Team:
- Organization of an asset team.
- Roles of professionals.
- Team work environment.
Data Management:
- Data storage server and library.
- Volume of information (VOI).
Material Balance Equation
- Fundamentals of fluid properties.
- General material balance equation (MBE).
- MBE applications –drive mechanisms.
- Special MBEs.
- Gas material balance equation.
- When you use MB analysis?
Reservoir Surveillance and Monitoring
- Well testing program.
- Formation Testing and Sampling.
- Pressure and temperature survey.
- Production and injection profile survey.
- Saturation survey.
- Surveillance and monitoring programs for different processes.
Decline Curve Analysis and Reserves Booking
- Decline rates, Decline mechanisms.
- Exponential, harmonic and hyperbolic declines.
- Theoretical basis of decline curve analysis.
- Common mistakes when considering well operation changes.
- Reserves booking.
Water flooding (Immiscible Displacement)
- Why you have to know this?
- Fractional flow equation.
- Buckley-Leveret theory.
- Welge methods, Water injection patterns.
- Mobility ratio concept.
- Sweep efficiency, Design considerations.
Natural Gas Reservoir Engineering
- Gas flow equations, Gas well testing.
- Production and transport facilities.
Fundamentals of EOR
- Why you have to know EOR but currently no EOR projects?
- EOR screening, Mobility control requirement.
- Concept of capillary number, EOR mechanisms.
Introduction to Reservoir Simulation
- Reservoir simulation – an integrated reservoir management tool.
- Data requirements, Capillary Pressure and fluid initiation.
- Examples of reservoir management using simulation.