Best Practices of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering

What are the Goals?

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Apply volumetric and material balance equations to calculate reserves
• Understand oil and gas flow equations under different flow regimes
• Understand main methods of well testing of Draw down and Buildup tests
• Calculate time and saturation of water breakthrough in water flooding
• Best practices of main groups of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques

Who is this Training Course for?

This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Petroleum Engineers & Production Engineers
• Processing engineers & other discipline engineers
• Geologists & Petro physicists
• Engineers who are new to the profession
• Other individuals who need to know about current & advanced techniques in EOR

Daily Agenda

Day One: Geology and Reservoir Rock Properties

• Definitions of petroleum engineering and reservoir engineering
• Responsibilities and required tasks of reservoir engineers
• Different types of rocks, rock cyclic, and depositional environments
• Types of oil traps: structural, stratigraphic, and combination
• Global distribution of oil and gas reserves and top producing countries
• Routine and Special Core Analysis (RCAL & SCAL) for rock properties

Day Two: Phase Diagram and Reservoir Drive Mechanisms

• Reservoir fluid properties and their variation with pressure
• Phase diagram concept and its important applications
• Five different reservoir fluids, Lab and field identification
• Applications of ideal and real gas Equation of State (EOS)
• Three phases of oil recovery: primary, secondary, and  enhanced
•  Six different primary reservoir drive mechanisms:

Day Three: Material Balance Equation (MBE) Applications

• Definition, classification, and calculation of reserve
• Application of Material Balance Equation (MBE) Technique
• Volumetric reservoirs and Havlena and Odeh Technique
• Types and purposes of well tests
• Single well and multi-well testing methods
• Geological information from well testing

Day Four: Gas Resources and Water Flooding

• Concepts and global distribution of gas reserve
• Conventional  and unconventional natural gas sources
• Gas hydrates as a n important future energy source
• Secondary recovery and problems of water flooding
• Frontal displacement (fractional flow) theory and calculation example
• Design procedure and an example of how to design a reservoir simulation study

Day Five: Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Techniques

• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR ) Methods and need to apply
• Chemical EOR: polymer, alkaline/surfactant/polymer (ASP)
• Solvent EOR: Carbon Dioxide, and hydrocarbon gas injections
• Thermal EOR process and heavy oil reserves
• Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) EOR Process
• Microbial, Enzyme, and Low Salinity Water (LSW) EOR processes