Basic Reservoir Engineering

Basic Reservoir Engineering

Description :

The training addresses the essential and principal issues of geology, reservoir properties, fluid flow mechanisms, material balance, well completion, and production operations. It emphasizes the need for a multi-disciplinary, integrated approach as the key to the efficient management of the reservoir. The course described below is intended to be given over a period of four days training. Some of the topics covered provide an overview or review of topics handled in other, more specialized and focused training courses

Outline :

Reservoir Geology
- Minerals; rock types
- Depositional environments
- Origin and migration of oil
- Accumulation and reservoir traps

Reservoir Rock Properties
- Porosity, permeability, fluid saturations
- Multiple fluids
- Capillary pressure & relative permeability
- Measurement of rock properties

Reservoir Fluid Properties
- Fluid composition
- Phase behavior at reservoir conditions
- Oil, gas & water properties
- Fluid sampling procedures
- Laboratory PVT analysis
- Surface separator facilities

Volumetric Determination
- Reservoir volume
- Oil & gas in place
- Ultimate recovery

Material Balance
- Expansion of hydrocarbon, rock & water
- Water influx
- General material balance equation

Reservoir Drive Mechanisms
- Natural drives: solution gas, gas cap, and water drive mechanism
- Artificial drives: water and gas injection

Fluid Flow in Porous Rock
- Radial flow and Darcys law; linear flow
- Steady & pseudo steady state flow
- Transient flow: solutions to radial diffusively equation
- Inflow performance relationship

Who should attend :

This training provides a basic introduction and overview of the subject. It is particularly aimed at entry level engineers who are to become involved in the technical aspects of hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir production. The course would also benefit geologists and petrophysicists requiring an introduction to reservoir and production engineering principles.