Natural Gas Reservoir Engineering

Description :

This course takes a comprehensive look at several aspects of gas reservoir engineering. The course can be constructed such that it is a fundamental, intermediate or advanced gas reservoir engineering course. Various techniques are described such as 1) Basic Gas Reservoir Engineering, Properties of Natural Gas, Material Balance and Gas Reserve Determination, 2) Gas Deliverability 3) Nodal Analysis and 4) Well Testing in Gas Reservoirs

Outline :

1.      Basic Gas Reservoir Engineering: Introduction; Fluids and Fluid Types; Drive Mechanisms; Properties of Natural Gas; Material Balance

2.      Gas Reserves: Determining Gas Reserves; Gas Volumes and Material Balance; Calculations, Class Exercises.

3.      Gas Deliverability: Basic Gas Deliverability; Deliverability of Gas Wells; Class Exercises

4.      Gas Deliverability: Deliverability of Gas Wells continued; Class Exercises.

5.      Gas Deliverability: Gas Deliverability Problems; Introduction to Nodal analysis; Inflow Performance for Gas Wells.

6.      Nodal Analysis: Outflow or Tubing Curves; Vertical Multi-Phase Flow; Production Data Analysis; Demonstration of Perform

7.      Well Testing: Introduction to Well Testing; Radial Flow and Radius of Investigation; Wellbore Storage; Damage and Stimulation; Class Exercises.

8.      Well Testing: Introduction to Flow and Build-Up Tests; Analysis of Late-Time Data; Semi-Log Analysis for Gas Wells; Project Assignment.

9.      Well Testing: Modification for Gas; Manual Log Analysis ; Type Curve Analysis.

10.   Well Testing: Well Test Analysis Using Type Curves; Flow Regimes and the Diagnostic Plot; Project Presentations

Who should attend :

Reservoir Engineers, Production Engineers, Laboratory Researchers, Gas Field Operators