D412 A Critical Guide to Reservoir Appraisal and Development (Distance Learning)
D412 A Critical Guide to Reservoir Appraisal and Development (Distance Learning)
Business Impact: Participants will be empowered to collaborate between disciplines and add value in the development of upstream assets.
This course is designed to address the decision-based technical workflow that is a pre-requisite to appraisal and development investments. Participants will learn the background theory behind all aspects of reservoirs, from the micro- to seismic-scale, integrating the static and dynamic domains and how to model them. The course covers a range of disciplines, using an integrated subsurface approach with reference to a robust business and commercial framework.
A virtual classroom course divided into 10 three to three and a half hour webinar sessions (equivalent to a five-day classroom course), comprising lectures, discussion, case studies, and practical exercises to be completed by participants during and between sessions.
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The course is designed for experienced geoscientists who have been involved in field appraisal and development. It is also aimed at petrophysicists and reservoir engineers wishing to gain a greater insight into the geoscience input to reservoir models as well as deepen the knowledge of how subsurface data is integrated into providing a complete picture. Team leaders and asset managers involved in the planning and execution of subsurface reservoir modelling projects will also benefit.
Ideally participants should have some field appraisal and development experience prior to their participation. N012 (Reservoir Modelling Field Class) is a field class examining the construction and uses of stochastic reservoir models at the Skilled Application Level and complements course N412. N033 (Characterisation, Modelling, Simulation and Development Planning in Deepwater Clastic Reservoirs - Tabernas, Spain) are also recommended follow-up courses, which review field-based reservoir development and modelling analogues.
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Background
Dr. Stephanie Kape has 23 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry.
After graduating, Stephanie spent 5 years working as a consultant structural geologist with Midland Valley in Glasgow, working on a range of exploration and development projects worldwide.
In 2001 Stephanie joined Amerada Hess Ltd as a production geologist based in Aberdeen. She moved to Canadian Natural Resources in 2003 as a Development Geologist and worked the mature North Sea portfolio.
In 2005 Stephanie joined BG Group in Reading working the HPHT exploration, development and appraisal portfolio of the UK Central North Sea. In this role she developed a number of models for fluvial reservoirs, working on the issues and predicting reservoir deliverability. In 2008 Stephanie joined the Subsurface Assurance Team in BG, as part of an internal technical auditor, reviewing the company’s exploration, appraisal and development projects worldwide. A six month secondment to the Brazil Development team working on carbonates followed and a two year stint in the Global New Ventures team and as exploration team lead within the Europe E&P business at BG.
Steph is currently an independent consultant geologist at Salar Geoscience Ltd.
Throughout her career as a development geologist Stephanie has worked with reservoir models, and has acted as an internal focus for Reservoir modelling. She has maintained an interest in fluvial sedimentology and the integration of this with other disciplines to build effective predictive models, publishing and presenting at conferences.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University of Birmingham - Geology
BSc University of Manchester - Geology
C.Geol - Chartered Geologist
PESGB
Geological Society
Courses Taught
N108: Exploration and Geological Model Development in Fluvial Reservoirs
N412: A Critical Guide to Reservoir Appraisal and Development
N415: Reservoir Characterisation for Appraisal and Development
N432: Clastic Reservoir Characterisation for Appraisal and Development (Southern Pyrenees, Spain)
Background
Pete trained as a reservoir engineer and researcher firstly at the UK government research Institute of Hydrology Oxford, before joining BP’s research team to lead the development of novel modelling methods; building the first stochastic models to describe multi-phase fluid-flow in reservoir rocks. Moving into BP operational activities was responsible for creating the processes for managing the uncertainty in value and reserves in new field developments that became the BP standard approach.
Assignments with BP included lead engineer on Dukhan, Arab C Reservoir, Qatar; the appraisal and financial sanction of the Harding, Andrew, Foinaven and Schiehalion fields in the UKCS and managing the operated production in the Gulf of Mexico. Pete was also the founding director of the BP Institute at Cambridge University concerned with fundamental research in fluid-flow and was responsible for building their environmental technology across the BP group as Technology Vice President.
Pete helped establish the new Engineering University in Trinidad & Tobago as Associate Provost (R&D) and Professor of Petroleum Engineering between 2004 and 2008. On return to the UK, Pete became Principal Advisor in Reservoir Engineering at RPS Energy leading company reserve audits. In 2010 Pete led the Upstream Risk Management advisory activity and in 2011 became Chief Reservoir Engineer. In 2018 Pete left RPS Energy to form his own company, ReganSmith Associates, that provides training courses and consultancy to the Oil and Gas Industry.
Affiliations and Accreditation
BSc Mathematics
MSc Differential Equations
PhD Earth Sciences
C Eng. FEI Chartered Petroleum Engineer
Courses Taught
N401: Applied Development Planning
N412: A Critical Guide to Reservoir Appraisal and Development
N447: The Identification and Prioritisation of Opportunities for Effective Resource Progression
N952: Resource Assessment and Assurance
N954: Practical Approaches to Increased Recovery
N963: Fluid Flow Mechanisms - Observations of Rocks at Outcrop and Implications to Reservoir Engineering (SW Ireland)
N995: Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Appraisal and Development
R001: Oil and Gas Essentials
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