N006 An Introduction to Reservoir Engineering for Geoscientists
N006 An Introduction to Reservoir Engineering for Geoscientists
Business Impact: By building a greater awareness of reservoir engineering principles, participants will be able to communicate more effectively with their Reservoir Engineering colleagues, ensuring better integration between disciplines, thereby improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of business activities.
This course examines the standard reservoir engineering processes and techniques, particularly their interface with geoscience activities. This course illustrates, with examples, the use of subsurface data in the construction of a reservoir model. It covers three related main themes: static reservoir models; developing dynamic reservoir simulation models; and reservoir management during the producing life of a field. This course covers the fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media, from a rock and fluid perspective.
This is a four-day classroom course, comprising a mixture of lectures and case studies with many worked examples to be completed by participants.
Participants will learn how to:
The material covered in this course is built around the reservoir model, which can be constructed using analytical (calculator) or numerical (simulation) processes. The process is in three parts:
The static reservoir model refers to the description of the reservoir in terms of reservoir and fluid distribution, volumetrics and reservoir zonation to identify the main potential flow units.
The dynamic model builds on the static model to include the consideration of fluid flow in the reservoir, near the wellbore and through the production tubing to the wellhead. The dynamic model is often constructed using a numerical reservoir simulator, but there are analytical techniques which can be used to predict fluid flow in the reservoir.
Reservoir management is a key activity for a producing field, performed with the general objective of maximising economic recovery. Monitoring is performed by measuring production and pressures in the reservoir and the results drive the forward activity programme and production forecasts.
Throughout the course, the use of complex mathematics has been avoided in order not to perturb creative geologists and the material concentrates on the principles rather than the detailed work of the reservoir engineer.
The following topics will be covered:
Introduction
Basic Reservoir Rock And Fluid Description
Controls on fluid flow in the reservoir
Defining fluid contacts and estimating volumetrics
Reservoir fluid properties
Well test analysis
Dynamic Behaviour of Reservoir Fluids
Material balance and fluid displacement
Dynamic well performance
Reservoir simulation
Measuring Reservoir Performance And Reservoir Management
Reservoir monitoring
Production
Enhanced oil recovery techniques
This course is aimed at Geoscientists and other subsurface professionals who interface with Reservoir Engineers in their regular work, or who wish to obtain a broad grounding in reservoir engineering principles. This course will also benefit new team leaders tasked with managing multi-disciplinary teams.
There are no prerequisites for this course. Participants seeking to build and expand upon the learnings for this course could follow up with N012 (Reservoir Modelling Field Class (Utah, USA)), N033 (Characterisation, Modelling, Simulation and Development Planning in Deepwater Clastic Reservoirs (Tabernas, Spain)), N412 (A Critical Guide to Reservoir Appraisal and Development) and N386 (Reservoir Model Design (Pembrokshire, UK)).
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Background
Affiliations and Accreditation
MBA, Henley Management College
BSc, University of Nottingham, Chemical Engineering
Courses Taught
N006: An Introduction to Reservoir Engineering for Geoscientists
N014: Petroleum Economics and Risk Analysis
D006: An Introduction to Reservoir Engineering for Geoscientists (Distance Learning)
D014: Petroleum Economics and Risk Analysis (Distance Learning)
N444: Development Planning For Mature Fields
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Background
Richard Oxlade is an oil and gas industry advisor with a petroleum engineering background. He has over 35 years of oil and gas industry experience with a major operator (BP) and a consultancy (TRACS) in a range of technical, commercial, and leadership roles. He is recognised as a very strong analytical thinker who can cover strategic issues and deal with complexity and detail. He is respected for providing business advice at all levels of the organisation up to CEO level. He has a track record of working with multi-disciplinary teams, complemented by an enthusiasm for developing others through coaching and teaching.
Courses Taught
N006: An Introduction to Reservoir Engineering
N014: Petroleum Economics and Risk Analysis
N310: Carbonate Reservoir Modelling and Field Development Planning (Provence, France)
N444: Development Planning For Mature Fields
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