D614 Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering
Course Facts
- Course Code:
- D614
- Duration:
- 5 days
- Type:
- Virtual Classroom
- CEU:
- 4 Continuing Education Units
- PDH:
- 40 Professional Development Hours
- Certificate:
- Certificate Issued Upon Completion
Summary
This Distance Learning course will be scheduled as a series of two- to three-hour long webinars over a two-week period (equivalent to a five-day classroom course), comprising a mixture of lectures, discussions, case studies, and working examples.
This course is designed to introduce technical professionals to the fundamental aspects of reservoir engineering. Theoretical concepts coupled with numerous practical case histories are presented to assist reservoir and exploitation engineers in their primary functions - the determination of oil and gas reserves and the maximization of hydrocarbon recovery under primary, secondary, and tertiary schemes. Field development of unconventional gas reservoirs including shale gas, tight gas and coalbed methane (CBM) will also be covered. The application of horizontal wells and a number of new technologies will also be reviewed. The sessions will include a number of relevant class problems and examples.
Duration and Training Method
A virtual classroom course divided into 10 webinar sessions, comprising lectures, discussion, case studies, and practical exercises to be completed by participants during and between sessions.
Participants will learn to:
- Basic understanding of petroleum geology; trapping mechanism and rock types
- Review of rock and fluid characteristics and impact on reservoir performance
- The importance of the various reservoir drives and impact on reservoir performance and the expected ultimate recovery
- Reserves definitions/classification and the industry standard techniques to estimate oil and gas reserves, including the deterministic and probabilistic methods.
- Production optimization by understanding the fundamentals of flow in porous media and the use of Nodal analysis
- The use of well test analysis tool as one of the most effective reservoir management tools to characterize the reservoirs and how to analyze various test types to optimize production and estimate reserves.
- How to minimize water production problems and control fluid coning.
- Provide good understanding of enhanced oil recovery methods with emphasis on waterflooding including how to design, monitor performance, and estimate the expected ultimate oil recovery
- Explain the difference between conventional and unconventional reservoirs, such as coalbed methane, shale gas/oil and tight sands. Illustrate the specialized techniques to evaluate the commerciality and performance of such reservoirs.
- Review the applications and performance of horizontal wells. Also illustrate the various design options of multi-stage fracing of horizontal wells and performance evaluation using both analytical and numerical techniques
Session One:
- Petroleum Geology
- Origin of the solar system and depositional environments
- Geologic cycle/time and types of reservoir rocks
- Main elements of petroleum reservoirs hydrocarbon migration & traps
- Geologic maps
- Rock Properties
- Porosity types and lab measurement
- Permeability definitions and Lab measurement
- Sidewall coring
- Open hole logging and interpretations
Session Two:
- Rock properties (continue)
- Hydrocarbon classification
- Phase envelop and its applications
- Capillary pressure and rock compressibility
- Case study (Ekofisk oil filed)
- Fluid Properties:
- Hydrocarbons classifications
- Phase envelope and its applications
- Case study; Caroline Swan Hills (Gas Condensate)
- Gas physical properties (p/z vs. cumulative production)
- Gas hydrate problem, prediction tools and prevention
- Sour gas characteristics
- Class problem (Gas properties)
- Fluid behaviors; oil and gas physical properties (class problem)
- Fluid sampling and PVT analysis
Session Three:
- Fluid Properties (Cont.)
- Oil physical properties (saturated and under-saturated)
- Oil sampling (surface and bottom hole)
- PVT chemical analysis
- Reservoir drive, characteristics and expected recovery factors
- Reserves Determination
- Reserves definitions and classification
Session Four:
- Reserves Determination (cont.)
- Volumetric, material balance, and probabilistic methods (class problem)
- Material Balance Method
- Under-saturated oil
- Saturated oil (method by Havlena & Odeh)
- Class problem (material balance calculations)
- Decline Curve Analysis (class problem)
- Empirical (Russian method) and statistical method
Session Five:
- Well Productivity and Optimization
- Darcy equation and boundary conditions
- Inflow performance relationship (IPR), and well allowable (case study)
- Well Testing
- Operational procedures
- Setting test objectives
- Flow and buildup test analysis (Class problem)
- Draw-down and Reservoir Limit Test - Case study
- Gas Well Testing
- Water coning
Session Six:
- Secondary and tertiary Schemes
- Review and screening of EOR schemes
- Scheme planning and design
- Performance and recovery factor prediction
- Tools used to monitor performance of waterflood projects
- Class problem (waterflood recovery factor estimate)
Session Seven:
- Unconventional Oil and Gas
- The need of unconventional oil and gas
- Characteristics of conventional vs unconventional reservoirs
- Background on Coalbed Methane (CBM)
- Coring of CBM and estimate of gas content.
- Reserves estimate and well productivity of CBM
- Tight oil and gas
- Production characteristics (Bakken and Montney formations)
- Hydraulic fracturing statistic information
Session Eight:
- Shale Oil and Gas
- Characteristics of Shale Formations
- Estimate of shale potential
- How to estimate Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
- Thermal maturity
- Shale mineralogy and fracability
- Performance and reserves evaluation
- Use well test analysis techniques
- Applications of Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)
- Arps and new Decline Curve Analysis (DCA)
Session Nine:
- Applications of Horizontal Wells
- Geological. Drilling, and completion risks
- Evaluation of optimum well spacing and drainage area
- Factors affecting Hz well productivity
- Slanted well applications and productivity estimate
Session Ten:
- Design optimization of Multi Stage Frac of Horizontal Wells (MFHW’s)
- Open hole vs cased hole completion and fracing techniques
- Optimization of frac size and number of frac stages
- Taking advance of “Sweet spots”
- Well testing techniques of MFHW
- Rate Transient Analysis (RTA) techniques
- Case studies (Montney - Barrentt)
- Use of numerical modeling
Who should attend
This course is aimed at reservoir, petroleum and exploitation engineers/technologists, geophysicists, and geologists who are involved in the field development and exploitation.
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Saad Ibrahim
Saad Ibrahim
Background
Saad Ibrahim has over 35 years of diversified experience in the Petroleum Industry in Western Canada and internationally, including projects in Libya, Yemen, Iran, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Colombia, and Argentina, with special expertise in reservoir engineering/management with emphasis on field development planning, evaluation of depletion strategies and production optimization of a wide spectrum of oil and gas fields.
Other interests include well test planning and analysis using state of the art commercially-available software; the implementation of secondary and tertiary recovery schemes; and technical and economic evaluations of oil and gas properties for acquisition and divestiture ventures.
For the past 25 years, Mr. Ibrahim has been a worldwide recognized instructor covering a wide range of petroleum engineering topics. He graduated from the University of Alexandria (Egypt) with B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1973, and obtained a post-graduate diploma from the University of Calgary in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in 1983. Saad is a member of the APEGA, and the SPE.
Affiliations and Accreditation
Post-Graduate Diploma University of Calgary - Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
BSc University of Alexandria - Mechanical Engineering
Member of the APEGGA, SPE and CIM
Courses Taught
N607 - Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers (4 Day)
N614 - Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering
N623 - Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers (2 Day)
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