N942 Gas Condensate Reservoir Engineering including HPHT
N942 Gas Condensate Reservoir Engineering including HPHT
This course enables participants to develop skills to analyse and manage gas condensate reservoirs. It draws on Heriot-Watt’s world leading expertise and addresses: phase behaviour; relative permeability varying with velocity and interfacial tension; material balance equations; well productivity and pseudo-pressure calculation for different completion strategies, condensate banking and gravity drainage; practical fluid and flow simulation models; and demonstrating NeW-COIN software.
Five days, classroom based, with micro-model reservoir condition flow visualization videos, lab visit, practical field and worked examples, hands-on exercises and discussion. Lectures supported and illustrated by exercises and multi-stage case studies. Participants are encouraged to bring issues associated with their own reservoirs for discussion.
Participants will learn to;
Day 1: Introduction
• Relative Permeability
- Phase Behavior
- Equations of state
- Fluid sampling
- Laboratory PVT tests
• Equation of State modelling
Day 2:
• Condensate formation and issues
- Formation and growth
- Critical condensate saturation
• Gravity drainage
• Residual trapped gas and condensate
• Condensate banking
• Empiracle relative permeability correlations
Day 3:
• Reservoir Flow
• Estimation methods
- Single phase
- Two phase
• Relative Permeability
• Coupling
• Reservoir Simulations
• Material balance
• Depletion
• High pressure and high temperature reservoirs
Day 4:
• Well issues
• Flow equations
• Fracture Characteristics
• Deviated and highly deviated horizontal wells
Day 5:
• Phase Behavior Models in reservoir simulations
• Field Examples
• New-COIN
• Summary
The course is designed for mid to senior level Reservoir and Production Engineers involved in the evaluation, planning and development of gas condensate reservoirs.
A good general knowledge of reservoir engineering is assumed through your own work, or having attended N933: Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals. As a potential follow on class, the N936 class (Reservoir Engineering Principles and Practice) is ideally suited for those having taken this class.
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