D422 Reservoir Engineering for Non-Reservoir Engineers
Course Facts
- Course Code:
- D422
- Duration:
- 4 days
- Type:
- Virtual Classroom
- CEU:
- 3.2 Continuing Education Units
- PDH:
- 32 Professional Development Hours
- Certificate:
- Certificate Issued Upon Completion
Summary
The course presents the fundamentals of reservoir engineering and examines the tasks of the reservoir engineer, with an emphasis on interaction with other disciplines. Principle topics are description of the components of the static reservoir model, development of the dynamic reservoir model and reservoir management through the life of a field.
This course aims to increase integration and understanding between subsurface disciplines, thereby improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of business activities proposed by the subsurface team.
Duration and Training Method
This Distance Learning course will be scheduled as a series of three-hour long webinars over an eight day period (equivalent to a four-day classroom course), comprising a mixture of lectures, discussions, case studies, and worked examples to be completed by participants during and between webinar sessions.
Providing 3.2 CEU (Continuing Education Credits) or 32 PDH (Professional Development Hours) the course is comprised of lectures, case studies and exercises.
Participants will learn to:
- Communicate and work effectively with a reservoir engineer.
- Determine the key parameters of reservoir fluids and how the fluids are sampled, measured, and described.
- Determine fluid distribution in a reservoir, including contacts and pressure relationships.
- Determine Reserve and resource volumes and describe tools such as decline curve analysis and material balance that can influence the estimates.
- Perform simple interpretations of well test data and demonstrate what can be learned from the data.
- Analyze reservoir drive mechanisms.
- Determine the benefits and limitations of reservoir simulation in a variety of settings.
- Determine appropriate reservoir surveillance practices to implement during the life of a field.
- Question which enhanced oil recovery techniques might be suitable for a particular field.
Agenda
Session 1
-Introduction
-Reservoir geological description and rock properties
Session 2
-Hydrocarbon phase behavior including example PVT Studies
Session 3
-Fluid and pressures distributions including pressure vs. depth and capillary pressure
Session 4
-Volumetric reserve estimates including examples, reserve classifications, probabilistic reserve estimates
-Fluid flow (Darcy’s Law) and well inflow
Session 5
-Vertical lift (tubing) performance and artificial lift
-Reservoir drive mechanisms & material balance
Session 6
-Reservoir drive mechanisms, fluid displacement
-Gas reservoirs and P/Z diagrams
Session 7
-Reservoir monitoring
-Simulation
Session 8
-Production forecasting
- Enhanced oil recovery
Who should attend
This course is designed for professionals who work with, or rely on, analyses provided by reservoir engineers, or who otherwise need to understand and communicate with them on a technical or commercial basis. Participants should have some familiarity with the concepts of reservoir engineering and field development, but require a greater understanding of the data used and the techniques employed by the reservoir engineer in day-to-day work. It is suitable for exploration, development and production geoscientists as well as petrophysicists, facility and operations engineers, drilling and production engineers, pipeline engineers, and business analysts. Early career Reservoir Engineers could also find this course beneficial.
Prerequisites and linking courses
There are no prerequisites for this course.
The course provides a building block for numerous Nautilus Training Alliance courses that address reservoir topics, including N012 (Reservoir Modelling Field Class (Utah, USA)), N058 (Reservoir Characterization and Geostatistical Modeling in Field Development), and N412 (A Critical Guide to Reservoir Appraisal and Development). For a follow-on course, consider N908 (Well Testing and Pressure Transient Analysis), N973 (Reservoir Engineering for Unconventional Gas and Tight Oil Reservoirs), N989 (Rate and Pressure Transient Analysis for Unconventional Reservoirs).
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Jerry Hadwin
Jerry Hadwin
Background
Jerry Hadwin has over 30 years of upstream experience, and able to operate at all levels both technically and commercially. He enjoys new challenges, providing innovative solutions to complex problems and enabling optimum business decisions. Jerry has worked in a number of locations world-wide, with core expertise in reservoir engineering, in a variety of roles and projects; exploration prospect evaluation, field development planning and management, corporate business planning and drilling operations, as well as business management. He has completed many petroleum engineering projects throughout his career, from reservoir modelling through to reserves audit for a range of companies internationally, and has led many PE study teams to successful conclusions. Jerry also conducted reservoir engineering and commercial training for both national and international oil company staff.
Projects include:
• Reservoir Engineering support for Petrochina on the Ahdeb Field in Southern Iraq
• Director of India Projects – Marketing and development of opportunities in India
• Economic Evaluation of reserves for Hibernia Field for CHHC
• Reservoir Engineering, Economics and Reserves Evaluation for Mnazi Bay Gas Field, Tanzania for Maurel et Prom
• Review of production forecasting for Korean company asset in northern British Columbia
• Evaluation of sale proposal for waterflood asset in Western Canada for potential buyer.
• Acid Gas Disposal regulatory approval submission for Paramount
• Petroleum Engineering support for Mexican bidding round for small independent
• Development and delivery of Reservoir Engineering and Reserves Evaluation Training Courses
• Reservoir Engineering and Economic evaluation of Hibernia Field for Reserves Evaluation
• Due diligence, M&A support for Western Canadian assets
Affiliations and Accreditation
M.Eng. Heriot Watt University - Petroleum Engineering
BSc Nottingham University - Chemical Engineering
Courses Taught
N422: Reservoir Engineering for Non-Engineers
N997: Applied Reservoir Engineering
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