D484 Reservoir Management for Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources
D484 Reservoir Management for Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources
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 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.
This course is designed to familiarize practicing engineers with unconventional oil and gas resources as reservoirs, including topics related to the evaluation and development aspects of unconventional oil and gas fields. The emphasis is on tight gas/oil formations and organic-rich source rocks, in particular shale. It provides in-depth discussions on fluid storage, phase change, and transport for reservoir evaluation and development. Hydrocarbon in-place calculations are presented, including new pore-scale considerations, and a new method is introduced to assess the liquid potential of the reservoir. Laboratory techniques are discussed for the characterization of unconventional formations. The course will help engineers to understand transient flow regimes associated with horizontal wells completed with hydraulic fractures and to analyze the production data using various analytical and simulation techniques. Field case studies will be introduced to discuss tight gas reservoir- and shale oil/gas reservoir development, including economic and environmental evaluation of horizontal wells with multi-stage fracturing.
The course helps participants to understand the unconventional reservoir physics and improve their business performance by developing more accurate reservoir models.
A virtual classroom course divided into 8 webinar sessions, comprising lectures, discussion, case studies, and practical exercises to be completed by participants during and between sessions.
Participants will learn to:
Fundamentals
Reservoir Evaluation and Characterization for Resource Shale
Drilling and Completion Techniques for Shale Formations
Multi-stage Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale Wells
Monitoring
Pre-frac Injection Test Analysis
Geomechanics
Transient Flow Regimes and Production Analysis
Recent Trends on Shale Oil and Gas Development
Case Studies
The course is designed for mid to senior level engineers and engineering managers that have some familiarity with unconventional reservoirs.
Engineering aspects of unconventional reservoirs are also explored at a Skilled level in N944 (Shale Gas and Shale Oil Completions Using Multi-Staged Fracturing and Horizontal Wells), N986 (Reservoir Production Engineering of Resource Plays) and N989 (Rate and Pressure Transient Analysis for Unconventional Reservoirs). Related courses include N250 (Evaluation Methods for Shale Reservoirs).
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Background
Dr. Yucel Akkutlu is Rob L. Adams ’40 Professor in Petroleum Engineering and William Keeler faculty fellow at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He previously worked as a faculty for the University of Oklahoma, USA, and University of Alberta, Canada. He is a chemical engineer and received Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in petroleum reservoir engineering, petrophysics, and physical sciences.
His research focuses on characterization and exploitation of unconventional oil and gas resources, enhanced oil recovery, and oilfield chemistry. He has written more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, six book chapters, and has four patents. He is the author of “Nano-confined Petroleum Recovery from Source Rocks,” which will be published in 2020. He has received over $3 million in external research funding during the last 10 years from sources such as the US Department of Energy (DOE), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the unconventional oil and gas industry.
He is a distinguished member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He was the executive editor of the SPE Journal 2013-2016. He was 2014-15 SPE distinguished lecturer. He received 2020 SPE International Lester C. Uren award, 2017 TAMU-Association of Former Students teaching award, 2016 TAMU-Association of Former Students distinguished achievement award, and 2015 AIME Rossiter W. Raymond memorial award. Akkutlu served in various SPE, EAGE, and NSERC committees.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University of Southern California - Petroleum Engineering
MSc University of Southern California - Petroleum Engineering
BSc Hacettepe University - Chemical Engineering
Courses Taught
N274: Unconventional Resource Engineering for Geoscientists
N279: Geological Characterization and Engineering of Unconventional Oil and Gas Shales: Classroom and Field Seminar (Oklahoma, USA)
N484: Resource Management for Unconventional Oil and Gas Plays
N956: Enhanced Oil Recovery using CO2: Techniques, Practices and Simulation
N973: Reservoir Engineering for Unconventional Gas and Tight Oil Reservoirs
N989: Rate and Pressure Transient Analysis for Unconventional Reservoirs
RM01: Fundamentals of Unconventional Reservoir Engineering for Earth Scientists
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