N472 Reservoir Surveillance: Field Development and Production Optimization and the Impact on Completion Design
N472 Reservoir Surveillance: Field Development and Production Optimization and the Impact on Completion Design
This course provides an understanding of monitoring technologies for conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how to apply them to optimize field development and optimally produce the reservoir. The technologies will be explained in sufficient detail to allow informed decisions regarding the most appropriate measurements to be made and how to integrate multiple measurements to best design key development parameters, such as well spacing and stimulation interval, as well as to optimize production operations and maximize asset value. Considerations for developing and operating single-reservoir fields as well as stacked reservoirs with horizontal wells (“cube development”) will also be presented.
This is a three-day classroom course, consisting of lectures along with multiple case studies, paper-based exercises and discussion. While not required, participants are encouraged to bring laptops or tablets.
Topics covered in this course include:
This course is for completion, drilling, production, surveillance, and reservoir engineers. Geoscientists and asset managers involved in field development and production optimization will also find this course informative.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Complementary courses include the Basic Application level class N481 (Fiber-Optic Sensing: Introduction to the Technology and In-Well Sensing Applications), as well as Skilled Application level classes N473 (Fiber-Optic Sensing: Diagnostic and Surveillance Applications and Deployment), N986 (Reservoir and Production Engineering of Resource Plays), N464 (Fractured Reservoir Assessment and Integration to Full Field Development (Montana, USA)), and N940 (Modern Completion and Production Enhancement Techniques).
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Background
Dennis Dria is president and petroleum technology advisor for Myden Energy Consulting, PLLC (2010-present). He has 39 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, including 9 years with the Standard Oil Company and 21 years with Shell, in a combination of upstream and downstream oil and gas R&D and E&P operating division positions. At the time he left Shell in 2010, he was a Staff Research Engineer working in the areas of fiber-optic technology development, fiber-optic data management and integration and technology implementation for well and reservoir monitoring. Prior to this he was Engineering Advisor for Shell’s Global Implementation Team for Reservoir Surveillance Technologies during which he identified appropriate in-well monitoring technologies for Shell "top 70" global development projects, resulting in field surveillance plans for more than 20 major E&P projects. He also was Shell’s Global Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Production Logging and Permanent Sensing and SME for Mud Logging, and had formation evaluation and well logging (open-hole and cased-hole) assignments that included planning, vendor selection, operations, interpretation and field studies.
Under Myden Energy Consulting, PLLC, Dennis advises clients on the "right-fit" technology to provide key data and information which result in actionable recommendations for appropriate implementation timing and methods, and assists in deployment, data management, information extraction and interpretation. He has completed consulting projects for more than 20 industry clients, including onshore unconventional gas and oil, deep-water dry tree and subsea wells/fields, and has developed and taught multiple fit-for-purpose short courses. Additionally, he has provided well logging/MWD vendor selection, job planning, and operational supervision for Midland Basin and Delaware Basin (Texas) unconventional field development.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD The University of Texas at Austin - Petroleum Engineering
BS Ashland University - Physics and Mathematics
Courses Taught
N472: Reservoir Surveillance Technology and Impact on Completion Design in Horizontal Wells
N473: In-Well Fiber-Optic Sensing (2-Day)
N481: In-Well Fiber Optic Sensing (1-Day)
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