D524 The Application of Reservoir Geology through the Exploration and Production Life Cycle
Course Facts
- Course Code:
- D524
- Duration:
- 3 days
- Type:
- Virtual Classroom
- CEU:
- 2.4 Continuing Education Units
- PDH:
- 24 Professional Development Hours
- Certificate:
- Certificate Issued Upon Completion
Summary
Business Impact: On completion of this course, participants will have built up a strong foundation of competency in reservoir geology and its application from prospect evaluation to production.
In prospect evaluation the priorities are reservoir presence and effectiveness, as well as the consideration of potential recovery factor. Through appraisal and into field development attention remains focussed on recovery factor, with emphasis on pool definition, reservoir continuity, segmentation, and heterogeneity. The production phase is all about optimisation and forecasting, in which reservoir models are powerful. Reservoir models will be built during this course.
Duration and Training Method
A virtual classroom course divided into 5 three- to four-hour webinar sessions, comprising lectures, discussion, case studies, and practical exercises to be completed during and between sessions.
Participants will learn to:
- Understand the potential of reservoir geology at project stages from prospect to production and prospective resources to producing reserves; Appreciate the data and analysis required to fulfil that potential.
- Understand the basics of pore systems, their effect on petrophysical evaluation, fluid storage and flow, displacement and recovery factor; Understand how pore systems become unviable through diagenesis.
- Appreciate reservoir organisation, synthesised from a wide range of case studies, including stratigraphic and structural heterogeneity, flow conduits, and barriers.
- Develop insight into the controls on recovery processes and factors, including pore systems, heterogeneity, segmentation and fluid properties; Apply the intelligent use of analogues in estimating recovery factor.
- Form an overview of reservoir modelling, treating static and dynamic modelling as one subject; its power, its application through the field life-cycle, and what we get wrong.
1. Introductory session
- Reservoir geology in a nutshell
- The changing face of reservoir geology through the life cycle
- Roles and responsibilities of a reservoir geologist
- Touch points with other disciplines
2. Sedimentology, stratigraphy and diagenesis
- Reservoir types – clastic vs carbonate
- Depositional environments
- Heterogeneities
- Diagenesis
3. Structural geology in reservoir geology
- Global tectonics and types of basins
- Types of traps
- Faults and compartmentalisation – implication for development
4. Petrophysics and static geological modelling workflows
- Net to gross
- Porosity
- Saturations
- Static model building
5. Field production and monitoring
- Dynamic modelling
- Recovery factors
- Reservoir surveillance
- Decommissioning
- A look to the future and carbon capture and storage
Who should attend
The course is designed for early career geologists, geophysicists and petrophysicists. Team leaders and managers may also benefit from attendance.
Prerequisites and linking courses
Whilst there are no formal prerequisites for this class, participants are expected to have a basic understanding of geological principles.
Participants could build on the knowledge acquired from this course by attending Skilled Level field courses N009 (Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Reservoir Geology of Deepwater Clastic Systems (County Clare, Ireland)), N012 (Reservoir Modelling Field Class (Utah, USA)), N033 (Characterisation, Modelling, Simulation and Development Planning in Deepwater Clastic Reservoirs (Tabernas, Spain)), and N310 (Carbonate Reservoir Modelling and Field Development Planning (Provence, France)).
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Richard Steele
Richard Steele
Background
Richard has been a geologist in the oil and gas industry for a while and currently works as an independent consultant. Starting in 1982 with a B.Sc. in Geology with Geophysics and a PhD in sedimentology, the only plan has been to stay technical. It went like this:
11 years at BP in various UK locations as a sedimentologist in central and asset teams working onshore and offshore fields. This included a first encounter with reservoir modelling in 1983, feeding geology to a group of reservoir engineers playing with a brand-new toy called Eclipse, and a vicarious experience of Odin’s STORM programme for modelling channel sands.
3 years as a production geologist on a Shell posting in Petroleum Development Oman working a wide variety of reservoirs and fluids, with second-hand exposure on one reservoir to the Shell geomodelling package called Monarch. On the field with most activity, it was the guy who came after Richard who built the first geomodel.
6 years with Enterprise Oil in London and Rome on carbonate reservoirs in Italy and the Middle East. Richard was the geologist in the team that in 2000 was volunteered to try out a new toy called Petrel. 6 years as Technical Manager at Nautilus in Berkshire, teaching M12 and several other classes and watching the programme grow by a factor of about 5.
6 years at BG Group in the UK as Deputy Chief Geologist then Head of Development Geoscience, specialising in being opinionated about the oil and gas fields and reservoir models of other geologists. Richard saw the power and practice of integrated reservoir modelling move on quite a lot and kept himself amused by winding up reservoir engineers.
Richard was re-homed in October 2014 as a user and development geologist at Tullow Oil in London, working development planning of a bunch of fields in Uganda with fascinating geoscience and petroleum engineering challenges.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD Sedimentology
BSc Geology with Geophysics
AAPG
EAGE
IAS
External Examiner at Aberdeen University for the MSc in Petroleum Geoscience
Courses Taught
N012: Reservoir Modelling Field Class (Utah, USA)
N524: The Application of Reservoir Geology through the Exploration and Production Life Cycle
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