Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas | Reservoir Engineering
This course provides participants with the advanced skills and understanding required to interpret and analyze complex pressure transient tests in oil, gas, and water injection wells. Simple models are used to illustrate principles and to analyze real reservoirs. More complicated models are introduced as extensions of the simple models. Well testing and pressure transient testing provide valuable reservoir characterization information required for reservoir studies, well spacing considerations, and stimulation design and analysis. Test analysis provides estimates of in-situ permeability in the drainage area of wells, location of flow barriers, and stimulation effectiveness. This information and analysis will ultimately help reservoir management and field development teams to optimize the productive potential of their reservoirs and fields.
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Found it more beneficial than my entire college course on well testing.
Schedule
Duration and Training Method
This is a virtual classroom course comprising a mixture of lectures, discussion, case studies, and practical exercises.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn to:
- Evaluate depth of investigation achieved during transient tests.
- Identify wellbore storage-distorted well-test data.
- Evaluate flow regimes during transient tests and establish the likely reservoir model to use in test interpretation.
- Describe well and reservoir properties, including permeability, skin factor, average drainage area pressure, and distance to important heterogeneities.
- Analyze reservoir properties in complex wells and reservoirs, including horizontal wells, hydraulically fractured wells, and naturally fractured reservoirs.
- Recall appropriate well test objectives and design tests to achieve those objectives.
Course Content
The course addresses identification of both simple and complex reservoir models, quantification of important reservoir properties in homogeneous-acting, bounded, and infinite-acting, naturally and hydraulically fractured reservoirs, and analysis of both vertical and horizontal wells.
Topics covered by this course:
- Basic concepts - Fluid flow through porous media
- Type curve analysis
- Formation damage and stimulation
- Modification for gases and multiphase flow
- Diagnostic plots
- Buildup tests and the diagnostic plot
- Phase redistribution
- Bounded reservoirs
- Multiwell testing
- Estimating average reservoir pressure
- Hydraulically fractured wells
- Naturally fractured reservoirs
- Pressure transient analysis for horizontal wells
- Effects of errors in input data
- Well test design
- Integrated well test interpretation
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
The course is designed for mid to senior level engineers and engineering managers.
Instructors
John Lee
Background
John Lee holds the DVG Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. John holds BChE, MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech. He worked for ExxonMobil early in his career and specialized in integrated reservoir studies.
He has taught at Mississippi State University, the University of Houston, and Texas A&M. While at A&M, he also served as a consultant with S.A. Holditch & Associates, where he specialized in reservoir engineering aspects of unconventional gas resources. He served as an Academic Engineering Fellow with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington during 2007-8, and helped with the modernized SEC rules for reporting oil and gas reserves. John is the author of four textbooks published by SPE and has received numerous awards from SPE, including the Lucas Medal (the society’s top technical award), the DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal (the society’s top service award) and Honorary Membership (the highest recognition awarded society members). He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD Georgia Institute of Technology - Chemical Engineering
MSc Georgia Institute of Technology- Chemical Engineering
BSc Georgia Institute of Technology - Chemical Engineering
U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Lucas Medal, the DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal and Honorary Membership
Courses Taught
N908: Well Test and Pressure Transient Analysis
N957: Forecasting Production and Estimating Reserves in Unconventional Reservoirs
Accreditation and Certification
CEU: 2.8 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 28 Professional Development Hours
Certificate: Certificate Issued Upon Completion
RPS is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. We comply with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognised internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices.
We issue a Certificate of Attendance which verifies the number of training hours attended. Our courses are generally accepted by most professional licensing boards/associations towards continuing education credits. Please check with your licensing board to determine if the courses and certificate of attendance meet their specific criteria.