N908 Well Testing and Pressure Transient Analysis
N908 Well Testing and Pressure Transient Analysis
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.
A four-day classroom course comprising lectures with worked examples, hands-on exercises, and discussion. Approximately 25% of class time is spent on computer-based exercises.
Participants will learn to:
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.
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The course is designed for mid to senior level engineers and engineering managers.
Acquaintance with basic well testing and pressure transient analysis principles and terminology is assumed.
Related courses include N484 (Reservoir Management for Unconventional Plays), N986 (Reservoir and Production Engineering of Resource Plays), and N989 (Rate and Pressure Transient Analysis for Unconventional Resources).
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Background
John Lee served as an Academic Engineering Fellow with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington during 2007-8, and was a principal architect of the new SEC rules for reporting oil and gas reserves.
He worked for ExxonMobil, specializing in integrated reservoir studies, prior to joining the A&M faculty. He later was Regents Professor of Petroleum Engineering at 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.
John is the author of three textbooks published by SPE and has received numerous awards from SPE, including the Lucas Medal, the DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal and Honorary Membership.
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
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