This course introduces the fundamentals of reservoir management for petroleum, reservoir, and all subsurface engineers and specialists. It explains what reservoir management means and the tools they use, data/info they require, strategies & techniques they utilize and objectives they seek and their significances. All you need to optimize your reservoir performance pre drilling, during drilling, post drilling, secondary recovery and EOR is here!

For interested trainees, this course can be a fundamental step for developing their career options. For none reservoir engineers, this course might be the wild card for them to enter the reservoir management arena.

Learning Outcomes

Attendees will understand the following topics:

Understanding the fundamentals of reservoir engineering with emphasis on its relevance and integration to field development

Understanding state-of-the-art tools, technologies and strategies that make the difference for modern reservoir management

Understanding the existing relationship of available development options mapped to economic feasibility and risk analysis

Understanding reservoir management remaining challenges with a glance on unconventional reservoirs

This course is open to all upstream specialists.

Day 1

Introduction to Reservoir Engineering

Petroleum Reservoirs – Macro Scale

• Geological Concepts Related to Reservoir Engineering
• Finding a Trap – Pre Drilling

Petroleum Reservoirs – Micro Scale

• Rock Properties envelope
• Fluid Properties envelope
• Darcy’s Model
• Deviation from Darcy’s Model
• Types of fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs
• Flow regimes o Reservoir geometry
• Fluid flow equations
• Steady-state flow
• Unsteady-state flow
• Pseudosteady-state flow

Day 2

Reservoir Types

• Undersaturated Oil Reservoir
• Saturated Oil Reservoir
• Single-Phase Gas Reservoir
• Gas-Condensate Reservoir

Estimation of Reservoir Storage Capacity and Flow Potential

• Volumetric Method
• Material Balance Method
       Reserves estimate
       Recovery factor

Drive Mechanism Review

Water Influx Evaluation/Impact

DCA (Decline Curve Analysis)

• Exponential Decline
• Hyperbolic Decline
• Harmonic Decline

Impact of EOR

• Oil Recovery Methods
• Methods to Improve Recovery Efficiency
• EOR Processes
• Summary of Screening Criteria for EOR Methods
• Environmental & Economical Aspects

EOR Technologies Constraints

Day 3

Developing Appropriate FDP to Exploit the Reservoir

Development Options

• Prioritizing FDP Options
• Updating FDP (Monitor/Test/ Review/Modify)
• Onshore versus Onshore FDP
• Case Study I

Day 4

Data Integration and Interdependence

• FDP Integrity and Timing
• Subsurface Data Control of Surface Design
• Discussions on Interfaces, Relationships, Data Collection, Reservoir Monitoring
• FDP: Introduction to Opportunity Framing Workflow, Roadmap, Risk Register and Stakeholder Mapping
• Case Study II

Glance on Unconventional Reservoirs and Their Impact

Day 5

Conclusion and Final Quiz