Day 1: General Overview
Field Development Methods
Oil & Gas Reservoirs
Material Balance Analysis
Fluid PVT Behaviour
Material Balance Equation
Flow Description
One Phase & Multiphase Flows
Reservoir Characterisation
Day 2: Natural Depletion
Key Phenomenon’s Initial Pressure Regimes
Rock Compaction & Fluid Expansion
Oil Reservoirs
Oil depletion above saturation pressure
Solution Gas Drive
Aquifer Drive and Gas Cap drive
Day 3: Natural Depletion (cont’d)
Gas reservoirs
Dry & Wet Gas Depletion
Gas Condensate Depletion
Aquifer Modelling
Basic Concepts
Van Everdingen & Hurst Functions
Day 4: Improved Oil Recovery & Sweep Efficiency
Key Concepts
Water & Immiscible Gas Injection
Microscopic Recovery & Sweep Efficiency
Sweep Along One Flow Line
Fractional Flow
Transport Equation & Saturation Profile
Volumetric Sweep Efficiency
Areal & Vertical Sweep
Gravity Drainage
Day 5: Enhanced Oil Recovery
Introduction
Basic Concepts & Key Methods
Enhanced Water Injection
Water Alternate Gas Injection
Chemicals
Enhanced Gas Injection
Miscible Gas Injection
Thermal Recovery
Huff & Puff
Continuous Heat injection
Language
English
Audience type
University or Engineering Degree in sciences. Basic knowledge of Reservoir Engineering
Planned duration
15 to 20 hours in 5 days
Support material
Slides, Videos, Exercises, Quizzes
Prerequisite
University or Engineering Degree in sciences. Basic knowledge of Reservoir Engineering.
Objectives
To review basic reservoir behaviour during production. To review basic concepts linked to material balance analysis & reservoir flow. To review main drive mechanisms both in natural depletion, water and / or immiscible gas injection