Reservoir life begins with exploration that leads to discovery, which is followed by delineation of the reservoir, development of the field, production by primary, secondary, and tertiary means, and finally to abandonment. Integrated, sound reservoir management is the key to a successful operation throughout a reservoir’s life. Further, the need to enhance recovery from the vast amount of remaining oil and gas-in-place, plus the global competition, requires better reservoir management practices.
Modern day reservoir management process involves goal setting, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and revising plans. It requires a clear understanding of the alternative mechanisms of oil recovery and the tools available to predict reservoir performance under alternative exploitation plans. Proper management requires the early diagnosis of anomalous performance and the evaluation of alternative remedial options. In order to select the best plan, the profitability of the alternative plan has to be established.
Reservoir engineering is the application of scientific principles to solve issues arising during the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs. This course covers the engineering operations involved in analysing the production behaviour of oil and gas wells, including well performance engineering, reservoir aspects of well performance, restricted flow into the wellbore, rate decline analysis, and fundamentals of artificial lift.
This course is designed to provide many tools and techniques to help address the challenges of providing a more reliable and sounder reservoir engineering & management. In addition to a wealth of classic information on the concepts and processes involved in reservoir engineering and management, the course presents insights about data acquisition, reservoir performance analysis & forecast, reservoir management economics and improved recovery processes. Further, the course is illustrated through a number of case studies which will be shown to the participants to help them appreciate the concepts presented in the course.