BASIC RESERVOIR ENGINEERING

 

THE COURSE

This course is intended to provide the practicing reservoir engineer with the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out a complete reservoir engineering analysis using classical reservoir engineering techniques such as material balance, decline curves, well test analysis and reserves estimation. It also provides course participants with an understanding of reservoir (rock and fluid) properties and fluid flow mechanism.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Petroleum engineers, technical managers, and, technical supervisors involved in improving recovery factor and reservoir management.

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• Fluid flow in porous media

• PVT analysis

• Pressure analysis

• Decline analysis and Material Balance

• Estimation of oil and gas in place

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Reservoir rock and fluid properties

• Fluid flow in porous media

• PVT analysis

• Well Test analysis  

• Decline analysis

• Material Balance

• Drive mechanisms

• Oil and Gas Reserves Estimation

 

COURSE DURATION

This is a 3 days course.

 

ADVANCED RESERVOIR ENGINEERING

 

THE COURSE

This course is intended to provide the practicing reservoir engineer with knowledge and skills of managing mature reservoirs. It also provides an understanding of well performance and enhanced recovery methods such as water flooding, polymer flooding, surfactant injection and steam flooding.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Petroleum engineers, technical managers, and, technical supervisors involved in improving recovery factor and reservoir management of matured reservoirs.

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• Oil and gas well performance

• Gas condensate reservoirs

• Secondary recovery methods

• Tertiary recovery methods

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Oil well performance

• Gas well performance

• Gas reservoirs

• Gas condensate reservoirs

• Water flooding   

• EOR  methods

• Risk management

 

COURSE DURATION

This is a 3 days course.

 

BASIC RESERVOIR SIMULATION

 

THE COURSE

This course is intended to provide the practicing reservoir engineer with the basic knowledge of simulation engineering concepts and techniques (such as matrix solution methods, numerical analysis and finite element / difference analysis). It provides course participants with an understanding of reservoir simulation equations, finite difference model and multiphase flow simulation.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Petroleum engineers, technical managers, and, technical supervisors involved in simulation engineering, reservoir development planning and reservoir management.

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• finite difference

• single phase flow

• multi phase flow

• Implicit pressure - Explicit saturation

• Implicit pressure - Implicit saturation

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Reservoir engineering concepts

• Reservoir simulation equation

• Finite difference model

• Well representation

• Solutions to simulation equations

• Numerical solution to single phase equation

• Multi phase flow simulation.

 

COURSE DURATION

This is a 3 days course.

 

ADVANCED RESERVOIR SIMULATION

 

THE COURSE

This course is intended to provide the practicing reservoir engineer with the advanced knowledge of the practical aspects of simulation engineering techniques. The course participants will learn about data analysis, model construction, history match, and performance prediction.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Petroleum engineers, technical managers, and, technical supervisors involved in improving simulation engineering, reservoir development planning and reservoir management

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• data analysis

• model construction

• history match

• performance prediction

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Study objectives

• Data analysis

• Model construction

• History match

• Reservoir performance prediction

• Black oil simulation

• Compositional simulation

• Reservoir Development plan

 

COURSE DURATION

This is a 3 days course.

 

RESERVES ESTIMATION

 

THE COURSE

This course is intended to provide the basic knowledge of oil and gas reserves classification and the use of reserves. Various methods of reserves estimation such as analogy, volumetric calculation and performance trends are examined in detail. The ethical issues that may arise when calculating and reporting reserves are reviewed. The course also provides participants with an understanding of uncertainties in reserves estimation and the economics of these estimates.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers and managers involved in reserves estimating and reporting.

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• Define and classify reserves

• Use various methods and techniques to estimate reserves and determine the impact of economics on those estimates

• Understand the various uses of reserves

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Purposes of Reserves

• Definitions of Petroleum Fluids

• Classification of Reserves

• Reserves Estimation Methods

1. Analogy

2. Volumetric Methods – Deterministic and Stochastic (Monte Carlo and Decision Tree)

3. Performance methods - Material Balance and Decline Analysis

4. Reservoir Simulation

• Special Interest Topics

1. Uncertainties

2. Heavy Oil

• Reserve Studies, Reports, Audit and Review

 

COURSE DURATION

This is a 3 days course.

 

INTEGRATED WATERFLOOD ASSET MANAGEMENT

THE COURSE

This course provides engineers the basic knowledge of designing successful waterflood and applying integrated water asset management principles. Factors influencing waterflood recovery are examined in detail. Waterflood surveillance techniques and field operations are reviewed. The course also provides participants with an understanding of waterflood project economics.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Reservoir, production, facilities, research and development, and operations engineers who are involved with the design and recovery optimization of waterflood projects.

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• Rock characteristics and fluid properties.

• Screening and designing waterflood projects.

• Preparing waterflood data

• Infill drilling and production performance

• Injection water requirement, net hydrocarbon production, and volumes of produced water

• Monitor waterflood performance and optimize oil recovery through new technology

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction.

• Immiscible displacement

• Data acquisition and analysis

• Design aspects

• Recovery expectations and production forecast

• Production engineering aspects and performance indices

• Reservoir monitoring

• Optimization of oil recovery

• Review of case histories

• Waterflood project economics

 

COURSE DURATION

This is a 3 days course.

 

OIL AND GAS PROPERTY EVALUATION

THE COURSE

This course provides participants with the basic knowledge of economic evaluation of projects and the assets. Cash flow techniques and project profitability are examined in detail. Decision Tree analysis and oil and gas property evaluation are reviewed. The course also provides participants with a basic understanding of risk analysis.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Managers, engineers, field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop their skill and understanding of basic economic analysis and profitability of petroleum exploration and production

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

 

• How to evaluate the economic viability of a project.

• Cash flow techniques applicable in economic evaluations

• Models for determining sensitivities and uncertainties

• Techniques for determining expected value.

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction.

• Definition of economic concepts

• Time value of money

• Cash flow techniques

• Project Profitability and rates of return

• Decision tree analysis

• Risk analysis

 

COURSE DURATION

• This is a 3 days course.

 

DECISION RISK MANAGEMENT

THE COURSE

This course teaches participants a technical process for analyzing decisions under conditions of risk and uncertainties. The basic techniques of Decision analysis and Monte Carlo simulation are examined in detail. Decision modeling of objectives, framework and options are reviewed. The course also provides participants with a basic understanding of new technologies such as fuzzy logic, neural networks and genetic algorithm..

 

DESIGNED FOR

Managers, engineers, field supervisors and other personnel who need to develop or improve their skill and understanding of decision making and risk management.

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• How to use decision trees to arrive at optimal decisions.

• Monte Carlo simulation and management of sensitivities and uncertainties

• Models for ranking options

• Techniques for determining expected value.

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction.

• Decision Tree analysis

• Monte Carlo simulation

• Establishing decision context

• Generating objectives and decision framework

• Generating decision options

• Ranking of options

• Soft computing models (Fuzzy Logic, neural network and generic algorithm

 

COURSE DURATION

• This is a 3 days course.

 

GAS CONDENSATE RESERVOIRS

 

THE COURSE

This course is intended to provide engineers with a basic understanding of gas condensate reservoir performance, recovery mechanisms and well productivity.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Managers, engineers, field supervisors and other personnel who carry out or review gas condensate field studies

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• Identifying gas condensate reservoirs from initial test or production data

• Preparing tables of fluid properties from gas condensate reservoirs for use in engineering studies

• Estimating  gas in place and reserves for gas condensate reservoirs

• Predicting reserves for gas condensate reservoirs using laboratory fluid property data

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction.

• Properties and behavior of gas condensate fluids

• Gas condensate sample collection and evaluation

• Gas condensate well testing

• Material balance in gas condensate reservoirs

• Operation by pressure depletion, pressure maintenance /cycling

• Well characteristics and requirements

• Economics of gas condensate reservoir operation.

 

COURSE DURATION

• This is a 3 days course.

 

BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

 

THE COURSE

This course is intended to provide the practicing reservoir engineer with the environmental tools, techniques and management for the oil and gas industry.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Petroleum engineers, technical managers, HSE professionals, supervisors and project managers involved in implementing the environmental policies of oil and gas companies.

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• Pollution control

• Impact analysis

• Oil Field Pit management

• FEPA guidelines and requirement

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction

• Pollution prevention

• Pollution evaluation

• Impact analysis  

• Onshore, Deltaic and offshore environment

• Habitat preservation

• Risk Analysis

• Oil Field Pit Management closure and remediation

• Legal and Regulatory structure for environmental protection [FEPA decrees]

 

COURSE DURATION

This is a 3 days course.

 

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF OIL AND GAS PRODUCING COMMUNITIES.

 

THE COURSE

This course is intended to provide oil and gas managers, government officials and civil society leaders with the tools, techniques and management skills required for the planning and implementation of sustainable development strategies  and programs in oil producing communities.

 

DESIGNED FOR

Stakeholders’ representatives, community leaders, community representatives, government officials, civil society leaders, technical managers, engineers, HSE professionals, and project managers involved in planning and implementing community development projects in oil and gas producing areas.

 

THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN ABOUT

• Models for sustainable development

• Planning and implementing community development programs

• Monitoring community development programs

• Millennium Development Goals (MDG), NEEDS, SEEDS, LEEDS.

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Introduction

• Measuring economic development

• Economic Development Models

• Development foci (savings & investment, small businesses & trade, human resources & education, population, health & nutrition, gender & development, agriculture, poverty & income distribution, state & government capacity, Environment).

• Development planning and designing community programs.

• Implementing community development programs

• Stakeholder grassroots participation and feedback

• Monitoring community development  programs

• MDG, NEEDS, SEEDS, LEEDS

 

COURSE DURATION

This is a 3 days course.

 

Special Technical courses can be designed for clients.