Online courses on Reservoir Engineering in the oil industry

This comprehensive course covers all the fundamental concepts of reservoir engineering including fluid and rock properties, well inflow performance, fluid flow in porous media, reservoir drive mechanisms, performance trend analysis, material balance and analytical aquifers, well testing and pressure transient analysis and reserves estimation. IChemE accredited course (35 CPD hours).

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Who’s it for?

. . . anyone enthusiastic to learn about the core subjects involved in reservoir engineering.

Course Price

€ 450

Course length

5 days classroom equivalent.

Identify key reservoir rock and fluid properties from surface and down-hole measurements and explain their application in reservoir engineering
Explain how fluid flows in the reservoir and describe the use and application of relative permeability curves for multi-phase flow
List and discuss the main techniques for reserves estimation and their strengths and weaknesses. Discuss the concepts of performance trend analysis
Explain the principle and limitations of the material balance method and the influence of drive mechanisms on the recovery factor
Describe the concepts and application of well testing and pressure transient analysis. Explain the key interpretation methods and list the information that can be gained

1. Introduction to Reservoir Engineering

Introduction to Reservoir Engineering
Petroleum initially in place (PIIP) estimation
Estimating how much and how fast the petroleum can be recovered
Factors affecting recovery factor
Underground pressures and fluid gradients
Reservoir fluid gradients and contacts
Determining reservoir fluid contacts and estimating temperatures
QUIZ - Introduction to Reservoir Engineering

2. Units review

Units - an introduction to oilfield units
Units - an exercise on conversion factors
Units - prefixes in common use
QUIZ - Units

3. References and Resources

Foundations - Rock and fluid properties and Reserves estimation
Reservoir Performance

4. Fluid Properties

Reservoir fluid composition
Reservoir fluid properties
QUIZ - Reservoir fluid composition
Reservoir fluid types (classification)
Reservoir fluid types (typical oil and gas properties)
Reservoir fluid properties - plots
QUIZ - Reservoir fluid types and properties
Wellbore fluids sampling
Reservoir fluids measurements (PVT analysis)
Fluid property correlations
QUIZ - Reservoir fluid measurement, analysis and correlations
PRACTICAL - Reservoir fluid properties

5. Rock Properties

Introduction to Rock Properties
Porosity concepts and types
Porosity values and measurement
Permeability concepts and initial measurement (Darcy)
Permeability measurement units
Permeability measurement with air and correction for liquid
Permeability values relationship with porosity and estimation
QUIZ - Rock properites (porosity and permeability)
Compressibility definition values and correlations
Fluid saturation definitions and terminology
Water oil and gas saturation concepts
Fluid saturation changes with time and typical values
QUIZ - Rock properties (compressibility and saturations)
Surface and interfacial tension concepts
Wettability concepts
Capillary pressure concepts and applications
Capillary pressure and transition zones
Capillary pressure prediction using the Leverett J function
Rock property measurements
QUIZ - Rock properties (wettability and capillary pressures)

6. Relative permeability and fractional flow

Introduction to Relative Permeability
Relative permeability tables and plots
Normalised relative permeability
Typical rel. perm. curves for oil or water wet rocks and gas reservoirs
Relative permeability correlations (Corey functions)
Introduction to Fractional Flow
Fractional flow calculations for water and example plots
QUIZ - Relative permeability and fractional flow

7. Well inflow performance

Inflow performance and Productivity Index (PI)
PI and Darcy's Law
How to increase PI
Pressure distribution in the reservoir
Radial inflow performance equation (oil)
QUIZ - Inflow performance and PI
Two phase inflow performance (PI and Vogel)
Skin components
Inflow performance for gas reservoirs
Inflow performance for water injectors
QUIZ - Multiphase inflow performance

8. Fluid Flow in Porous Media

Introduction to fluid flow through porous media
Darcys law for radial flow
Pressure distribution in the reservoir
Radial flow regimes (1)
Radial flow regimes (2)
QUIZ - Fluid Flow through Porous Media (1)
Darcys law for steady state and pseudo steady state flow (oil reservoirs)
Radial flow equation for transient flow (oil reservoirs)
Gas reservoirs IPR and the compressible fluid radial flow equation
Radial flow equations for gas
Multiphase steady state radial flow equations
Introduction to Immiscible Displacement
QUIZ - Fluid Flow through Porous Media (2)

9. Reservoir Drive Mechanisms

Introduction to reservoir drive mechanisms
Primary recovery drives and typical recovery factors
Secondary and tertiary (EOR) recovery drives
Production characteristics of oil reservoirs by drive mechanism
Production characteristics of gas reservoirs
Summary of reservoir drive mechanisms
QUIZ - Reservoir drive mechanisms

10. Performance Trend Analysis

Performance Trend Analysis techniques
Introduction to decline curve analysis
Arps decline curves
Nominal and effective decline rates
Typical decline curve plots
Applications and limitations of decline curves
Rate transient analysis - Fetkovitch type curves
Rate transient analysis - Blasingame type curves
Water oil ratio plot
Gas wells forecasting
QUIZ - Performance Trend Analysis

11. Introduction to Material Balance

Introduction to Material Balance
Material balance for oil reservoirs (overview)
QUIZ - Introduction to Material Balance

12. Material Balance for oil reservoirs

Material balance for oil reservoirs (net fluid withdrawal)
Material balance for oil reservoirs (oil and dissolved gas expansion)
Material balance for oil reservoirs (rock and water expansion)
Material balance for oil reservoirs (gas cap expansion and total expansion)
Material balance for oil reservoirs (the full equation)
Material balance for oil reservoirs (terminology used)
Material balance for oil reservoirs (solving for oil in place and aquifer size)
Impact of drive mechanism - solution gas drive above bubble point
Impact of drive mechanism - solution gas drive below bubble point
Impact of drive mechanism - gas cap drive and natural water drive
Summary of drive mechanisms as applied to material balance

13. Material Balance for gas reservoirs

Material balance for gas reservoirs (Havlena Odeh method)
Material balance for gas reservoirs (P over Z plot method)
QUIZ - Material Balance for oil and gas reservoirs

14. Summary of Material Balance

Using material balance models for prediction
Summary of material balance techniques

15. Introduction to analytical aquifer models

Analytical aquifer models - concepts
Analytical aquifer models - Hurst and Van Everdingen (introduction)
Analytical aquifer models - Hurst and Van Everdingen (total aquifer influx)
Analytical aquifer models - Fetkovitch
Analytical aquifer models - Carter and Tracy
Summary of analytical aquifer models

16. Introduction to Well Testing

Introduction and objectives
Well capacity or deliverability
Flow regimes and time to reach the reservoir boundary
Radial flow equations for oil

17. Pressure Drawdown Analysis

Pressure drawdown analysis - overview
Pressure drawdown analysis - skin calculation
Wellbore storage concepts
Wellbore storage estimation
Wellbore storage calculation example
Radius of investigation
Fault boundaries

18. Pressure Buildup Analysis

Pressure buildup analysis - overview
Pressure buildup analysis - superposition
Pressure buildup analysis - Horner plot
Pressure buildup analysis - Miller, Dyes, Hutchinson plot
Pressure buildup analysis - reservoir pressure estimation using MBH method

19. Type Curves

Dimensionless groups
Type curves - overview
Type curves - original and Bourdet derivative plots for radial flow
Type curves - flow regime identification and non-radial flow
Deconvolution overview
Summary of data interpretation techniques
Gas well testing
Well test design and planning
QUIZ - Well testing

20. Reserves Estimation

Introduction and reserves classification overview
Reserves classification for discovered resources
Reserves estimation methods overview
Analogy and volumetric methods - concepts
Analogy and volumetric methods - conditions and data required
Material Balance method - overview and concepts
Material Balance method - calculations for oil
Material Balance method - calculations for gas
Reservoir simulation method overview
Performance trend analysis overview
Decline curve analysis theory
Decline curve analysis and WOR plots
Reserves estimation summary
QUIZ - Introduction to Reserves Estimation

21. Course Final Exam

EXAM - Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

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  Upon successful completion of a module (set of courses), a certificate will be issued. This can be used as evidence for requesting module exemption under Robert Gordon University’s Recognition of Certified Prior Learning (RCPL) when applying for entry to the M.Sc. in Petroleum Production Engineering. Please note undertaking these Baobab courses does not guarantee RPCL.
  
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Ease of use

First of all it is fantastic! The setup is easy to understand and your introduction helps to clarify all open questions. The search function works well. I tested a key words and I always found what I wanted.

Asset Manager, OMV Petrom

Usefulness

I really think the bitesize videos are excellent. They are so easy to dip in and out. It allows me to go exactly to the part I am interested in. It is the perfect tool for on-the-job learning – the perfect virtual colleague who can answer all your quick questions.

Reservoir Engineer, Chevron

Knowledge

The videos are very didactic, short and with concise explanations. I have been using it to remind me of important concepts in the well performance theme and also to learn about some software applications. And definitely I can apply on my day-to-day job. I found it very useful and a fast way of learning, rather than being in a classroom.

Production Engineer, Total

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