Advanced Reservoir Engineering
Level: Advance
Upcoming Sessions:
To Be Determined
Please Contact Us at tahmed@mtech.edu for more information
Instructor: Dr. Tarek Ahmed
Objective:
This is an in-depth 5-day course that is designed to provide the participants with a solid and in
depth understanding of reservoir engineering and associated modern theories in order to
manage and maximize hydrocarbon recovery. Hands-on examples and exercises are used
throughout the course to help participants with understanding key concepts. Participants are
encouraged to bring reservoir data to discuss in class.
Course Content:
- Screening Criteria & Selection of IOR Methods
- Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeability Concepts
- Generating Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeability Data from Limited Rock
- Characteristics Data
- Normalization of Relative Permeability
- Three-Phase Relative Permeability Hysteresis Models
- Land’s Trapping Coefficient
- Carlson’s Model
- Killough’s Model
- Impact of Three-Phase Rel. Perm. on WAG Flood Recovery
- Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow
- Basic Transient Flow Equation
- The Ei-Function Solution
- The Dimensionless Pressure Drop “p D ” Solution
- Principle and Concept of Superposition
- Transient Well Testing Methods
- Modern Decline Curve Analysis
- Traditional Decline Curve Analysis
- Modern Decline Curve Analysis:
- Boundary Dominated “b”
- Modified Arp’s Method
- Duong’s Approach
- Simplified Stretched Exponential Production Decline
- Stretched Exponential Production Decline
- T-Model
- EUR, P10, P50, P90
- Water Influx Models in Oil and Gas Reservoirs
- Pot Aquifer Model
- chilthuis’ Steady State
- Hurst’s Modified Steady State Model
- The Van Everdingen and Hurst Unsteady State Model
- Fetkovich’s Approach
- Water Coning in Oil & Gas Reservoirs
- Material Balance Equations for Oil and Gas Reservoirs
- Volumetric Calculations of the Original Oil and Gas in Place
- Primary Depletion Mechanisms
- Generalized Gas & Oil Material Balance Equations
- Linearization of the Generalized MBE
- Flowing MBE
- MBE for Volatile Oil
- MBE for Retrograde Gas Reservoirs
- Predicting the Performance of Oil and Gas Reservoirs
- Reservoir Opportunity Index
- Vertical and Horizontal Oil and Gas Wells Performance
- Productivity Index
- Impact of Liquid Loading on Well Performance
- Vertical Well Inflow Performance Relationships “IPR”
- Horizontal Well Inflow Performance Relationships “IPR”
- Composite IPR for a Stratified Formation
- Impact of Water Cut on IPR
- Introduction to Dual Porosity Models
- Basic NODAL Analysis Methods for Oil and Gas Wells
- Pressure Loss in Perforations
- Pressure loss in Vertical Pipe
- Tubing Head Performance
- Choke Performance
- Effect of Choke Size Changes
- Pressure Loss in Horizontal Pipe
- Impact of Separator Pressure
- Optimum THP
- Effect of Tubing Size