Applied Reservoir Engineering

Level: Intermediate

Upcoming Sessions:

To Be Determined
Please Contact Us at tahmed@mtech.edu for more information
Instructor: Dr. Tarek Ahmed

Designed for:

This course is design for Petroleum Engineers who desire to obtain a comprehensive knowledge of the application of reservoir engineering to optimize field performance and maximizing hydrocarbon recoveries.

Course Overview:

This is an in-depth course that is designed to provide the participants with a solid 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 performance concepts. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop computer to class.

Course Content:
  • Introduction and Review of Basic Reservoir Engineering
    • Stages of Oil Recovery
    • Primary Depletion and Recovery Mechanisms
    • Depletion Drive Index
    • Variable Bubble Point Concept
  • Screening Criteria & Selection of IOR Methods
  • Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeability Concepts
    • Capillary Pressure and Fluid Distributions
    • Two and Three Relative Permeability
    • Normalization of Relative Permeability
  • Modern Decline and Type Curves Analysis Models for Unconventional and Conventional Reservoirs:
    • Decline in unconventional reservoirs.
    • Use of type curves for estimating reserves.
    • Traditional Arps decline curves
    • Modified Arps’ Method
    • Duong’s Method
    • Weibull Growth Model
    • Power Law Function
    • Modified Hyperbolic Function
    • Approximation of the Complete and Incomplete Gamma Function
    • Stretched Exponential Function
    • Comparison of Different Methodologies
  • Estimated Ultimate Recovery “EUR”
    • Generating Type Curves
    • Probability-Log Scale Performance
    • How to generate the P90, P50, and P10 Type Curves?
  • Water Influx
    • Recognition of Natural Water Influx
    • Water Influx Models
      • Pot Aquifer
      • Schilthuis’ Steady State Model
      • Modified Hurst Method
      • The Van Everdingen and Hurst Method
      • Carter and Tracy Method
      • Fetkovich’s Method
  • Material Balance Equation for Gas and Oil Reservoirs
    • Generalized Material Balance Equation
    • Material Balance as an Equation of Straight Line
    • Forecast Reservoir Performance with the MBE
  • Gas & Oil Well Performance
    • Vertical Well Performance
    • Horizontal Well Performance
    • Inflow Performance Relationship
    • The Link between IPR, MBE, and Decline Curves Analysis
    • Water and Gas Coning
  • Introduction of Reservoir Simulation