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