Oil Reservoir Management

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 engineers actively involved with the management and operation of oil reservoirs.

Course Overview:

This is an in-depth course that is designed to provide 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 concepts.

Course Content:
  • Introduction and Review of Basic Reservoir Engineering
  • Stages of Oil Recovery
  • 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
    • Relative Permeability Hysteresis Models
      • Land’s Trapping Coefficient
      • Carlson’s Model
      • Killoough’s Model
      • Impact on WAG Flood Recovery
  • Modern Decline and Type Curves Analysis Models for Unconventional and Conventional Reservoirs:
    • Probability-Log Scale Performance
    • 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 (using Participants observed reservoir data)
  • Estimated Ultimate Recovery “EUR”
    • Generating Type Curves (using Participants reservoir data)
    • How to generate the P90, P50, and P10 Type Curves? (using Participants observed reservoir data)
  • 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
  • Water Influx
    • Recognition of Natural Water Influx
    • Water Influx Models
  • Material Balance Equation for Oil Reservoirs
  • Modeling of Oil Reservoir Systems
    • Hands-on Reservoir Simulation of Oil Reservoirs