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