Reservoir Characterization
Level: Intermediate
Upcoming Sessions:
To Be Determined
Please Contact Us at tahmed@mtech.edu for more information
Instructors: Dr. Tarek Ahmed
Designed for:
Geologists, geophysicists,
reservoir engineers, production engineers, petrophysicists and other
technical professionals
Course Overview:
The course is designed to
review the fundamental principles that deal with rock properties and
reservoir characterization. The course also introduces advanced theories
of immiscible and miscible displacements, determination of lost oil due
to gas-cap/water influx expansions, and detail discussion of several
pseudo functions. Hands-on exercises will cover adjusting and generating
fluid petrophysical properties that go into the input of a numerical
simulator.
Participants are encouraged
to bring their own laptop computer to class.
Course Content:
The course deals with all
types of data that are essential to performing simulation studies,
including:
- Fluid Chacaterization
- Hydrocarbon System Characterization
- Understanding Fluid Laboratory Data
- QC/QA of Laboratory Data
- Modeling of Laboratory Data
- Oil Lost to Gas Cap Expansion and Water Influx
- Rock Characterization
- Rock Properties
- Wettability
- Overburden Permeability and Porosity
- Rock Compressibility
- Capillary Pressure
- Two and Three Phase Relative Permeability
- Treatment of Hysteresis Effects
- Concept of Permeability Jail
- Normalizing Relative Permeability Data
- Capillary Pressure, Fluid Distribution, and Understanding the Transition Zone
- Reservoir Characterization & Zonation
- Upscaling
- Zonation and Layering System
- Identifying Flow Unites
- Characterizing Vertical and Areal Heterogeneities
- Permeability Sequencing Methods
- Positional Approach
- Relative Permeability Hysteresis Models
- Land’s Trapping Coefficient
- Carlson’s Model
- Killoough’s Model
- Impact on WAG Flood Recovery
- Winland R35
- Pore Throat Index Approach
- Characterizing Formations with Well Testing
- Impact of Reservoir Characterization on IOR Performance
- Rock and Fluid Properties Consideration When Planning a Waterflood
- Identifying Flow Unites
- Characterizing Vertical and Areal Heterogeneities
- Permeability Sequencing Methods
- Positional Approach
- Fractional Flow Equation
- Displacement Efficiency
- Areal Sweep Efficiency
- Vertical Sweep Efficiency
- Immiscible and Miscible Displacements
- Rock and Fluid Properties Consideration When Planning a Waterflood
- Practical Applications Of Reservoir Simulation
- Gridding Techniques
- Sector Modeling
- History Matching
- Modeling of Tight Gas Reservoir
- Team Project: Development of the Nameless Field