Reservoir Management and Surveillance

Level: Intermediate/Advance

Upcoming Sessions:

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

Designed for:

The course is suitable for reservoir engineers and other technical professionals who are actively involved in performing reservoir engineering studies including Waterflooding, Reservoir Simulation, and Decline Curve Analysis. The course is designed to provide petroleum engineers with advanced and modern concepts in Type Curve Analysis for reserve estimation.

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 concepts.

Course Content:
  1. What is Conformance?
  2. Conformance Problems
  3. Stages of Oil Recovery
  4. Screening Criteria & Selection of IOR Methods
  5. Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeability Concepts:
    • Capillary Pressure and Fluid Distributions
      • Exercise #1: Fluid Distribution and OOIP
    • Two and Three Relative Permeability
    • Normalization of Relative Permeability
      • Exercise #2: Normalizing Relative Permeability Data
    • Relative Permeability Hysteresis Models
      • Land’s Trapping Coefficient
      • Carlson’s Model
      • Killough’s Model
      • Impact on WAG Flood Recovery
      • Exercise #3: Construction 3-phase Relative Permeability
  6. Modern Decline and Type Curves Analysis Models
    • Use of type curves for estimating reserves.
    • Traditional Arps decline curves
    • Modern DCA
      • Modified Arps’ Method
      • Duong’s Method
      • Exercise #4: The X Field- Constructing DCA Using Actual Field Data
      • Weibull Growth Model
      • Power Law Function
      • Modified Hyperbolic Function
      • Approximation of the Complete and Incomplete Gamma Function
      • Stretched Exponential Function
      • Comparison of Different Methodologies
      • Exercise #5: The X Field- Comparison of DCA Methods Using Actual Field Data
  7. Estimated Ultimate Recovery “EUR”
    • Generating Type Curves Using Actual Filed Data
    • Generating the P90, P50, and P10 Type Curves
      • Exercise #6: The X Field- Constructing Type Curves Using Actual Field Data
  8. Basic Water Flooding and EOR
  9. Modeling of Oil Reservoir Systems
    • Hands-on Reservoir Simulation of Oil Reservoirs
    • The Carsen Field Water Flood Simulation:
      • Exercise #7: The Carsen Field- Modeling Field Performance and Optimizing Recovery
      • Primary Recovery
      • Waterflood Modeling
      • EOR
  10. Waterflooding Reservoir Surveillance
    • Water-cut Analysis
    • Voidage-Replacement-Ratio
    • Monitoring layering performance
    • Bubble Maps
    • The ABC Plots
    • Step-Rate-Testing
    • Hall Plot
    • The X-Plot