This Applied Reservoir Engineering training program is designed as a comprehensive, multi-module journey that provides participants with a solid foundation in essential reservoir concepts and progressively advances into strategic decision-making techniques. Over the course of the program, participants delve into the physical characteristics of oil and gas reservoirs, starting with fundamental rock and fluid properties and moving through to methods for quantifying hydrocarbons in place. They will learn to interpret PVT data, understand the influence of aquifers, and apply classical techniques to account for water drive and other natural reservoir energy sources.
The training then guides learners through the complexities of reservoir performance evaluation, including an in-depth look at primary drive mechanisms and the use of radial flow theory to interpret well tests. Participants will gain insight into critical metrics—such as productivity indices and inflow performance relationships—that underpin production optimization. The curriculum further covers advanced topics such as immiscible displacement, fractional flow principles, and the challenges presented by horizontal wells and specialized reservoir settings.
As the program progresses, learners will explore the indispensable role of reservoir simulation in shaping effective field development strategies, from initial concept planning to mature field management. Finally, participants will master practical forecasting techniques using decline curve analysis, ensuring that they leave with the tools to predict and enhance future reservoir performance. By the conclusion of the training, professionals will have developed the technical acumen and analytic mindset needed to make informed, data-driven decisions and contribute to the sustainable, profitable management of hydrocarbon assets.
• Geologists and Geophysicists Moving into Reservoir Engineering Roles: Subsurface professionals who need to understand reservoir dynamics, fluid-flow mechanisms, and volumetric calculations to improve their cross-disciplinary effectiveness.
• Petroleum Engineering Technologists and Technical Specialists: Technical staff involved in data analysis, reservoir surveillance, or providing support to reservoir and production engineers will benefit from understanding the rationale behind engineering decisions.
• Asset Managers and Field Development Planners: Professionals who need a stronger technical background in reservoir behavior, reserves estimation, and production forecasting to make informed investment and development decisions.
- Understand fundamental rock and fluid properties (porosity, permeability, compressibility, wettability, relative permeability) and their influence on reservoir performance
- Interpret PVT data and laboratory reports for reliable fluid characterization
- Apply volumetric methods to estimate original oil and gas in-place
- Employ classical aquifer characterization techniques (Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, Fetkovitch) to understand water drive influence
- Determine primary reservoir drive mechanisms (volumetric, water drive, gas cap expansion, gravity drainage, compaction, combination) and their impact on ultimate recovery
- Utilize radial flow theory to interpret well test data
- Estimate average reservoir pressure, productivity indices, and inflow performance relationships (IPR) for both oil and gas wells
- Understand immiscible displacement and fractional flow principles (Buckley-Leverett, Welge) and their practical implications
- Appreciate the role of reservoir simulation in optimizing field development
- Use decline curve analysis methods to forecast production and estimate future reservoir performance
- Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions
- Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability, and relative permeability
- Averaging reservoir property data
- Phase behavior of reservoir fluids: gas, oil, and water properties
- PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports
- Determining critical properties of reservoir rocks and fluids (oil, water, and gas) PVT relationships
- Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods
- Build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships
- Review reserve booking guidelines
- Characterize aquifers using methods like Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch
- Assess reservoir performance with dynamic techniques
- Determine reservoir drive mechanisms for oil and gas reservoirs
- Volumetric drive
- Water drive
- Gravity drainage
- Gas cap expansion
- Compaction drive
- Combination drive
- Naturally fractured reservoirs
- Critical reservoir fluid reservoirs
- Oil well testing
- Radial flow theory
- Wellbore storage and skin
- Drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes
- Type curve solutions
- Pseudo steady state
- Steady state
- Average pressure estimates
- Productivity index (PI) and inflow performance relationships (IPR)
- Gas well testing
- Pressure, pressure squared, and real gas pseudo pressure solutions
- Rate sensitive skins
- Multi-rate testing
- Gas well deliverability
- Immiscible displacement: fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley-Leverett, Welge
- Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running
- Critical rates calculations and breakthrough times
- Horizontal well applications
- Introduction to reservoir simulation and its importance
- Types of simulation models and simulators
- Setting up a simulator model
- Oil field developments
- Development phases
- Reservoir characterization
- Sweep and recovery optimization
- Production policies
- Gas field developments
- Characteristics and deliverability issues
- Contracts and planning tools
- Forecast production decline
- Use of decline curve analysis in predicting reservoir performance over time
Training can take place in 4 formats:
- Self-paced
- Blended learning
- Instructor-led online (webinar)
- Instructor-led offline (classroom)
Description of training formats:
- Self-paced learning or e-Learning means you can learn in your own time and control the amount of material to consume. There is no need to complete the assignments and take the courses at the same time as other learners.
- Blended learning or "hybrid learning" means you can combine Self-paced learning or e-Learning with traditional instructor-led classroom or webinar activities. This approach requires physical presence of both teacher and student in physical or virtual (webinars) classrooms or workshops. Webinar is a seminar or presentation that takes place on the internet, allowing participants in different locations to see and hear the presenter, ask questions, and sometimes answer polls.
- Instructor-led training, or ILT, means that the learning can be delivered in a lecture or classroom format, as an interactive workshop, as a demonstration under the supervision and control of qualified trainer or instructor with the opportunity for learners to practice, or even virtually, using video-conferencing tools.
When forming groups of students, special attention is paid to important criteria - the same level of knowledge and interests among all students of the course, in order to maintain stable group dynamics during training.
Group dynamics is the development of a group in time, which is caused by the interaction of participants with each other and external influence on the group. In other words, these are the stages that the training group goes through in the process of communicating with the coach and among themselves.
The optimal group size for different types of training:
- Self-paced / E-learning: 1
- Instructor-led off-line (classroom): 6 – 12
- Instructor-led on-line (webinar): 6 – 12
- Blended learning: 6 – 12
- Workshop: 6 – 12
- On-the-job: 2 – 4
- Simulator: 1 – 2
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- Action in a variable gaming environment;
- The right choice is made through experimentation.
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