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GEOP025 - Gas Reservoir Management
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What this course about?

This Gas Reservoir Management training programme is a comprehensive, technically rigorous course designed to enhance the knowledge and skill sets of professionals responsible for optimizing gas field production and ensuring maximum reservoir value. The programme begins with foundational principles, guiding participants through the classification and properties of gas reservoirs, before advancing to more intricate topics such as fluid characterization, phase behavior, and the interpretation of complex laboratory data. These core competencies lay the groundwork for subsequent instruction in flow diagnostics, deliverability testing, and cutting-edge well test analysis techniques—including considerations for non-Darcy flow and specialized well configurations.

Central to the course is the thorough exploration of methodologies for accurately estimating Original Gas-In-Place (OGIP) and integrating these estimates into forecasting models and predictive simulations. Participants learn how to use decline curve analysis, coupled material balance, and state-of-the-art reservoir simulation techniques to confidently forecast reservoir performance and guide strategic decisions. The programme also emphasizes practical skill building, from identifying and mitigating production bottlenecks (such as sand, scale, and hydrates) to optimizing gas flow across wellbores, pipelines, and surface facilities.

As the training advances, participants examine advanced reservoir management strategies tailored to different reservoir drives and conditions, such as water-drive and gas condensate systems. They gain exposure to coalbed methane, field-wide optimization tactics, and cutting-edge technologies, including enhanced gas recovery (EGR) and carbon capture and storage (CCS). In addition, the course delves into reserves estimation and classification methods, ensuring that learners are equipped to align their technical evaluations with standardized industry guidelines and regulatory frameworks.

Finally, the programme concludes with an economic and risk evaluation module, guiding participants through the process of building solid business cases, assessing technical and economic uncertainties, and applying holistic risk mitigation strategies. Throughout, the training emphasizes integrative thinking, blending reservoir engineering concepts, geoscience insights, economic considerations, and the latest digital innovations. The result is a comprehensive learning experience that empowers engineers, geoscientists, asset managers, and decision-makers to excel in modern gas reservoir management and confidently shape the future of their operations.

Who is this course for?
This comprehensive training program on Gas Reservoir Management is designed for professionals actively involved in the exploration, development, and optimization of natural gas reservoirs. The ideal participants include:
• Reservoir Engineers and Petroleum Engineers seeking to deepen their understanding of gas reservoir behavior and improve their decision-making capabilities.
• Production Engineers and Well Completion Engineers involved in well testing, gas flow optimization, and troubleshooting flow bottlenecks.
• Geoscientists (Geologists, Geophysicists, Petrophysicists) who want to integrate subsurface data, reservoir properties, and fluid dynamics to enhance reservoir characterization and forecasting.
• Asset Managers and Field Development Planners responsible for strategic decision-making, reserves classification, economic evaluation, and long-term asset optimization.
• Technical Team Leads, Project Managers, and Portfolio Analysts who need a holistic understanding of gas reservoir management to balance technical, economic, and risk considerations.
• Consultants and Service Company Professionals providing specialized solutions to reservoir challenges, wishing to broaden their technical skill set and knowledge base.
What will you learn?
  • Explain the key principles, types, classifications, and properties of gas reservoirs, integrating core petroleum engineering concepts into management practices
  • Interpret complex PVT data, utilize Z-factors effectively, and understand gas condensate behavior to guide reservoir development strategies
  • Conduct and interpret various well tests (including deliverability, non-Darcy flow, and specialized well testing scenarios) to identify reservoir and wellbore performance drivers
  • Apply material balance and advanced plotting techniques to reliably estimate Original Gas-In-Place, ensuring accurate resource quantification and development planning
  • Use decline curve analysis, integrated material balance, and deliverability forecasting methods to predict well and reservoir performance over time
  • Analyze gas flow in wellbores and pipelines, identify production constraints (e.g., sand, scale, hydrates), and recommend mitigation strategies to enhance well productivity
  • Construct, calibrate, and validate basic reservoir simulation models, then utilize simulation results for predicting future performance, optimizing gas well spacing, and evaluating infill drilling opportunities
  • Formulate and implement integrated strategies for various gas reservoir types (water-drive, condensate, coalbed methane) and field-wide optimization efforts
  • Estimate OGIP and reserves using multiple techniques, classify them according to industry standards, and apply recovery factor estimation methods for sound portfolio management
  • Integrate technical analysis with economic evaluation frameworks, assess uncertainties and risks, develop robust business cases, and propose risk mitigation strategies for sound decision-making
Course outline
  • Introduction to gas reservoirs: Types, properties, and classifications
  • Key principles of gas reservoir management
  • Overview of reservoir fluid dynamics and their impact on gas flow
  • Integration of reservoir engineering concepts with management practices
  • Gas condensate sampling techniques
  • Interpreting laboratory reports: PVT analysis, Z-factor, and gas composition
  • Understanding phase behavior and its implications for reservoir performance
  • Advanced fluid property characterization for gas and condensate reservoirs
  • Deliverability testing: Techniques and performance diagnostics
  • Non-Darcy flow considerations: Impacts on gas production and mitigation strategies
  • Well testing for specialized wells: Hydraulically fractured wells, horizontal wells, gas condensate reservoirs
  • Analysis of transient and steady-state flow regimes
  • Material balance techniques for various drive mechanisms
  • Alternate plotting techniques for accurate OGIP estimation
  • Production decline type curves: Theory, application, and advanced methods
  • Integration of OGIP estimation with reservoir performance models
  • Decline curve analysis: Basics and advanced applications
  • Forecasting reservoir performance and ultimate recovery
  • Coupled material balance and deliverability techniques
  • History matching and validation for reliable performance analysis
  • Advanced methods for identifying flow restrictions and bottlenecks
  • Dynamics of gas flow in wellbores and flowlines
  • Pressure drop analysis: Calculations and mitigation strategies
  • Identifying and addressing restrictions to gas production: Sand production, scaling, hydrate formation
  • Integrating gas production systems with surface facilities for optimization
  • Basics of reservoir simulation: Building static and dynamic models
  • Initialization, calibration, and validation of reservoir models
  • Prediction of future performance and recovery under varying scenarios
  • Gas well spacing and infill drilling: Strategies for maximizing recovery
  • Use of simulation to assess coupled material balance and deliverability
  • Management of water-drive gas reservoirs
  • Predicting gas condensate reservoir performance
  • Coalbed methane reservoir management
  • Field-wide gas production optimization strategies
  • Integration of subsurface and surface data for holistic management
  • OGIP and reserve estimation methods: Volumetric methods, material balance techniques, decline curve analysis
  • Classification of reserves: Proved, probable, and possible, proved developed and undeveloped reserves
  • Advanced recovery factor estimation techniques
  • Economic evaluation techniques for reservoir projects
  • Input parameters and evaluation criteria
  • Building business cases for decision-making
  • Assessing technical and economic risks in reservoir projects
  • Strategies for mitigating risks in reservoir projects
  • Innovations in reservoir monitoring and modeling
  • Use of artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Advances in gas recovery techniques: Enhanced gas recovery (EGR), carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • Case studies on successful gas reservoir management practices
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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.
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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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  • Focused on the needs of the user
  • Instant feedback
  • Independent decision making and choice of actions
  • Better assimilation and memorization of the material
  • Adaptive pace of learning tailored to the individual needs of the student
  • Better transfer of skills learned in a learning situation to real conditions

Basic principles of training:

  • A gradual increase in the level of difficulty in the game;
  • Using a simplified version of a problem situation;
  • Action in a variable gaming environment;
  • The right choice is made through experimentation.

The main advantages of Game Based Learning technology:

  • Low degree of physical risk and liability
  • Motivation to learn while receiving positive emotions from the process;
  • Practice - mirroring the real situation
  • Timely feedback
  • Choice of different playing roles
  • Learning in collaboration
  • Developing your own behavior strategy
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  • Laboratory workshops that simulate the operation of expensive bench equipment in real production
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GEOP025 - Gas Reservoir Management
Language: English, Russian
Level: Intermediate
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