Integrated reservoir management training course – 5 days

Suitable for: Petroleum and Reservoir Engineers and some experienced Geo-Scientists responsible for the day-to-day management of reservoirs.

The course provides a good understanding of the concepts and tools that can contribute to improving reservoir management by making it a multi-disciplinary process. It will give participants:

Awareness of how to increase the value of a hydrocarbon asset.
Knowledge of how to plan field developments and monitor reservoir performance.
An introduction to the technology and techniques involved in reservoir characterisation, simulation and surveillance.

Course Outline:
The specific content of the course can be tailored to meet the needs of the attendees. This is an outline of the typical course:

Introduction to “Reservoir Management”

What do we mean by reservoir management
The sources and acquisition of reservoir data
The “old” sequential approach
The “new” integrated/ iterative way of reservoir management
The primary importance of reservoir characterisation

The Reservoir Management Process

The objective – increasing the value of a hydrocarbon asset
Possible targets – decreased risk, greater and earlier production, reduced costs, added flexibility
Planning field developments
Monitoring reservoir performance
Evaluating results by comparisons of actual performance with prediction

Understanding the Reservoir – the Technology Toolkit

Review of popular systems for static and dynamic reservoir modeling
The importance of applying the technology competently
Integration of geological, geophysical and engineering data
Reservoir characterization, describing the reservoir – the static model with static data
Reservoir simulation, describing the reservoir’s behaviour – the dynamic model with dynamic data
Reservoir surveillance – monitoring performance and analysing the data

Adding Economic Value