About the Course
Course Description:
This course covers the processes and workflows for performing integrated reservoir studies using geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering data. The course highlights concepts pertaining to reservoir description, reservoir modeling and simulation, reservoir production optimization, and economic and uncertainty analysis. The course also includes extensive hands-on training and problem-solving using public domain software.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for project engineers, geoscientists, reservoir engineers, production engineers, petroleum engineers, planning and development analysts, business planners, senior/executive managers.
What You Will Gain:
How to work together on a multidisciplinary team consisting of geophysicists, geologists, petrophysicists, and petroleum engineers
Understand the workflow for conducting integrated reservoir studies, including the components of a study and data required
How to perform a complete description of a hydrocarbon reservoir (static reservoir model) using geoscientific, geostatistical, and engineering methods
How to design, construct, execute, and quality check an integrated reservoir simulation model given geological, geophysical, seismic, electromagnetic, well log, and production data
How to predict and optimize reservoir performance using reservoir simulation, economic modeling, and uncertainty assessment. How to document the results of integrated reservoir studies
Course Outline:
Overview and objectives of integrated reservoir studies. Workflow for integrated reservoir studies. Geological description (facies, mapping, etc). Geophysical description
Spatial and structural modeling. Facies/rock type modeling
Introduction to reservoir rock petrophysical properties. Estimation of properties at well locations.
Well logging and logging analysis. Standard and special core analysis
Core-well log integration synchronization and workflow
Integrated formation evaluation and reservoir characterization
Reservoir model construction and calibration. Ranking of realizations
Economic and risk analysis
Project management applications to integrated reservoir studies
Field Case Studies