By the end of this CDGA training course, participants will be able to:

• Gain a working knowledge of how the complex subject of petroleum reservoir engineering can be applied in the field in a practical manner
• Construct well bore history schematics
• Import production data and calculate cumulative and total production
• Import pressure test data
• Determine reservoir and well bore properties
• Generate decline curves and extrapolate production and economic cut-offs
• Produce bubble plot maps of production

Geologists, Geophysicists, Petro physicists working in exploration and exploitation, production engineers and technologists, anyone who are relatively new to the industry, but who have some background in reservoir geology and the production of hydrocarbons.

Introduction to Basic Concepts of Oil & Gas Accumulations

• Migration of Hydrocarbons
• Key geologic and reservoir definitions
• Traps and their classification
• Reservoir engineering units and dimensional analysis
• Oil and gas recovery process
  
  

Characterization of Oil and Gas Reservoirs

• Types of oil and gas reservoirs
• Clay content, heterogeneity and anisotropy
• Natural drive mechanisms
• Elements of reliable geological models
• Naturally-fractured reservoirs
  
  

   Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties

• Porosity, permeability, density and compressibility
• Rock wettability and hysteretic phenomena
• PVT characteristics of oil, water and gas
• Phase behavior of hydrocarbon systems
• Capillary pressure
• Consistency and reliability of PVT data
• Relative permeability for two and three-phase flow
  
  

Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow

• Types of fluid
• Flow regimes
• Reservoir geometry number of flowing fluids in the reservoir
• Fluid flow equations
• Darcy€™s Law
• Inflow performance relationship
  
  

Volumetric and Material Balance Methods

• Principle of volumetric methods
• Evaluation and recovery of oil and gas reserves
• Classification of reserves, recovery factors, volumetric of oil and gas reservoirs
• Estimation of original oil and gas in place
• Material balance calculations
  
  

• Material balance concept, drive index, water influx models
• Material balance concepts
• Limitations of material balance methods
  
  

Well Productivity and Recovery Factors

• Productivity index for oil and gas wells
• Recovery factors for primary methods
• Effects of capillary pressure, gravity and mobility ratio
• Productivity improvement in stimulated wells
• Recovery factors in displacement processes
  
  

Reservoir Calculations and Performance Predictions

• Multi-phase fluid flow (steady-state and transient)
• Water influx calculations from various aquifers
• Statistical methods for predicting recovery
• Displacement and volumetric sweep efficiencies
• Analysis of common well tests
• Decline curve analysis
• Frontal advance theory and fractional flow
• Applications to water flood and gas flood and EOR methods
  
  
  

Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Methods

• Basic simulation equations for black-oil systems
• Element of simulation studies
• Finite difference concepts
• Input data sources
• History matching

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.