Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Course
This is an introductory level technical course, designed to provide an overview of useful oil and gas reservoir properties, how they are measured, and a thorough conceptual understanding of common reservoir engineering equations, methods and workflows. The course is designed for personnel who have a technical background and little to no reservoir engineering experience, such as new engineering grads as well as experienced technical professionals from adjacent disciplines (completions, operations and facilities engineers as well as geoscientists).Read more...
Course contents
1 - Introduction
1.01 - About This Course
1.02 - Introduction To Petroleum Systems
2 - Basic Fluid And Reservoir Properties
2.01 - Composition, Density and Viscosity
2.02 - Pressure, and Pressure Gradients
2.03 - Real Gas Equation of State
2.04 - Porosity
2.05 - Permeability and Darcy's Law
2.06 - Relative Permeability
2.07 - Wettability and Capillary Pressure
2.08 - Compressibility
3 - Hydrocarbon Recovery and Material Balance
3.01 - Formation Volume Factor
3.02 - Hydrocarbon Recovery
3.03 - Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbons
3.04 - Undersaturated Oil MBE
3.05 - Gas MBE
3.06 - General MBE
4 - Inflow Performance
4.01 - Inflow Performance Relationship Concept
4.02 - Depletion and Skin
4.03 - IPR for Saturated Oil - Vogel
4.04 - Gas Absolute Open Flow (AOF)
4.05 - Tubing Performance and Lift Curves
4.06 - Water Drive
4.07 - Water and Gas Coning
5 - Pressure Transient Analysis
5.01 - Why Test A Well?
5.02 - The Drawdown Equation
5.03 - Transient vs. Boundary Dominated Flow
5.04 - Radius Of Investigation
5.05 - Diagnostic Plots
5.06 - Type Curves
5.07 - Pressure Buildup Analysis
5.08 - Derivative Analysis
5.09 - Principle of Superposition
5.10 - Correction for Gas Reservoirs: Pseudo-Pressure
5.11 - Unconventional Welltests - PITA and DFIT
6 - Production Data Analysis and Forecasting
6.01 - Introduction to Production Data Analysis
6.02 - The Exponential Decline Curve
6.03 - Hyperbolic Decline Curves
6.04 - Rate Transient Analysis
6.05 - Production Modeling
6.06 - Reservoir Simulation
6.07 - Production Forecasting and Reserves
6.08 - Risk and Uncertainty
6.09 - Oil & Gas Economics
7 - Additional Topics
7.01 - Secondary and Tertiary Recovery of Conventional Resources
7.02 - Waterflooding (Linear Displacement of Oil)
7.03 - Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods
7.04 - Unconventional Resources
7.05 - Shale Oil and Gas
7.06 - Coalbed Methane
7.07 - Heavy Oil
7.08 - Geothermal
7.09 - Gas Hydrates
7.10 - Hydrogen
