Reservoir, Petroleum Operation and Production Engineers, Geologists, Geophysicists, field operation staffs, managers, government officials, and others involved with reservoir operations and management.
Course Contents
Module 1 - Reservoir management process, components and plan
Key Topics
- Reservoir Management Concepts
- Definition of reservoir management: an integrated, interdisciplinary team effort
- Reservoir life cycle
- Scope and objective for integrated reservoir management
- Fundamentals and resources of reservoir management
- Reservoir management concepts and processes
- Reservoir management plans
- Synergy and team
- Responsibilities for team members
- Integration of geoscience and engineering
- Setting goals: goal setting, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating reservoir performance
- Developing plan and economics (scenarios): field development and field operating plans to optimise profitability
- Why integrated reservoir studies
- Revision of plan & strategies
- Reasons for failure of reservoir management programs
- Economics for Reservoir Management
Module 2 - Reservoir engineering data
Key Topics
- Data needed for integrated study
- Data types: reservoir rock & fluids properties
- Data acquisition, validation, analysis and management
- Integration of production/injection data, log data, pressure data and any subsurface data for analysis
- Efficient monitoring of reservoir performance
- Identifying and acquiring critical data, data acquisition, and analysis
- Reservoir performance analysis and forecast
- Static geological model and reservoir simulation
- When simulation models are required
- History matching and identification of by-passed oil
- Total integration of surface and sub-surface
Module 3 - Reserves estimation and classification/ reservoir drive mechanisms and producing characteristics
Key Topics
- Induction of new technologies to maximizing economic recovery and minimizing capital investment, risk and operating expenses.
- The timing of field implementation of reservoir management plan: during the primary recovery, pressure maintenance, and secondary and tertiary recovery
- Reservoir management plans and scenarios
- The economic model, uncertainties and risks
- Maximizing economic recovery and minimizing capital investment, risk and operating expenses
- Oil reserves types and classification & reservoir engineering and evaluation
- Natural producing mechanisms
- Reservoir performance analysis and forecast
- Estimation of reserves and prediction of reservoir performance
- Determination of hydrocarbon in place (volumetric method, decline curve method, material balance method, and mathematical simulation
Module 4 - Water flood monitoring and management
Key Topics
- Secondary recovery and pressure maintenance process
- Water flood management in mature fields: surface as well as subsurface issues.
- Describing water flooding definition and objectives, candidates, patterns, factors affecting pattern selection, well spacing, fractional flow, performance measures, practices and problems
- Design aspects of the water injection system
- Water injection systems: water sources (produced water, aquifers and seawater), water compatibilities and scale, and basic water treatment
- Water quality: quality issues and associated risks, the effect of injection water quality on infectivity
- Water flood monitoring and management
- Reservoir performance with water flooding projects
- Effects of water injection on the recovery factor and reserves
Module 5 - Oil recovery enhancement techniques
Key Topics
- Introduction to enhanced oil recovery techniques
- Conventional and none conventional EOR processes
- Chemical, thermal, and miscible EOR methods
- EOR processes concepts and mechanisms
- Screening criteria guidelines of the EOR processes
- Performance of the EOR processes and expected recovery factors
- Development plans of the EOR processes
- Stages of the EOR projects
- Role of the reservoir management for the application of the EOR processes
- Reservoir management case studies of mature fields: several development plans for water floods and EOR projects.

