ABOUT COURSE
BENEFITS OF THE COURSE
At the end of this course, the participants will be able to do the following:
- Use reservoir rock properties to identify and characterize flow units.
- Characterize rock properties and assess performance of naturally fractured reservoirs.
- Use advanced techniques for analyzing pressure transient tests.
- Evaluate and forecast well production performance of unconventional gas reservoirs.
- Structure and implement a reservoir management program.
- Apply the knowledge and skills in their job assignments upon course completion.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Petroleum engineers who have been out of school for many years
- Engineers who graduated with a degree in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, etc. and are involved in the exploration and production of petroleum reservoirs.
- Geoscientists involved in reservoir evaluation.
- Technical support staff.
COURSE CONTENT
1. ADVANCES IN RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION: FLOW UNITS
- Permeability-porosity relationships.
- Reservoir zonation.
- Flow units in clean sands, flow zone index.
- Reservoir characterization by the Jfunction.
- Log-derived evaluation of shaly sands.
- Flow units in shaly formations, shale zone index.
- Friction Factor For Porous Media.
- Porosity as Strength Indicator to Evaluate Sand Production.
- Field Applications.
2. ADVANCES IN ROCK CHARACTERIZATION: NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS
- Evaluation of Fractured Rocks.
- Geological Vs Engineering Classification of Natural Fractures.
- Indicators of Natural Fractures, Visual Identification of Fractures.
- Fracture Porosity Determination from Petrophysical techniques.
- Porosity Partitioning Coefficient, Fracture Intensity Index
- Petrophysical properties of naturally fractured rocks.
- Field Applications.
3. ADVANCES IN WELL TEST ANALYSIS
- Near-Wellbore Conditions.
- Multi-rate tests in oil wells.
- Well near a boundary.
- Hydraulically fractured wells.
- Application of the TDS Technique in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs.
- Pseudo-Steady State and Unsteady state Matrix Flow.
- Average Reservoir Pressure.
- Fracture Porosity Determination from Well Tests.
- Elliptical Flow
- Field Applications
4. RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE OF HORIZONTAL WELLS
- Geologic Aspects of Horizontal Wells.
- Steady-State and Pseudosteady Flow Equations of horizontal wells.
- Unsteady-State Flow Equations.
- Horizontal Well Productivity.
- Coning in Vertical & Horizontal Wells.
- After Breakthrough Performance.
- Productivity of Horizontal Gas Wells.
- Numerical applications.
5. ADVANCES IN RESERVOIRS EVALUATION
- Advances in Decline Curve Analysis.
- Fetkovich and Derivative Type-Curves.
- Derivative of Arp’s Dimensionless Flow Rate.
- Analytical Solution and Derivative.
- Composite of Derivative Empirical and Analytical Solutions.
- Reservoir Parameters From Type-Curves.
- Universal Fitting Equation (UFE) for Oil.
- Reservoirs.
- Advantages of UFE.
- Step-by-Step Procedure for Applying.
- UFE.
- Case Studies.
- UFE for Gas Reservoirs.
6. UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS
- Tight Gas Reservoirs
- Compartmental Gas Reservoirs
- Combined Decline Curves and Type
- Curves
- Shallow Gas Reservoirs
- Natural Gas Hydrate
- Subsurface Gas Hydrates
- Physical Properties of Gas Hydrates
- Coal Bed Methane
- Primary and Secondary Porosity System
- Permeability
- Gas Content, Coal Density
- Deliverability and Drainage System
- Material Balance Equation for CBM
- Pressure Analysis
- Shale Gas Reservoirs
- Ultra-Deep Gas Reservoirs
"Este curso hace parte del programa especial de capacitación: Diplomado en Ingeniería de Yacimientos". La participación en el diplomado es opcional y no constituye un requisito para tomar este curso.