Advanced Reservoir Management and Monitoring

INTRODUCTION

This training course is meticulously designed to identify the reservoir engineering data sources and highlight the benefits of seamlessly integrating engineering data into the management of mature oil fields. It focuses on data acquisition, integration, and the essential requirements for sustaining mature reservoirs throughout their lifecycles.

Participants will gain insights into the reservoir life cycle and the sequences of production recovery mechanisms. This course emphasizes the critical role of integrated and sound reservoir management in formulating effective development plans and achieving successful operations throughout a reservoir's life. Principles for reservoir management and enhancing hydrocarbon recovery from remaining oil and gas reserves will be explored, with successful case studies demonstrating high recovery factors.

Reservoir engineering and management is both a science and an art. This course applies scientific principles and concepts to address challenges arising during oil and gas reservoir development and production. It analyses reservoir behaviour and production performance, offering various tools and techniques to establish reliable reservoir engineering and management practices. The training also delves into reservoir management economics and improved recovery processes, with case studies from different fields.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Advanced Reservoir Management and Monitoring training course, participants will be able to:

• Apply appropriate approaches in reservoir engineering and management.

• Understand the data collection, analysis, validation, and integration process.

• Illustrate the integration points among different disciplines (geoscience, engineering, etc.) in applying reservoir management concepts.

• Execute the reservoir management process effectively.

• Utilise interdisciplinary synergies for efficient reservoir management.

• Recognise the importance of timing and cost/benefit analysis in each reservoir management component.

• Apply different reservoir performance analysis and forecasting methods, with a focus on integrating production/injection data, pressure data, and subsurface data.

• Stay updated on improved recovery processes related to waterflooding, thermal methods, chemical methods, and EOR screening guidelines.

TRAINING APPROACH

This Advanced Reservoir Management and Monitoring training course incorporates a variety of proven adult learning techniques, ensuring maximum understanding, comprehension, and retention of the information presented. The course blends presentations, workshops, group work, practical exercises, field applications/analyses, industry videos illustrating processes, and general discussions to create a comprehensive learning environment.

TRAINING OUTLINE

Day 1: Reservoir Management Process, Components, and Plan

• Definition of reservoir management: an integrated, interdisciplinary team effort

• Reservoir life cycle

• Scope and objectives of integrated reservoir management

• Fundamentals and resources for reservoir management

• Reservoir management concepts and processes

• Reservoir management plans

• Synergy and teamwork

• Responsibilities of team members

• Integration of geoscience and engineering

• Setting goals: goal setting, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluating reservoir performance

• Developing plans and economics (scenarios): field development and field operating plans for optimizing profitability

• Importance of integrated reservoir studies

• Plan and strategy revisions

• Common reasons for failure in reservoir management programs

Day 2: Reservoir Engineering Data

• Data required for integrated studies

• Data types: reservoir rock and fluid properties

• Data acquisition, validation, analysis, and management

• Integration of production/injection data, log data, pressure data, and subsurface data for analysis

• Efficient monitoring of reservoir performance

• Identifying and acquiring critical data, data acquisition, and analysis

• Reservoir performance analysis and forecasting

• Static geological model and reservoir simulation

• When simulation models are needed

• History matching and identifying bypassed oil

• Total integration of surface and subsurface data

Day 3: Reserves Estimation and Classification / Reservoir Drive Mechanisms and Producing Characteristics

• Introduction to new technologies for maximising economic recovery while minimising capital investment, risk, and operating expenses

• Timing of field implementation for reservoir management plans during primary recovery, pressure maintenance, and secondary and tertiary recovery

• Reservoir management plans and scenarios

• Economic modelling, uncertainties, and risks

• Types and classification of oil reserves and reservoir engineering evaluation

• Natural producing mechanisms

• Reservoir performance analysis and forecasting

• Estimating reserves and predicting reservoir performance

• Determining hydrocarbon in place using volumetric, decline curve, material balance, and mathematical simulation methods

Day 4: Water-flood Monitoring and Management

• Secondary recovery and pressure maintenance processes

• Water-flood management in mature fields, addressing surface and subsurface challenges

• Defining water flooding, objectives, candidates, patterns, factors affecting pattern selection, well spacing, fractional flow, performance measures, practices, and problems

• Design considerations for water injection systems

• Water sources for injection (produced water, aquifers, seawater), water compatibility, scale, and basic water treatment

• Water quality issues, associated risks, and the effect of injection water quality on injectivity

• Monitoring and managing water-floods

• Effects of water injection on recovery factor and reserves

Day 5: Oil Recovery Enhancement Techniques

• Introduction to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques

• Conventional and unconventional EOR processes

• Chemical, thermal, and miscible EOR methods

• EOR processes concepts and mechanisms

• Screening criteria and guidelines for EOR processes

• EOR process performance and expected recovery factors

• EOR project development plans

• Stages of EOR projects

• Reservoir management's role in EOR process application

• Case studies of reservoir management in mature fields, featuring various development plans for waterfloods and EOR projects.

Certificate of Completion: Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Al-Majd Pathways Centre (APC).