Why Attend This Training Course?

This comprehensive training course provides participants with an overview of the integrated reservoir Simulation process, tools and tasks. It exposes participants to hands-on integrated reservoir modeling.

What Is The Training Course Methodology?

This training course methodology depends on enabling participants to interact and exchange experiences, explore their competencies and achieve their career aspirations, using forward-thinking training arts, such as theoretical lectures and/or open discussion to exchange opinions and experiences, scenarios, innovative thinking brainstorming. Participants will receive an agenda including training material as a reference, in addition to some extra notes and booklets. 

Who Should Attend This Training Course?

This intensive course is aimed to Production, Mechanical and Chemical Engineers associated with the oil industry.

What Are The Training Course Objectives?

• Understand of the reservoir performance
• Predict the future reservoir performance
• Study different techniques to increase the hydrocarbon recovery and
  choose the best economic of them
• Study factors affecting the hydrocarbon recovery under different
  techniques 

What Is The Training Course Curriculum?

Introduction

• Reservoir simulation definition

• Reservoir simulation applications

• Types of reservoir simulation models

• Steps of reservoir simulation study

Define Study Objectives

• New field evaluation

• Existing production field

• Sources of data preparation

Rock Data

• Porosity

• Permeability

• Thickness

• Elevation

• Rock compressibility

• Examples of porosity and permeability

Fluid Data

• Oil formation volume factor

• Gas formation volume factor

• Water formation volume factor

• Oil viscosity

• Gas viscosity

• Water viscosity

• Oil density

• Gas density

• Water density

• Gas solubility

• Gas compressibility factor

• Vaporized oil or condensate in gas

• Oil compressibility

• Gas compressibility

• Water compressibility

• Equilibrium constant

• Mobility ratio

• Sources of error in computed results

• Model is usually only approximate

• Truncation error

• Instability

• Inaccurate reservoir description

• Simulator output

• Print input data

• Model equilibration

• Production statistics

Simulation Post-Processing

• Reviewing simulation output to ensure valid results

• Review warning messages

• Review input data printout

• Review initialization

• Review production statistics

Predicting reservoir performance

• Objectives of future performance predictions

• Data requirements for predicting future performance

• Number and timing of new wells

• New well data

• Production facilities data Economic limits

• Workover plan for existing well

Study of Actual Cases on Streamline Simulator

• Streamline simulator description

• Introduction to streamline simulator

• Components of streamline simulator

• Input data files

• Simulator calculation equations

• Output data files

• Options of streamline simulator

• Study depletion drive gas reservoir performance

• Study water drive gas reservoir performance

• Study geopressured gas reservoir performance

• Study gas condensate reservoir performance

• Analysis of well test results

• Flow after flow test

• Isochronal flow test

• Modified isochronal flow test

• Determination of bottom hole from wellhead pressure Study geopressured gas reservoir

• Study actual cases

• Study depletion drive reservoir performance

• Study water drive reservoir performance