Course Description:

Knowing the controls on reservoir pore space distribution is critical to the appraisal, development, and efficient management of reservoirs. Participants learn, through hands-on exercises, to compile a development plan for a field that emphasizes optimal recovery. Emphasis is placed on the selection of rock, log and test data to distinguish reservoir and non-reservoir rocks, and to determine the lower limit of pay. Structural, stratigraphic, deposition and diagenetic concepts are used to locate drillsites and describe reservoirs. The input required to construct a geologic reservoir models is reviewed. Participants learn the importance of modifying development plans as a field becomes more mature and more data is available.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

1. Apply geological concepts, construct maps and sections and validate computer-generated interpretations.
2. Calculate subsurface volumes and assess their uncertainties.
3. Learn how to prepare a well proposal.
4. Plan appraisal wells and assess their economic value.
5. Acquire practical experience by working on an actual field study in teams.
6. Better understand their own role in the development life-cycle

Course Outlines:

1. Geologic characteristics that impact field development
2. Appraisal: Determining recoverable hydrocarbons
3. Reservoir fluid properties and saturation
4. Influence of capillarity on hydrocarbon distribution and fluid contacts
5. Reserve and resource evaluation
6. Volumetric reserve estimation and calculation
7. Stratigraphic influence on field production
8. Depositional and digenetic controls on reservoir rock, barriers, and hydrocarbon distribution
9. Describing reservoir rock to understand reservoir behavior in carbonate and clastic rocks
10. Determining if hydrocarbons can be recovered from in a given field, what is pay?
11. The impact of drive mechanism: aquifer characterization, distribution, and mapping
12. Seismic applications in appraisal and development
13. Development drilling: How to optimize hydrocarbon recovery
14. Economic impact on field development
15. Subdividing the reservoir into working units
16. Reservoir pore space configurations and mapping
17. Building a static reservoir model using deterministic and stochastic techniques
18. Key factors affecting the development of Fractured Reservoirs
19. Steps in building a geologic reservoir model
20. Impact on barriers on field development
21. Secondary and tertiary field development

Who Can Benefit?

Engineers, Geologists, Geophysicists and all those involved in reservoir appraisal and development projects