Course Outline:

• Introduction & overview.

• 1. Different stages of reservoir maturity.
  2. Uncertainties in reserve estimation.

• Classification of reserves.
• Statistical methods – the log normal distribution.
• Volumetric methods – sources of data, volumetric mapping.
• Methods of estimating primary recovery of various reservoir fluids & drive mechanisms.
• Allocation of reserves to individual wells.
• Material balance methods.
• Reconciliation of material balance & volumetric methods.
• Performance trend analysis – performance indicators.
• Special problems in reserve estimation.