Applied Reservoir Management (RE04)

DATE		LOCATION		FEES			REGISTRATION
2011		tba			Course Fee: tba

Instructor Mike Carlson

• The need for reservoir management. The fundamentals of reservoir management: history, philosophy and recent developments.


• Integration of geoscience and engineering. Synergy and team building. Styles of organization and formalised processes, such as decision analysis and field development programs.


• Process:
  -  goals
  -  plans
  -  implementation
  -  monitoring and surveillance
  -  feedback / adapting plans
  -  best practices; reasons for failure and success in reservoir management


• The modern integrated reservoir model, including the contributions of geology, well logs, seismic, geostatistics, production, laboratory, geomechanics and engineering data.  Obtaining and analysing data. How to management data.


• Oil and gas reservoir performance analysis techniques including production analysis, analogies, correlations, volumetric, decline curves, classical material balance and numerical simulation.


• The responsibilities of different team members.


• How the current reserves definitions came about (proved, possible, and probable) and how this affects both field development and the operation of a company. The importance of securities regulations. Other reserves definitions used by governments (Established Reserves).


• Reservoir management economics and optimization, such as optimum well spacing. The effects of risk and how to manage this.


• Secondary and tertiary recovery. Fundamentals of waterflooding; immiscible displacement, heterogeneity, flood pattern, and recovery efficiency. Enhanced recovery processes – thermal, chemical, and miscible. How to select the best method. Development planning and surveillance techniques.


• Reservoir management case studies from the author’s experience.


• Participants’ reservoir management discussion.