Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

This Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering training course will utilise a variety of learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The daily workshops will be highly interactive and participative. This involves regular discussion of applications as well as review questions on each topic.

By the end of this training course, participants will:

• Describe a hydrocarbon reservoir and list the fluids found in it
• Illustrate with diagrams how these fluids are distributed in a hydrocarbon reservoir
• Describe and explain porosity, permeability and fluid saturations
• Determine the properties of natural gas, oil and water
• Explain and define saturated reservoirs, undersaturated reservoirs, bubble point pressure, oil and gas formation volume factors, gas oil ratio
• Calculate the volume of hydrocarbon in place and recovery factors Derive the general material balance equation, modify it and use it to calculate hydrocarbon in place for gas reservoirs, saturated reservoirs and under saturated reservoirs
• Use the Havlena and Odeh technique to determine oil in place for saturated reservoirs and under saturated reservoirs
• Use of well testing data in determining average reservoir pressure, productivity index, permeability, and skin effect
• Discuss the recovery factors of different drive mechanisms
• Explain the use of fractional flow equations and Immiscible displacement concepts
• Perform decline curve analysis

This Gulf Rowad training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Petroleum and Reservoir Engineers
• Production and Operations Engineers
• Reservoir, Production and Operations Engineers
• Petro-physicists, Geo-physicists
• Geologists and Non–Engineers
• Managers who seek to derive greater decision making on field development