Course description
Reservoir Material Balance Fundamentals
This skill module reviews and expands on the Material Balance Core module. Included in this skill module is a detailed review of Dry and Wet Gas Reservoirs, Black Oil Reservoir, Volatile Oil and Retrograde Condensate Reservoir, and Water Influx.
Upcoming start dates
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Engineers or geoscientists who will occupy the position of reservoir engineer, or any other technically-trained individual who desires a more in-depth foundation in reservoir engineering than is offered in the one-week Basic Reservoir Engineering and Reservoir Engineering for Other Disciplines courses.
Training Course Content
You will learn how to
- Discuss the basic material balance equation and the assumptions
- Understand how the equations can be simplified based on certain assumptions and importance of mechanisms
- Relate material balance equation to different types of reservoirs
- Understand the application of material balance equation for gas reservoirs
- Consider the simplifications of material balance equation for absence or presence of different mechanisms
- Evaluate the uncertainties associated with mischaracterization of different mechanisms
- Apply various straight line manipulations for determining the gas in place for gas reservoirs
- Understand important drive mechanisms for black oil reservoirs
- Estimate the oil in place in oil reservoirs when the reservoir is above bubble point
- Estimate the oil in place in oil reservoirs when the reservoir is producing below bubble point
- Estimate the oil in place in oil reservoirs when the reservoir is influenced by gas cap
- Quantify the uncertainties in oil place based on the assumptions in the strength of drive mechanisms
- Understand important drive mechanisms for retrograde condensate and volatile oil reservoirs
- Estimate the oil in place in both these types of reservoirs under different mechanisms
- Quantify the uncertainties in oil place based on the assumptions in the strength of drive mechanisms
- Understand the importance of water influx in the material balance calculations
- Learn how to estimate the water influx using pot aquifer as well as pseudo-steady state methods
- Understand trial and error procedure required to estimate the aquifer influx
- Recognize the uncertainties associated with the estimation of aquifer size and the strength
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