Course Duration: 10 days | Time: 9am to 1pm | Course Locations: VILT, Houston, San Diego
Course Description
Week1: Disciplines Integration
1. Introductions 2. Roles and contributions of key E&P disciplines • Geologist • Geophysicist • Petrophysicist • Petroleum engineer • Reservoir engineer • Facility engineer • Drilling/Completions engineer 3. Petroleum geology 4. Petroleum fluids properties (PVT) 5. Case studies of successful integration 6. Case studies of failure of integrations 7. Class exercise 8. Class excursion
Week 2: Looking for and Finding Hydrocarbons 1. Exploration and appraisal 2. Value of information (VOI) 3. Key data requirements in E&P and the acquisition programs • Geological • Geophysical • Fluids 4. Geological mapping 5. Resources estimations • Original oil in place • Recovery estimations 6. Leads & prospects 7. Risk and uncertainties 8. Play analysis 9. Case studies 10. Geological field trip • San Diego class: Grand Canyon • Houston class: To be decided 11. Class exercise
Week 3: Development of Hydrocarbon Resources
1. Field development planning 2. Operating environments such as onshore and offshore 3. Surface facility 4. Reservoir Drive mechanisms • Solution gas drive • Gas cap drive • Aquifer drive • Compaction drive • Combination drive 5. Development options • Primary recovery • Secondary recovery • Tertiary recovery 6. Modern integrated studies • Model selection: black oil, compositional, limited composition, thermal. • Static-dynamic-wells-facility integrated modeling 7. Petroleum economics 8. Project management 9. Case studies 10. Class exercise 11. Class excursion
Week 4: Efficient Management of Hydrocarbon Resources
1. Well, reservoir and field management concept 2. Surveillance, data collections and analysis • PLT • GOC and WOC movement monitoring • 4D seismics 3. Artificial lifts • Gas lifts • Rod pumps • Electric submersible pumps • Jet pumps • Others 4. Performance analysis • Well testing • Reservoir performance analysis 5. Wells & Reservoirs optimal inflow-outflow analysis 6. Nodal analysis 7. Well stimulations • Hydraulic fracturing • Acidization 8. Case studies 9. Class exercise 10. Class excursion 11. Participants presentations and feedback
E&P Integration
$2,625