Reservoir Engineering for non-reservoir-engineers: Basics, Technology, Best Practices
Instructor: Wouter Botermans; 7 October 2015, 9.00 – 17.00 hrs, KIVI NIRIA building, Prinsessegracht 23, The Hague.
Outline and Contents:
The following topics will be addressed
- Introduction: general definitions, basic concepts
- Reservoir geology: structural geology, faults and compartmentalization, types of reservoirs and properties, types of rock and properties, pressure and temperature, oil and gas in place, principles of geomechanics, principles of petrophysics and logging
- Drilling and completion basics: drilling process, completion, formation damage, stimulation
- Flow in reservoirs: Darcy’s law and applications, two and three phase flow: relative permeability and capillary pressure, small and large scale flow, complications during production, immiscible displacement
- Production of oil reservoirs, inflow, outflow (incl. artificial lift principles), material balance (incl. aquifers), production calculations: history matching and forecasting, water flooding, water breakthrough, reservoir simulations (principles)
- Production of gas reservoirs: inflow, outflow, material balance (incl. aquifers), production calculations: history matching and forecasting, water production (incl. liquid loading and deliquification), water injection wells
- Field development: concepts, types of wells, integrated project management, economics,
- Well testing: oil wells, gas wells
- Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR): general theory and terminology, types of EOR systems, candidate selection, EOR Facilities
- Production operations: reservoir and well performance monitoring, data management, general roles & responsibilities, well interventions
- Reserves planning: PRMS: Petroleum Resource Management System, portfolio management arrive at average reservoir properties, uncertainty of reserve calculations
Who Should Attend:
The “Basics – Technology – Best Practice” format of this workshop is aimed both at industry entrants seeking relevant knowledge within their discipline, as well as at seasoned E&P professionals seeking to broaden their technological skills. In addition, for students this is an ideal opportunity to look into state-of-the-art industry technology with real-life examples, and to sharpen their competitive edge.
This particular course is designed for professionals working in the E&P business who want to know more about the reservoir engineering discipline. A technical background (pre-university level, v.w.o. ) will be an advantage.
Logistics:
To keep the logistics simple the participants are requested to bring their own laptop. Ideally two persons should work as a team on one laptop. Upon check-in on the event, a USB stick holding the presented slides in PDF format will be provided.
Biography:
Wouter Botermans (1970) holds a MSc. Petroleum Engineering from Delft University of Technology and worked since 1996 on reservoir engineering and production technology projects. He started with Halliburton where he carried out a wide variety of tasks ranging from research, reservoir and well simulations to field engineering including on-site support. In 2001 he joined NAM (Shell) as a production technologist, responsible for the performance monitoring and optimization of gas fields, onshore The Netherlands. In 2004 he became operational reservoir engineer with BP, later TAQA and worked on the Bergermeer gas storage and Rijn oil field production optimization. In 2013 and 2014 Wouter worked with Tulip Oil where he was involved in field development and economics. Since September 2014 he works as independent petroleum engineer on production and recovery optimization, training and subsurface consultancy.
Location & Time:
KIVI/NIRIA office (see map)
Prinsessegracht 23
(NOT: Prinsegracht)
2514 AP Den Haag
Course hours will be from 9.00 to 17.00. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Course location is within walking distance from Den Haag Central Station; nearby parking facilities are available as well. Please note that there is road-construction work on-going in the area and that you might need some additional time to reach the destination by car.
Cost:
SPE members pay € 150,-, non-members € 200,- which can include a one-year voluntary SPE membership. SPE student members participate at a discount-rate of €10,- (limited availability)
Registration:
Registrations for this event are though the SPE Netherlands Paydro portal by following this link directly to the event.