Applied Reservoir Engineering

BACKGROUND & ABOUT THE COURSE:

Petroleum Engineering practically covers: Production Operation, Drilling, and the core (Reservoir Engineering). This training represents the core of the reservoir engineering program. Numerous engineering practices are covered from fluid & rock properties to simulation & field development planning.

As the core, the Reservoir Department is the only one that normally cares about the live time & field performance of oil & gas fields. Therefore, it is really important to correctly manage our reservoir to produce & operate of field in the most optimum way.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES:

After attending this training participants should be able to:

• Determine critical properties of reservoir rocks fluid (oil, water & gas), PVT relationship
• Calculate hydrocarbon initially in place
• Assess reservoir performance
• Determine parameters impact well/reservoir performance over time
• Analyze well test using standard well-testing principles & techniques
• Characteristics of aquifer
• Determine reservoir drive mechanism for both oil & gas
• Apply oil & gas field development planning principle
• Forecast production decline

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Engineers or geoscientists who will occupy the position of reservoir engineer, and any other technically trained individuals (completion, work-over, production, drilling, well-services) who desires a more in-depth foundation in reservoir engineering.

COURSE CONTENT:

1. Asset life cycle, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions
2. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillarity pressure, wet-ability & relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data
3. Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling, & understanding PVT laboratory reports
4. Calculate original hydrocarbon in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume Vs depth relationship & review reserve booking guideline
5. Oil recovery material balance, gas material balance, volumetric compaction, water drive
6. Oil-well testing: radial flow theory, wellbore storage & skin, draw-down, buildups, curve-shapes, type-curve solution, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimate, PI & IPR relationships.
7. Immiscible displacement: fluid displacement process, fractional flow
8. Description of coning, over/under running, critical rate calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications
9. Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive & compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured & critical reservoir fluid properties
10. Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, sales-contracts
11. Oil field development: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep & recovery, production policies
12. Reservoir simulation: why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

ABOUT THE COURSE LEADERS:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bonar Tua Halomoan Marbun

Public Training berikutnya : 18 –  20 Agustus, 2026