Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals

Name: Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals
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By Hamam Yousef, Senior Reservoir Engineer & Author

Created byHamam Awad

Last updated 8/2020

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What you'll learn

Be familiar with reservoir engineering aspects and definitions.
Determine OOIP/OGIP and various types of reserve.
Reserve Estimation using the Material Balance Equation.
Recovery Factor estimation and optimization using different charts and correlations.
Calculate where the front is located and when it will reaches the well during 1D immiscible displacement process.
Identify the types of Decline Curves and estimate the decline parameters.

Course content

6 sections • 29 lectures • 5h 21m total length

Outline5:10

Rock Types and Trapping Mechanisms.8:15
Rock Types and Trapping Mechanisms.
Hydrocarbon Classification14:06
Hydrocarbon classification based on pressure and composition that utilizes phase behavior to trace liquid/gas ratio production at reservoir and surface conditions.
Crude Oil Properties13:34
Learn crude oil properties, including density, specific gravity, API, and gas solubility, and apply bubble point, formation volume factors, and oil viscosity in reservoir calculations.
Natural Gas Properties11:19
Explore natural gas properties under reservoir conditions, including gas density, specific gravity, deviation factor, isothermal combustibility factor, gas formation volume factor, and gas viscosity, with subsurface to surface unit conversions.

Volumetric Equation in Oil and Gas Reservoirs12:19
Multi-Layered Reservoirs6:46
Explore multilayered reservoirs and learn to calculate the original oil in place by computing bulk volume from areas and thickness using trapezoid or pyramid methods for field and metric units.
Deterministic and Statistical Approaches9:24
Reserve Classification and Estimation8:26
Problems and Solutions 214:49
Problems and Solutions 32:04
Fluid Pressure Regimes11:37
Problems and Solutions 410:00
Drive Mechanisms9:51
Recovery Factor Estimation10:34
Define the recovery factor as a fraction of hydrocarbon recoverable from a reservoir and outline American and European classifications, including primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery.
Problems and Solutions 510:09

Material Balance for Oil Reservoirs16:09
Drive Indices6:36
Explore drive indices that quantify the efficiency of solution gas and oil shrinkage, gas cap, water, and liquid and rock expansion drives, and their energy plot from production data.
Applications of MBE in Oil Reservoirs3:21
MBE and Applications for Gas Reservoirs6:38
Problems and Solutions 620:35
Fluid Contacts and Saturation Determination using MBE9:39
Apply material balance to determine oil saturation and dynamic fluid contacts, accounting for gas cap expansion, water influx, and volume-based depth calculations in multilayer reservoirs.
Problems and Solutions 79:07

Fractional Flow and Front Occurrence9:41
Explore fractional flow in reservoir engineering by linking movable water saturation and movable oil saturation to front formation, water injection, and displacement toward the production well.
Buckley Leverette Equation and Parameters5:57
Problems and Solutions 87:10
Apply one-dimensional displacement to compute fractional water flow versus saturation. Determine flood-front and breakthrough saturations and estimate residual oil behind the front at a 25 percent water cut.
Displacement Efficiencies and Mobility Ratio24:05

Requirements

Base knowledge of Reservoir Fluids Properties and Petroleum Geology.

Description

New and Improved Fully Detailed Reservoir Engineering Course Provided by VISION for students and graduates.

This course provides Science & Engineering students with the main academic principles, and practical aspects to properly extend their comprehension and understanding. This course is a combination of academical and technical work experience provided by VISION organization.

The course start with an introduction on reservoir fluids properties for multi-hydrocarbon mixtures (Black/Condensate oil/ and gas reservoirs). going forward, the course walks you through the reservoir volumetric and how to solve issues related to fluid pressure regimes to calculate the WOC and GOC, in addition, it approached the drive mechanisms and recovery factor estimation.

Next chapters, are in depth lectures on Material Balance and MB for oil reservoirs and gas reservoirs, also, how to determine the water saturation and fluid pressure contacts using the material balance equation.

The fifth chapter is the Displacement efficiency it shows you how to use secondary methods for oil and gas recovers, with all mathematical evidence indluced.

The last chapter which is the Decline Curve Analysis, discusses forecasting of oil and gas production through the half life of the oil/gas well, and how to identify the type of decline in production (Exponential, Harmonic, Hyperbolic).

Who this course is for:

Petroleum Engineers
Geologist & Geophysics
Engineering pre-graduate students

Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals

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Course content

Course Outline1 lecture • 5min

Reservoir Fluids Properties4 lectures • 47min

Reservoir Volumetrics11 lectures • 1hr 46min

Material Balance Equation7 lectures • 1hr 12min

Displacement Efficiency & Stream Line Flow4 lectures • 47min

Decline Curve Analysis2 lectures • 44min

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