Who should attend?

Reservoir engineers, geologists, petrophysicists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, production engineers, project engineers, project managers and anyone else who desire to obtain a comprehensive knowledge of integrated reservoir characterization and modeling.

About the course

A successful exploration and exploitation project requires efficient use of an integrated, multi-disciplinary team. This training course examines how such a team should be structured, what questions should be asked of each member and what tasks each should perform to deliver the answers. It addresses the different requirements of conventional plays, tight gas plays, and resources plays. Several different field examples will be used, with one public domain data set used as a common characterization theme through all modules.

You will learn

• Differentiate the contributions of a geologist, petrophysicist, geophysicist and reservoir engineer to a reservoir characterization project
• Establish the geological, petrophysical, geophysical and engineering data required to initiate a reservoir characterization project
• Determine which questions need to be answered and thus what tasks performed by each member of an integrated team
• Generate workflows for characterization of a conventional reservoir, tight gas reservoirs, and shale gas or shale oil reservoirs.

Course content

Geology Workflow

• Database construction issues
• Are data/tops usable?Quality control, define goals
• Depositional Model ? Ensure a fit with regional framework
• Sealing faults and other barriers? Validation with dynamic data
• Structural, fault, strat maps? Seismic / log interpretation
• Hierarchy of surfaces established? 1-D stratigraphic and facies analysis • Flow units, barriers and baffles? 2-D correlation and facies analysis
• Facies ready for geomodel? Facies proportion curves
• Aspect ratios and proportionality? Depositional model
• Natural fractures Petrophysics Workflow
• What is available? Database review: SCAL, Logs
• Are data usable? Quality control: Edits, Reprocessing
• Log normalization
• Conventional analysis vs. model? Petrophysical analysis
• What is the net pay? Net pay identification
• Facies units or flow units
• BVW, contacts, Phi-K
• What does the seismic tell us? Rock physics/petrophysics relations
• Tight oil and gas reservoirs?
• Specialty tasks: TRA, Fracability
• Case studies and exercises Geophysics Workflow
• Pre-stack, post-stack data review
• Quality control
• What minerals and fluids? Petrophysical analysis
• Rock physics check
• Faults and horizons? Structural interpretation
• Rock types, facies, faults? Attribute extraction and analysis
• Time-depth conversion? Velocity modeling
• AVO inversions? Constrain geomodeling
• Lithology, fluids and fractures? PreStack & Multi-component Attrib. Geomodeling Workflow
• Database review
• 3-D stratigraphic grid construction
• Depositional environment variables? Spatial statistics analysis
• Are facies proportions available? Facies distribution
• Seismic-log calibration Modeling seismic/petro relationships
• Porosity and permeability relationships? Distribution of Phi-K cloud
• Net-to-gross estimation
• Reservoir simulation grid requirements? 3-D Stratigraphic grid upscaling
• Specialty tasks, natural fractures Engineering Workflow
• PVT fluid models for simulation
• SCAL data (by facies)? Kr, Pc, compaction behavior
• Well tests (PTT, tracer, RFT, PLT)? Geomodeling/simulation calibration • Effective Kv, fault sealing? Test impact on simulations
• Test impact on simulations
• History matching? Dynamic calibration