Petroleum Economics

Day one
• Module1:
The need for petroleum economics
• Module2:
Common Evaluation methods


Day Two
• Module3:
Economic Analysis components


Day Three
• Module 3:
Economic Analysis components (Continued)


Day Four
• Module4:
Time Value
• Module5:
Economic indicators
• Exercise


Day Five
• Module6:
Advanced topics

Drilling Fluid School

The drilling fluid in the well is very similar to the blood in your body, you should test your blood and read your body messages for you and act accordingly to keep yourself healthy. Drilling fluid also send you messages about your well, you should understand your drilling fluid, know its functions, test its properties, and read your well messages to keep your well stable, safe, and efficiently perform your drilling process.

• Pressure Control.
• Basic Calculations; volumes, pressures, …
• Hole Cleaning.
• Solids Suspension.
• Formation Damage Concepts.
• Wellbore stability
• Other Drilling Fluid Functions.
• Mud Types.
• Mud Composition.
• Polymer Chemistry.
• Material Balance Calculations
• Mud Testing.
• WBM Testing.
• OBM Testing.
• Clay Chemistry
• Shale Inhibition
• Mud Related Drilling Problems and Solutions
• and More....

PVT Analysis part 1

From primary raw general guidelines to detailed sophisticated modeling studies

You will get familiar with the Main PVT analysis concepts.

• Get familiar with the all PVT experiments for reservoir fluid types.
• Know how to evaluate the all PVT properties.
• Make decisions about fluid sampling
• Determine PVT laboratory procedures required
• Analyse PVT reports
• Identify the relevant PVT data for various tasks according to operating conditions
• QC/QA PVT data
• Use PVT Correction and adjusting techniques.
• Know how to select the appropriate correlation based on raw fluid properties in case of no PVT data
• Fully understanding of reservoir fluid modelling.
• Greater understanding of Equation of state applications.
• Acquire the ability to characterize reservoir fluid using the EOS properties regression.
• Run the EOS model to calculate the needed experiments based on the existing measurements.
• PVT advanced issues like PVT and flow assurance, PVT and advanced mud gas analysis, PVT and geochemicalstudies, PVT and formation pressure testing measurements, Experiments for unconventional reservoirs.

Material Balance practice

Your way to master best practice for better material balance applications

Day One :-

1. MBE Applications:
2. Simulation Concepts:
3. Input data collection and QC.
4. History matching methods.
5. Model Validation.
6. An Excel sheet instead of MBAL.

 

Day Two:-

1. Histogram building.
   2. Monte Carlo Simulation
   3. Alternative method: Deterministic Method

Day Three:-

Decline curve tool:

1. DCA, Why?
2. DCA Types; and Arps Restrictions.
3. Case studies: 7 cases.
4. Some Tips, Tricks and Traps.

Day Four:-

1. 1D Model tool:
2. 1D Model Applications.
3. Case studies: 2 cases.
4. Reservoir allocation tool:
5. Allocation meaning.
6. Why allocation.
7. Case studies: 2 cases.

 

Day Five:-

Tight gas tool:

1. Applications.
2. Case study

Practical Reservoir Simulation Part 1

comprehensive Reservoir Simulation Course

 Objectives of integrated reservoir studies
 Data used in a reservoir simulation study
 Review of reservoir data: PVT, RCAL, SCAL, production, etc.
 Geology & static model construction
 Data import and data templates
 Simulation grid construction
 Structural framework
 Reservoir model design
 Structural compartments: fault geometry
 Reservoir architecture: facies model

 Depletion strategy
 Development strategy

 Simulation grid modifications
 History matching workflow
 Multiple scenarios, realizations, and ranking
 Screen alternative production strategies
 Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis

 Simulation grid properties
 Dynamic modelling

Oil Field Data Management Part 1

+ Navigate through OFM user interface and build Project from A to Z.
+ Perform Reservoir performance analysis
+ Candidate recognition for workover/ infill
+ Visualize and analyse reservoir and production data in a cost-effective, integrated environment
+ Perform Production and injection monitoring and surveillance
+ Pattern analysis for waterflood optimization
+ Perform Well and completion performance analysis and diagnostics
+ Production forecasting for field- or well-level analysis
+ Performance benchmarking and vintage analysis
+ Build an interactive dashboard for improved decision making
+ Perform DCA and production forecast
+ Perform Production Performance Comparison and Benchmark.
+ Build flexible workflows by combining industry-standard and user.

Process Simulation

-You can easily manipulate process variables and unit operation topology, as well as fully customize your
simulation using HYSYS customizing and extensibility tools.
-Each tutorial guides you step by step through the complete construction of a HYSYS simulation.
-You will gain the same basic understanding of the steps and tools used to build a HYSYS simulation.
-After building one of these tutorial cases, you might choose to build one or several more, or begin creating
your own simulations.

Hydraulic Frac design and practice part 1

Day #1 Stimulation Candidate Selection

a How well Produce Efficiently (IPR,VLP concepts).

b The meaning of Reservoir Stimulation

c Candidate Selection Criteria for Hydraulic Fracture.

d Candidate Selection workflow

Day #2 Hydraulic Fracture Basic Concepts

a Net Pressure

b How Fracture propagates

c Fracture geometry

Day #3 Fracture Modelling

a Basic Fracture Modelling Concepts

b P3D models

c Planar 3D models

d Full 3D models

Day #4 Basic Geomechanics and log interpretation

a Young's modulus

b Poison's ration

c Stresses concept

a Overview on Fracture simulators market

b How to use any fracture simulator?

c How to use Fraccade for design (Step by step)

Day #5 Fracture Equipment

a Fracture fleet components.

b sand management equipment

c Blender

d Fracture Manifold

e How to calculate the needed fracfleet HP for the job?

PLT Principles Part 1

Day#1

• Full bore flowmeter.
• Continuous flowmeter
• Inline flowmeter
• Diverter flowmeter

Day#2

• Density tools.
• Capacitance tool.
• Gas holdup tool.
• PNL tool.

Day#3

• Integration of Spinner Reading and Fluid Identification Devices Reading to get Flow Profile.
• Introduction to Emeraude.

Day#4

• Emeraude Solution Methodology.
• Basic Emeraude Conventional Workflow.

Day#5

• Basic Concepts of Oil-Water Flow.
• Single Phase Interpretation in Emeraude.
• Two-Phase Interpretation in Emeraude.

Day#6

• Basic Concepts of 3-phase Flow.
• Three-Phase Interpretation in Emeraude.

Day#7

• Challenges in horizontal and highly deviated wells.
• Deployment methods in horizontal and highly deviated wells.
• Advance PLT sensors.
• Advanced PLT interpretation.

Day#8

• Basic Emeraude Advanced Workflow.
• FSI interpretation in Emeraude.

Day#9

• Case Studies and major Challenges in Interpretation.

Day#10

• Case Studies and major Challenges in Interpretation.

Practical Reservoir Simulation Part 2

 Introduction to field development planning (PDF)
 Objectives of integrated reservoir studies
 Data used in a reservoir simulation study
 Review of reservoir data: PVT, RCAL, SCAL, production, etc.
 Geology & static model construction
 Data import and data templates
 Simulation grid construction
 Structural framework
 Reservoir model design
 Structural compartments: fault geometry
 Reservoir architecture: facies model

 Depletion strategy
 Development strategy

 Simulation grid modifications
 History matching workflow
 Multiple scenarios, realizations, and ranking
 Screen alternative production strategies
 Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis

 Simulation grid properties
 Dynamic modelling

PLT Principles Part 2

Day#6

• Basic Concepts of 3-phase Flow.
• Three-Phase Interpretation in Emeraude.

Day#7

• Challenges in horizontal and highly deviated wells.
• Deployment methods in horizontal and highly deviated wells.
• Advance PLT sensors.
• Advanced PLT interpretation.

Day#8

• Basic Emeraude Advanced Workflow.
• FSI interpretation in Emeraude.

Day#9

• Case Studies and major Challenges in Interpretation.

Oil Field Data Management Part 2

+ Navigate through OFM user interface and build Project from A to Z.
+ Perform Reservoir performance analysis
+ Candidate recognition for workover/ infill
+ Visualize and analyse reservoir and production data in a cost-effective, integrated environment
+ Perform Production and injection monitoring and surveillance
+ Pattern analysis for waterflood optimization
+ Perform Well and completion performance analysis and diagnostics
+ Production forecasting for field- or well-level analysis
+ Performance benchmarking and vintage analysis
+ Build an interactive dashboard for improved decision making
+ Perform DCA and production forecast
+ Perform Production Performance Comparison and Benchmark.
+ Build flexible workflows by combining industry-standard and user.

Nodal Analysis Well Modeling

Day one
    - Introduction to Modeling & Prosper
    - Nodal analysis in brief
    - Prosper Input sections:
           -Options summary
           -PVT data


Day two
    - Prosper Input sections:
    - IPR Data
    - Equipment & VLP data


Day three
    - Matching Field data in prosper
    - System analysis
    - Various sensitivities


Day four
    -  Matching Artifial lift method
    - Evaluate Artifial lift using quicklook
    - Quick Gas lift Design excercise


Day five
    - Exercise 1 (estimate initial production rate of a new well delivery)
    - Exercise 2 (trouble shoot a well with reduced performance)
    - Exercise 3 ( Model & predict performance of multilayer reservoir)
    - Exercise 4 (suggest well work for well in ex.3 to improve performance)

Surface Network Modeling

Day One : -

• How to initiate a new model
• The options available in GAP , how and when to select each
• How to connect a well to GAP
• How to model the pipe lines in GAP
• How to model different IPR models in GAP
• More..

Day Two:- 

• Different methods of pressure loss calculations in pipe lines and how to select the
  suitable method
• Pressure loss correlations and applications of each
• Pipe line description and matching
• What is the bottleneck, how GAP determine it and how to be solved
• More....

Day Three:-

• How to model Production wells network with multi layer IPR wells
• How to model multi lateral wells in GAP
• How to connect different separated models in one network
• The different optimization methods
• More...

Day Four:- 

• How to model Production network with AL wells (GL and ESP)
• How to generate the VLP in AL wells
• How to use injection casing pressure option in GL wells
• How to solve the network with and without optimization in AL wells network
• More...

Day Five:-

• How to connect GL injection network to production network
• How the GL injection pressure and amount can affect the production network
• How to connect and use MBAL model in GAP
• How to connect WI to the MBAL (water injection reservoirs)
• More

Well and Surface Modeling

Day One :-

 - PIPESIM interface.
 - Changing the units system.
 - Nodal analysis overview.
 - VLP
 - IPR

Day Two :- 

Reservoir performance
 - Well performance equation
 - IPR for oil wells
 - IPR for gas wells
 - Predicting future IPR for gas wells ( Back pressure equation , Jones )

Vertical lift performance
 - Basic equation and concept (gravity ,acceleration and friction term)
 - Well flow correlation
 - Factor affecting well outflow performance

Day Three :- 

 - Adding deviation survey.
 - Adding down-hole equipment to the well model (SSSV, straddle PKR, SSD – selective
completion).
 - Perforation operation fundamentals and theory.
 - Perforation design and modelling by PIPESIM.
 - Flowing underbalance design modelling exercise.
 - Calculating skin.

Day Four:- 

- Introduction to artificial lift.
- When artificial lift is needed.
- ESP design sheet.
- ESP fundamentals and theory.
- ESP design using PIPESIM.

Day Five :-

- Well operating envelope.
- Well stimulation evaluation.
- Erosional velocity.
- Tubing size selection.
- Die out pressure and rate.
- Reservoir pressure estimation.

ESP Hand and Software design

DAY1: Review of Fundamentals:

• Review of Fundamentals.
• Determining Well Production Capacity
• Introduction to ESP system
• ESP Pump

DAY2: ESP System Selection and Equipment Hand Sizing

• Calculation of Total Dynamic Head
• Free Gas into Pump Calculations
• Full Equipment Selection
• ESP design inputs data sheet.

DAY3: ESP DESIGN USING SOFTWARE

• SOFTWARE QUICK VIEW AND PREPARATION.
• IPR INPUT DATA.
• VLP INPUT DATA.
• EQUIPMENT SELECTION AND DESIGN.

DAY4: ESP DESIGN USING SOFTWARE

• INSETRTING A NEW PUMP INTO THE SOFTWARE.
• DESIGN EXAMPLES.
• OUTPUT DATA AND RESULTS.
• MATCHING YOUR DESIGN.
• A LOOK AT DIFFERENT SOFTWARES.

DAY5: ESP Operational problems and troubleshooting

• ESP operation problems and Examples:
  • Motor problems.
  • Shaft problems.
  • Corrosion problems.
  • Scale problems.
  • Cable problems.
  • Formation damage.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting:
  • Running Amp.
  • Down hole sensor data.
• Troubleshooting:
  • Control methods.
  • Remedial actions.

 

Hydraulic Frac design and practice part 2

Day #6 Proppant


a Proppant Types
b Proppant conductivity
c How to select proppant for the hydraulic fracture job?


Day #7 Hydraulic Fracture fluids
a Hydraulic Fracture fluids types
b Hydraulic Fracture fluids Additives


Day #8 Diagnostic Pumping and Interpretation
a Diagnostic Pumping overview.
b DFIT analysis
c Fluid Efficiency Test
d Step down Test
e Step up rate test


Day #9 Fracture Treating Pressure Interpretation
a Notle Smith Curve

Day #10
a A complete guide to confirm QA/QC a for a complete hydraulic fracture job.


Day #11 Post Fracture Production
a How to evaluate hydraulic Fracture job
b Fractor affecting hydraulic fracture productivity

PVT Analysis Part 2

You will get familiar with the Main PVT analysis concepts.

• Get familiar with the all PVT experiments for reservoir fluid types.
• Know how to evaluate the all PVT properties.
• Make decisions about fluid sampling
• Determine PVT laboratory procedures required
• Analyse PVT reports
• Identify the relevant PVT data for various tasks according to operating conditions
• QC/QA PVT data
• Use PVT Correction and adjusting techniques.
• Know how to select the appropriate correlation based on raw fluid properties in case of no PVT data
• Fully understanding of reservoir fluid modelling.
• Greater understanding of Equation of state applications.
• Acquire the ability to characterize reservoir fluid using the EOS properties regression.
• Run the EOS model to calculate the needed experiments based on the existing measurements.
• PVT advanced issues like PVT and flow assurance, PVT and advanced mud gas analysis, PVT and geochemicalstudies, PVT and formation pressure testing measurements, Experiments for unconventional reservoirs.

Perforation Design

• Perforation Techniques and applications.
• WL Perforations.
• TCP Perforation and Accesories.
• Perforation design and Modeling.

Rate Transient Analysis

• Development of production data analysis techniques over time.
• Production data analysis applications.
• Arps & Fetkovic old school Decline curve analysis techniques.
• Blasingame, Agarwal-Gardner & NPI modern production data analysis techniques.
• Flowing Material Balance Method.
• Production Data analysis of hydraulically fractured & horizontal wells.
• Perform production data analysis using software.

Advanced Pressure Transient Analysis

• Types of Test Analysis
• Diagnostic and derivative analysis
• Types of well testing
• Numerical analysis
• Test Design consideration and DST

Acid Stimulation theory & best practice

• Formation Damage Characterization
• Sandstone Acidizing.
• Carbonate Acidizing.
• Acid Additives.
• Acid Placement Techniques.
• Advanced Acidizing.

Well Control Preparation

• Pressure Basics.
• Mud Weight Window.
• Well Control Barriers concept.
• Kick Theory.
• Causes of kicks.
• Kicks warning signs
• Shut in Procedures.
• Well control methods.
• Kill sheet calculations.
• BOP Equipment.
• Mud Gas Separator.

Waterflooding Design & Optimization

➢ How proper reservoir characterization can greatly affect waterflood design and performance monitoring.
➢ How to estimate reserves using the industry standard techniques – Class problem
➢ Evaluate reservoir drives to confirm water injection requirements - Case study
➢ Learn step-by-step how to design waterflood projects.
      • Data requirements and timing to start water injection
      • Methods to control water injection volumes and pattern balancing
      • How to estimate expected incremental oil recovery, using various analytical methods such as;
Buckley-Leverett, Dykstra-Parsons, and Stiles methods – Class problems
➢ How to monitor the performance of waterflood project to achieve the highest oil recovery, including:
      • Pressure history and Voidage Replacement Ratio’s (VRR’s) calculations.
      • How to evaluate injected water quality and to select proper water filter size
      • How to use conformance plots to evaluate performance and make waterflood design
adjustments to improve performance
      • Use the Hall Plot and PLT to propose workovers for production optimization – class problem
      • A review of a unique water injection problem for a formation expending a check valve effect!!
      • The review and revise water injection pattern, if necessary
➢ Myths of waterflooding Patterns

Advanced Integrated Formation Evaluation

Day 1: (Introduction)

• What is Petrophysics?
• What are the Rock Physical properties?
• What is Well Logging?
• Logging Operations and Log Quality Control

Day 2: (Open hole Logging Tools)

• Lithology Tools
• Porosity Tools
• Density & Neutron combination.
• Resistivity Tools

Day 3: (Core Data Integration & Formation Testing)

• Core-Log Data Integration
• Wireline Formation Pressure: Theory & Sampling.
• Pressure Gradient Analysis application.

Day 4: (Advanced Petrophysical Analysis)

• Database setup, data loading and LQC
• Data Harmonization
• Lithology identification using different cross plots
• Reservoir zonation
• Precomputations
• Flags (quality & mineral flags)
• Pickett plot (Rw & cementation exponent determination)
• Lithology identification.
• Shale volume calculations.
• Determination of clay minerals.
• Porosity models & calculation methods.
• Saturation models & calculation methods.
• Cut-off and Summation.
• Evaluation models construction
• Multi-models combination

 

 

Day 5: Multi Wells Analysis & Introduction for cased hole logging

• Gamma ray
• Acoustic logging
• Neutron logging
• Pulsed neutron capture and spectral logging
• Production logging

Advanced Well Intervention Operations

By the end of this training course, delegates will learn:

• Introduction to the variable nature of well interventions.
• Describe the economic implications of a workover in terms of the need to protect the well production or injection capacity.
• List and describe the equipment and operational concepts involved in coiled tubing and hydraulic workover units.
• know the well control barrier principles
• Identify three barriers methodology during well intervention
• Know well control barrier classification for different type of well intervention method.
• Describe the mechanisms of a slick wireline operation.
• List and describe the commonly used downhole wireline equipment and tools.
• List and describe the surface wireline equipment requirements; lubricator; BOP; stuffing box.
• Describe well pressure control and safety issues associated with wireline.
• learn procedures and equipment used in wireline, coiled tubing, and workover

Gas Lift theory, Operation & design

Upon Completing this course, you will learn the following;

• What are the pressure losses in the system (wellbore & flow lines) & factors affecting each sector.
• How to predict well production rate and different factors affecting both the inflow & outflow performance through Nodal analysis
• Why we need artificial lift, what are the different artificial lift methods & how to choose the best method according to our field, well status & resources availability?
• We will understand the concept of gas lift , different types and how to implement them in addition to different equipment required either surface or downhole equipment for different gas lift methods
• You will be able to understand gas lift design input data & how to design the proper gas lift design using different software
• Evaluating the gas lift system through different surveillance methods either from wellhead parameters or well intervention then study different optimization scenarios & propose the best solution in order to fix the gas lift system.

Thermal EOR Modeling by CMG

By the end of this course, you will be able to build, using the CMG application, the following cases:

Testing the black oil model for the do nothing (DN) case, then simulating water injection or gas injection to compare the effect on oil recovery with the DN case

1. Creating a Horizontal Well
2. Creating hydraulic fracturing (basics)
3. Creating a steam injection case and running it using CMG STARS
4. Creating a Cyclic Steam Stimulation Case (CSS)
5. Creating a Steam-Assisted Gravity Draining Case (SAGD)

Applied Reservoir Geomechanics

• Understand the different stresses acting on the rock.
• Determine the values of the acting stresses.
• Determine the orientation of these stresses.
• Determine the pore pressure.
• Understand effective stress terminology.
• Be able to determine rock’s mechanical properties.
• Understand the rock’s strength and factors affecting it.
• Draw Mohr’s Coloumb envelope.
• Understand the rock’s Failure Mechanisms
• Develop 1D Mechanical Model.
• Understand Mechanical Earth Modelling, its features, and required input data.
• Overview examples for the applications of Mechanical Earth Modelling