Course Overview

This course aims at introducing the participants to methods of maximising production and recovery in a cost-effective, safe, and future sustainable manner. It will help attendees maximise the value of their knowledge and apply it to increase profits of the fields by finding the most maturing and best opportunities at a lower cost per barrel.

Why do we need reservoir management?

The most important issue for the most organisation is to make sure the income revenues are maximum from the already existing assets; therefore, well and reservoir management will help realise this goal. This course will define the activities that need or should be undertaken to manage well, reservoir and facilities effectively.

What are well reservoir and facility management?

WRF (well reservoir and facilities) management is the employment of strategies where dedicated teams work together to efficiently manage WRFs and ensure that the WRF delivers almost 100% of their potential each day. The course is meant to introduce the participants to the necessary tools that one needs to know where oil and reserves are, reduce the downtime associated with WRF, reduce losses, be familiar with both production and injection. The importance of the WRF management strategy plan, a choke model diagram, opportunity maturation process, regular reviews shall be discussed.

The course shall endeavour to define the WRM plans that can be followed to successfully implement the WRFM strategy. The plan for the right measurement, monitoring, and verification is stipulated in different legislations and aims to verify the CO2 containment in the storage complex and conformance to the long-term behaviour of WRFM.

Sound and integrated reservoir management can help organisations and individuals realise development plans and effective operation through a reservoir’s life cycle. Appropriate application of the reservoir management techniques will increase the ability to achieve high recovery factors.

This course from Zoe Talent Solutions will highlight the following:

• Opportunity maturation process
• Well reservoir and facility management
• Well, reservoir, and facility management strategy
• Reservoir drive mechanism and producing characteristics
• Production system optimisation
• Well, reservoir, and facility plan
• Reservoir engineering data
• Determination of hydrocarbon in place
• Oil recovery enhancement techniques
• Reserves estimation and classification
• Describing waterflooding

Course Objectives

• Be acquainted with the the right data collection, analysis, validation, and integration processes
• Describe opportunity maturation process
• Understanding reservoir and facility management
• Use the correct approaches for reservoir engineering and management
• Deliver structured reviews to identify opportunities
• Explain how to ready a well, reservoir, and facility management strategy & plan
• Include each reservoir component and the importance of timing, cost, and benefit analysis
• Carry-out production system optimisation
• Describe the components that makeup well, reservoir, and facility management value loop

Training Methodology

Participants of this course will gain immensely from reputable and experienced tutors. Different methods shall be used to deliver the content. The tutors might apply a range of thoroughly proven adult learning and facilitation methods best suited to fit the participants’ learning preferences. Some of the methods that will be used include lectures, practical lessons, theoretical lessons, illustrations, case studies, and videos where relevant.

This ‘Well, Reservoir and Facility Management Course’ uses the ‘Learn-Review-Apply’ model of training.

Organisational Benefits

Organisations that will let their professionals take up this course will benefit in the following ways:

• Propose new development plans for company fields
• A streamlined opportunity maturation process
• Continuous production system optimisation
• A better understanding of how the well, reservoir, and facility management value loop works
• Use appropriate execution methodology for the data analysis and integration
• A holistic and orgaziation-wide caliberated well, reservoir, and facility management strategy and plan
• Improved well, reservoir, and facility management to maximise production and recovery
• Skilled and structured reviews to identify opportunities
• Make better use of efficient reservoir management through interdisciplinary synergistic approaches

Personal Benefits

Participants who will undertake this course shall stand to benefit in the following ways:

• Prepare a clear WRFM strategy and plan
• Monitor the reservoir performance by applying different techniques
• Carry-out structured reviews to identify opportunities
• Develop a streamlined opportunity maturation process
• Use an optimum reservoir development plan by applying economics
• Describe how the WRFM value loop works
• Develop familiarity with improved recovery
• Apply production system optimisation.
• Use optimization tools to implement well, reservoir, and facility management
• Beware of reservoir management component
• Play competent and well-organised role within the reservoir management team

Who Should Attend?

The WRF is designed for all the professionals who are involved with WRF management. The professionals include production technologists, operations staff, production staff, and process engineers.

However, it will greatly be beneficial to:

• Well engineers
• Production chemists
• Drilling engineers
• All subsurface staff
• Well services personnel
• Production engineers
• Operations engineers
• Geoscientists
• Production technologists
• Reservoir engineers
• Managers who need to manage well, reservoir, and facility management

Course Outline

Module 1: Daily Production Optimisation 

• Daily Production Optimisation Review
• Daily Production Optimisation Exercise
• Data at your Fingertips
• HSE Safety Moment
• Overview of Daily Production Optimisation
• Having the Right Models for Analysis

Module 2: Introduction To WRFM & The Value Loop

• WRFM Quiz
• WRFM Value Loop
• HSE Safety Moment
• Key Components & Structure of WRFM
• Well & Reservoir | Facility Management

Module 3: Well & Pattern Review

• Well, & Pattern Review Exercise
• Well, & Pattern Review
• HSE Safety Moment
• Preparation for Well & Pattern Review
• Opportunity Maturation Process
• EOR Processes Concepts & Mechanisms

Module 4: Production System Optimisation

• PSO Review
• Overview of Production System Optimisation
• Production System Optimisation Exercise
• Surveillance & Monitoring Tools
• HSE Safety Moment

Module 5: Well, Reservoir, & Facility Management Strategy & Plan (Participants Challenge)

• (Ptl) Produce The Limit
• Practical Examples of WRFM
• Participants WRFM Challenges
• EOR Processes | Screening & Guidelines
• WRFM Strategy & Plan

Module 6: Surveillance Strategy

• Surface
• Monitoring Wells
• Injector Wells
• Reservoir Data Acquisition

Module 7: WRFM Actions

• Wells
• Reservoir
• Modeling Strategy
• Compressor & Conditioning Unit
• IPSM
• Identifying & Acquiring Critical Data, Analysis, & Data Acquisition
• Maps
• Information & Data Management
• Transportation (Pipeline & Platform)
• Field Integrity Plan
• Meeting Plan
• Surface Facility Model

Module 8: Major Value Drivers

• System Operability
• Storage Containment
• Abandoned E & A Wells
• CO2 Inventory Accuracy
• Learning For Future CCS Projects
• Geological Integrity
• Conformance: Well & Reservoir Performance
• Active Management of Carbon (II) Dioxide
• Technical Integrity

Module 9: Reservoir Engineering Data

• Static Geological Model & Reservoir Simulation
• Total Integration of Surface & Subsurface
• Data Types: Reservoir Rock & Fluids Properties
• Efficient Monitoring of Reservoir Performance
• When Simulation Models are Required
• History Matching & Identification of Bypassed Oil
• Reservoir Performance Analysis & Forecast
• Data Needed for the Integrated Study

Module 10: Oil Recovery Enhancement Techniques

• Stages of EOR Projects
• Chemical, Thermal & Miscible EOR Methods
• Performance of the EOR Processes
• Reservoir Management Case Studies of Mature Fields
• Conventional & Non-Conventional EOR Processes
• Development Plans of the EOR Processes
• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Techniques