The digital learning ecosystem An efficient management approach to capability development, delivering smarter teams, improved productivity and better business outcome for the managers.
Bridging industry with academia An immersive and collaborative learning experience event, using OilSim simulator, providing highly relevant industry knowledge and soft skills.
The digital learning ecosystem Digitally and seamlessly connecting you, the learner, with pertinent learning objects and related technologies ensuring systematic, engaging and continued learning.
Industry and client recognition
Best Outreach Program Finalist: WorldOil Awards
Overall Customer Satisfaction Score
Training provider of the year: 2013, 14 and 15
Digital Technology Courses Understand the impact of digital technologies on E&P business and industry
Upstream learning simulator With more than 50,000 participants instructed in various disciplines, data driven OilSim runs real-world oil and gas business scenarios and technical challenges.
Engaging. Educational. EnjoyableUpstream learning simulator With more than 50,000 participants instructed in various disciplines, data driven OilSim runs real-world oil and gas business scenarios and technical challenges.
Engaging. Educational. EnjoyableBridging industry with academia An immersive and collaborative learning experience event, using OilSim simulator, providing highly relevant industry knowledge and soft skills.
Develop measurable skills and capabilities
This course demonstrates the use of basic rock properties, wireline logs, capillary pressure and relative permeability data to evaluate reservoir rock quality, seal capacity (thickness of hydrocarbon column a seal can hold before it leaks), recovery efficiency and to determine location of reservoir fluid contacts. The course also explains the main controls on fault seals, and methods to quantify risk in evaluating these.
The course delves into details of reserves and net pay determination, covering several case studies
The course will be a workshop format. Participants will delve into the details of working with data in several practical exercises. This popular course has been presented previously as AAPG, IPA and PESA Continuing Education Short Course as well as comprising part of the internal training program for several major oil and gas companies.
Daily Title: Evaluating Reservoir Quality, Seal Potential and Net Pay
Topic 1 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CAPILLARY PRESSURE
Learning Objectives: Understand uses of capillary principles in reservoir evaluation; fundamentals of capillarity: buoyancy vs. capillary pressure; wettability; contact angles; derivation of capillary pressure equations; definition of Free Water Level; description of the capillary pressure apparatus.
RELATED EXERCISE:
Use capillary pressure data to determine Free Water Level (FWL), oil/water contacts (OWC) and water saturations (Sw) at various heights above the FWL and at various subsurface depth
Topic 2 SEAL EVALUATION
Learning Objectives: Review concepts of top seals (caprocks) and intraformational seals (baffles & barriers); demonstrate application of integrated petrophysical and geochemical techniques in evaluation of seal potential in both equilibrated and dynamic petroleum systems (includes Case Studies from offshore Java, Indonesia and NW Shelf, Australia)
RELATED EXERCISE
Utilise a scenario of a large structure identified by seismic with a discovery well drilled at the crest. Learn to use given rock properties, structure and capillary pressure data to evaluate reservoir quality of encountered rock types, locate fluid contacts and establish saturations with depth. Also, learn to use these data to determine seal capacity, and based on this capacity determine depths at which each rock type becomes pay and whether discovery is viable
Day 2Daily Title: Evaluating Reservoir Quality, Seal Potential and Net Pay
Topic 3 FAULT SEAL EVALUATION
Learning objectives: Understand and predict "sealing" vs "leaking" faults. Discuss the probabilistic approach to determining whether faults act as seals or conduits in the subsurface. Review the principle elements of fault sealing (juxtaposition, fault zone process, and reactivation) and present a risk matrix to assess these.
Topic 4 PORE GEOMETRY
Learning Objectives: Understand the effects of pore geometry (size, shape, distribution of pores and pore throats) on relative permeability and capillary pressure. Learn to relate these properties to amounts, types and rates of fluids produced.
RELATED EXERCISE Learn to incorporate various data types (well-site sample descriptions, thin section photographs and petrographic descriptions) to estimate capillary pressure properties of different reservoir rock types.
Day 3Daily Title: Evaluating Reservoir Quality, Seal Potential and Net Pay
Topic 5 RECOVERY EFFICIENCY
Learning Objectives: Learn to use drainage and imbibition capillary pressure data in conjunction with relative permeability data to evaluate recovery efficiency of reservoirs on primary depletion as well as to judge the distribution of remaining fluids prior to secondary production.
RELATED EXERCISE
Use available reservoir data to predict recovery efficiency for the carbonate “Bullseye” field.
Topic 6 RESERVES ESTIMATION AND NET PAY DETERMINATION
Learning Objectives: Understand deterministic vs stochastic methods of evaluating reserves. Review conventional methods of determination of net pay in a reservoir and become aware of some improved techniques using core, sidewall core, cuttings, conventional plug measurements (porosity and permeability) in conjunction with capillary pressure and relative permeability data. RELATED EXERCISES
Exploration and development geologists, reservoir engineers and subsurface team leaders will benefit from the straightforward and intuitive presentation of principles governing hydrocarbon migration and entrapment, reservoir quality, pay determination and practical applications to determine fault and top seal potential
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CAPILLARY PRESSURE
SEAL EVALUATION
FAULT SEAL EVALUATION
PORE GEOMETRY
RECOVERY EFFICIENCY
RESERVES ESTIMATION AND NET PAY DETERMINATION
Good understanding of petroleum systems, reservoir terminologies, petrographic techniques and fundamentals of petrophysics
Currently there are no scheduled classes for this course.
Click below to be alerted when scheduled
Your course has been added to the wishlist
Customize your own learning journey and track your progress when you start using a defined learning path.