Courses

This course will help the participants understand the essential aspects of reservoir engineering in unconventional resource plays enabling asset team members to make better field development decisions. The course will include topics related to reserves estimation, well testing, fluid evaluation sampling and well and reservoir dynamic modeling.

Shale gas plays are classified as unconventional resources for a reason, and by this point in the course you’ve seen most of them.  From a reservoir engineering perspective, however, unconventional resources must still comply with conventional laws of physics, which means that most of our tools and methodologies apply, but in different way or focus.  There are different ranges and scales to consider, but the fundamental approach is the same.  This course covers a range of ‘conventional’ reservoir engineering subjects with  special mention about application to shale gas reservoirs when appropriate.

This course covers the necessary fundamentals of reservoir engineering in shale plays.  Participants are expected to gain a good understanding of  the following key topics covered in this course:

1. Reserves estimation principles
2. Well testing principles/philosophies  and Rate transient analysis
3. Fluid evaluation including sampling techniques & PVT analysis
4. Production decline analysis – resource and reserves estimation of shale plays
5. Dynamic modeling and numerical reservoir simulation including dual porosity modeling
6. Stimulation evaluation.