Petroleum Reservoir Management

Course Description

This course starts with an introduction to reservoir management, concepts in reservoir engineering and production forecast methods, explanation of different enhanced oil recovery methods. Then reservoir engineering economics, methods of data acquisition and analysis for different reservoir models will be presented. Finally, the process of reservoir management with examples of case studies will be explained.

Eligibility Criteria

The reservoir management course is designed for Petroleum Engineers with knowledge of petroleum reservoir engineering interested in optimization of oilfield recovery performance considering petroleum recovery and operation cost. It could also serve for others as a review on topics listed in the course content.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for the following audience:

Geologists
Reservoir engineers
Environmental engineers
Production engineers
Personnel involved with carbon dioxide injection, waterflooding, steam injection, and disposal well operation

Course Level

This course is an intermediate level course

Instructor

Dr. Mason M. Medizade – President and CEO, Petrolects, LLC

Dr. Mason Medizade has more than twenty five years of experience in the oil and gas industry, worldwide. His oilfield experience spans from reservoir engineering, drilling, and completion, to enhanced oil recovery and petroleum production. Specifically, he has done engineering work related to real time production monitoring, production enhancement, drilling fluids, reserve estimation, filtration, sand control, surface facility design, and EOR and reservoir management. He has been involved in consulting, research and teaching in renewable and non-renewable energy sources since 1984. Dr. Medizade’s recent oilfield work involves real time flow monitoring for which he has obtained a US patent. Dr. Medizade is president and CEO of Petrolects, LLC.

Dr. Medizade is also a faculty member in the mechanical engineering department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo,

where he focuses on petroleum engineering, wind energy, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. Professor Medizade has taught numerous short courses in petroleum engineering to clients such as Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO), California Division of Oil and Gas, Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC), Texaco, Pertamina, and others. Dr. Medizade is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and many other professional societies. He has authored numerous technical papers. His recent SPE paper discusses cyclic steam injection monitoring in diatomite. He has won numerous awards and certificates for his teaching and research work, including professorship from UNOCAL. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in petroleum engineering from University of Southern California (USC), and a B.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from Abadan Institute of Technology (AIT) in Abadan, Iran.

Course Content

The Art of Reservoir Management
- Introduction
- Definition and history
- Fundamentals
- Team building and integration
Reservoir Engineering Concepts and Forecasting
- Oil and gas production mechanisms
- What we mean by reserve
- Oil in place calculations – volumetric method
- Oil and gas in place calculations – material balance method
- Decline curve methods and reservoir simulation
Improved Recovery Methods, IRM
- Water injection, gas injection
- Enhanced oil recovery methods
- Screening guidelines for EOR
- Thermal methods
- Chemical methods
- Miscible methods
- Microbial methods
Reservoir Engineering and Economics
- Criteria and scenarios
- Data
- Economic evaluation
- Risk
- Example

Data Acquisition and Analysis
- Type of data
- Acquisition and analysis
- Validation
- Sorting
- Example
Reservoir Model
- Geoscience
- Seismic
- Geostatics
- Engineering
- Integration
Process of Reservoir Management and Case Studies
- Setting goals
- Planning
- Implementation
- Monitoring
- Evaluation

Course Materials

The following course materials will be provided by Petrolects:

Course workbook

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