Reservoir modelling and characterization

1. Pages covered 186
Day 1
1. The origins of oil and gas and how they are formed
2. Conventional Oil and Gas
3. Unconventional oil
4. Sources of unconventional oil
5. Sedimentary basins and the dynamic nature of Earth’s crust
6. Sedimentary basin
7. Sedimentary
8. Illustration of the rock cycle
9. Concepts of finite resources and limitations on recovery
10. M. King Hubbert's original 1956 prediction of world petroleum production rates
11. Global distribution of fossil fuels and OPEC’s resource endowment
12. Components that constitute natural gas
13. Uses and markets for oil and gas
14. BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2012
15. Oil: Reserves to production
16. Oil: Distribution of proved reserves
17. Production and consumption by region
18. Consumption per capita 2011
19. Crude oil prices 1861-2011
20. Gas: Reserves to production
21. Gas: Distribution of proved reserves
Day 2
22. Gas: Production and consumption by region
23. Consumption per capita 2011
24. Gas prices
25. An introduction to petroleum geology
26. CLASSIFICATION OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
27. Texture in Granular Sediments
28. Grain size
29. Sorting
30. Grain shape
31. Packing
32. Sand and sandstone
33. Classification of sands and sandstones
34. Porosity
35. Permeability
36. Controls on Porosity and Permeability
37. Grain size
38. Porosity: Function of grain size and sorting
39. Diagenesis (e.g. Compaction, Cementation)
40. Changes of porosity with burial depth
41. Reservoir Rock & Source Rock Types: Classification
42. Shales: Source rocks and seals
Day3
43. Sandstones and Sandstone Reservoirs
44. Carbonate and carbonate reservoirs
45. Geomodelling
46. Videos

2. 47. Geomodelling inputs
48. Geostatistics
49. Videos: Geostatics
50. Videos: Structural modelling
51. Stratigraphic modelling
52. Stratigraphy
53. Video: Stratigraphic modelling
54. Property modeling
55. Property & heterogeneity modelling
56. Structural modelling
57. Building a fault model
58. Stratigraphic modelling
59. Stratigraphic
60. Stochastic Simulation
61. Typical Reservoir Modeling Workflow
62. Simulation grid building principles
63. Optimized grid size
Day4+Day5
64. Flow-based orientation
65. Hierarchical fault incorporation
66. Corner point geometry
67. Upscaling of heterogeneity
68. Defining the re-scaling process
69. Weight parameter
70. Sampling method
71. Direct sampling
72. Reservoir simulation videos
73. Defining and calculating resources and reserves
74. Discovered & undiscovered resources
75. Definitions of Resources
76. Original Resources
77. Discovered Resources
78. Reserves
79. Contingent Resources
80. Definitions of Reserves
81. Development and Production Status
82. General Guidelines for Estimation of Reserves
83. General Requirements for Classification of Reserves
84. Procedures for Estimation and Classification of Reserves
85. Volumetric Methods
86. Rock Volume
87. Elevation of Fluid Contacts
88. Recovery Factor
89. Material Balance Methods
90. Production Decline Method
91. Future Drilling and Planned Enhanced Recovery Projects
92. Additional Reserves Related to Future Drilling
93. Reserves Related to Planned Enhanced Recovery Projects
94. Validation of Reserves Estimate