Reservoir Management for Unconventional Reservoirs - RMUR

Introduction to rock mechanics and geomechanical principals; Basic mechanics: Stress and strain, elasticity - linear and non-linear effects, brittle and ductile rock behavior, poroelasticity, time-dependent-effects - consolidation and creep, normal and shear forces, hoop stresses, the Kirsch solution, 2-D and 3-D stress components, tensors, the stress ellipsoid, and basic rock failure (Mohr-Coulomb theory); Rock mechanical properties: Ability to bear stresses - compressive strength, tensile strength, deformation response to stresses - elastic moduli, Poisson's ratio; Pressure, stresses, and loads: Principal stresses, in-situ stress regime, total-stress and effective-stress, temperature effects, nature and origin of pore pressure; Geomechanics and structural geology: Faulting and folding, tectonics, regional structural analysis, regional and localized stress; Wellbore and field measurement of in-situ (earth) stresses: Stresses around boreholes, overburden stress, horizontal stresses, leakoff tests, mini-frac tests, formation testers, other pressure transient techniques, and tool deployment; Overview of common rock mechanics tests (lab demonstrations): unconfined compression, triaxial compression, hydrostatic compression, poly-axial, multi-stage triaxial, thick-walled cylinder, direct tensile strength, indirect (Brazilian) tensile strength, direct shear, uniaxial strain (compaction), and "quick look" (rock hardness) and "scratch" tests; Stress orientation techniques: Geological/mapping methods, wireline logging techniques, analastic strain recovery, differential strain curve analysis, acoustic anisotropy; Elastic, plastic, and viscous models of rock behavior: Deformation mechanisms and common models used in petroleum related rock mechanics; Borehole stability: Borehole stresses, wellbore placement, shale characterization, review of borehole stability models, high angle and horizontal drilling, pilot hole evaluation, multi-lateral wellbores, borehole breakouts, fluid-related instability, drilling through depleted zones and casing shoe decisions, stuck pipe, and case histories (software demonstration); Sand control: Review of sand production mechanisms, completion techniques in unstable formations, gravel pack design, special liners and screens, and case histories; Fracture mechanics: Naturally fractured reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing, stimulation options, and case history; Reservoir engineering applications: Compaction drive, reservoir compaction and compressibility, subsidence, casing shear, depletion and effective stress, and case history; Wireline log predicted mechanical properties: density logging, acoustic logging, Biot theory, dipole and multi-pole (dynamic) acoustic logging, seismic data and Amplitude Versus Offset (AVO), and shear- and compressional-wave anistropy (lab demonstration); Data integration

Forecasting oil production; Defining: "reserves", operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices; Cash flow techniques; Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of money, selection, ranking criteria; Risk, uncertainty: types of risk, mathematical techniques, probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic analysis; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Defining costs, classifications and terminology in an oil and gas senseClassifying the different costs; Determining cost objects, cost drivers and their behaviors; Assigning costs for an E&P company; Analyzing different types of Cost management systems; Measuring activities and their performance; Using Activities Based Management (ABM) to monitor costs and processes; Building and using an activity dictionary; Using value added costs versus non value-added costs for improvement; Tying costs to revenues to more effectively measure profits; Distinguishing between cost effectiveness and cost efficiencies; Using 4 dimensional costs; Developing productivity measurements that work; Operating Cost ManagementUsing the budgets efficiently and effectively; Using GAP analysis in measuring productivity of costs; Support departments cost allocations; Transfer pricing; Determining the break-even cost and volumes; Using variance analysis budget for monitoring performance; Measuring and controlling productivity; Optimizing the supply chain; Capital Cost ManagementCapital investment decision making and the effect on cost management; Developing and analyzing capital investment projects; Replace versus maintain; Life Cycle Costing; Analytical techniques for managing costs; Managing personnel, logistics, purchasing and material costs effectively; Sensitivity Analysis for optimizing costs; Using different scenarios to more effectively manage costs; Performance MeasurementUsing capacity management techniques; Incorporating HSSE into the cost management system; Defining preventive and reactive costs; Breaking down the audit of performance management results; Raising your own cost management awareness

Gas lift concepts and data; Inflow/Outflow; Nodal analysis; Equilibrium curves; Gas lift equipment and valve mechanics; Valve selection and calibration; Unloading; Mandrel spacing and step-by step, complete gas lift design for a well; Temperature effects on valves; Determine the Ptro; Orifice sizing techniques; Lift gas rates for best economics; Causes and solutions of instability; Gas lift surveillance and measurement; Analysis of flowing pressure gradient surveys; Analysis of GL surface charts and measurements; Gas allocation and field optimization; Use of computer programs for gas lift design, trouble-shooting and optimization

Characterization of natural fractures and fracture systems; Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and structure on fracture development; Detection and prediction of subsurface natural-fracture occurrence and intensity from cores and well logs; Fractured rock properties affecting reservoir performance; Classification of naturally-fractured reservoirs with reservoir examples and potential production problems; Naturally-fractures reservoirs: Fluid-flow, Well performance and well testing, Reservoir performance, Numerical Simulation; Geomechanics/fluid-flow; Behavior and Stimulation of naturally-fractured reservoirs; Effects of natural fractures on reservoir permeability anisotropy, drainage area and waterflood sweep efficiency

Introduction to rock mechanics and geomechanical principals; Basic mechanics: Stress and strain, elasticity - linear and non-linear effects, brittle and ductile rock behavior, poroelasticity, time-dependent-effects - consolidation and creep, normal and shear forces, hoop stresses, the Kirsch solution, 2-D and 3-D stress components, tensors, the stress ellipsoid, and basic rock failure (Mohr-Coulomb theory); Rock mechanical properties: Ability to bear stresses - compressive strength, tensile strength, deformation response to stresses - elastic moduli, Poisson's ratio; Pressure, stresses, and loads: Principal stresses, in-situ stress regime, total-stress and effective-stress, temperature effects, nature and origin of pore pressure; Geomechanics and structural geology: Faulting and folding, tectonics, regional structural analysis, regional and localized stress; Wellbore and field measurement of in-situ (earth) stresses: Stresses around boreholes, overburden stress, horizontal stresses, leakoff tests, mini-frac tests, formation testers, other pressure transient techniques, and tool deployment; Overview of common rock mechanics tests (lab demonstrations): unconfined compression, triaxial compression, hydrostatic compression, poly-axial, multi-stage triaxial, thick-walled cylinder, direct tensile strength, indirect (Brazilian) tensile strength, direct shear, uniaxial strain (compaction), and "quick look" (rock hardness) and "scratch" tests; Stress orientation techniques: Geological/mapping methods, wireline logging techniques, analastic strain recovery, differential strain curve analysis, acoustic anisotropy; Elastic, plastic, and viscous models of rock behavior: Deformation mechanisms and common models used in petroleum related rock mechanics; Borehole stability: Borehole stresses, wellbore placement, shale characterization, review of borehole stability models, high angle and horizontal drilling, pilot hole evaluation, multi-lateral wellbores, borehole breakouts, fluid-related instability, drilling through depleted zones and casing shoe decisions, stuck pipe, and case histories (software demonstration); Sand control: Review of sand production mechanisms, completion techniques in unstable formations, gravel pack design, special liners and screens, and case histories; Fracture mechanics: Naturally fractured reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing, stimulation options, and case history; Reservoir engineering applications: Compaction drive, reservoir compaction and compressibility, subsidence, casing shear, depletion and effective stress, and case history; Wireline log predicted mechanical properties: density logging, acoustic logging, Biot theory, dipole and multi-pole (dynamic) acoustic logging, seismic data and Amplitude Versus Offset (AVO), and shear- and compressional-wave anistropy (lab demonstration); Data integration

Forecasting oil production; Defining: "reserves", operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices; Cash flow techniques; Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of money, selection, ranking criteria; Risk, uncertainty: types of risk, mathematical techniques, probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic analysis; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Defining costs, classifications and terminology in an oil and gas senseClassifying the different costs; Determining cost objects, cost drivers and their behaviors; Assigning costs for an E&P company; Analyzing different types of Cost management systems; Measuring activities and their performance; Using Activities Based Management (ABM) to monitor costs and processes; Building and using an activity dictionary; Using value added costs versus non value-added costs for improvement; Tying costs to revenues to more effectively measure profits; Distinguishing between cost effectiveness and cost efficiencies; Using 4 dimensional costs; Developing productivity measurements that work; Operating Cost ManagementUsing the budgets efficiently and effectively; Using GAP analysis in measuring productivity of costs; Support departments cost allocations; Transfer pricing; Determining the break-even cost and volumes; Using variance analysis budget for monitoring performance; Measuring and controlling productivity; Optimizing the supply chain; Capital Cost ManagementCapital investment decision making and the effect on cost management; Developing and analyzing capital investment projects; Replace versus maintain; Life Cycle Costing; Analytical techniques for managing costs; Managing personnel, logistics, purchasing and material costs effectively; Sensitivity Analysis for optimizing costs; Using different scenarios to more effectively manage costs; Performance MeasurementUsing capacity management techniques; Incorporating HSSE into the cost management system; Defining preventive and reactive costs; Breaking down the audit of performance management results; Raising your own cost management awareness

Gas lift concepts and data; Inflow/Outflow; Nodal analysis; Equilibrium curves; Gas lift equipment and valve mechanics; Valve selection and calibration; Unloading; Mandrel spacing and step-by step, complete gas lift design for a well; Temperature effects on valves; Determine the Ptro; Orifice sizing techniques; Lift gas rates for best economics; Causes and solutions of instability; Gas lift surveillance and measurement; Analysis of flowing pressure gradient surveys; Analysis of GL surface charts and measurements; Gas allocation and field optimization; Use of computer programs for gas lift design, trouble-shooting and optimization

Characterization of natural fractures and fracture systems; Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and structure on fracture development; Detection and prediction of subsurface natural-fracture occurrence and intensity from cores and well logs; Fractured rock properties affecting reservoir performance; Classification of naturally-fractured reservoirs with reservoir examples and potential production problems; Naturally-fractures reservoirs: Fluid-flow, Well performance and well testing, Reservoir performance, Numerical Simulation; Geomechanics/fluid-flow; Behavior and Stimulation of naturally-fractured reservoirs; Effects of natural fractures on reservoir permeability anisotropy, drainage area and waterflood sweep efficiency

Introduction to rock mechanics and geomechanical principals; Basic mechanics: Stress and strain, elasticity - linear and non-linear effects, brittle and ductile rock behavior, poroelasticity, time-dependent-effects - consolidation and creep, normal and shear forces, hoop stresses, the Kirsch solution, 2-D and 3-D stress components, tensors, the stress ellipsoid, and basic rock failure (Mohr-Coulomb theory); Rock mechanical properties: Ability to bear stresses - compressive strength, tensile strength, deformation response to stresses - elastic moduli, Poisson's ratio; Pressure, stresses, and loads: Principal stresses, in-situ stress regime, total-stress and effective-stress, temperature effects, nature and origin of pore pressure; Geomechanics and structural geology: Faulting and folding, tectonics, regional structural analysis, regional and localized stress; Wellbore and field measurement of in-situ (earth) stresses: Stresses around boreholes, overburden stress, horizontal stresses, leakoff tests, mini-frac tests, formation testers, other pressure transient techniques, and tool deployment; Overview of common rock mechanics tests (lab demonstrations): unconfined compression, triaxial compression, hydrostatic compression, poly-axial, multi-stage triaxial, thick-walled cylinder, direct tensile strength, indirect (Brazilian) tensile strength, direct shear, uniaxial strain (compaction), and "quick look" (rock hardness) and "scratch" tests; Stress orientation techniques: Geological/mapping methods, wireline logging techniques, analastic strain recovery, differential strain curve analysis, acoustic anisotropy; Elastic, plastic, and viscous models of rock behavior: Deformation mechanisms and common models used in petroleum related rock mechanics; Borehole stability: Borehole stresses, wellbore placement, shale characterization, review of borehole stability models, high angle and horizontal drilling, pilot hole evaluation, multi-lateral wellbores, borehole breakouts, fluid-related instability, drilling through depleted zones and casing shoe decisions, stuck pipe, and case histories (software demonstration); Sand control: Review of sand production mechanisms, completion techniques in unstable formations, gravel pack design, special liners and screens, and case histories; Fracture mechanics: Naturally fractured reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing, stimulation options, and case history; Reservoir engineering applications: Compaction drive, reservoir compaction and compressibility, subsidence, casing shear, depletion and effective stress, and case history; Wireline log predicted mechanical properties: density logging, acoustic logging, Biot theory, dipole and multi-pole (dynamic) acoustic logging, seismic data and Amplitude Versus Offset (AVO), and shear- and compressional-wave anistropy (lab demonstration); Data integration

Forecasting oil production; Defining: "reserves", operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices; Cash flow techniques; Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of money, selection, ranking criteria; Risk, uncertainty: types of risk, mathematical techniques, probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic analysis; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Defining costs, classifications and terminology in an oil and gas senseClassifying the different costs; Determining cost objects, cost drivers and their behaviors; Assigning costs for an E&P company; Analyzing different types of Cost management systems; Measuring activities and their performance; Using Activities Based Management (ABM) to monitor costs and processes; Building and using an activity dictionary; Using value added costs versus non value-added costs for improvement; Tying costs to revenues to more effectively measure profits; Distinguishing between cost effectiveness and cost efficiencies; Using 4 dimensional costs; Developing productivity measurements that work; Operating Cost ManagementUsing the budgets efficiently and effectively; Using GAP analysis in measuring productivity of costs; Support departments cost allocations; Transfer pricing; Determining the break-even cost and volumes; Using variance analysis budget for monitoring performance; Measuring and controlling productivity; Optimizing the supply chain; Capital Cost ManagementCapital investment decision making and the effect on cost management; Developing and analyzing capital investment projects; Replace versus maintain; Life Cycle Costing; Analytical techniques for managing costs; Managing personnel, logistics, purchasing and material costs effectively; Sensitivity Analysis for optimizing costs; Using different scenarios to more effectively manage costs; Performance MeasurementUsing capacity management techniques; Incorporating HSSE into the cost management system; Defining preventive and reactive costs; Breaking down the audit of performance management results; Raising your own cost management awareness

Gas lift concepts and data; Inflow/Outflow; Nodal analysis; Equilibrium curves; Gas lift equipment and valve mechanics; Valve selection and calibration; Unloading; Mandrel spacing and step-by step, complete gas lift design for a well; Temperature effects on valves; Determine the Ptro; Orifice sizing techniques; Lift gas rates for best economics; Causes and solutions of instability; Gas lift surveillance and measurement; Analysis of flowing pressure gradient surveys; Analysis of GL surface charts and measurements; Gas allocation and field optimization; Use of computer programs for gas lift design, trouble-shooting and optimization

Characterization of natural fractures and fracture systems; Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and structure on fracture development; Detection and prediction of subsurface natural-fracture occurrence and intensity from cores and well logs; Fractured rock properties affecting reservoir performance; Classification of naturally-fractured reservoirs with reservoir examples and potential production problems; Naturally-fractures reservoirs: Fluid-flow, Well performance and well testing, Reservoir performance, Numerical Simulation; Geomechanics/fluid-flow; Behavior and Stimulation of naturally-fractured reservoirs; Effects of natural fractures on reservoir permeability anisotropy, drainage area and waterflood sweep efficiency

Introduction to rock mechanics and geomechanical principals; Basic mechanics: Stress and strain, elasticity - linear and non-linear effects, brittle and ductile rock behavior, poroelasticity, time-dependent-effects - consolidation and creep, normal and shear forces, hoop stresses, the Kirsch solution, 2-D and 3-D stress components, tensors, the stress ellipsoid, and basic rock failure (Mohr-Coulomb theory); Rock mechanical properties: Ability to bear stresses - compressive...