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Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data; Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports; Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines; Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive and compartmentalized reservoirs; Oil well testing: Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships; Gas well testing: Pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability; Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description; Immiscible displacement: Fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge; Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications; Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive and compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured and critical reservoir fluid reservoirs; Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, contracts, planning tools-oil field developments: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep and recovery, production policies; Reservoir simulation: Why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

Minerals and rocks; Plate tectonics; Geological times; Weathering and erosion; Deposition; Diagenesis; Reservoirs; Structural geology and petroleum; Origin, migration, and trapping of petroleum

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; Financing, ownership in the oil and gas industry: business arrangements between operators, between mineral owners; Accounting versus cash flow: accounting principles and definitions, differences between accounting cash numbers, depreciation, depletion, amortization; Budgeting: types, processes, selecting of projects for the budget; Economic analysis of operations; Computer economics software; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data; Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports; Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines; Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive and compartmentalized reservoirs; Oil well testing: Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships; Gas well testing: Pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability; Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description; Immiscible displacement: Fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge; Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications; Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive and compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured and critical reservoir fluid reservoirs; Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, contracts, planning tools-oil field developments: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep and recovery, production policies; Reservoir simulation: Why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

Minerals and rocks; Plate tectonics; Geological times; Weathering and erosion; Deposition; Diagenesis; Reservoirs; Structural geology and petroleum; Origin, migration, and trapping of petroleum

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; Financing, ownership in the oil and gas industry: business arrangements between operators, between mineral owners; Accounting versus cash flow: accounting principles and definitions, differences between accounting cash numbers, depreciation, depletion, amortization; Budgeting: types, processes, selecting of projects for the budget; Economic analysis of operations; Computer economics software; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Asset life cycles, professional roles, hydrocarbon reservoir descriptions. Porosity, permeability, compressibility, capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability, averaging reservoir property data; Phase behavior of reservoir fluids, gas properties, oil properties, water properties, PVT sampling and understanding PVT laboratory reports; Calculate original hydrocarbons in-place with volumetric methods, build hydrocarbon volume vs depth relationships, and review reserve booking guidelines; Oil recovery material balance, Havlena-Odeh method, gas material balance, volumetric, compaction, water drive and compartmentalized reservoirs; Oil well testing: Radial flow theory, wellbore storage and skin, drawdowns, buildups, curve shapes, type curve solutions, pseudo steady state, steady state, average pressure estimates, PI and IPR relationships; Gas well testing: Pressure, pressure squared, real gas pseudo pressure solutions, rate sensitive skins, multi-rate testing, gas well deliverability; Hurst van Everdingen, Carter Tracy, and Fetkovitch methods of aquifer analysis and description; Immiscible displacement: Fluid displacement process, fractional flow, Buckley Leverett, Welge; Description of coning, cusping, and over/under running, critical rates calculations, breakthrough times, horizontal well applications; Gas reservoirs: volumetric, water drive and compaction drive-oil reservoirs: water drive, water flood, gravity drainage, gas cap expansion, combination drive, naturally fractured and critical reservoir fluid reservoirs; Gas field developments: characteristics, deliverability issues, contracts, planning tools-oil field developments: development phases, reservoir characterization, sweep and recovery, production policies; Reservoir simulation: Why simulate? Various simulation models, simulator types, setting up a simulator model

Minerals and rocks; Plate tectonics; Geological times; Weathering and erosion; Deposition; Diagenesis; Reservoirs; Structural geology and petroleum; Origin, migration, and trapping of petroleum

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; Financing, ownership in the oil and gas industry: business arrangements between operators, between mineral owners; Accounting versus cash flow: accounting principles and definitions, differences between accounting cash numbers, depreciation, depletion, amortization; Budgeting: types, processes, selecting of projects for the budget; Economic analysis of operations; Computer economics software; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses