Fundamentals of Pump and Compressor Systems - ME-44

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

Reservoir life cycle and recovery process; Life under primary recovery phase: Recovery targets and ways to improve; Life under secondary recovery phases: Immiscible gas injection, waterflooding, recovery targets, ways to improve; Life under enhanced oil recovery phase: Increasing complexity, cost/benefit consideration; Miscible methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met; design considerations, case studies; Chemical methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Thermal methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Technical challenges: Current and future R & D directions Facilities modifications and personnel training

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

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of Data Management: Definition, History of data management, Trends, Data lifecycle, Importance and value of data management, Information orientation, Benefits of good data management, Business case aspects & barriers; Data Types: Definitions, Data types, Data models in E&P; Common Data Management Issues: Typical data issues (possible pitfalls), Causes of data issues, Data management best practices business impact; Data Management Framework: Data governance, Data architecture, Data security, Reference & master data management, Data quality management; Building and Sustaining the Data Management Framework: What to do, What not to do, Building consensus & engaging with the business

Speaking skills; Time management in meetings; Agenda creation; Conflict management; Meeting facilitation aids

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

Reservoir life cycle and recovery process; Life under primary recovery phase: Recovery targets and ways to improve; Life under secondary recovery phases: Immiscible gas injection, waterflooding, recovery targets, ways to improve; Life under enhanced oil recovery phase: Increasing complexity, cost/benefit consideration; Miscible methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met; design considerations, case studies; Chemical methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Thermal methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Technical challenges: Current and future R & D directions Facilities modifications and personnel training

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

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of Data Management: Definition, History of data management, Trends, Data lifecycle, Importance and value of data management, Information orientation, Benefits of good data management, Business case aspects & barriers; Data Types: Definitions, Data types, Data models in E&P; Common Data Management Issues: Typical data issues (possible pitfalls), Causes of data issues, Data management best practices business impact; Data Management Framework: Data governance, Data architecture, Data security, Reference & master data management, Data quality management; Building and Sustaining the Data Management Framework: What to do, What not to do, Building consensus & engaging with the business

Speaking skills; Time management in meetings; Agenda creation; Conflict management; Meeting facilitation aids

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

Reservoir life cycle and recovery process; Life under primary recovery phase: Recovery targets and ways to improve; Life under secondary recovery phases: Immiscible gas injection, waterflooding, recovery targets, ways to improve; Life under enhanced oil recovery phase: Increasing complexity, cost/benefit consideration; Miscible methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met; design considerations, case studies; Chemical methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Thermal methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Technical challenges: Current and future R & D directions Facilities modifications and personnel training

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

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of Data Management: Definition, History of data management, Trends, Data lifecycle, Importance and value of data management, Information orientation, Benefits of good data management, Business case aspects & barriers; Data Types: Definitions, Data types, Data models in E&P; Common Data Management Issues: Typical data issues (possible pitfalls), Causes of data issues, Data management best practices business impact; Data Management Framework: Data governance, Data architecture, Data security, Reference & master data management, Data quality management; Building and Sustaining the Data Management Framework: What to do, What not to do, Building consensus & engaging with the business

Speaking skills; Time management in meetings; Agenda creation; Conflict management; Meeting facilitation aids

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

Reservoir life cycle and recovery process; Life under primary recovery phase: Recovery targets and ways to improve; Life under secondary recovery phases: Immiscible gas injection, waterflooding, recovery targets, ways to improve; Life under enhanced oil recovery phase: Increasing complexity, cost/benefit consideration; Miscible methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met; design considerations, case studies; Chemical methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Thermal methods: Selection criteria, recovery targets and why they are seldom met, design considerations, case studies; Technical challenges: Current and future R & D directions Facilities modifications and personnel training

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

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Overview of Data Management: Definition, History of data management, Trends, Data lifecycle, Importance and value of data management, Information orientation, Benefits of good data management, Business case aspects & barriers; Data Types: Definitions, Data types, Data models in E&P; Common Data Management Issues: Typical data issues (possible pitfalls), Causes of data issues, Data management best practices business impact; Data Management Framework: Data governance, Data architecture, Data security, Reference & master data management, Data quality management; Building and Sustaining the Data Management Framework: What to do, What not to do, Building consensus & engaging with the business

Speaking skills; Time management in meetings; Agenda creation; Conflict management; Meeting facilitation aids

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...