Petroleum Project Management: Principles and Practices - PPM

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; Reservoir properties and evaluation; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling engineering; Well completion, stimulation and workover; Well testing and formation damage; Production operations; Recovery methods; Surface processing

Conventional decline curve equations: exponential, hyperbolic and harmonic rate versus time and rate versus cumulative production relationships, selecting the proper equation based on reservoir properties and drive mechanisms; The effects of transient production: how to recognize transient production, how transient forecasts can overestimate remaining reserves, how to properly constrain transient forecasts; Forecasting during displacement processes: using trends like water-oil ratio and versus cumulative oil production to estimate ultimate oil recovery, converting these trends into an oil rate versus time forecast; Difficult situations: layered and compartmented reservoirs, downtime, workovers, changing facility conditions and facility constraints, forecasting groups of wells, common mistakes; Production decline type-curves: Introduction and historical background on production decline type-curve methods, how to use modern decline type-curves to determine reservoir properties during both transient and stabilized production, using type-curve methods for forecasting future production

History of LWD development; Modern tool types; Standard techniques in well log correlation and its relationship to geosteering; Identification of data quality and mitigating factors; Requirements necessary to steer a well; Directional terminology; Introduction to Total Hole Deviation as a geosteering tool; Special geosteering techniques, including Derived log, Azimuthal Gamma Ray, Additional LWD curves for identification of sweet spot, Drilling plans, Grids, Projected surfaces, Other LWD curves: gas, resistivity, other; Geosteering for 12 to 15 wells

Contouring techniques; Triangulation; Using dip in mapping; Different measures of thickness; Thickness in deviated wells; Isopach and isocore maps; Dip-domain cross sections; Data projection; Trend and plunge of folds on tangent diagrams; Composite-surface maps; Fault shapes and displacement distributions; Heave and throw from stratigraphic separation; Stratigraphic separation from structure contour map; Constructing fault-plane maps; Faults on isopach maps; Combining fault and horizon maps; Contouring across faults; Structural quality-control techniques; Multiple-surface map compatibility; Map validation using implied fault contours; Finding faults and fault orientations with SCAT analysis of dipmeters; Juxtaposition diagrams for trap and seal analysis; Fault-cutoff lines in computer mapping; Soft linked and hard linked faults; Relay and branching fault patterns; Mapping sequential cross-cutting faults

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; Reservoir properties and evaluation; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling engineering; Well completion, stimulation and workover; Well testing and formation damage; Production operations; Recovery methods; Surface processing

Conventional decline curve equations: exponential, hyperbolic and harmonic rate versus time and rate versus cumulative production relationships, selecting the proper equation based on reservoir properties and drive mechanisms; The effects of transient production: how to recognize transient production, how transient forecasts can overestimate remaining reserves, how to properly constrain transient forecasts; Forecasting during displacement processes: using trends like water-oil ratio and versus cumulative oil production to estimate ultimate oil recovery, converting these trends into an oil rate versus time forecast; Difficult situations: layered and compartmented reservoirs, downtime, workovers, changing facility conditions and facility constraints, forecasting groups of wells, common mistakes; Production decline type-curves: Introduction and historical background on production decline type-curve methods, how to use modern decline type-curves to determine reservoir properties during both transient and stabilized production, using type-curve methods for forecasting future production

History of LWD development; Modern tool types; Standard techniques in well log correlation and its relationship to geosteering; Identification of data quality and mitigating factors; Requirements necessary to steer a well; Directional terminology; Introduction to Total Hole Deviation as a geosteering tool; Special geosteering techniques, including Derived log, Azimuthal Gamma Ray, Additional LWD curves for identification of sweet spot, Drilling plans, Grids, Projected surfaces, Other LWD curves: gas, resistivity, other; Geosteering for 12 to 15 wells

Contouring techniques; Triangulation; Using dip in mapping; Different measures of thickness; Thickness in deviated wells; Isopach and isocore maps; Dip-domain cross sections; Data projection; Trend and plunge of folds on tangent diagrams; Composite-surface maps; Fault shapes and displacement distributions; Heave and throw from stratigraphic separation; Stratigraphic separation from structure contour map; Constructing fault-plane maps; Faults on isopach maps; Combining fault and horizon maps; Contouring across faults; Structural quality-control techniques; Multiple-surface map compatibility; Map validation using implied fault contours; Finding faults and fault orientations with SCAT analysis of dipmeters; Juxtaposition diagrams for trap and seal analysis; Fault-cutoff lines in computer mapping; Soft linked and hard linked faults; Relay and branching fault patterns; Mapping sequential cross-cutting faults

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; Reservoir properties and evaluation; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling engineering; Well completion, stimulation and workover; Well testing and formation damage; Production operations; Recovery methods; Surface processing

Conventional decline curve equations: exponential, hyperbolic and harmonic rate versus time and rate versus cumulative production relationships, selecting the proper equation based on reservoir properties and drive mechanisms; The effects of transient production: how to recognize transient production, how transient forecasts can overestimate remaining reserves, how to properly constrain transient forecasts; Forecasting during displacement processes: using trends like water-oil ratio and versus cumulative oil production to estimate ultimate oil recovery, converting these trends into an oil rate versus time forecast; Difficult situations: layered and compartmented reservoirs, downtime, workovers, changing facility conditions and facility constraints, forecasting groups of wells, common mistakes; Production decline type-curves: Introduction and historical background on production decline type-curve methods, how to use modern decline type-curves to determine reservoir properties during both transient and stabilized production, using type-curve methods for forecasting future production

History of LWD development; Modern tool types; Standard techniques in well log correlation and its relationship to geosteering; Identification of data quality and mitigating factors; Requirements necessary to steer a well; Directional terminology; Introduction to Total Hole Deviation as a geosteering tool; Special geosteering techniques, including Derived log, Azimuthal Gamma Ray, Additional LWD curves for identification of sweet spot, Drilling plans, Grids, Projected surfaces, Other LWD curves: gas, resistivity, other; Geosteering for 12 to 15 wells

Contouring techniques; Triangulation; Using dip in mapping; Different measures of thickness; Thickness in deviated wells; Isopach and isocore maps; Dip-domain cross sections; Data projection; Trend and plunge of folds on tangent diagrams; Composite-surface maps; Fault shapes and displacement distributions; Heave and throw from stratigraphic separation; Stratigraphic separation from structure contour map; Constructing fault-plane maps; Faults on isopach maps; Combining fault and horizon maps; Contouring across faults; Structural quality-control techniques; Multiple-surface map compatibility; Map validation using implied fault contours; Finding faults and fault orientations with SCAT analysis of dipmeters; Juxtaposition diagrams for trap and seal analysis; Fault-cutoff lines in computer mapping; Soft linked and hard linked faults; Relay and branching fault patterns; Mapping sequential cross-cutting faults

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; Reservoir properties and evaluation; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling engineering; Well completion, stimulation and workover; Well testing and formation damage; Production operations; Recovery methods; Surface processing

Conventional decline curve equations: exponential, hyperbolic and harmonic rate versus time and rate versus cumulative production relationships, selecting the proper equation based on reservoir properties and drive mechanisms; The effects of transient production: how to recognize transient production, how transient forecasts can overestimate remaining reserves, how to properly constrain transient forecasts; Forecasting during displacement processes: using trends like water-oil ratio and versus cumulative oil production to estimate ultimate oil recovery, converting these trends into an oil rate versus time forecast; Difficult situations: layered and compartmented reservoirs, downtime, workovers, changing facility conditions and facility constraints, forecasting groups of wells, common mistakes; Production decline type-curves: Introduction and historical background on production decline type-curve methods, how to use modern decline type-curves to determine reservoir properties during both transient and stabilized production, using type-curve methods for forecasting future production

History of LWD development; Modern tool types; Standard techniques in well log correlation and its relationship to geosteering; Identification of data quality and mitigating factors; Requirements necessary to steer a well; Directional terminology; Introduction to Total Hole Deviation as a geosteering tool; Special geosteering techniques, including Derived log, Azimuthal Gamma Ray, Additional LWD curves for identification of sweet spot, Drilling plans, Grids, Projected surfaces, Other LWD curves: gas, resistivity, other; Geosteering for 12 to 15 wells

Contouring techniques; Triangulation; Using dip in mapping; Different measures of thickness; Thickness in deviated wells; Isopach and isocore maps; Dip-domain cross sections; Data projection; Trend and plunge of folds on tangent diagrams; Composite-surface maps; Fault shapes and displacement distributions; Heave and throw from stratigraphic separation; Stratigraphic separation from structure contour map; Constructing fault-plane maps; Faults on isopach maps; Combining fault and horizon maps; Contouring across faults; Structural quality-control techniques; Multiple-surface map compatibility; Map validation using implied fault contours; Finding faults and fault orientations with SCAT analysis of dipmeters; Juxtaposition diagrams for trap and seal analysis; Fault-cutoff lines in computer mapping; Soft linked and hard linked faults; Relay and branching fault patterns; Mapping sequential cross-cutting faults