DEVELOPMENT GEOLOGY
- Discipline: Geology
- Level: Fundamental
- Duration: 3 Days
By the end of this course you will learn:
- How to select optimum drill sites for field development
- Use log and rock data to identify reservoir rock, non-reservoir rock, and pay
- Determine fluid distribution in a field and identify reservoir compartments
- Estimate field reserves through the life of a field
- Characterize carbonate and clastic rocks by productivity
- Construct geologic reservoir models
- Determine field drive mechanism
- Apply seismic analysis to reservoir development
- Determine depositional characteristics to optimize development
- Compile a development plan
- Use economic techniques to evaluate different development plans
- Geologic characteristics that impact field development
- Appraisal: Determining recoverable hydrocarbons
- Reservoir fluid properties and saturation
- Influence of capillarity on hydrocarbon distribution and fluid contacts
- Reserve and resource evaluation
- Volumetric reserve estimation and calculation
- Stratigraphic influence on field production
- Depositional and digenetic controls on reservoir rock, barriers, and hydrocarbon distribution
- Describing reservoir rock to understand reservoir behavior in carbonate and clastic rocks
- Determining if hydrocarbons can be recovered from in a given field, what is pay?
- The impact of drive mechanism: aquifer characterization, distribution, and mapping
- Seismic applications in appraisal and development
- Development drilling: How to optimize hydrocarbon recovery
- Economic impact on field development
- Subdividing the reservoir into working units
- Reservoir pore space configurations and mapping
- Building a static reservoir model using deterministic and stochastic techniques
- Key factors affecting the development of Fractured Reservoirs
- Steps in building a geologic reservoir model
- Impact on barriers on field development
- Secondary and tertiary field development
- Rejuvenating mature and marginal fields
Reservoir, development, and exploration geologists; geophysicists; petrophysicists; log analysts; petroleum engineers; and experienced technicians.
No Prerequisites required for this course