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Well performance engineering - IFP Training Certificate

Graduate Certificate
WPERFE-EN-P
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Who should attend?

  • This course provides in-depth technical knowledge in well performance engineering in order to hold rapidly and very effectively, the position of field engineer, design engineer, or project engineer.
Public :
  • Engineers (particularly recently graduated engineers or engineers in conversion) looking to acquire in-depth knowledge and best practices of Oil & Gas production.

Level :Knowledge

Prerequisite :
  • Engineering degree or equivalent professional experience within the petroleum industry.

Course Content

  • M01: PETROLEUM GEOLOGIE & GEOLOGICAL FIELD TRIPs - Duration : 5 Days

      • Petroleum geology, facies rocks and their physical properties, petroleum systems, presentation & visit to petroleum system Lacq Bassin.

  • M02: RESERVOIR ENINEERING FUNDAMENTALS - Duration : 5 Days

      • Reservoir characterization: rocks, fluids, logging & interpretation.
      • Well testing & interpretation: Darcy’s law, diffusivity equation & typical flow regimes, productivity index & radius of investigation.
      • Reservoir Simulation: reservoir simulation models - Building the models, reservoir simulators - Black-oil, compositional, thermal, chemical, etc. Resevoir simulation workflow
      • Reserves definition & classification.

  • M03: RESERVOIR FLUID PROPERTIES - PVT - Duration : 5 Days

      • Thermodynamics: hydrocarbon families, compositional presentation of reservoir fluids.
      • Thermodynamics of petroleum fluids: pure component, binary mixture, multicomponent systems. Phase behavior, hydrocarbon fluids: under saturated oil, saturated oil, dry gas, wet gas, retrograde gas. Phase envelope.
      • Measurements: sampling: bottom hole and surface sampling. Representativity and validity of sampling, analysis, PVT studies: oil-gas condensate, fluid modeling: PVT matching.
      • PVT matching with a PVT EOS package.

  • M04: DRIVE MECHANISMS FUNDAMENTALS - Duration : 5 Days

      • Primary recovery: undersaturated oil expansion, solution gas drive, gas gap drive, natural water drive, analytical aquifer models. Hurst & Van Everdingen model. Carter-Tracy model, gas reservoirs with and without aquifer, material balance.
      • Secondary recovery: multiphase flow in the reservoir, water/immiscible gas injection. Principles, multiphase flow stability and influence of mobility ratio. Diffusive flow, sweep efficiency, water & gas injection.
      • Material balance: material balance equations for the various drive mechanisms “Drive Index’’, Practical exercises.

  • M05: WELL TESTING & WELL TEST ANALYSIS - Duration : 5 Days

      • Purpose of well testing, practical well test operations: types of tests, equipment, safety and environmental issues.
      • Definitions and typical flow regimes: radial flow, fractured reservoirs, limited reservoirs and closed reservoirs.
      • Productivity index, radius of investigation.
      • Basic equations and methods: Darcy's law and the diffusivity equation, time superposition, multirate testing, space superposition, boundary effect, pressure curves analysis, pressure derivative analysis.
      • Wellbore conditions, Boundary models, test design. Hands-on session…

  • M06: WELL COMPLETION EQUIPMENT - Duration : 5 Days

      • Fundamentals of well design, well construction & casing program
      • Completion equipment & their functions (X-mas tree, THS, DHSV, Nipples, SSD, Packer…).
      • Several Case studies, Well Performance vs equipment selection.

  • M07: WELLBORE TREATMENTS - Duration : 5 Days

      • Identification the nature and the origin of different types of damage.
      • Flow efficiency, cause of low productivity, location of problems and possible solutions.
      • Acidizing application in sandstones & carbonates reservoir: acid job design & evaluation.
      • Hydraulic fracturing: candidate wells, frac fluids & frac propping, design and evaluation.
      • Sand control: techniques & implementation.
      • Water shutoff: origins & remedials.

  • M08: WELL PERFORMANCE & ARTIFICIAL LIFT - Duration : 15 Days

      • Well performance design for naturally flowing well: inflow/outflow theory and practice, well completion equipment and design optimization.
      • Artificial Lift (AL) methods design and practice: AL methods and corresponding equipment and performance, ESP and gas lift design.
      • Case studies: well performance design using PROPSPER.

  • M09: PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION: INTEGRATED PRODUCTION MODELING - Duration : 10 Days

      • Case study using MBAL™, PROSPER™ & GAP™. Reservoir performance and modeling: prediction of production profile.
      • Global production modeling and optimization: full field optimization and forecasting approach; full field development hands-on exercise: prediction constraints.
      • Teamwork on an integrated project with deliverables to be presented on the last day (jury).

Learning Objectives

  • Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
  • Discuss main principles of thermodynamics applied to reservoir engineering studies,
  • Build a PVT model for reservoir simulation and carry out a well test interpretation,
  • Identify main flow regimes and define or recommend a well test design,
  • Explain the natural, secondary and EOR mechanisms of production of Oil & Gas reservoirs and discuss their related performance,
  • Perform simple material balance calculations for matching reservoir parameters/forecast recovery for a real case and consequently reserve definition,
  • Estimate the ultimate reservoir recovery by decline curve analysis,
  • Select the relevant reservoir characteristics and fluid properties related to well performance modeling,
  • Design artificial lift, select the adequate method and optimize well performance,
  • Analyze the impact of well completion and equipment on well performance, analyze the operation process.

Ways & Means

  • Highly interactive training with industry specialist lecturers.
  • Multiple teamwork sessions and industrial case studies.
  • Numerous simulation exercises using corresponding software (MBAL™, PROSPER™ & GAP™).
  • Knowledge assessment on a weekly basis.

Learning assessment

  • Quiz.

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Coordinator :IFP Training instructors, with expertise in the field and trained in modern teaching methods adapted to the specific needs of learners from the professional world.

To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding. Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com