This course provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of Oil & Gas reservoir fluids properties and related behavior as well as corresponding data and laboratory PVT experiments.
Public :
Newly-hired and 2- to 3-year experienced reservoir engineers willing to deepen their knowledge in reservoir fluid properties and PVT models; geoscientists, petroleum engineers and production engineers moving towards reservoir engineering.
Level :Skilled
Prerequisite :
E&P professionals, with basic knowledge in PVT.
Course Content
FUNDAMENTALS OF THERMODYNAMICS
Petroleum fluids genesis.
Chemical composition of petroleum fluids:
Hydrocarbon families.
Compositional presentation of reservoir fluids.
Thermodynamics of petroleum fluids:
Pure component, binary mixture, multi-component systems. Phase behavior.
Analytical representation: properties of light and heavy cuts.
Fluid modeling: PVT matching.
Fluid synthesis: gravity segregation, field cases, miscibility.
Downstream data: data for reservoir simulator and process.
PVT MODELING
Matching a PVT model to experimental data using a PVT EOS package.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
discuss main principles of thermodynamics applied to reservoir engineering studies,
describe reservoir fluids and discuss corresponding fundamental PVT properties,
describe the PVT studies performed in order to get PVT data,
describe and apply the process to build PVT models from experimental data, especially for reservoir simulation.
Ways & Means
Interactive lectures and exercises.
Analyzing a real PVT report.
Hands-on practices using state-of-the-art EOS package for PVT matching.
To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding.
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