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Well Performance

WPERF-EN-P
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Who should attend?

  • This course provides a comprehensive understanding of well lift optimization.
Public :
  • E&P technical staff involved in well operations.
  • Reservoir engineers involved in field studies with productivity and artificial lift issues.
  • Development engineers involved in conceptual design with well architecture and artificial lift.

Level :Knowledge

Prerequisite :
  • Knowledge in reservoir, completion or production engineering.

Course Content

  • PVT & RESERVOIR FUNDAMENTALS - Duration : 0.5 Day

      • Oil & Gas PVT properties: bubble point, Bo, Rs, GOR, solids…
      • Reservoir rock and fluids: porosity, permeability, saturation, relative permeability.
      • Reservoir behavior types.

  • RESERVOIR-WELLBORE INTERFACE FUNDAMENTALS - Duration : 0.25 Day

      • Pay zone drilling, completion (open hole, cased hole), perforating.
      • Wellbore treatment: sand control, stimulations (acidizing, hydraulic fracturing).

  • INFLOW PERFORMANCE - Duration : 0.75 Day

      • Flow in the reservoir: Productivity Index (PI), empirical Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR), horizontal wells.
      • Back pressure equation for gas wells.
      • Global skin: formation damage, perforation, partial penetration, deviation.
      • Applications - Exercises.

  • OUTFLOW PERFORMANCE - Duration : 0.75 Day

      • Flow in the wellbore: pressure gradient and Vertical Lift Performance (VLP) curves.
      • GLR, tubing head pressure, tubing ID impact.
      • Monophasic vs. polyphasic flow: minimum flowrate/well loading.
      • Applications - Exercises.

  • WELL PERFORMANCE - Duration : 0.75 Day

      • Well deliverability nodal analysis: inflow/outflow.
      • Well performance modeling, prediction and analysis vs. reservoir pressure, PI, GLR, BSW, tubing ID.
      • Applications - Exercises.

  • ARTIFICIAL LIFT - Duration : 1.5 Days

      • Gas lift: fundamentals, unloading procedure, surveillance and troubleshooting.
      • Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP): components, design, problems.
      • Rod pumping and jet pumps fundamentals.
      • Comparison of the artificial lift methods.

  • INTRODUCTION TO PROSPER™ - Duration : 0.25 Day

      • Overview of well performance software tool and methods.
      • PROSPER™ methodology for gas lift design and troubleshooting, manual application.
      • PROSPER™ methodology for ESP troubleshooting.

  • KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT

Learning Objectives

  • Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
  • select the relevant reservoir characteristics and fluid properties related to well performance modeling,
  • design artificial lift and select the adequate method,
  • optimize well performance,
  • analyze the impact of well completion and equipment on well performance,
  • analyze the operation process.

Learning assessment

  • Quiz.

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Additional information :This course can be delivered in French, with documentation in English.

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