The course focuses on rock, log, and test data to distinguish between reservoir and non-reservoir rock properties. Structural, stratigraphic, depositional, and diagenetic concepts are employed to locate drill sites and describe reservoirs. The input required to construct a geologic reservoir model is reviewed. Participants will also learn the importance of modifying development plans as a field matures, with discussions on techniques for rejuvenating mature fields through case histories.

Participants will learn to:

• Select optimal drill sites for field development
• Utilize log and rock data to identify reservoir and non-reservoir rock, and pay zones
• Determine fluid distribution and identify reservoir compartments
• Estimate field reserves throughout the life of the field
• Characterize carbonate and clastic rocks by productivity
• Construct geological reservoir models
• Determine field drive mechanisms
• Apply seismic analysis to reservoir development
• Optimize development through depositional characteristics
• Compile comprehensive development plans
• Use economic techniques to evaluate different development plans
• Understand the impact of drive mechanisms on recovery
• Apply seismic techniques for field development
• Optimize hydrocarbon recovery through development drilling
• Assess the economic impacts on field development
• Identify key factors affecting the development of fractured reservoirs
• Understand the impact of barriers on field development
• Implement secondary and tertiary field development strategies
• Rejuvenate old, marginal fields

This course is designed for reservoir, development, and exploration geologists; geophysicists; petrophysicists; log analysts; petroleum engineers; and experienced technicians.

Day 1: Development Projects and Subsurface Data

• Life cycle of oil and gas fields
• Oil and gas development projects
• Subsurface data and data gaps
• Reservoir rock and fluid properties
• Characteristics impacting field development

Day 2: Measurements and Evaluation of Subsurface Data

• Basic well technology, including horizontal wells, and well data
• Log and core data, uncertainties, and mapping
• Characteristics of carbonate reservoirs
• Subsurface pressures, with practical exercises

Day 3: Subsurface Models

• Application of geostatistics in reservoir characterization
• Seismic attributes for development geology
• Use of conceptual models and analogue field data
• Construction of reservoir geological models (static models)
• Design and upscaling of dynamic grids
• Reservoir dynamic models
• Model validation and ranking

Day 4: Volumetric Reserve Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis

• Influencing elements in volumetric reserve estimation
• Methods for volumetric estimation
• Deterministic and probabilistic reserve estimation
• Conducting uncertainty analysis
• Reserves classification and reporting
• Techniques for optimizing hydrocarbon recovery through development drilling

Day 5: Subsurface Development Options

• Field development planning (FDP)
• Use of analogue fields in development planning
• Project economics and sensitivity analysis
• Decision-making processes in field development
• Project planning and risk management strategies
• Strategies for secondary and tertiary field development

Rectus attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.