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Reservoir Simulation Strategies - RSS
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This course is designed to give an introduction to the fundamental and practical aspects
of modern reservoir simulation. Particular emphasis is placed upon the available data and
its integration into a data set that reflects a coherent model of the reservoir. These
aspects are reinforced with small practical examples run by groups of the course
participants. The course is organized in morning lecture sessions and afternoon practical
sessions. One personal computer is included, at additional cost, for each two participants.
"Practical exercises. Liked understanding the theory and the problems/limitations that can
arise." - Reservoir Engineer, United Kingdom
"All subjects were very important. The way that was concatenated the theory with real field
examples." - Reservoir Engineering Advisor, United States
Designed For:
Reservoir and petroleum engineers who will be actively using reservoir simulation.
Course Content:
Instructors:
Mr. RICHARD HENRY is an independent reservoir simulation specialist who is either out
on a sailboat or teaching for PetroSkills in his spare time. He has degrees in industrial and
petroleum engineering, and has performed over fifty reservoir engineering studies over
two decades on a variety of different simulation platforms, field sizes and reservoir types.
Before discovering simulation, he audited reserves of oil and gas fields in Latin America
and West Africa, and ran multi-national, multi-disciplinary field optimization teams for
Texaco. Mr. Henry holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.S. in Petroleum
Engineering from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
DR. DAVE WALDREN joined the embryonic British National Oil Corporation in 1977, after
7 years of postdoctoral research in high-energy particle physics. In 1979, he was
employed by Intercomp as a reservoir engineer working on simulator development and
reservoir studies. In 1983, he became Technical Director of International Petroleum
Engineering Consultants Ltd. and a technical expert for the Asian Development Bank.
Since 1988, he has been an independent consultant as well as a professor in petroleum
engineering at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He has wide
experience using a variety of commercial reservoir modeling systems. During his career
he has worked on oil and gas fields in 31 countries on 6 continents. He has a strong
theoretical and research background, which is applied in his consulting activities including
advising a major oil company on the day-to-day operational and medium/long term
development of an offshore oil field as well as the estimation of different classes of
reserves for SEC requirements. Many of the projects he performed use the VIP and
Eclipse simulation systems, he also has many years' experience with different commercial
reservoir modeling systems and has been actively engaged in studies and/or training
using IMEX (CMG), Eclipse and Frontsim (Geoquest), VIP (Landmark), Athos (Beicip
Franlab) and MORE (Roxar). He was a SPE Distinguished Lecturer for 2001-2002. He
has a BSc, BSC Hons and a PhD all in physics from the University of Liverpool, England.