RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT & MONITORING (RES32)

Level: Skill
Instructor: Emina Buket Ulker

This course gives you a better understanding of well & reservoir management and provides best
practice examples how to manage your reservoir optimally to achieve a higher recovery factor.
Every day there will be a real field data example either to be solved with software (if available)
or analytically.

DESIGNED FOR YOU, IF YOU ARE...

• A reservoir or petroleum engineer or a geoscientist responsible for the day-to-day management

of reservoirs to improve their performance

The course can be given at any level depending on the audience’s experience.

HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE

• PowerPoint presentations
• Interactive exercises
• Practical exercises on real field data to be solved with software (if available) or analytically
• Q&A

THE BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING

By the end of this course, you will feel confident in your understanding of:

• Awareness of how to increase the asset value

• Applying the principles of sound reservoir management: How to plan field development and
monitor reservoir performance
• Using the interdisciplinary collaboration to efficient reservoir management
• The importance of timing and cost vs. benefit analysis

TOPICS

What do we mean by ‘Reservoir Management’?

• Course objectives
• Definition of Reservoir Management (RM)
• Concept of RM

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• RM technology shift
• The importance of teamwork
• Sources and acquisition of reservoir data

What is new in Reservoir Management?

• The ‘old’ sequential approach
• The ‘new’ integrated / iterative way of RM

Reservoir Characterisation
• The importance of reservoir characterisation
• Knowledge check Q&A
• Getting to understand your reservoir
• What is important in data acquisition?

Reservoir Management Process

• The ultimate objective: Increase the value of assets
• Possible targets - optimise / maximise / accelerate production, reduce cost, decrease risks,
contingency plans, flexibility
• Planning a field development - What are the key elements?
• Monitoring well / reservoir performance
• Evaluating results by comparison of actual performance against prediction

The Technology Toolkit: Understanding the Reservoir

• Static and Dynamic Modelling: Review of available systems, selection on the methodology and
software
• The importance of technical and technological competency
• Integration of geological, geophysical and engineering data
• Describing the reservoir: The static model
• Describing the reservoir behaviour: The dynamic model and reservoir simulation
• Probabilistic vs. deterministic reservoir modelling: Event solution
• Fluid characterisation: PVT modelling
• Reservoir surveillance: Monitoring performance and analysing the data, QC the reservoir
understanding by actual well behaviour
• Setting reservoir for predictions
• Infill wells / sidetracks - where to drill?
• Well production / injection rates?

Recovery Methods
• Maximise value through ultimate recovery and improved recovery

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Well Management
• Production Optimisation Using Nodal Analysis Approach

Adding Economic Value

• Techniques to maximise economic recovery, cost vs. benefit, bbl/$
• Minimising CAPEX, OPEX and risk
• Net cash flow
• How timing will affect the value
• Investment decision
• Project selection and revision

Practical Exercises
Every day there will be a real field data example either to be solved with software (if available) or
analytically.

FEEDBACK

“I like the flexibility of the instructor. She accepts change and does not stick to a specific way of
conducting the course material.” - Senior Production Technologist at Daleel Petroleum

“The instructor was able to explain and answer questions very clearly.” - Reservoir Engineer at Daleel
Petroleum

“Great Instructor with comprehensive information.” - Production Technologist at Daleel Petroleum

“Good refresher course, I like the instructor’s knowledge.” - Production Technologist at Daleel
Petroleum

INSTRUCTOR:

Emina Buket Ulker holds a Ph.D. in Reservoir Engineering from the Technical University Clausthal in
Germany and has almost 20 years of reservoir engineering experience in international operating
companies in Kazakhstan, Iraq, Norway, Germany and Turkey including oil and gas fields in Malta,
Morocco, Yemen, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Denmark and UK. Among others she has worked on
Norwegian offshore fields, Middle East complicated carbonate reservoirs and Caspian gas
condensate fields.
Emina has many years of hands-on experience in Reservoir Management and has gone through the
changes from old sequential approach to new integrated/iterative methodology in reservoir
management. She has in-depth practical experience with reservoir simulation tools such as PETREL
RE, ECLIPSE and simulation techniques and can cover both the analytical reservoir engineering and
the sophisticated reservoir simulation.

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Emina is competent in well test design, testing operations and interpretation with KAPPA and
INTERPRET. She is an expert on field development planning and reservoir management of onshore,
offshore platform/subsea oil and gas condensate assets and she has extensive experience in
fractured carbonate reservoirs.

Emina is also an experienced instructor of industry courses for reservoir engineering related
subjects. Furthermore she has vast multi-disciplinary team working experience, particularly in
subsurface/surface integration, for field development and routine operations and she is used to
work in multicultural environments. She is a natural mentor and has proven management, analytical
and decision-making skills.

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