Course Overview

Participants to this 5-day intensive Reservoir Characterization training course should be geologists and engineers who deal with all risked variables to decide where, when and why to drill and what is expected from this drilling on both short and long term and finally how to maximize the life and return from such drilling.By choosing this training course, the participants will be able to evaluate all type of involved data; good or bad, important or less important, rank different interpretation, risk all possible probabilities and conclude the best applicable scenario to work with. Participants will able, despite their different working sectors, to deal with: variable type of rocks, petrophysical parameters involved, multiple diagenesis, analyze the main facies in concern (barriers or reservoirs) ,interpretation of logs, maps, correlations and data distribution.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define rocks parameters involved in Reservoir Characterization
• Integrate all available data to define reservoir geometry
• Study and define depositional environment Vs. flow units
• Distribute physical parameters, and flow properties in a reservoir.
• Learn to work with sedimentology experts defining reservoir facies
• Link facies to reservoir connectivity, and flow properties (Ø, K, Sw, etc).
• Build Geologic models that help capture reservoir heterogeneities and uncertainties
• Get HC volumes distribution from reservoir models
• Assist in geo-steering wells to optimum locations, and provide input to reservoir simulation

Who Should Attend?

• Strategic engineers
• Petrophysicists
• Managers
• Geologists
• Geo-modeler
• Reservoir Engineers
• Geophysicists

Course Contents

Module (01) From Rocks to Reservoir and Reservoir Characterization

• Reservoir from sedimentological/field point of view
• Rock types
• What is meant by Reservoir Characterization
• Carbonate rock classification and structure
• Impact of carbonate diagenesis on Reservoir Characterization
• Carbonate porosity and fracture impact on Reservoir Characterization

Module (02) Textural and Structure Impact on Reservoir Characterization

• Clastics classification and structure
• Carbonate geometry Vs Reservoir Characterization
• Reefal reservoir facies
• Clastics texture ,porosity and packing Vs Reservoir Characterization
• Clastics petrography and photomicrograph
• Carbonate petrography and photomicrograph
• Geologic Controls on Reservoir Quality.

Module (03) Impact of Different Depositional Environment on Reservoir Characterization

• From diagenesis to depositional environment
• Fluvial depositional environment
• Main Aeolian depositional environment
• Different Deep marine depositional environment
• Deltaic and tidal depositional environment
• Supratidal depositional environment and sabkhas

Module (04) Reservoir Uncertainties, Trapping and Modeling

• Carbonate reservoir uncertainties
• Impact of Reservoir Characterization to the different reserves cases min to max,P10 to P90,etc
• From Reservoir Characterization to trapping
• Factors controlling Reservoir Characterization in a Petroleum system
• From reservoir data to geostatistcs
• Reservoir Characterization and static modeling tree who is first?
• Reservoir modeling steps, secrets and scheme
• Impact of Thin layers, hidden facies and shoulder effect on Reservoir Characterization

Module (05) Reservoir Characterization and Reservoir Modeling - Criteria and Case Studies

• Define reasons for Cutoffs and por/perm chart usage
• Relate Reservoir Characterization to facies and FZI
• From static to dynamic reservoir modeling one or 2 team
• Why we need upscaling
• Integrated Reservoir Characterization Vs reservoir heterogeneity
• Reservoir Characterization from data and parameters to stochastic approach
• Reservoir Characterization and modeling real cases