COURSE DESCRIPTION

Reservoir characterization is the process between the discovery phase of a property and the reservoir management phase. The process integrates the technical disciplines of geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering, production engineering, petrophysics, economics, and data management. Key objectives of reservoir characterization focus on modeling each reservoir unit, predicting well behavior, understanding past reservoir performance, and forecasting future reservoir performance. Such factors, in addition to staffing needs and expenditures, assert a strong impact on plans for the development and performance of a field. This course illustrates the reservoir characterization process so that each member of the RC team and each of its customers (other departments and management) can appreciate the resulting interpretations and may even contribute to building the RC model.

The course is built around a preliminary map of the RC process built within MS Project; the process starts with defining the organizational objectives followed by setting up the team, confirming the assignment, reviewing the data, reconfirming/refining the assignment, building a static model, confirming the static model through multi-disciplinary data, building the dynamic model and presenting solutions. The generic process-based, procedural outline of reservoir characterization enables and enhances learning throughout an organization. The templates are easily adaptable to each company's circumstances and can be used as checklists and planning tools. Use of this approach will minimize time for the characterization and assure quality within the corporate guidelines.