Advanced Reservoir Simulation Technologies (RES06)
- Course focuses on algorithms, concepts, and uses of reservoir simulators for dynamic reservoir models.
- New developments and techniques improve reliability.
- Instructor: Leonhard Ganzer.
- Designed for experienced reservoir engineers with basic skills in reservoir engineering and simulation.
- Encourages discussions and exchange among participants for optimal learning.
- Attendees gain confidence in reservoir simulation artefacts, gridding technologies, model stability, data quality checks, history matching, and more.
- Topics include reservoir simulator history, rock and fluid properties, gridding methods, well representation, and fractured reservoir simulation.
Overview
This advanced course on reservoir simulation focuses on enhancing understanding and skills in creating dynamic reservoir models to optimize performance, design wells, estimate uncertainties, and assess risks. Participants will explore new developments and techniques to improve predictions and eliminate drawbacks of conventional methods. Led by instructor Leonhard Ganzer, the course is designed for experienced reservoir engineers with basic simulation skills. Through discussions, examples, and participant exchanges, attendees will gain confidence in various simulation aspects, including gridding technologies, model stability, data quality checks, history matching, and different simulation approaches.
Who should attend
Reservoir Engineers
Course Content
This course deals with various algorithms, concepts and the possible uses of reservoir simulators in creating dynamic reservoir models. These are used to investigate reservoir behaviour, optimise reservoir performance, design complex wells, estimate uncertainties and form the basis for risk assessment. New developments combined with new simulation techniques so as to eliminate most of the drawbacks of conventional simulation methods and make predictions more reliable are also dealt with.
Course Level:Advanced
Instructor:Leonhard Ganzer
Designed for you, if you are…
An experienced reservoir engineer
In possession of basic skills in reservoir engineering and reservoir simulation
Experienced to some extent in the use of commercial reservoir simulators
How we build your confidence
You will be encouraged to engage in discussions on your experience with simulation studies. Best practices and simulation artefacts are explained with examples useful for project work. Exchange among participants during the course is stimulated to optimize the learning event.
The benefits from attending
By the end of the course you will feel more confident in your understanding of:-
- Artefacts and the benefits of reservoir simulation
- Different gridding technologies, their advantages and disadvantages
- When reservoir models are fit-for-purpose and when to expect instabilities
- How to perform data quality checks on input data and resulting simulation model
- Different history matching approaches
- Black-oil vs. compositional simulation
- Formulation details in dual porosity / dual permeability models and their consequences
Topics
- History and classification of reservoir simulators
- Review of rock and fluid properties for simulation deck input
- Upgridding and upscaling
- General purpose formulation and discretization methods used for black-oil and EOS compositional simulators
- Gridding – structured and unstructured gridding approaches, Cartesian grids, Corner point grids, Voronoi grids
- Modelling vertical and sloping faults in simulation
- Representing wells in the reservoir simulation model
- Solution methods and tuning parameter
- Initialization of reservoir simulation models
- History matching
- Compositional reservoir simulation
- Simulation of fractured reservoirs – numerical model, matrix-fracture exchange, recovery processes
Advanced Reservoir Simulation Technologies Training in the Netherlands, Scotland, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Aberdeen and onsite course available throughout the UK.
