Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

Saad Ibrahim, P. Engineer
March 24-28, Oct. 20-24, 2025

Course Objective:

This course offers the know-how knowledge to make the everyday decision-making become simple: How to plan data acquisition? What kind of data is needed? How to use the data as a reservoir management tool?  How to increase ultimate recovery & projects’ NPV’s? The theory concepts will be covered to assist reservoir and exploitation engineers to effectively understand and perform their main tasks; determine oil and gas reserves and maximize hydrocarbon recovery under primary, secondary and tertiary schemes with emphasis on the bottom line results.  Other topics such as well test analysis, horizontal well applications, and reservoir drives will be covered.  Interesting class examples using actual field data will reviewed. A course hand-out which is an excellent reference will be provided.

Cost: 3450 (+ 5% GST)

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Who Should Attend:

This course is aimed at reservoir, petroleum and exploitation engineers/technologists, geophysicists, and geologists who are involved in field development and exploitation.

 

Course Instructor:

Mr. Saad Ibrahim, P. Eng,

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president of Petro Management Group Ltd. Mr. Ibrahim has over 35 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas industry as a worldwide highly recognized engineering consultant and a distinguished instructor. He also completed a post-graduate program with the University of Calgary in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. The focus of Mr. Ibrahim’s experience lies in the area of Reservoir management, EOR, and well test planning/analysis. Mr. Ibrahim is a member of APEGA and SPE.

Course Agenda:

Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

Online course agenda:

Petroleum Geology:

  • Origin of the solar system and depositional environments
  • Geologic cycle/time and types of reservoir rocks
  • Main elements of petroleum reservoirs: hydrocarbon migration & traps

Rock Properties:

  • Porosity types, permeability definitions: relative, absolute, and effective
  • Rock wettability and capillary pressure (class problem)

Fluid Properties:

  • Hydrocarbon classifications and the use of the phase envelop chart
  • Fluid behaviors; oil and gas physical properties (class problem)
  • Fluid sampling and PVT analysis

Reservoir Drive Mechanisms:

  • Primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery schemes
  • Performance characteristics of different reservoir drive mechanisms

Reserves Determination:

  • Volumetric, material balance, and probabilistic methods (class problem)
  • Decline curve analysis (class example)
  • Empirical (Russian method !) and statistical method

Methods to Estimate Well Productivity

  • Darcy equation and boundary conditions
  • Inflow performance relationship (IPR), and well allowable

Well Test Analysis:

  • Test objectives (well, reservoir) and the use of different test types
  • Buildup analysis (skin factor, reservoir press., boundaries) (class problem)
  • Reservoir limit and gas well testing (case study)

Water Coning and Water Influx:

  • Time to break-through and critical rate determination
  • Estimate of water influx (steady-state and unsteady-state methods)

Secondary and Tertiary Recovery Schemes:

  • Review and screening of EOR schemes
  • Scheme planning and design (case study)
  • Performance monitoring of waterflooding and recovery factor prediction

Introduction to Tight and Unconventional Oil and Gas

  • Gas content, reservoir characteristics, and production profiles
  • Production mechanism and reserves determination
  • Use of specialized techniques to estimate reserves for the unconventional:
    • Rate Transient Analysis (RTA): flowing material balance, Blasingame and Fetkovich type curves, and rate normalized method
    • Modern Decline Curve Analysis (DCA), such as: Power Law Exponential, Stretch Exponential, Duong’s method, Modified Hyperbolic, etc.
  • Case studies

Horizontal Well Applications:

  • Well productivity, well drainage area and optimum well spacing
  • Design optimization and performance analysis of multi-stag Frac Horizontal Wells (MFHW’s).
  • How to minimize geologic, drilling, and completion risks
  • Well test interpretations for MFHW’s
  • Reserves estimate and definitions of SRV and CRV
  • Case studies

Closing remarks and a question period