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Index
Introduction
Basic Overview Block
Specialization Block
Field Training Block
Team Project Block
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Specialization Block
Petroleum Engineering (PE)
Reservoir Evaluation and Management (REM)
Petroleum Geosciences (PetGeo)
Petroleum Engineering
Production Technologies
Reservoir Engineering Well Test Analysis
Reservoir Simulation
Petroleum Economics
Petroleum Geosciences
Stratigraphy and Reservoir Quality
Petroleum Systems
Petroleum Geophysics
Geomechanics and Flow Mechanics
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Geology Field School (takes place during the Basic Overview Block).
Drilling Field School.
Production Field School.
HSE Field School and Formal Certifications
Some presentations could be required at the end of each Field School, and the
participation and commitment during these weeks will be considered for approval of the
Master Program.
Team Project Block
Its purpose is to apply the concepts learnt in the previous blocks while working in a
multidisciplinary team on a project with specific objectives and within a prescribed
schedule. The methodology includes:
Access to a database related to a real oil/gas field, which will be taken as a
starting point.
Use the technical advanced software tools as within Repsol E&P.
Tutorial support provided by Repsol experts and external consultants.
Formal presentation of conclusions and results upon project completion to a
Board of Experts composed by Repsol E&P Directors.
The evaluation strategy will be explained further in detail. The final mark for this block
weighs 30% of the final mark for the Master.
Overview
Lecture period
Instruction begins
Closing ceremony
Length
Academic hours
Start date
September 1st 2014
December 20th 2013
January 12th 2015
March 23rd 2015
March 30th 2015
April 13th 2015
May 11th 2015
May 18th 2015
Finish date
December 19th 2014
January 8th 2015
March 20th 2015
March 27th 2015
April 10th 2015
May 8th 2015
May 15th 2015
July 17th 2015
* Schedule by January on subject to be changed based on HWU and Field Schools dates to be confirmed.
BLOCK I:
BASIC OVERVIEW BLOCK
CSFR Madrid
September to December 2014
Module
BOB 0
Module
BOB 1B
Lecturers
Mr. Santiago Quesada joined Repsol Exploracion in 1997, and since then he has served
as Advisor Geologist for Geochemistry and Petroleum System Analysis in the
Department of Technology. He holds a BSc. and a Postgraduate Degree in Geology from
the University of the Basque Country (UPV). Mr. Quesada is an exploration geologist
with 15 years of experience in basin analysis and evaluation of play concepts, prospects
and leads; he is a specialist in Geochemistry and Petroleum System Modelling.
Dr. lvaro Racero graduated as Mining Engineer and got his PhD from the Polytechnic
University of Madrid ETSIMM. His professional career started fist as operations
geophysicist for Prakla before joining Shell International E&P in 1986 into the exploration
division with international assignments in Netherland, Venezuela and Brunei. He moved
into Repsol E&P in 2001 for the New Ventures Dpt. Repsol successively promoted him to
Director of Exploration and Development for the Caribbean Region, Director of the North
America Business Unit, both in Houston, and Regional Executive Director for E&P activities
of Repsol in Europe Africa and Asia. In 2010, he was appointed as Repsols Regional
Executive Director for the Caribbean and Northern Latin America and now he is the
Executive Director of Technical Development for Repsol E&P.
He has been a member of the Repsol E&P Directors Committee since 2006
Objectives
To learn and understand the concepts and techniques of Petroleum Systems and Basin
Analysis and their applications to petroleum exploration.
1.
2.
3.
4.
2. Sedimentary Basins.
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
2.4.
3. Petroleum Systems
3.1.
3.2.
3.3.
3.4.
Definition
Geographical extension
Elements and processes
Timing and Critical Moment
a) Definition, types
permeability)
and
properties
(geometry,
continuity,
porosity,
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9.1.
9.2.
9.3.
9.4.
Day 2
Geologic Model
Geochemical Model: Organic Geochemistry of Petroleum and Source Rocks
Thermal Model
Day 3
Day 4
Modelling Generation and Expulsion of Hydrocarbons
Basin Mod Exercise continue
Day 5
Review of Migration concepts
Discussion of Modelling Results
Summary and Conclusions
Software Applications
BasinMod 1D.
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Syllabus
1. The Theory of Plate Tectonics.
1.1. Continental Drift.
1.2. Seafloor Spreading.
1.3. Plate Tectonic Theory and Types of Plate Margin.
1.4. Intra-cratonic Deformation and Crustal Stress.
3. Contractional Tectonics.
3.1. Thin-skinned Deformation (terminology, detachments, wedge theory, controls,
evaporites).
3.2. Thick-skinned Deformation (basement involvement, pre-existing weaknesses).
3.3. Seismic Expression.
3.4. Field Examples.
4. Strike-Slip Tectonics.
4.1. Basic Terminology.
4.2. Contractional Pop-Ups
4.3. Extensional Pull-Aparts.
4.4. Seismic Expression.
4.5. Field Examples.
5. Extensional Tectonics.
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6. Gravitational Tectonics.
6.1. Rheologically weak layers and salt.
6.2. Linked Extensional-Contractional Systems.
6.3. Delta Systems, confined and unconfined depositional processes.
6.4. Seismic Expression.
7. Stratigraphic Traps.
7.1. Stratigraphic Pinch-out.
7.2. Truncation.
7.3. Carbonate Build-Ups and Ramps.
7.4. Diagenetic Trapping Processes.
7.5. Hydrodynamic Trapping Processes.
8. Prospect Mapping.
8.1. Seismic Interpretation of Horizons.
8.2. Seismic Interpretation of Faults.
8.3. Generating a Two-Way-Time Contour Map with Faults.
8.4. Quicklook Volume Estimation.
8.5. An Introduction to Geologic Risk and Prospect Ranking.
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Software Applications
Microsoft Office.
Textbooks and Consulting Books
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WELL LOGGING
Lecturers
Mr. Stephen Winstanley has more than 26 years experience working in the E&P
industry. He graduated with a B.Sc. Joint Honours in Geography and Geology from
Manchester University, England in 1984. Between 1985 and 1998 he worked as a
Petrophysicist for a number of Consultancys including Scientific Software-Intercomp,
Robertson Research and Ikoda. In 1998 he joined Anadarko Algeria Corporation and
worked rotation out of the Algerian Sahara and was a Senior Petrophysicist responsible
for all exploration, development and cased hole Petrophysical support to a dozen
producing Fields. In 2005 he re-located to Houston with Anadarko Petroleum
Corporation as Petrophysical Advisor working with the Gulf of Mexico Exploration
Team during a phase when several large Miocene and Eocence discoveries were made.
In 2010 he was made Manager of U.S. Onshore Petrophysics and oversaw the
increasing role of Petrophysics in unconventional and non-conventional plays such as
the Marcellus, Bone Springs, Eagleford, Avalon Shale, Wolfcamp and Onshore Louisian
Eocene. In 2011 he joined Repsol USA as Senior Petrophysical Advisor and has worked
with the U.S. Business unit on the Alaska Exploration and Mississippi Lime projects. He
currently works with the North America and Brazil Reservoir Development team and
provides Petrophysical support for projects as diverse as Pao de Azucar and Carioca
(Brazil) reservoir development, offshore Peru exploration and Canada exploration as
well as contributing to the Reservoir Characterization Manual.
Objectives
1. Rock Recognition / Lithology.
2. Rock Properties calculation.
3. Fluids & contacts (OWC, GWC & GOC).
Syllabus
1. Course Outline and Objectives; Nature of a Hydrocarbon Accumulation; Porosity,
Permeability, Wetness and the Matrix Concept; Invasion; Acquisition and Recording
of Wireline Log Data; Nomenclature and Types of Logs.
2. Wireline Open Hole Tools and Services. The Electric Logs and SP and their
Interpretation; The Sonic Log and its Interpretation; The Radioactive Logs and their
Interpretation; Qualitative Interpretation of Logs, Litho logy Determination and Gas
Detection.
3. Quantitative Interpretation: Introduction and Objectives; Shale and Hydrocarbon
Correction; Effective Porosity; Formation Factor; Rw Sw and Sxo Determination;
Estimation of the Depth of Mud Filtrate Invasion; Evaluation of a Clean Sandstone
Reservoir and Carbonate Reservoir.
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Program
Qualitative exercise.
Nuclear Tools:
- GR / NGT.
- Density / Pef.
- Neutrons.
Qualitative exercise.
Sonics.
Qualitative exercise.
Cross plots Analysis: Porosity - Lithology.
Rw Determination Methods.
Sw determination.
Gas Corrections - Clean Sands.
Shaly Sand Interpretation.
Vsh Determination.
Quantitative Exercises.
Qualitative Exercises.
Evaluation of a Sand Reservoir.
Evaluation of a Carbonate Reservoir.
Evaluation of a Clastic Gas-bearing Reservoir.
Evaluation Consolidation.
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Software Applications
Microsoft Office.
Textbooks and Consulting Books
Log Interpretation Principles / Applications. Schlumberger. 1989.
Log Interpretation Charts. Schlumberger. 1998.
Fundamentals of Well Logs Interpretation 1, 2. O. Serra, Elsevier. Amsterdam
1984.
Logging While Drilling. Schlumberger. 1993.
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DRILLING ENGINEERING
Lecturer
Dr. John Ford joined the Dept. of Petroleum Engineering in Heriot-Watt University as
Senior Lecturer in June 1998. He received a BSc. Honours degree in Civil Engineering
from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and a MSc. in Petroleum Engineering degree
and a PhD from Heriot-Watt University. He spent several years employed by Shell
International Petroleum Co. Ltd, as a Drilling Engineer, in Brunei, Tunisia and Holland.
Objectives
This is an introduction to Drilling Engineering. The objectives are to introduce the
concepts and equipment used in drilling; to examine the design requirements and
techniques and to examine the optimization of the drilling activity.
Syllabus
1. Introduction
2. Overview
3. Rig Components
4. Drill String
5. Bits
6. Formation Pressure
7. Hydraulics
8. Well Control
9. Drilling Fluids
10. Casing
11. Cementing
12. Directional Drilling
13. Directional surveying
14. MWD
15. Offshore Drilling
Program
Day 1
Overview of Drilling.
Rig Components.
Bits.
Film: Rotary Rig.
Exercises:
- Bit Selection and Grading.
- Start Drilling program.
- Start Equipment List/Rig Spec.
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Day 2
Drilling Program:
- Select Drilling Fluids.
Day 3
Drilling Program:
- Start Casing Design.
- Start Logistics Program.
- Casing Design (Cont.)
Cementing.
Day 4
Well Control.
- Film: Well Control.
Exercises:
- LOT Evaluation.
- Drilling Program.
- Casing Design/Program.
- Cementing Design.
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GEOPHYSICS
Lecturer
Mr. Cristi Constantin Lupascu joined Repsol in 2009 as a Senior Geophysical Advisor for
Subsurface Imaging - Geophysical Technology Group in Houston. His current
assignment is Head of Repsol Data Processing Center - Geophysics Upstream in Madrid.
He holds a Master Degree in Geophysics from the University of Bucharest and he has
started his career 25 years ago in Romania, with Geomold SA Geological and
Geophysical Exploration. As part of a 3DGeo Development Houston team, he was the
recipient of 2007 Hart's E&P Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation for
Imaging Ultra Deep Structures using Wave Equation Migration and Illumination. His
last assignment before joining Repsol was with Fusion Petroleum, Houston USA, as
Seismic Imaging and Operations Manager.
Objectives
1. Become acquainted with the main geophysical methods used in exploration, their
applications and their limitations.
2. Understand the basic concepts of seismic wave propagation, reflection, diffraction
and refraction.
3. Understand in broad terms how 3D-seismic land and marine data are acquired.
4. Understand in broad terms how seismic data is processed.
5. Understand how seismic data can be linked to geology by using well data.
6. Learn how seismic data can be converted from time to depth.
7. Get to know how 2D-seismic data is interpreted and how horizon maps are made.
8. Learn how 3D-seismic data is interpreted. How horizon maps are made, the principle
of attribute extraction.
Syllabus
1. Introduction to Geophysics.
1.1.
1.2.
1.3.
1.4.
1.5.
1.6.
1.7.
1.8.
1.9.
The Objective.
The Limitations.
Inversion of Data.
The Importance of Different Survey Methods.
The Gravity Method.
The Magnetic Method.
The Basic Seismic System.
The Seismic Objective.
The Role of Seismology in Hydrocarbon Exploration.
2. Seismic Waves.
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
2.4.
2.5.
2.6.
Reflections.
Diffractions.
Refractions.
Ground-Roll.
Multiples.
Reflection Coefficient.
3. Data Acquisition.
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3.1.
3.2.
3.3.
3.4.
3.5.
3.6.
3.7.
3.8.
Seismic Sources.
Seismic Receivers.
Seismic Spreads.
Key Parameters in 3D-Seismic Acquisition.
Logistics of Land Acquisition.
Logistics of Marine Acquisition.
Acquisition Time.
Acquisition Cost.
4. Data Processing
4.1.
4.2.
4.3.
4.4.
4.5.
Processing Objective.
Main Processing Steps.
Interpretive Elements in Seismic Processing.
Processing Time.
Processing Cost.
8. Seismic Attributes.
8.1.
8.2.
8.3.
8.4.
8.5.
8.6.
8.7.
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Program
This course lasts 5 days.
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Day 4:
Structural Interpretation.
Stratigraphic Interpretation.
Seismic Attributes.
AVO, Inversion.
Seismic Modelling.
Exercises.
Day 5:
Course review.
Exercises.
Discussion of result of exercises.
Final Test.
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2. Correlation.
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
2.4.
2.5.
2.6.
2.7.
Introduction.
Stratigraphy.
Correlation panels and cross sections.
Stratigraphy and reservoir performance.
Architecture, drive mechanism and recovery.
Compartmentalization and reserves.
Tutorial.
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3. Mapping.
3.1. Introduction.
3.2. Data types.
3.3. Manual contouring.
3.4. Computer contouring.
3.5. Structural maps.
3.6. Determination of Gross Rock Volume.
3.7. Isopachs.
3.8. Grid manipulation.
3.9. Fault maps.
3.10. Tutorial.
a) Mapping exercise.
b) GRV determination in Casablanca Field.
4. Geological statistics.
4.1.
4.2.
4.3.
4.4.
4.5.
4.6.
4.7.
Introduction.
Measures of central tendency.
Measures of variability.
Distributions.
Sample sufficiency.
Measures of spatial correlation.
Tutorials.
a) Averages.
b) Heterogeneity.
c) Variograms.
5. Volumetric.
5.1.
5.2.
5.3.
5.4.
5.5.
5.6.
5.7.
Introduction.
Gross reservoir and Net Pay.
Deterministic HIP calculations.
Monte Carlo HIP calculations.
Reserves definitions and categories.
Handling Uncertainty.
Tutorials.
Structural Framework.
Reservoir Correlation and Zonation.
Gridding Design.
Facies modelling / Petrophysical Property modelling.
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RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
Lecturer
Mr. Manuel Prida has 30 years of experience in the oil industry occupying several
positions mainly related to Reservoir Engineering within Repsol. He graduated as
Mining Engineer from the ETSIMO (1981); Master in Petroleum Engineering H.K. Van
Poolen (1982); Master in Numerical Simulation from the Polytechnic University of
Madrid (1991); and Economist from the UNED (2006). He is currently acting as
Reservoir Department Manager of Business Development in the Repsols headquarters,
Madrid. Initially, he was dedicated to the well testing and evaluation of exploration
wells in Spain and worldwide. He also participated in several integrated reservoir
studies, development projects, underground gas storage projects, and reserves
acquisitions evaluations in several countries. He was international expatriate in Egypt
and Libya, from 1994 to 2000. Upon his return to Repsol headquarters he was assigned
to business development activities.
Objectives
1. Understand Reservoir Rock Properties: Porosity, Permeability and Saturation.
2. Understand Reservoir Pressure and Temperature Regimes and the techniques used
for Distributed Pressure Measurements.
3. Understand the Phase Behaviour of Reservoir Fluids.
4. Understand Reservoir Production Mechanisms.
5. Become acquainted with the Material Balance Technique.
6. Understand Waterflooding.
Syllabus
1. Reservoir Rock Properties.
1.1.
1.2.
1.3.
1.4.
1.5.
1.6.
Porosity.
Absolute Permeability (Darcys Law).
Saturations.
Capillary Pressure and Pore Size Distribution.
Wettability.
Effective and Relative Permeabilities.
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Pure Substances.
Multicomponent Hydrocarbon Mixtures.
Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagram Classification of Reservoirs.
Oil PVT Analysis:
a) Definition of the Basic Parameters (Bo, Rs, Bg) and their Evolution with
Pressure.
b) Oil Viscosity.
c) Black Oil Correlations.
d) Sampling Methods (Subsurface and Surface Recombined Samples).
e) Laboratory Experiments (Flash Expansion, Differential Liberation, Separator
Tests).
3.5. Gas and Gas-Condensate:
a) Ideal Gases.
b) Behaviour of Real Gases: Equation of State.
c) Definition of the Basic Parameters (Z, Eg, CGR) and their evolution with
Pressure.
d) Gas Viscosity.
e) Correlations.
f) Sampling Methods.
g) Laboratory Experiments (Retrograde Condensation).
h) Vapour Liquid Equilibrium Calculations: Equations of State.
3.6. Properties of Formation Waters.
4. Production Mechanisms.
4.1.
4.2.
4.3.
4.4.
4.5.
5. Material Balance.
5.1. General Form of the Material Balance Equation.
5.2. The Material Balance Expressed as a Linear Equation.
5.3. Material Balance Applied to Oil Fields:
a) Volumetric Depletion.
b) Natural Water Drive.
5.6. Limitations of the Material Balance.
6. Waterflooding Fundamentals.
6.1.
6.2.
6.3.
6.4.
6.5.
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Program
This course lasts 5 days.
Day 1:
Reservoir Rock Properties.
Reservoir Pressure and Temperature.
Day 2:
Phase Behaviour of Reservoir Fluids: Oil, Gas, Water.
Day 3:
Production Mechanisms.
Day 4:
Material Balance Applied to Oil and Gas Reservoirs.
Day 5:
Waterflooding: Fundamentals.
Course Final Test.
Textbooks and Consulting Books
Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering. L. P. Dake, 1978. Developments in
Petroleum Science, 8. Elsevier.
The Practice of Reservoir Engineering. L. P. Dake, 1994. Developments in
Petroleum Science, 36. Elsevier.
Reservoir Fluids: The Properties of Petroleum Fluids. W. D. McCain, 1990.
Second Edition. PennWell.
PVT and Phase Behaviour of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids. Ali Danesh, 1998.
Developments in Petroleum Science, 47. Elsevier.
Waterflooding: The Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Waterflooding, Vol. 3. F.F.
Craig Jr., Third Printing 1993. SPE Reprint Series.
Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. Second Edition. B. C. Craft, M. F.
Hawkins, 1991. Prentice-Hall.
Basics of Reservoir Engineering. R. Cosse, 1993. Editions Technip.
Petroleum Engineering Principles and Practices. J. S. Archer. And C. G. Wall,
1986. Graham & Trotman.
Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. Amyx, Bass & Whiting. Mc Graw-Hill Book
Company.
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Module
BOB 6D
Lecturer
Objectives.
Types of Tests.
Downhole and Surface Equipment.
Pressure Gauges and Rate Measurements.
Sampling of Produced Fluids.
Methodology.
Techniques: Pressure Derivative, Type Curve Matching, and Specialized Plots.
Early Time Near Wellbore Effects: WBS, Dimensionless Skin Factor.
Radial Homogeneous Flow: Determination of Reservoir Parameters (k, S).
Late Time Boundary and Depletion Effects:
a) Single Fault.
b) Intersecting Faults.
c) Linear Flow (Channel Sands and Parallel Faults).
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Day 4:
Day 5:
Course Examination.
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RESERVOIR SIMULATION
Lecturer
Dr. Francisco Jose Mustieles joined Repsol Exploracion in 1998, as a Specialist in
numerical simulation within the Reservoir Engineering Department. He received both a
BSc degree (1985) and a PhD degree (1989) in Mining Engineering from ETSIM (UPM).
In 1990, he received a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from cole Polytechnique
in Paris.
In 1990, he joined Telefonica, R&D, as responsible of numerical simulation tools. He
was a lecturer in the School of Mines (ETSIM) in Madrid. In 1994, he joined the
University Alfonso X el Sabio, in Madrid, where he led the Applied Mathematics
Department.
Objectives
1. To understand the role of numerical reservoir simulation in the context of reservoir
economic development.
2. To understand the fluid flow equations in a porous media.
3. To understand the differences between compositional and black-oil model
equations.
4. To understand the numerical discretization of fluid flow equations.
5. To grasp the general structure of an Eclipse Input Data File.
6. To be able to use Eclipse 100.
Syllabus
Part I: Reservoir Simulation Overview.
1. Introduction to Reservoir Simulation.
1.1.
1.2.
1.3.
1.4.
a) IMPES.
b) Fully Implicit.
c) Streamlines.
3.3. Comments about numerical stability and accuracy.
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dynamics.
1.3. Discuss the integrated nature of production technology and its various technology
subsets.
1.4. Understand the impact of production technology on the economics of capital
variety of situations.
2.4. Describe the purpose and generic operating principles of major completion string
components.
2.5. Identify well design limitations and potential operational problems.
2.6. Assess well safety requirements and capabilities.
3. Perforating.
3.1. Describe the options, their advantages and disadvantages for perforating oil and gas
wells.
3.2. Describe how to select between over-balanced and under-balanced perforating.
3.3. Understand the importance of perforating charge design and what factors influence its
performance.
3.4. Discuss the importance of protecting the perforations against formation damage during
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6. Formation Damage.
6.1. Understand the importance of the near wellbore area in terms of formation damage
injection well.
production performance.
Describe the well stimulation design methodology.
Identify well stimulation candidates.
Discuss the importance of the stimulation cycle.
Prepare a treatment design i.e. select the acid formulation, acid volume and acid pump
rate.
Syllabus
1. Well Completions.
1.1. Types of Well Completion.
1.2. Basic Well Completion Component Names and their Functions.
1.3. Example Well Completions.
2. Perforating.
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
2.4.
2.5.
2.6.
3. Well Performance.
3.1. Introduction.
3.2. Systems Analysis Of The Production System.
3.3. Importance of Hydrocarbon Phase Behaviour.
3.4. Reservoir Inflow Performance Review.
3.5. Tubing (Outflow) Performance.
3.6. Gradient or Pressure Traverse Curves.
3.7. Flow Maps and Correlations.
3.8. Temperature Modelling.
3.9. Surface Pressure Losses.
3.10. Completions Inflow Performance.
3.11. Computerized Well Performance Prediction Programs.
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5. Formation Damage.
5.1. The concept of Skin.
5.2. The many Sources of Formation Damage Skin.
Emulsions.
Scale Formation.
Produced Water Management.
Hydrates Formation.
Pigging.
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Mr. Napoleon Villalba has over twenty eight years experience in the Oil and Gas
industry, upstream and downstream, onshore and offshore, with experience
throughout field Operations and Maintenance Management, Engineering,
Construction, Facilities Commissioning, Projects Management, Field development
conceptualizations, and Gas contracts negotiations and commercialization. Graduated
as Process Control Systems Engineer in Los Andes University in Venezuela and post
graduate diploma in Gas Business Development and Management programs. He has
primarily worked for PDVSA, engineering consulting companies and Repsol, which
joined early 2006. He is currently assigned to the new projects and field development
revisions within the Direccion Ejecutiva de Desarrollo Tecnologico.
Objective
1. Provide a general overview of crude oil/ gas processing, the elements and
equipment in an integrated surface facility plant and the impact in field
development.
2. Understand the technical factors for the design and operation of a surface facility:
fluid characteristics, quantities, specifications, location, data quality, etc
3. Review the fluid behaviour aspects relevant for the design and operation of a
surface facility
4. Provide a general understanding of process operations: separation, dehydration, gas
treatment, gas processing, water treatment, fluid transportation, etc.
5. Provide a basic understanding on how process equipment work and how they are
designed and rated.
6. Discuss main elements related to managing a surface facility project: methodology,
cost, schedule, etc.
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Syllabus
1. Introduction: Basic unit of measurement. The Wellhead. The gathering network. The
processing plant. Product specifications. Production handling basic concept and
schemes. The transport system. Impact on field development. Project metrics and
cost. Environment: Onshore. Offshore. Technologies
2. Hydrocarbon fluid behaviour:
2.1. Hydrocarbon composition: Chemical components. Contaminants. PONA. Oil cuts.
2.2. Natural gas properties: Composition. Specifications. Density and Specific Gravity.
criteria.
3.2. Separators: Production separators. Test separators. Scrubbers. Slug catchers. Filters. KO
drums.
3.3. Process vessels: Operating principle. Process design and sizing. Mechanical design.
3.4. Crude Oil dehydration: Operating principle. Sizing considerations. The bottle test. Gun
Operational features.
4. Water Treatment
4.1.
4.2.
4.3.
4.4.
Water Specifications.
Basic Principles and equations.
Process Schemes.
Process equipment.
processes. Acid gas problems. Gas sweetening. Amine processes. Physical solvent
process. Solid bed process. Membranes. Mercury.
5.2. Natural gas processing: Dew pointing. NGL extraction. LPG extraction. Process schemes.
Oil Absorption. Mechanical refrigeration. J-T expansion. Turbo expansion. NGL/LPG
storage.
pumps. Drivers.
6.3. Gas compression: Thermodynamic of compressors. The process. Reciprocating
7. Thermal equipments
7.1. Heat transfer: Definitions. Heat transfer mechanism. Basic equations. Heat transfer
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7.3. Heaters and Furnaces: Definitions. Combustion. Heater design. Operational features.
9. Safety
9.1. Design
Contingencies.
Definition. Execution.
10.3. Front End Loading.
10.4. Cost Estimation. Risk. Contingencies. Accuracy. Allowances. Contract types.
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Day 4
Gas compression.
Thermal equipments.
Measurement and controls.
Safety.
Exercises.
Day 5
Utilities.
Project Management.
Course Examination.
Software Applications
Open Process design software in Basic 3.2 to be handed out during the course.
Excel spreadsheets.
Hysys (see Team Project 3rd term).
Questor Offshore (see Team Project 3rd term).
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ECONOMIC EVALUATION
Lecturer
Mr. Gerardo Gonzalez is Manager of the Economic Evaluation Control and Studies
Department, in Repsol Upstream Planning & Resources. He received a BSc degree in
Economics from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and a Technical Mining
Engineering degree from Universidad de Oviedo. He worked for more than eight
years as an Offshore Drilling Engineer in Hispanoil and Eniepsa Spanish operations. In
1988 he started to work as a Senior Economist in Repsol Exploracion New Ventures,
responsible in the elaboration of economic models for E&P investment analysis. From
1990 to 1999 he served as Senior Economist in Repsol Exploracion Planning. Then, from
1999 to 2002, he was a Senior Economist in Repsol S.A. Planning (Gas & Power). He has
taught courses for NIOC technical staff in Teheran (Iran) and has published papers
related to Oil & Gas industry in Mexico and Spain.
Objectives
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Syllabus
1. Main targets of E&P companies.
1.1. E&P cornerstone idea.
1.2. Technical risk in the E&P asset lifecycle. Exploration, appraisal, development, production
1.3.
1.4.
1.5.
1.6.
and abandonment.
Ways of land acquisition. Up-front payments. Farm in-out economic consequences.
Areal extent. Ground floor.
Working obligations. Mandatory and discretionary programs.
Operating environment impacts on economic viability.
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5. Decision analysis.
5.1.
5.2.
5.3.
5.4.
5.5.
5.6.
5.7.
5.8.
7. Miscellaneous.
7.1.
7.2.
7.3.
7.4.
7.5.
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Country overview.
Country oil-gas sector. Government hydrocarbon policy.
Contractual terms.
Use of an economic model.
Technical inputs of the project: capex, opex and production profiles.
Oil-gas price references. Historic and futures series.
Dollar and Euro interest rate references.
Program
This course lasts 5 days.
Day 1:
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Day 5:
Exam. Perform an economic evaluation.
Software Applications
Microsoft Office.
Textbooks and Consulting Books
Decision Analysis for Petroleum Exploration. Paul D. Newendorp. PennWell
Books, 1975.
International Petroleum Exploration Economics. N.W. Miller. IHRDC, 1998.
International Petroleum Fiscal Systems and Production Sharing Contracts.
Daniel Johnston, 1994.
Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty in Exploration. Peter R. Rose. The American
Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1987.
Decisiones Optimas de Inversion y Financiacion en la Empresa. Andres Suarez.
Piramide. 1984.
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RISK ANALYSIS
Lecturer
Mr. Antonio Suarez has more than 30 years experience working on the E&P industry.
He graduated as Mining Engineer in ETSIMO, Spain, and he also has a M.Sc. in
Geophysics by Stanford University, and a M.Sc. Finances by the London Business
School. He has worked mainly for Chevron Overseas and Repsol, initially as well site
geologist, then seismic interpreter and explorationist, and later becoming Director New
Ventures and M.D. Business Development for Repsol. With great concern for
education, Mr. Suarez has been always in touch with Universities and Students, and he
is attending Energy Meetings and giving talks on International E&P Conferences.
This module is aimed to understand and learn how to cope with risks and
uncertainties related to E&P activities
Objectives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Syllabus
1. Introduction to the Risks associated to the Business of Exploration and Production of
Hydrocarbons.
1.1. The Oil and Gas Business. The E&P process and concept of volatility on results.
1.2. Definition of Risk and Uncertainties.
1.3. The concept of Expected Value.
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Program
Day 1
Day 2
Prospect Resources Calculation.
Prospect & Block Valuation.
Exercises 4 & 5.
Day 3
Portfolio Management.
New Ventures.
Exercise 6.
Course Examination.
Software Applications
Microsoft Office.
Textbooks and Consulting Books
Megill, R. E. (1984). An Introduction to Risk Analysis, 2nd Edition. PennWell
Publishing Co. Tulsa.
Megill, R. E. (1992), Estimating prospect sizes, Chapter 6 in: R. Steinmetz, ed., The
Business of Petroleum Exploration: AAPG Treatise of Petroleum Geology,
Handbook of Petroleum Geology, pp. 63-69.
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OFFSHORE STRUCTURES
Lecturer
Dr. Manuel Moreu is Professor of Offshore projects at the Spanish School of Naval
Architecture. He is a Naval Architect and holds a PhD in Offshore from M.I.T. He has
participated in all kind of projects, fixed and floating, drilling, production and storage
etc. His experience has been gained working for the Oil Companies, and for the main
Engineering Contractors.
Objectives
1. Introduction to the Offshore Installations.
1.1.
1.2.
1.3.
1.4.
Floating drilling.
Submersible.
Jack-up.
Semisubmersible.
Drillship and barges.
4. Floating Production.
4.1.
4.2.
4.3.
4.4.
7. Export.
7.1. The storage.
7.2. The pipeline.
8. Support fleet.
8.1.
8.2.
8.3.
8.4.
Exploration.
Installation.
Operation.
Abandoning.
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Syllabus
1. The start of the offshore.
1.1. Origin of offshore development.
1.2. Environmental conditions.
1.3. Water depth.
2. The Jacket.
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
2.4.
2.5.
4. Subsea wellheads.
5. Floating production.
5.1. From a MOU.
5.2. From a FPSO. The storage.
5.3. The production risers.
6. Export.
6.1. Shuttle.
6.2. Single point mooring.
6.3. Pipeline.
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TIMETABLE
September-December 2014
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Week 2
Week 7
Week 11
Week 12
Week 15
Week 16
DECEMBER
Week 14
Week 13
NOVEMBER
Week 10
Week 9
Week 8
OCTUBRE
Week 6
Week 5
Week 4
SEPTEMBER
Week 2
Week 1
Group A
1
2
3
4
5
8
9
10
11
12
15
16
17
18
19
22
23
24
25
26
29
30
1
2
3
6
7
8
9
10
13
14
15
16
17
20
21
22
23
24
27
28
29
30
31
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4
5
6
7
10
11
12
13
14
17
18
19
20
21
24
25
26
27
28
1
2
3
4
5
8
9
10
11
12
15
16
17
18
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Group B
Hours A
Hours B
30
30
Introduction to Repsol
Business Reps
Refreshment courses (Afternoon)
T.Zapata / F. Mustieles
BOB 1C
Structural Geology
A. Chambers
BOB 1B
Basin Analysis and
Petroleum Systems
A. Racero
37,5
37,5
BOB 1B
Basin Analysis and
Petroleum Systems
S.Quesada
BOB 1C
Structural Geology
A. Chambers
37,5
37,5
37,5
37,5
BOB 4
Drilling Eng.
J. Ford
BOB 5
Geophysics
C. Lupascu
BOB 3
Well Logging
S. Winstanley
37,5
37,5
BOB 3
Well Logging
S. Winstanley
BOB 5
Geophysics
C. Lupascu
37,5
37,5
BOB 2
Geology Field School
Gessal
BOB 6A
Reservoir Geology and
Characterization
J. Prieto Fanjul
37,5
37,5
BOB 6A
Reservoir Geology and
Characterization
P. Corbett
BOB 6B
Reservoir Engineering
M. Prida
37,5
37,5
BOB 8
Economic Evaluation
G. Gonzalez
BOB 6D
Well Testing
E. Izaguirre
30
37,5
BOB 6B
Reservoir Engineering
M. Prida
BOB 6E
Reservoir Simulation
F. Mustieles
37,5
37,5
BOB 2
Geology Field School
Gessal
30
37,5
BOB 7A
Sub-Surface Production
Technology
TBD
37,5
37,5
37,5
30
37,5
37,5
30
30
37,5
37,5
570,0
577,5
BOB 9
Risk Analysis
A. Suarez
BOB 6D
Well Testing
E. Izaguirre
BOB 6E
Reservoir Simulation
F. Mustieles
BOB 10
Offshore Structures
M. Moreu
BOB 7A
Sub-Surface Production
Technology
Ashutosh Shah
BOB 7B
Surface Production
Technology
J.E.Gomis
BOB 10
Offshore Structures
M. Moreu
BOB 9
Risk Analysis
A. Suarez
BOB 7B
Surface Production
Technology
N.Villalba
BOB 8
Economic Evaluation
G. Gonzalez
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BLOCK II:
SPECIALIZATION BLOCK
January to March 2015
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Petroleum Engineering
Reservoir Evaluation and Management
Petroleum Geosciences
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Residential Hall.
Dining Hall.
Library.
Computing rooms.
Student Union.
Centre for Sports and Exercises.
Healthcare.
Chaplaincy.
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SPECIALIZATION:
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
Heriot-Watt University
Modules:
Production Technology
Reservoir Engineering II (Well Testing)
Reservoir Simulation
Petroleum Economics
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SPECIALIZATION BLOCK: PE
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
Module
G11PT
Tutor
DR Davies.
Objectives
1.
2.
3.
4.
2. Well performance.
2.1. PI for oil and gas wells in steady state flow.
2.2. Concepts of flow in pipes and ipact of pressure loss components and horizontal pipes.
2.3. Physical property variation in flow up the wellbore for single phase gas and oil flow and
3. Well completions.
3.1. Evaluate bottom hole completion options.
3.2. Geometrical configurations for drilled wellbores for both production and injection
applications.
3.3. Generic operating principles for major completion equipment components.
3.4. Tubing for production/injection.
3.5. Wellheads.
3.6. Xmas trees.
3.7. Packers.
3.8. Seal assemblies.
3.9. Subsurface safety valves.
3.10. Nipple profiles.
3.11. Flow control and circulation devices.
3.12. Packer selection.
4. Perforating.
4.1. Options and advantages/disadvantages for perforating oil and gas wells.
4.2. Over balance and under balanced perforating.
4.3. Charge design and factors that influence performance.
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5. Advanced wells.
5.1.
5.2.
5.3.
5.4.
6. Artificial lift.
Explain the importance of Artificial Lift (AL) for world oil production.
Selection of AL based on ranking criteria.
Electric submersible pump.
Beam pump.
Fluid driven hydraulic pumps (explain the mode of operation of the (i) Jet pump; (ii)
Weir multiphase pump; (iii) Hydraulic pump.
6.6. Progressive cavity pump.
6.1.
6.2.
6.3.
6.4.
6.5.
7. Gas lift.
7.1.
7.2.
7.3.
7.4.
7.5.
7.6.
8. Formation damage.
8.1.
8.2.
8.3.
8.4.
8.5.
8.6.
8.7.
9. Matrix acidizing.
9.1.
9.2.
9.3.
9.4.
9.5.
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Assessment methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
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SPECIALIZATION BLOCK: PE
Module
G11WT
RFT tool.
Analysis of a pretest record.
Supercharging and supercharging index.
RFT data presentation.
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7. Reservoir management
7.1.
7.2.
7.3.
7.4.
7.5.
Assessment methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
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SPECIALIZATION BLOCK: PE
Module
G11RS
RESERVOIR SIMULATION
Tutor
K Sorbie, E. Mackay, G. Pickup.
Objectives
1. Develop an understanding of the role of simulation in reservoir engineering.
2. To gain insight into the value of simulation.
3. To provide the appropiate numerical techniques to enhance hydrocarbon recovery.
Syllabus
1. Introduction.
1.1. Description of a simulation model.
1.2. Simplifications and issues that arise in going from the description of a real reservoir to a
data.
3.2. Simulation output - output of calculations, quality check output data to check for error
performed, identifiy numerical effects and impact of grid block size and orientation on
result, perform simple upscaling calculation to address numerical difussion.
5. Flow equations.
5.1. Physics of single phase compressible flow through porous media.
5.2. Equation for single phase compressible flow (PDE).
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5.3. Linearization of pde for slightly compressible flow involving the hydraulic diffusivity.
5.4. Extension of the single phase pressure equation to 2d.
5.5. Conservation + darcys law in the two phase case to arrive at the two phase flow
7. Permeability upscaling.
7.1.
7.2.
7.3.
7.4.
7.5.
7.6.
7.7.
7.8.
7.9.
Assessment methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
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SPECIALIZATION BLOCK: PE
Module
G11PE
PETROLEUM ECONOMICS
Tutor
J Fennema.
Objectives
1. understand the economic concepts involved in project evaluation
2. understand the value of investments as defined within a fiscal system
3. evaluate risks associated with economic decisions
Syllabus
1. Introduction.
1.1.
1.2.
1.3.
1.4.
1.5.
1.6.
2. Evaluation methods.
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
2.4.
2.5.
2.6.
Definition of an asset.
Evaluation concepts and objectives.
Book value and depreciation.
Market value and models.
Cash flow concept - capex and opex.
Cash flow models.
Time Value.
Compound Interest.
Discounting.
Present value of a single cash flow.
Annuities.
Price Inflation - Money of the day.
Real terms, constant money, 2000 terms.
Purchasing power.
Conversion of money of the day to real terms and vice versa.
4. Project parameters.
4.1. Cash Flow Modelling - project screening and ranking, Maximum capital outlay, Payback
4.2.
4.3.
4.4.
4.5.
4.6.
4.7.
4.8.
4.9.
period,
Terminal cash surplus, Profit to investment ratio (undiscounted).
Discounted Measures of Value.
Net Present Value (NPV) from project cash flows.
Annual Capital Charge (ACC).
Internal Rate of Return (IRR).
NPV and IRR for acceleration projects.
NPV, NPVI and IRR as screening criteria.
NPV, NPVI and IRR as ranking criteria.
5. Government.
5.1. Importance of petroleum to government.
7. Risk Management.
7.1. Sources of information to reduce uncertainty.
7.2. Transferring risk financial instruments and commodity trading.
7.3. Diversification.
7.4. Joint ventures.
7.5. Scenario planning.
7.6. Relevant information in the context of decision-making.
7.7. Simple Decision Methods.
7.8. Sensitivity analysis.
7.9. Spider diagram.
7.10. Monte Carlo and Latin Hypercube sampling.
7.11. Mathematical Expectation.
7.12. Binomial probability Function to calculate expected value.
7.13. Preference Theory.
7.14. Decision Trees and value of information.
Assessment methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
SPECIALIZATION:
RESERVOIR EVALUATION
AND MANAGEMENT
Heriot-Watt University
Modules:
Rock Mechanics, Geomechanics and
Geophysics.
Well Testing and Production Logging.
Same as PE
Reservoir Simulation. Same as PE
Modelling and Management.
Module
G11RG
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RFT tool.
Analysis of a pretest record.
Supercharging and supercharging index.
RFT data presentation.
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7. Reservoir management
7.1.
7.2.
7.3.
7.4.
7.5.
Assessment methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
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Assessment methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
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SPECIALIZATION:
PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCES
Heriot-Watt University
Modules:
Stratigraphy and Reservoir Quality.
Petroleum Systems.
Petroleum Geophysics.
Geomechanics and Flow Mechanics.
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Module
G11ST
Tutor
H. Lever
Objectives
1. Demonstrate how the principles of stratigraphy can be used to understand the
physical characteristics of strata in a petroleum basin
2. Demonstrate how post-depositional diagenetic changes in rocks affect the
hydrocarbon reservoir quality.
Syllabus
1. Know the basic characteristics of carbonate systems and their evolution
2. How carbonate sedimentation differs from clastic sedimentation in response to
relative sea level change
3. The main features of carbonate sequence tracts
4. The characteristics of key surfaces as recognised in core, seismic and wireline logs
5. Case examples of mixed carbonate-clastic systems
6. An introduction to biostratigraphy as used in the petroleum industry
7. Know the drivers for diagenesis and the petrophysical consequences, particularly for
clastic rocksUnderstand the concepts of seismic and sequence stratigraphy and
apply them to realistic datasets.
Learning outcomes:
1. Understand the sequence of formation of a basin and the rocks and rock
sequences contained within it, for both siliciclastic and carbonate dominated
systems
2. Be able to integrate geological and geophysical data to determine the rock
sequences within the basin
3. Understand how diagenesis affects rock properties
Assessment Methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
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PETROLEUM SYSTEMS
Tutor
Andy Aplin (Newcastle University)
Objectives
1. Understand the thermal and hydrocarbon characteristics of a petroleum basin.
Syllabus
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Learning outcomes:
1. Understand the sequence of formation of a basin and the rocks and rock sequences
contained within it
2. Be able to integrate geological, geophysical and geochemical data
3. Determine the value of a prospect.
Assessment Methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
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PETROLEUM GEOPHYSICS
Tutor
Dr. Asghar Shams
Objectives
1. Introduce Geophysical methods for hydrocarbon exploration and production
2. Focus on reflection seismic methods (2D & 3D)
3. Review reflection seismic interpretation techniques & applications Reservoir
Geophysics (basic principles).
Syllabus
1. Geophysical Reconnaissance Methods
2. Seismic Acquisition and Overview
3. Reflection seismic processing
4. Geophysical Data Management
5. Rock Physics
6. Seismic Interpretation basics
7. Making maps
8. Seismic Stratigraphy
9. Seismic Structural Geology
10. Well Planning & Drilling Understand the influence of reservoir fluids on seismic
properties.
Learning outcomes:
11. Prioritisation of geophysical techniques according to E&P phase, basin setting, data
availability, budget & timelines
12. Basic seismic interpretation skills for sedimentary architectures, structures and map
making
13. Integration of reflection seismic and well data for existing well control and new well
planning and drilling Explain the processes of brine, oil, and gas movements in
hydrocarbon reservoirs and basins
Assessment Methods
Examination: 80%
Coursework: 20%
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SPECIALIZATION BLOCK
TIMETABLE
January-March 2015
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Date
Activity
Remarks
Enrolment process
Exams
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BLOCK III:
FIELD TRAINING BLOCK
Oct-Nov 2014 & Mar-Apr 2015
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Module
BOB 2
Collaborator: GESSAL
The GESSAL group (GESSAL E&P & GESSAL GAS) is a group of technical consulting
companies focused on geological and geophysical services for subsurface exploration
and research: hydrocarbon exploration and underground storage (gas & CO2).
Its services are supported by up-to-date technology used in: Regional Exploration
Evaluation, Basin Analysis, Petroleum System, Prospect Generation and Evaluation,
Geophysical and Geological Interpretation, Log Analysis, Petrography Interpretation,
Geological and Geochemical Modelling, Structural and Stratigraphic Analysis, Integral
Development of Exploration Programs, Reservoir Evaluation, Data Management,
Geological-Geophysical Computer Applications and Training Courses.
Objectives
1. Understand the basic review of the regional setting of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin
Petroleum System.
1.1. Regional Stratigraphy.
1.2. Tectonosedimentary evolution.
1.3. Basque-Cantabrian Basin Petroleum System.
1.4. Hydrocarbon Discoveries and Play Concepts.
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Syllabus
1. Basque-Cantabrian Basin: General Stratigraphy and Tectosedimentary Evolution.
1.1. Palaeozoic Rocks: Carboniferous.
1.2. Triassic: Buntsandstein, Muschelkalk, Keuper and Imon Fm.
1.3. Jurassic.
4. Concepts:
4.1. Carbonate platform.
4.2. Siliciclastic platform.
4.3. Shoreline facies.
4.4. Deltaic systems.
4.5. Continental facies: Alluvial, fluvial: braided and meandering systems, evaporate and
lacustrine deposits.
4.6. Salt related tectonics (halokinetic processes).
4.7. Rifting stages.
4.8. Alpine Tectonics
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Program
Day 1. Carboniferous, Triassic and Jurassic of the Polientes Trough. Stops in BarrueloBraosera: Stephanian facies, Carboniferous source rock for gas, Early Rift Stage,
Bunt facies, Navajo 1 well, Bunt reservoir potential. Stops in the access road to
Camino-Camino: Muschelkalk facies, Keuper facies, Navajo 1 well, Inter-Rift
Stage, Lias facies, Cadialso 1 well, carbonate reservoirs and seals, Lias source
rock for oil, thermal maturity.
Day 2. Polientes Trough Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. Stratigraphy and tectonics. Stops
in San Andrs: Dogger, Cadialso 1 well, Jurassic carbonate reservoir potential.
Stop in Barcena del Ebro: Bay of Biscay Rifting Stage, Purbeck facies continental
to marine transitional, Ayoluengo wells, Siliciclastic reservoir potential and seals,
source rock for gas, fracture patterns. Stop in Olleros de Paredes Rubias: Rifting
to Drifting Stage, Middle Cretaceous fluvial facies, Cantonegro 1 well, reservoir
potential, source rock for gas. Stop in Aguilar de Campo, carbonate lacustrine
facies, Abar 1 well, Stratigraphic lateral changes, source rock for gas and
reservoir potential, seismic revision, Mesozoic extensionAlpine compression
overprint, genesis and evolution of Mesozoic and Alpine traps.
Day 3. Marginal area. Stratigraphy and tectonics. Ayoluengo Oilfield. Stop in Humada:
Faults of Ubierna and Humada, folding area of Montorio. Stop in Amaya: Margin
type section, Jurassic dolomite, Hontomin wells, reservoir potential, Lias source
rock, thermal maturation. Stop in Basconcillos del Tozo: Oil shows, generation
and migration concepts, timing, etc. Stop in Ayoluengo Oilfield.
Day 4. Poza de la Sal Diapir: Basics on salt tectonics, evaporite different behaviour in
outcrops and subsurface, old halite mines. Structural cross- sections from
Montorio Folded Belt to the Duero Cenozoic foreland basin.
Day 5. Ayoluengo Oil Field Reservoir: Lower Purbeck: Corvio member and Fm Aguilar.
Weald meandering and braided facies. Final evaluation test.
Textbooks and Consulting Books
Field Trip Guide Gessal.
Petroleum System of the Basque Cantabrian Basin (South-western Sector).
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Module
DRIL
Collaborators
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Objectives
1. Observe field operations, equipment spud, pulling and work over.
2. Evaluate the needs for roads to the site, well site dimensions, wellheads and
production equipment.
3. Recognize the instrumentation and monitoring systems in the field (scada).
4. Visit the field facilities; identify the different treatment units and the installations
used for secondary recovery.
5. Analyze the different roles of the personnel involved in field work.
6. Observe a metering unit; analyze the drilling control room and alarm systems.
Itinerary
1. Visit to a production warehouse or material and equipment yard. Observe the
equipment used in the wells, tubing, wellheads, accessories.
2. Visit to a field in production. General description of the gathering facilities. Observe
operating parameters, pressures, rates, temperatures, load in rods, etc. Observe
sampling of the wells. See the data gathering, transmission and follow up.
3. Visit to an oil treatment and water injection facilities. Observe the different
equipment and their control. See power consumption, chemical injection, and
related utilities. Observe manning of the installations.
4. Visit to a gas compression plant. Observation of operating parameters of the
treatment process, manifold, compressors, chemical protection, gas quality and
quantity measurement. See the related utilities. Observe the manning of the
installations.
5. Loading site visit, tanks, metering systems, and operations description.
6. Laboratory measurements.
7. Visit to an ESPs, PCPs and rod sucker pump service company yard. Explanation
about internal mechanisms of the pumps, their installation, retrieval and
maintenance.
8. Visit a Pulling and Workover unit. Observe and understand the actual operation.
Observe the tools and the equipment at work.
9. The evaluation of the module is a presentation of a system or a specific topic by the
teams. The teams and the subject are distributed the day before the last.
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Module
HSE
Objectives
1. Obtain the main certificates needed to obtain access to the Repsol Installations
worldwide (Seismic Acquisition, Drilling Operations, Production Operations, Offshore
operations, Helicopter Transport, H2S hazard induction)
Itinerary
1. Bosiet Certificate (Basic offshore safety induction and emergency training- include
HUET & Ebs).
2. H2S Induction course.
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BLOCK IV:
TEAM PROJECT BLOCK
CSFR Madrid
May to July 2015
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Overview
The purpose of the team project is to develop and consolidate the level of knowledge
acquired in class through a multidisciplinary work team. Students will use real data from
an E&P company database, and will establish, based on the information provided, a
geological model, build up one or more development scenarios, suggest different future
exploration strategies and recommend commercial options, within a given economic
context and environmental scenario. Specific project goals will be established in the
Project Guide later on.
The project is conceptually simple and involves the use of pre-selected data. Students
are not expected to find complex solutions, but to consolidate basic concepts and
knowledge within the framework of the generally accepted principles of exploration and
production.
Use of real E&P data
The data will be taken from a field, in which the petroleum system can be easily
established. The database is extensive and complete, and covers all relevant aspects in
exploration and production. It includes:
Geological reports.
Fluids Laboratory analysis reports
(PVT).
Seismic data.
Surface facilities schematics.
Drilling reports.
Production history.
Well logs.
Previous Field Development
Core analysis.
Plans.
BHT and BHP measurements.
RFT data.
This data is delivered in several formats in order to get the students familiarized with a
wide range of sources during the project, and face similar challenges as they would in
their professional life.
Objectives
Students will have to deliver by the end of the block, their own development plan
introducing the technical and economic strategy to increase the recovery factor from
the field.
By the end of the project, each team should have delivered a report and make a
presentation to a board of experts acting like a board of directors from the company.
The proposed development plan shall include:
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Development strategy.
Economical evaluation.
The project lasts 10 weeks.
Multidisciplinary teams
The students are organized in multidisciplinary teams, according to their background,
specialization and professional experience as: Geologists, Geophysicists, Reservoir
Engineers, Drilling Engineers and Production Engineers.
The team must choose a Team Leader who will be in charge of the coordination of all
the members activities as well as acting on their behalf at special meetings with
consultants and coordinators.
The different tasks related to the completion of the project shall be reassigned within
the team thus each member of the group is responsible for a different area of
investigation.
Assessment
By the end of the project, each team will present their results to a Board of Experts
acting like a Board of Directors from an E&P company. Their grades weight 50% of the
final mark from the block and will be the same for all team members.
The 30% of the final mark will be given by the coordinators of the project, who will
continuously evaluate the performance of the teams. They will also hold preliminary
evaluation meetings through the project.
Finally, 20% of the final mark will be given by each student, evaluating the commitment
and results obtained by their team members.
Technical software
The software used for seismic interpretation, property modelling, reservoir simulation,
drilling plan, economic analysis, etc. available in CSFR is the same that is used in Repsol
in its everyday operations. As the licenses available are intended for academic purposes
only, the use of the software specific for the project will be limited to the project
timeframe.
Specialists from Repsol, and sometimes from the software builders, will teach the
proper use of these tools in tutorials. Students will be recommended to take the
tutorials, but the final decision on this recalls on each group.
The offer of places for these tutorials will be limited on the number of licenses available
in each case. For instance, GeoFrame (for static modelling) will be available for two users
per group (Geologist and Geophysicist) but Landmark (Drilling) will be available only for
one user per group.
Tutorials
Apart from training in specific tools for use in the project, other key areas will be
developed during this term. They will be taught in one-week tutorials.
These tutorials will not be assessed by the means of an examination, but will be
considered in the final mark for the project.
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TUTORIALS
Team Project Block
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Activity
Regional Settings and Description of the Basin
Correlations (WellPix)
Tutor
H. Gonzalez
F. Molina
E. Izaguirre
J. Franques
A. Arrieta
A. Arrieta
Petex
Petroskills
R. Martin
Petrophysical Applications
Surface Facilities Modelling: Hysys
Phase I Meeting
Khalid El Jaafari
J.E. Gomis
AST/JIT
J. Prieto Fanjul
M. Moreu
Cost Estimation
C. Lopez
F. Mustieles
Economics
G. Gonzalez
Phase II Meeting
AST/JIT
O. del Rio
Project Dissertation
Board
Project Review
AST/JIT
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PROJECT TIMETABLE
May-July 2015
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May
June
July
Activity
Tutor
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Personal Development Soft Skills
Project Kick Off
Master Directors
Regional Settings and Description of the Basin
M.Esteban
Well logs, data loading and correlations in Wellpix and IP
K. El Jaafari
Reservoir Engineering ( PVT, MDT and Well Test)
E. Izaguirre
Data loading & Well tie to seismic
A. Arrieta
Seismic Interpretation in Carisma
J. Franques
Mapping and Griding & Time to Depth Conversion
J. Franques / A. Arrieta
Basic Drilling Technology
Petroedge
Gas Conditioning & Surface Facilities Modelling
J. Gomis
Drilling Planning: Compass, WellPlan, Stresscheck
R. Martin
Petrophysical Applications in IP
K. El Jaafari
Integrated Production Management (MBAL - PROSPER - GAP)
Petex
Phase I Meeting
Master Directors
Property Modelling in Petrel
J. Prieto Fanjul
Static Model must be done
Offshore Installations
M. Moreu
QUE$TOR Offshore
C. Lopez
Reservoir Simulation in Eclipse
F. Mustieles
Dynamic Model must be done
Economic Evaluation
G. Gonzalez
Phase II Meeting
Master Directors
HSE Fundamentals for Offshore Projects
Oscar del Rio
Draft FDP delivery
Final FDP delivery
Project Dissertation
Evaluation Board
Project Review
Master Directors
Soft Skills and Assignments
Human Resources DP&O
Closing Ceremony
All
Geoscientist
Production Eng.
Milestone
Reservoir Eng.
Drilling Eng.
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