🏆 Field Development Planning for Carbonate Reservoirs

Overview

🌟 Course Description

This intensive course focuses on the unique challenges and strategies for planning, developing, and optimizing field development in carbonate reservoirs. Participants will learn integrated G&G, petrophysics, reservoir engineering, and production considerations tailored to carbonate systems, emphasizing heterogeneity, fracture networks, matrix behavior, and waterflood/EOR design.

🎯 Learning Objectives

✅ Understand the geological complexity and heterogeneity of carbonate reservoirs
✅ Design field development plans considering diagenesis, porosity types, and fractures
✅ Integrate seismic, petrophysical, and core data for static models
✅ Evaluate reservoir dynamics with simulation and production data
✅ Plan primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery schemes in carbonates
✅ Develop optimized drilling, completion, and production strategies

👥 Who Should Attend

Reservoir, production, and drilling engineers
Development and exploration geologists
Reservoir modelers and asset team members
Field development and project engineers
Team leaders and managers in reservoir development

🗂️ Training Format

✅ Interactive lectures with real-world examples
✅ Group exercises and interpretation workshops
✅ Case study discussions
✅ Daily knowledge checks and wrap-ups

📅 Detailed Daily Agenda with Time Breaks

📅 Day 1: Carbonate Reservoir Fundamentals & Geological Challenges

Time	Topic
08:30 – 09:00	Welcome & Introduction to Carbonate Field Development
09:00 – 10:30	Carbonate Depositional Systems and Facies
10:30 – 10:45	☕ Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15	Diagenesis and its Impact on Reservoir Quality
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Fractures and Dual-Porosity Behavior in Carbonates
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Geological and Structural Traps in Carbonate Reservoirs

📅 Day 2: Data Acquisition & Static Modeling

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Seismic Interpretation in Carbonates
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Core and Well Log Integration
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Building Static Reservoir Models
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Workshop: Facies Modeling & Property Populations

📅 Day 3: Reservoir Dynamics & Simulation

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	PVT and Relative Permeability in Carbonates
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	History Matching in Fractured Carbonate Fields
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Forecasting Production Profiles
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Workshop: Reservoir Simulation Scenarios

📅 Day 4: Development Planning & Recovery Methods

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Primary and Secondary Recovery Strategies in Carbonates
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	EOR Methods: CO₂ Injection & Miscible Floods
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Drilling, Completions, and Well Placement
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Workshop: Designing a Field Development Plan

📅 Day 5: Economics, Risk & Integrated FDP Case Study

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Economics of Carbonate Field Development
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Risk Assessment & Uncertainty Analysis
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Case Study: Integrated Field Development in a Carbonate Field
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Final Workshop, Q&A, and Certificates

📦 Materials Provided

✅ Comprehensive course manual with case studies
✅ Field development planning templates
✅ Simulation exercises and datasets
✅ Certificate of Completion

Target audiences

Reservoir Engineers, Geologists

$ 5,950

Course Features

Lecture 0
Quiz 0
Duration 5 days
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 40
Assessments Yes