🛢️ Advanced Nodal Analysis for Production Engineers

Overview

📘 Course Description

This advanced course equips production and reservoir engineers with the expertise to analyze, model, and optimize well performance using Nodal Analysis. Participants will build deep understanding of inflow performance relationships (IPRs), outflow curves, system component modeling, and practical applications for single and multiphase flow. Using industry software and field data, attendees will learn to identify bottlenecks, evaluate artificial lift options, and maximize well productivity.

🎯 Learning Objectives

✅ Master the principles of IPR, VLP (Vertical Lift Performance), and system analysis
✅ Accurately build and interpret nodal plots
✅ Analyze single- and multiphase flow scenarios
✅ Evaluate tubing, choke, and surface facility constraints
✅ Use nodal analysis to design, troubleshoot, and optimize production systems
✅ Integrate artificial lift and stimulation effects into nodal models
✅ Apply nodal analysis for well intervention planning

👥 Who Should Attend

Production engineers and supervisors
Completion engineers
Reservoir engineers involved in well performance
Technical service personnel
Well intervention and artificial lift specialists

🗂️ Training Format

✅ Theoretical instruction with practical examples
✅ Hands-on exercises with nodal analysis software (e.g., Prosper, WellFlo)
✅ Group discussions of real field challenges
✅ Step-by-step workflows for building nodal models
✅ Case studies highlighting optimization success stories

📅 Day-by-Day Agenda with Time Breaks

📅 Day 1: Nodal Analysis Fundamentals

Time	Topic
08:30 – 09:00	Welcome, Introductions & Course Objectives
09:00 – 10:30	Nodal Analysis Overview: Principles & Uses
10:30 – 10:45	☕ Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15	Components of a Well System: Reservoir, Tubing, Chokes
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Building Inflow Performance Relationships (IPR)
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	IPR Models: Vogel, Fetkovich, and Multiphase Inflow

📅 Day 2: Vertical Lift Performance & Outflow Modeling

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Multiphase Flow Concepts
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Calculating Vertical Lift Performance (VLP)
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Correlations for Pressure Drop & Friction
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Nodal Analysis Software Introduction & Setup

📅 Day 3: Building & Interpreting Nodal Models

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Assembling System Components in Software
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Plotting IPR & VLP Curves; Finding Operating Point
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Analyzing Sensitivity to Tubing Size, Chokes, Reservoir Pressure
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Practical Exercise: Build and Analyze Nodal Models

📅 Day 4: Optimization with Nodal Analysis

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Identifying Bottlenecks & Restrictive Components
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Evaluating Artificial Lift Options Using Nodal Analysis
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Stimulation & Well Intervention Impacts
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Case Studies: Field Applications of Nodal Optimization

📅 Day 5: Advanced Topics & Integrated Analysis

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Multilateral & Horizontal Well Challenges
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Integrating Reservoir & Surface Facility Constraints
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Hands-On Final Exercise: Full Nodal Workflow
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Review, Group Presentation, Q&A & Certificate Ceremony

📦 Materials Provided

✅ Comprehensive course manual
✅ Software-based nodal analysis templates
✅ Practical exercises and datasets
✅ Case study collection for future reference
✅ Certificate of Completion

Target audiences

Reservoir Engineers, Geologists

$ 5,950