Target audience: the advanced training course is available to individuals who hold (or are currently pursuing) a higher or secondary vocational education in the relevant field, or who have completed professional retraining in the corresponding area.
Studying methods: lecture, problem‑solving exercises, calculations, graph construction / chart plotting, brainstorming, training session / workshop, exercises, master class / master‑class.
After of course, participants will be: to improve professional competencies as reflected in practical abilities:
- to apply methods and specific features of reservoir fluid sampling;
- to apply in practice the criteria for selecting high‑quality samples;
- to use in work the classification and behavior characteristics of different types of reservoir fluids;
- to apply knowledge of experimental PVT study methodology included in the standard reservoir fluid analysis suite, and understand how properties of separated fluids change depending on the type of degassing;
- to work fluently with key parameters of reservoir oil and reservoir gas;
- to apply knowledge of experimental PVT study methods used in gas injection modeling for enhanced oil recovery (EOR);
- to understand the methodology of experimental PVT studies conducted to ensure uninterrupted well production;
- to work with parameters measured in a PVT laboratory;
- to derive reservoir fluid properties from direct parameter measurements (standard separation, differential liberation);
- to determine reservoir fluid composition based on compositions of standard separation fluids (mathematical recombination);
- to verify experimental data using material balance;
- to understand the specifics of using regulatory documentation in the field of reservoir fluid studies;
- to understand the fundamentals of gas chromatography in reservoir fluid analysis;
- to work with PVT study reports for reservoir fluids in both Russian and international formats;
- to perform mathematical modeling of reservoir fluids;
- to define the objective and apply various methods for creating a reservoir fluid model;
- to work in a PVT simulator;
- to identify causes of changes in reservoir fluid properties and draw appropriate conclusions for their mathematical description;
- to analyze raw data from reservoir fluid studies and reject low‑quality data.
About course: enhancement of professional competencies for oil and gas company specialists in the field of experimental studies and modeling of reservoir fluids.