Gas Condensate Reservoir Engineering

Program Objectives
This 5-day training course deals with “gas condensate reservoir management” with special emphasis on the use of
compositional reservoir simulation for well and reservoir management. It begins with a brief introduction to the course
objectives followed by basic gas condensate reservoir engineering including reservoir classification, fluid phase modeling,
reservoir rock characterization, and multi-phase fluid flow in reservoir. It is then followed by how to determine quantitatively
hydrocarbon asset value based on fluid-in-place, recovery factor, and production rate profile. For well and reservoir
performance calculation, both simple and complex reservoir simulation methods are introduced. The importance of phase
modeling and reservoir description in reservoir simulations are discussed in detail with several field examples. After reviewing
general recovery mechanisms in a gas condensate reservoir, specific well and reservoir management issues are considered in
detail. They include gas blow-down, pressure maintenance and gas recycling, well deliverability reduction due to condensate
build-up, oil production from thin oil-rim, etc. In doing so, two reservoir simulation examples are used for class illustration and
for the students’ hand-on experience using a compositional simulator. Well testing, field surveillance and facilities/operations
are presented thereafter. Finally the course wraps up with considering how to plan for gas condensate field projects under
various uncertainties and a brief course review.

Course Outline
Day 1 Day 3
 Types of hydrocarbon reservoirs  Simple methods
o Based on phase behavior of reservoir fluid o Tank-model analysis (black-oil-based material
o Based on reservoir structure balance with Rvo)
 Reservoir-type classification criteria o Simple well deliverability calculation
 Issues in gas condensate reservoir management  Effective total skin, non-Darcy flow effect, etc.
 General compositional reservoir simulation
o Hydrocarbon asset valuation
o Single-well model
o Production operation issues
o Mechanistic model
 Fluid phase behaviors
o General field scale model
o Black oil model
o EOS model Day 4
o PVT lab experiments for phase modeling  Preparation for Simulator-Based Class Projects
 Formation characterization o Overview on compositional reservoir
o General core analysis simulation
o Special core analysis o Input Data Preparation
o Simulation quality control
o Determination of Fluid-Initially-In-Place (FIIP)
o Prediction runs
Day 2  Class Project 1: Single-well model example (grid-
 Multiphase fluid flow size effect, etc.)
o Pc-curves and the reservoir initialization  Class Project 2: Gas recycling case example
o Relativity permeability curves with the end-point
Day 5:
scaling due to trapping number changes
o Non-Darcy flow effect  Production-related issues (sand production, hi-perm
 Recovery mechanisms streaks, remediation of condensate build-up, etc.)
 Production Operations  Well testing and single-well simulation
o Natural depletion  Field surveillance, fluid sampling, etc.
o Water drive supported by aquifer  Uncertainties in gas condensate field management
o Gas recycling (from exploration to abandonment)
o Oil production from Oil rim
 Well deliverability reduction due to condensate
buildup, non-Darcy flow, etc.
o Coning, or high perm streaks, or production
problems with thin oil leg, etc.
o Well type (horizontal vs. vertical), well spacing,
flow rate, etc.

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