Reservoir

Simulation Strategies - RSS

Discipline: Reservoir Engineering
Level: Intermediate
Instructors: Richard Henry, David (Dave) Waldren
This course is designed to give an introduction to the fundamental and practical aspects
of modern reservoir simulation. Particular emphasis is placed upon the available data and
its integration into a data set that reflects a coherent model of the reservoir. These
aspects are reinforced with small practical examples run by groups of the course
participants. The course is organized in morning lecture sessions and afternoon practical
sessions. One personal computer is included, at additional cost, for each two participants.
Designed for:
Reservoir and petroleum engineers who will be actively using reservoir simulation.
You will learn:
How to Apply the principles of reservoir engineering to numerical modeling
Set up, run, and analyze the results for single-well, pattern, and full-field models
Prepare fluid and rock property data in the manner required for simulation studies
Identify and eliminate causes of numerical problems
Perform a history match
Use the matched model to predict future performance under a variety of assumptions
Course content:
Buckley Leverett displacement
One dimensional water oil displacement
Model components, types, and modern gridding methods
Two dimensional displacement
Grid orientation and refinement
Routine and special core analysis
Single phase up-scaling of geo-cellular model parameters
Instructors:
Mr. RICHARD HENRY is an independent reservoir simulation specialist who is either out
on a sailboat or teaching for PetroSkills in his spare time. He has degrees in industrial and
petroleum engineering, and has performed over fifty reservoir engineering studies over
two decades on a variety of different simulation platforms, field sizes and reservoir types.
Before discovering simulation, he audited reserves of oil and gas fields in Latin America
and West Africa, and ran multi-national, multi-disciplinary field optimization teams for

Texaco. Mr. Henry holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.S. in Petroleum
Engineering from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
DR. DAVE WALDREN joined the embryonic British National Oil Corporation in 1977, after
7 years of postdoctoral research in high-energy particle physics. In 1979, he was
employed by Intercomp as a reservoir engineer working on simulator development and
reservoir studies. In 1983, he became Technical Director of International Petroleum
Engineering Consultants Ltd. and a technical expert for the Asian Development Bank.
Since 1988, he has been an independent consultant as well as a professor in petroleum
engineering at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He has wide
experience using a variety of commercial reservoir modeling systems. During his career
he has worked on oil and gas fields in 31 countries on 6 continents.
He has a strong theoretical and research background, which is applied in his consulting
activities including advising a major oil company on the day-to-day operational and
medium/long term development of an off-shore oil field as well as the estimation of
different classes of reserves for SEC requirements.
Many of the projects he performed use the VIP and Eclipse simulation systems, he also
has many years experience with different commercial reservoir modeling systems and has
been actively engaged in studies and/or training using IMEX (CMG), Eclipse and Frontsim
(Geoquest), VIP (Landmark), Athos (Beicip Franlab) and MORE (Roxar). He was a SPE
Distinguished Lecturer for 2001-2002. He has a BSc, BSC Hons and a PhD all in physics
from the University of Liverpool, England.

In-House Course Presentations

All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house
courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your
requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged
specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House
Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com
Public Course Presentations
How to contact PetroSkills:
1-800-821-5933 toll-free in North America or
Telephone 1-918-828-2500
Facsimile 1-918-828-2580
E-Mail registrations@petroskills.com
Internet www.petroskills.com
Address P.O. Box 35448, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153-0448, U.S.A