Beginning in April, RPS has scheduled classroom courses to take place in Stavanger, Norway during 2023.

An Introduction to Reservoir Engineering for Geoscientists

• Date: 24 - 27 Apr. 2023
• Start Time: 09:00
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Mark Cook

Summary

Business Impact: By building a greater awareness of reservoir engineering principles, participants will be able to communicate more effectively with their Reservoir Engineering colleagues, ensuring better integration between disciplines, thereby improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of business activities.

This course examines the standard reservoir engineering processes and techniques, particularly their interface with geoscience activities. This course illustrates, with examples, the use of subsurface data in the construction of a reservoir model. It covers three related main themes: static reservoir models; developing dynamic reservoir simulation models; and reservoir management during the producing life of a field. This course covers the fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media, from a rock and fluid perspective. Reference is made to the application of reservoir engineering principles in carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Ensemble-Based Reservoir Modelling and Simulation

• Date: 3 - 4 May 2023
• Start Time: 09:00
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Martha Stunell

Summary

Business impact: Ensemble-based modelling is grounded in a paradigm where all data that informs the subsurface understanding can be integrated in a consistent workflow, so that models are a reasonable representation using data from all disciplines. This course will show that ensemble-based modelling is about much more than building a set of models, but instead, at its core is a true integrated modelling vision.

Examples from field studies worldwide will be used to illustrate ensemble modelling in action, highlighting that an ensemble-based approach has many benefits in terms of enabling asset teams to continuously work on identifying potential risks and opportunities for the field, while capturing the subsurface uncertainty. Finally, the recommended steps for leveraging uncertainty-centric modelling will be discussed along with examples of how to evolve a company’s modelling processes to allow integrated ensemble-based modelling to flourish.  

Development Planning For Mature Fields

• Date: 9 - 11 May 2023
• Start Time: 08:30
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructors: Mark Bentley, Mark Cook, Jerry Hadwin, Richard Oxlade

Summary

Business Impact: This course equips participants with the knowledge and decision-making skills to create a robust development plan for mature fields.

This multidisciplinary course is designed to give participants a broad appreciation of the evaluation and planning activities associated with incremental development planning. This course takes groups through a wide range of associated issues, fills any knowledge gaps in the essential technical fundamentals required for mature field development planning and uses a case-based exercise which will run through the whole course.

Carbon Capture and Storage for Geoscientists and Engineers

• Date: 23 - 25 May 2023
• Start Time: 08:30
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Richard Worden

Summary

Business Impact: This course will provide participants with awareness and understanding of the subsurface needs of CCS projects including subsurface CO2 storage volumetrics, CO2 flow in the subsurface away from injector wells, the objective of permanent and safe storage of CO2, and the key issues of reservoir depth, well design, reservoir lithology, reservoir quality, and reservoir architecture. 

The course will establish basics such as how much CCS is needed to make a difference to global warming and explore what types of CO2 injection have already happened including dedicated long-term CCS projects, pilot projects and CO2-enhanced oil recovery projects. The course will address CO2 as a fluid phase and the key question of CO2 storage efficiency, the equivalent of oil recovery factor. The course will address the rate of CO2 injection and the role reservoir permeability. The all-important issue of the geomechanical effects of CO2 injection and feedbacks between induced mineral dissolution and rock strength and other rock properties will be addressed. The range of possible interaction between CO2 and both aquifer and top-seal will be covered as will the range of potential leakage mechanisms that need to be assessed. The course will conclude with detailed consideration of the monitoring strategies available to assure the safety and integrity of the CO storage site.

Multi-Disciplinary Skills for Field Development Planning and Approval

• Date: 5 - 8 Jun 2023
• Start Time: 08:00
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Pete Smith

Summary

Business Impact: This course presents in detail the technical and commercial influences on Field Development Planning within the global oil and gas industry. It demonstrates the need for understanding field development choices on resource size, facility choices, size and cost. By defining a set of key learning objectives, the course is tailored to those wishing to deepen their understanding of Field Development Planning’s purpose within the oil and gas industry.

Practical Seismic Interpretation

• Date: 12 - 14 Sep 2023
• Start Time: 09:00
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Rebecca Bell

Summary

Business impact: This course will give participants knowledge and confidence to conduct pragmatic seismic interpretations and provide them with a toolkit to produce high-quality, geologically viable interpretations of the subsurface. These skills are vital for prospect identification, site-survey analysis pre-drilling, and geological model development.

This course will provide participants with a complete introduction to modern seismic reflection data analysis with practical application to the conventional, unconventional, and energy transition sectors. We will explore fundamental seismic reflection principles, considerations in seismic data acquisition, and the key steps involved in seismic data processing. This knowledge is essential to utilise modern seismic attribute methods and avoid common pitfalls in seismic interpretation. We will cover both conventional seismic-stratigraphic interpretation as well as quantitative interpretation methods. We will also consider the future of seismic interpretation, including the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Modern Completion and Production Enhancement Techniques

• Date: 16 - 20 Oct 2023
• Start Time: 08:30
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Jonathan Bellarby

Business impact: Participants on this course will derive an understanding of wells and completions, allowing for more accurate production performance assessments, as well as better risk mitigation and management.

Key topics include the completions scope and types, inflow performance, perforating, stimulation and sand controls, vertical and artificial lift, production chemistry, well integration and completion equipment and installation.

Workflows for Seismic Reservoir Characterisation

• Date: 23 - 27 Oct 2023
• Start Time: 08:30
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Patrick Connolly

Summary

Business Impact: Application of the learnings of this course will empower participants to better delineate reservoir and pay distribution, which is of particular use during reservoir appraisal, development and production.

This course provides participants with the skills to design and execute workflows to achieve optimal seismic reservoir characterisation results. The course addresses seismic conditioning to enhance the data and seismic inversion to make quantitive estimates of reservoir properties. Coloured inversion and a comprehensive review of AVO methods including extended elastic impedance are also covered. Furthermore, the course provides a review of seismic inversion methods, including both conventional deterministic methods and the latest Bayesian probabilistic approaches.

Petroleum Economics, Risk and Uncertainty

• Date:  7 - 9 Nov 2023
• Start Time: 09:00
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Pete Smith

Summary

Business impact: Participants in this course will develop an understanding of economic evaluation techniques and their related financial concepts that are used in business to assist decision making in the face of risk and uncertainty. This will allow volumes to be converted to value and an assessment can be made of whether, for example, additional reservoir appraisal is worthwhile.

The course focusses on the fundamentals of estimating risk and uncertainty to improve decision making and introduces both probabilistic and deterministic approaches. Included, is the examination of factors contributing to uncertainty throughout subsurface, drilling, facilities, production cost and economics. The underlying conjecture is that if a greater understanding of risks and uncertainty can be developed then unwanted surprises in delivering estimates of production, reserves and value can be lessened.

Geological Interpretation of Well Logs

• Date: 13 - 17 Nov 2023
• Start Time: 09:00
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructors: Jenny Garnham, Martin Kennedy

Summary

Business Impact: The ultimate objectives of this course are to be able to use sets of well logs to establish robust correlation schemes, guide well placement and derive property inputs for geological modelling. These skills will enable participants to reduce risk, understand uncertainty, improve success rates, and reduce costs throughout the life cycle of subsurface projects.

This course is an introduction to the principles and applications of conventional well logs. It shows how combinations of logs can be used to interpret mineralogy, lithology, facies, depositional environments and key sequence stratigraphic markers such as flooding surfaces. Sessions start by considering the individual measurements but as the course progresses there is an increasing emphasis on combinations of measurements and the trends with depth. The climax of the course is an exercise to produce a robust correlation scheme using data from three wells.

Participants will receive a digital copy of the text book “Geological Interpretation of Well Logs” by Malcolm Rider and Martin Kennedy.

Oil and Gas | Reservoir Engineering

• Date: 28 - 30 Nov 2023
• Start Time: 09:00
• Location: Stavanger
• Instructor: Bahman Tohidi

Summary

Business impact: Participants on this course will add value to their businesses through resource estimation, reservoir simulation, and data-driven decision-making.

The course covers reservoir fluid composition, phase behaviour and reservoir fluids classification; PVT tests and correlations/modelling; the evaluation and application of PVT reports; Equation of State tuning, PVT analysis by compositional methods using a compositional behaviour model; applications in reservoir simulation. There will be a discussion of potential causes of errors and several case studies.

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