Objectives

Upon completing this course, participants are expected to:

Acquire a minimum of knowledge to develop activities in the various branches of petroleum engineering,
Understand the risk and success factors for the adequate management of oil production.

Content

Basic properties: porosity, absolute permeability, compressibility, relative and effective permeability, mobility, saturation pressure.
Types of reservoirs: oil, wet gas, dry gas and retrograde gas.
Oil and gas production mechanisms.
Produced fluids, RGO, RAO, BSW, Bo, Bg.
Reserves estimates, recovery factor.
Fluid injection.
PVT analysis, decline, material balance, productivity index.
Evaluation of formations and fluid flow in porous media.
Advanced oil recovery: EOR and IOR.

Geologists, geophysicists and engineers working in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons.