WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Reservoir and production engineers and geologists, petrophysicists, log analysts and others involved in well surveillance, maximizing recovery, identifying production problems, planning workover operations, and utilizing production information in reservoir studies. This course is also well suited for Cased Hole sales engineers.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This course provides a complete review of the waterflood scheme being the most proven, lowest cost, and applicable to various types of reservoirs. The various steps of waterflood implementation including cursory screening of candidate fields, scheme planning, design, and the estimation of the expected recovery using the most common methods in the industry.

Additional improvements in oil recovery using the most common secondary and tertiary methods are also discussed. Method mechansim, limitations, expected performance, and estimation of the expected recovery, are discussed. Design procedures and laboratory tests required are reviewed for the various EOR schemes including the application of CO2, miscible gas, steam, and chemical floods. Interesting class examples using actual field data will presented. A detailed course hand-out which is an excellent reference, will be provided.

COURSE OUTLINE

This five-day program is a comprehensive and up-to-date course covering the new and traditional wireline diagnostic techniques for surveillance of cased wells. Dr. Smolen's 1996 book, Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation, plus a loose-leaf workbook, are provided to participants of this program. The following topics are covered in detail:

EVALUATION OF FORMATION THROUGH CASING covers the gamma ray, compensated neutron and pulsed neutron capture, carbon oxygen, resistivity, sonic, and other logs. Applications include logging for gas, oil, and water detection, fluid saturations, monitoring water/oil and gas/oil contacts, and locating bypassed production.

WELL INTEGRITY includes traditional cement bond CBL/VDL logs, followed by the newer borehole compensated, receiver array, pad type, pulse echo, and imaging tools. These cement bond techniques detect potential channels of unwanted fluid production from unintended zones. Casing inspection covers mechanical, electromagnetic, acoustic, and video techniques. The casing inspection tools are used to detect mechanical damage to pipe, corrosion, scale, perforations, and other problems.

WATER IDENTIFICATION AND FLUID MOVEMENT IN BOTH INJECTION AND PRODUCING WELLS are evaluated using spinners, tracers, pulsed neutron oxygen activation, temperature (also fiber optic techniques) and noise surveys. A variety of fluid identification devices are used to evaluate multiphase flow. These tools together are used to quantify the sources of water, oil, and gas production, and are critical to the control of excessive water or other phases. Special considerations are given of deviated and horizontal wells. The newest tools designed for deviated/horizontal applications are reviewed with videos of well flows to aid in visualization of the logging environment.

LOCATION

First day will be held at the Sofitel Hotel, in Cairo. The participants will fly the next day to Hurghada for The course to be continued there.

COURSE FEES

FIVE DAYS U.S.$ 1800
The cost is inclusive of course manual, guidebook, and accommodation in Hurghada.

INSTRUCTOR PROFILE

Dr. James J. Smolen has over thirty years experience in cased hole well logging, applications, related research, and training. He began in the oil industry (1970) with Schlumberger and since 1980 has been an officer and director of Petroleum Computing, Inc., as well as an international consultant and trainer of cased hole logging.

Dr. Smolen has numerous publications to his credit, including the 1996 PennWell text, Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation. He was a distinguished Lecturer for both the SPE and the SPWLA. Dr. Smolen holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.