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Oil and Gas | Reservoir Engineering
Gas Reservoir Engineering and Management
Format and Duration:
4 days
8 sessions
Next Event
Location: Virtual
Date:
3rd - 13th Nov 2025
Start Time:
14:00 GMT
Event Code: N996a25V
Fee From: GBP £3,630
(exc. Tax)
The course is designed to address gas reservoir engineering and gas reservoir management. The course provides participants with the skills and knowledge to evaluate, operate and manage gas reservoirs and gas fields. The technical understanding is underpinned with reference to the business and commercial framework applying to gas monetization.
Schedule
Event Code: N996a25V
Sessions: 8 sessions
Instructors: Pete Smith
Dates:
3rd - 13th Nov 2025
Start Time:
14:00 GMT
Location: Virtual
Fee From
GBP £3,630
(exc. Tax)
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Duration and Training Method
A four-day classroom-based course with a mixture of lectures, practical exercises and case studies.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn to:
- Understand the importance of assessing fluid properties for reservoir behaviour, material balance and flow assurance.
- Understand methods of estimating gas reserves, gas sales contracts, economics of field developments and negotiation of gas sales price.
- Develop an understanding of resources and reserves booking philosophy as it appertains to gas reservoir appraisal and development.
- Understand Gas Deliverability – determining production rate using vertical lift performance, inflow performance relationship, choke models and nodal analysis
- Gas well completions design – including reservoir, mechanical and methods of completion & Perforation strategy including bullet, jet and hydraulic perforating methods
- Understand the technical aspects of well testing and its use in both appraisal and development decisions as well as the potential to deepen understanding of the reservoir description.
- Evaluate how reservoir energy (including aquifers), fluid responses, drive mechanisms and compression are assessed and managed to maximise planned recovery.
- Evaluate the use of both static and dynamic reservoir models as part of the decision-making process. Understand the pitfalls and best practices in building and using simulation models for appraisal and development decision making and hence assess the implications and limitations of reservoir simulators.
- Evaluate the essentials of gas reservoir management to plan an efficient exploitation and management program.
Course Content
Day 1 - Gas Value Chain, Properties and Volumetric assessment
- Introduction
- Gas reservoirs
- Gas Fluid Properties
- PVT
- Gas Sampling
- Gas Properties
- Gas Condensates
- Volumetric Assessment
- Gas Initially In-Place (GIIP)
- Gas Recovery Factor
- Gas Resource Estimation
Day 2 - Gas Reservoir Performance Prediction
- Gas reservoir engineering
- Performance Prediction
- Water Drive
- Overpressure
- Low-permeability gas sands
- Gas Material Balance
- Decline Curve Analysis
- Reservoir Simulation
- Infill drilling evaluation>
- Application of horizontal wells
- Predicting reservoir performance
- Total systems analysis
- Maintaining production – compression
- Maintaining production – increased wells
Day 3 - Gas Well Performance and Testing
- Gas well performance
- Gas Well Completions and Perforation Strategy
- Well completions
- Commingled production
- Pressure drops in wells
- Gas Well Testing
- Interpretation
- Reservoir Inflow Performance
- Multi-rate testing of gas wells
- Impact of non-Darcy flow effects
- Horizontal Gas Well Performance
- Gas Well Production Uncertainty
Day 4 - Gas Projects, Management & Economics
- The gas value chain
- Differences between oil and gas field development
- Stranded Gas? Criticality of market, Global gas market exploration
- Surface development and development economics
- Gas sales agreements and gas sales negotiations
- Subsurface issues in gas field developments (overview)
- Special projects - LNG, Tight gas & Shale gas transmission
- Gas reservoir management, production and processing
- Gas reservoir projects - Case studies
- Two distinct gas reservoirs? El Qara reservoir development
- Vertical or horizontal wells in the Marnock reservoir development
- Managed gas production in the Andrew field development - subsurface perspective
- Mahogany field and LNG development
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
The course is designed for experienced (5 years minimum) subsurface staff who have been involved in field appraisal and development, team leaders and asset managers involved in the planning and execution of subsurface reservoir modelling projects. It is also aimed at reservoir engineers wishing to gain a greater insight into gas reservoir engineering.
Instructors
Pete Smith
Background
Pete Smith is Director of ReganSmith Associates, a company offering training and consultancy to the Oil and Gas Industry. Pete trained as a reservoir engineer and researcher firstly at the UK government research Institute of Hydrology, Oxford, before joining BP’s research team to lead the development of novel modelling methods; building the first stochastic models to describe multi-phase fluid-flow in reservoir rocks. Moving into BP operational activities, he was responsible for creating the processes for managing the uncertainty in value and reserves in new field developments that became the BP standard approach.
Assignments with BP included lead engineer on Dukhan, Arab C Reservoir, Qatar; the appraisal and financial sanction of the Harding, Andrew, Foinaven and Schiehalion fields in the UKCS and managing the operated production in the Gulf of Mexico. Pete was also the founding director of the BP Institute at Cambridge University concerned with fundamental research in fluid-flow and was responsible for building their environmental technology across the BP group as Technology Vice President.
Pete helped establish the new Engineering University in Trinidad & Tobago as Associate Provost (R&D) and Professor of Petroleum Engineering between 2004 and 2008. On return to the UK, Pete became Principal Advisor in Reservoir Engineering at RPS Energy leading company reserve audits. In 2010 Pete led the Upstream Risk Management advisory activity and in 2011 became Chief Reservoir Engineer.
Affiliations and Accreditation
BSc Mathematics
MSc Differential Equations
PhD Earth Sciences
C Eng. FEI Chartered Petroleum Engineer
Courses Taught
N401: Multi-Disciplinary Skills for Field Development Planning and Approval
N412: A Critical Guide to Reservoir Appraisal and Development
N415: Reservoir Characterisation for Appraisal and Development
N541: Petroleum Economics, Rick and Uncertainty
N584: Storage Exploration – Screening and Selection of CO2 Sites
N680: Multi-Disciplinary Skills for Sustainable Field Development Planning for Hydrocarbon and CCS Projects
N716: Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Reservoir Modelling
N721: Resource Risk and Economic Evaluation
N952: Resource Assessment and Assurance
N954: Practical Approaches to Increased Recovery
N995: Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Appraisal and Development
Accreditation and Certification
CEU: 2.8 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 28 Professional Development Hours
Certificate: Certificate Issued Upon Completion
RPS is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. We comply with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognised internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices.
We issue a Certificate of Attendance which verifies the number of training hours attended. Our courses are generally accepted by most professional licensing boards/associations towards continuing education credits. Please check with your licensing board to determine if the courses and certificate of attendance meet their specific criteria.