Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas | Reservoir Development
Multi-Disciplinary Skills for Sustainable Field Development Planning for Hydrocarbon and CCS projects
Format and Duration:
3 days
5 sessions
This course considers the technical and commercial influences on Sustainable Field Development Planning within the global oil and gas industry. It considers the need for understanding field developments by, resource size, facility choice, development risk, cost and value, as well as the environmental implications of the development. The course is tailored to those wishing to deepen their understanding of the multi-discipline skills required for Field Appraisal and Development Planning.
Schedule
Duration and Training Method
An online or classroom course consisting of 5 (4 hours) or 8 (3 hours) online sessions or 4 or 5 days, comprising lectures, discussion, case studies, and practical exercises to be completed by participants. Typical timetables are included below.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, and after applying the learning’s of thecourse in their job, participants will have built up competence on how to plan a field development and specifically be able to:
- Establish an understanding of the purpose of Field Development Planning
- Deepen knowledge of how risk and uncertainty impact field development planning decisions
- Understand all aspects that appertain to Field Development Planning, including resource size, resource location, reservoir production support mechanism and cost.
- Be able to assess the impact of field development choices on facility selection, sizing and costing.
- Build a holistic view of the commercial worth of Field Developments
- Develop a set of key tools to make optimum decisions based upon available information and uncertainties.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of how a field development project is managed through key stage gates.
- Include environmental aspects, such as, Carbon Sequestration into the business case.
- Manage Field Development cost, schedule and operability though-out field life.
- Build a compelling development case satisfying cost, value and sustainability objectives.
Course Content
1. Introduction
- Heuristics Quiz
- Introduction
- Business Framework
- Risk and Uncertainty
2. Estimating Resources
- Fluids and PVT data
- Reservoir Mechanisms
- Secondary and Tertiary Recovery
- Resource Uncertainty
3. Estimating Costs
- Field Development Definition
- Well Productivity
- Oil/Water and Gas Profiles
- Secondary Recovery
- Additional Production Issues
- Facility Selection
- Development Costs
4. Estimating Value
- Transportation Costs
- Gas fields and Gas Value chain
- Commercial Evaluation & Fiscal regulations
- Field Development Examples:
- I. Onshore
- II.UKCS
- III.Atlantic Margin - deep-water
- IV.Norway
- V. Gulf of Mexico – shelf and deep-water
5. Framing Choices
- Probability Estimation
- Introducing Dependency into our estimates
- Value of Information (Appraisal)
- Value of Information (Intervention)
- Bayesian Revision
- Project Uncertainty
6. A Compelling Case
Part (i) A Sustainable Development?
- Practical screening for CO2 storage. with and without CO2 EOR
- Building a screening framework
- Predictions of outcomes (e.g., incremental oil, CO2 storage efficiency) using analogue- based rules and correlations
- Data requirements: what needs to be known about the field,
- Analytical models to quantify oil production and CO2 storage during EOR
- Life cycle CO2 footprint (CO2 generated minus CO2 stored)
Part (ii) Managing the Projects
- Reservoir Dynamic Modelling
- Production forecasting
- Field Development Project Planning
- Surveillance
- Presenting the project
- Wrap-up
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
The course is designed for reservoir/petroleum/production/facility/drilling engineers, geoscientists, team leaders and managers.
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: 2.1 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 21 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.