Designed for: Reservoir, production and operations engineers; geologists; geophysicists; managers; experienced technicians; and service company personnel responsible for improving the performance of petroleum reservoirs.

Course Content:

- Definition of reservoir management.
- Goal setting, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating reservoir performance.
- Field development and field operating plans.
- Efficient monitoring of reservoir performance.
- Wellbore and surface systems.
- Well testing and automated production systems.
- Economic impact of operating plans.
- Identifying and acquiring critical data, data acquisition, and analysis.
- Maximizing economic recovery.
- Minimizing capital investment.
- Risk and operating expenses.
- Timing of field implementation of reservoir management plan.
- Case histories and analysis.
- Importance of reservoir characterization.
- Primary recovery, pressure maintenance, and secondary and tertiary recovery.