Training Courses
Fee for Person |
On/before 20 Sept |
After 20 Sept |
| Thursday & Friday, 21 & 22 October 2010 (1 ½ days) | ||
| Member | A$1,650/ USD1,525 | A$1,750/USD1,620 |
| Nonmember | A$1,750/USD1,620 | A$1,850/USD1,710 |
| Thursday, 21 October 2010 (1-day) | ||
| Member | A$1,100/USD1,015 | A$1,200/USD1,110 |
| Nonmember | A$1,200/USD1,110 | A$1,300/USD1,200 |
| Thursday, 21 October 2010 (1-day) | ||
| Member | A$1,100/USD1,015 | A$1,200/USD1,110 |
| Nonmember | A$1,200/USD1,110 | A$1,300/USD1,200 |
Unconventional Reservoir Simulation
Thursday, 21 October • 0900 – 1700 hours
Friday, 22 October • 0900 – 1300 hours
Instructor: Kumar Ramurthy, Halliburton
Course Content
This course is designed for reservoir, production and completion engineers who are interested in learning skills and methods that are used in the stimulation of unconventional reservoirs, with an emphasis on fracture stimulation of CSG wells. This one and a half day course will provide technical professionals with an understanding of the following topics:
- What are Unconventional Reservoirs?
- Characterisation and Geology of Resources
- Reservoir Properties and Storage Capacity
- Formation Evaluation and Geomechanics
- Permeability and Flow Capacity: Testing and Evaluating Coals
- Fluid Compatibility and Formation Damage
- Cementing and Perforating
- Hydraulic Fracturing, including Fluid Selection, Use of Conditioning Pads, Stress Orientation and its effects on Stimulation, Fracture Modelling, History Matching and Design Optimisation
- Production Operations and Well Management
Instructor
Muthukumarappan “Kumar” Ramurthy is a Technical Professional Manager with Halliburton’s Technical Team in Denver, USA. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from India and an MS in Petroleum Engineering from Mississippi State U. He has more than 10 years of conventional and unconventional gas reservoir and stimulation engineering experience with Halliburton. He has authored several SPE papers and is a co-author of “Coalbed Methane-Principles and Practices”, a CBM book that was just published in 2008. Also as co-author, he taught the course “Unconventional Reservoir Stimulation: CBM and Gas Shales” to the oil and gas industry in the USA, Canada and Australia.
Transient Testing of CBM Wells
Thursday, 21 October • 0900 – 1700 hours
Instructor: George Stewart, Weatherford
Course Content
Introduction
- Stress Dependent Permeability
- Well Test Pseudo Model
- Inclusion of Wellbore Storage
- IFO Field Example
- Forecasting of Production
- Slug Testing
- Boundary Effects Combined with SDPP
- Skin Effect in CBM Wells
- Interference Testing to Elucidate Areal Anisotropy
- Extended Production Testing
- Horizontal Wells in CBM
- 13 Hydraulically Fractured Horizontal Wells
- Application of New Generation Wireline Formation Testers in CBM
Instructor
George Stewart is the Technical Director of Weatherford's e-production solutions division and Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University having served with the latter since its start-up in 1975 as Senior Lecturer, Professor and Head of Department. George has over 27 years of experience in well test analysis, reservoir engineering, PVT and phase behaviour, and gas condensate engineering. He has carried out many consultancy projects worldwide in these topics.
George has also been a key part of EPS software development since 1983, in both well testing and production software. He has given numerous industry schools and seminars on well test analysis and reservoir engineering throughout the world and has authored many papers on the subject.
George has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Edinburgh U. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Newcastle U.
CSG to LNG Deliverability Assessment
Thursday, 21 October • 0900 – 1700 hours
Instructor: Saikat Mazumder, Arrow Energy Ltd.
Course Content
This course is designed for asset managers, geologists, reservoir engineers and production technologists who are interested in learning skills and methods that can be used to assess the deliverability of CSG to LNG projects. With an emphasis on class participation, this one day course will provide CSG professionals with an understanding of both resource assessment and deliverability assessment. The first session, covering resource assessment, will focus on:
- Reservoir Geology
- Property Modelling
- Static Modelling
- Dynamic Modelling, including: Analytical Modelling, Mechanistic Modelling, Permeability Modelling and Stress Dependent Permeability including Matrix Shrinkage
- History Matching
- Sensitivity Analysis
While the second session, covering deliverability assessment, will focus on:
- Integrated Workflows and Key Inputs
- Development Planning, including: Drilling and Completion Options, Risks and Uncertainties, Surface Development Options and Subsurface Realisations
- Deliverability Assessment
Instructor
Saikat Mazumder is currently working as a Principal Reservoir Engineer at Arrow Energy and a technical specialist for global CSG developments / aspirations of Shell Exploration & Production. He has or is working on numerous CSG projects in Australia, China, Indonesia, India, Poland and Canada. He has about 15 years of experience in the field of Coal Seam Gas. He has authored numerous papers and publications in international journals and presented at various conferences in the field of CSG and CO2 Sequestration in Coal.
Saikat has a Master’s Degree in Applied Geology from Indian School of Mines and a PhD from Delft U. of Technology, The Netherlands.
