Basics of Geomodeling – An Overview for Reservoir Engineers

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Disciplines: Completions | Data Science and Engineering Analytics | Reservoir

Course Description

Geomodeling today is integral to a successful business strategy in most hydrocarbon reservoirs. The sub-surface team uses the Geomodel to render the geologic interpretation into a digital format suitable for input to reservoir simulation software, for resource evaluations, for well planning, as part of uncertainty analysis, and in a variety of decision making processes. A key goal in the Geomodeling practice is to provide digital images of reservoir heterogeneities critical to better understanding the physical hydrocarbon extraction processes, to improve flow models. Geomodels help reveal the impact of the various reservoir multi-scale features on dynamic behaviour.  

The course subjects cover a broad scope of geomodeling applicable to most reservoirs. The course intent is to introduce sub-topics with grounding in fundamental theory, in geomodeling thought process, and to place high level topics into their basic integrated context. By the end of the course, each topic will have been defined and discussed and related to general workflows with examples. Many challenges faced by modelers in sub-surface teams will be discussed. Additional reading material will be listed in the notes. 
 

Topics to be defined and discussed:

• Summary of essential Geostatistical topics: variography, kriging, (geostatistical) simulations
• Geologic Concepts: facies, heterogeneities, stratigraphic architecture, geometries
• Geomodeling Workflows and Cases
• Multi-scale data integration and rescaling topics
• Properties in Models: discrete and continuous variables
• Modeling Uncertainty: The importance and introduction to probabilistic approaches
• Post-processing Geomodels: practical use of multiple realizations with objectives

Basics to be highlighted - The modeling process has many important steps, best practices and choices:

• Essential statistics and terminology
• Compiling and checking the input data types
• Defining the stratigraphic framework and grid system
• Modeling Methods for Facies, Petrophysics, Permeability, Geomechanics
• Post-processing for summary statistics, uncertainty, and connectivity; well placement
• Volumetric assessments with constraints
• Avoiding bias in results, model checking and fidelity
• Re-scaling methods and best practices for the simulator
• Linking static to dynamic behavior

Learning Level

Introductory to Intermediate

Course Length

4 Half days with 4 hours of optional session at no cost. 

Why Attend

An introductory grounding in geomodeling and geostatistical thought process. Improved understanding of best practices, essential concepts, tools of the trade, and important workflows. Subject knowledge to enhance transparent team collaboration and communication. Improved understanding of the uses, deliverables and limitations of geomodeling, stochastic and deterministic methods. The course manual provides useful reference material for your future modeling.

Who Attends

Technical people and decision makers working on subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs in multi-disciplinary teams using or considering using geomodeling. This includes reservoir engineers, geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, technologists, technical managers and geomodelers.

Special Requirements

A computer and internet connection. Attendees should have an openness to seeing a balance of theory and new concepts.

CEUs

1.6 

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