Assessment of Petroleum Properties

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Disciplines: Management | Production and Operations | Reservoir

Course Description

This class teaches the methods and processes for assessment and evaluation of taxable values of petroleum properties.

Topics:

• Production methods: primary recovery, enhanced recovery (waterflooding, thermal, miscible, polymer, surfactant, CO2)
• Estimation of reserves and future production: (a) definition of reserves - SPE, WPC, SPEE 468; (b) methods- analogy, volumetric, material balance, performance or decline curves, simulation, types of curves - hyperbolic, exponential, harmonic, WOR, GOR; (c) forecasting production
• General appraisal methods and assessment under proposition 13: (a) three approaches to value - sales, cost and income; (b) proposition 13, R&T code section 51, property tax rules 2,4,8,121, 122,5, 124, 468; (c) supplemental assessments: new discoveries; new construction - additions & deletions
• Petroleum property appraisal methods: (a) forecasting oil & gas production; (b) cashflow components & analysis, such as revenues - product prices; expenses - fixed & variable and what is allowed under rule 8; abandonment & environmental; real vs nominal dollar; working, net revenue, royalty interests; risking and discounting. (c) deriving discount rates, such as sales data, WACC or band of investment, and market surveys; (d) income multipliers / measures of success: payout, $ per daily bbl, profit to investment and $ per bbl of reserve
• Appraisal of wells and equipment: wells, production equipment & surface facilities, idle or surplus equipment
• Taxable value - market vs factored base year values

Learning Level

Intermediate

Course Length

0.5 days

Who Attends

This course is for anyone that would like to expand their knowledge and skill-set in estimating oil and gas property value.

CEUs

0.4 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are awarded for this half-day course.

Additional Resources

This course has a supplemental book located in our SPE Bookstore entitled Introduction to Petroleum Economics. Please check out this valuable resource! 

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be received no later than 14 days prior to the course start date. Cancellations made after the 14-day window will not be refunded. Refunds will not be given due to no show situations.

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We reserve the right to substitute course instructors as necessary.

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