This course is targeted to those engineers that have (i) attended the Standard IPM course previously, and (ii) have consolidated their familiarity of MBAL, PROSPER and GAP through consistent use over time in a real field context, with working knowledge with fluid PVT and lab reports. This course will assume a base level of familiarity of the tools, and is intended promote the analytical features available in creating physics based fluid behaviours in the IPM tools.

Course Objectives:

• Understand the fundamentals of PVT

• Discuss and review PVT modelling approaches: Equation of State (EOS) and Black Oil (BO) Understand how to validate lab reports and characterise a fluid EOS that reproduces them

• Understand how to obtain a BO PVT definition from the EOS

• Apply the above in addressing common and practical problems using case studies
  
  

Course Agenda

Day 1

Introduction

• Review the importance of PVT in integrated modelling

• Review the assumptions of the Black Oil model and dependency on the path to surface

• Review the fundamentals of Equation of State model (EOS)
  

Procedure for Creating an EOS for use in an Integrated Model- Fluid Characterization (Oil)

• Hands‐on exercise and technical discussions covering the following subjects:

• Validating a PVT Report

• Characterizing an EOS in PVTP

Creating an Equivalent Black Oil Model

• Hands‐on exercises and technical discussions covering the following subjects:

• Comparing and validating different PVT models in a well model (PROSPER)

• Comparing and validating different PVT models in a reservoir model (MBAL)

• Handling PVT requirements in an integrated model

• Lumping/delumping