Introduction
This course provides a practical understanding of modeling and optimizing oil production networks from individual wells through gathering systems and surface facilities. Participants will learn how to integrate reservoir, well, flowline, and facility models to predict production performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize field-wide production.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of oil production network modeling.
• Develop well and production-system models.
• Apply IPR/VLP and Nodal Analysis techniques.
• Calculate pressure drop through tubing, flowlines, and gathering networks.
• Model multiphase flow in production systems.
• Build and analyze interconnected well–flowline–facility networks.
• Identify production bottlenecks and system constraints.
• Evaluate the impact of wellhead and separator pressures.
• Optimize choke settings and production allocation.
• Perform sensitivity and what-if analysis.
• Evaluate debottlenecking and field-development scenarios.
• Use commercial production-network simulation software.

Course Outlines

Day 1 – Fundamentals of Production Network Modeling

1. Oil Production System Overview
2. Well Performance and Inflow Modeling
3. Nodal Analysis Fundamentals
4. Production System Constraints
5. Introduction to Network Simulation

Day 2 – Wellbore and Flowline Modeling

1. Multiphase Flow Fundamentals
2. Wellbore Pressure-Temperature Modeling
3. Choke and Wellhead Modeling
4. Flowline and Pipeline Pressure Drop
5. Fluid Properties and PVT Modeling

Day 3 – Production Network Modeling

1. Network Architecture and Configuration
2. Wells, Flowlines, Manifolds and Gathering Systems
3. Network Pressure and Flow Calculations
4. Facility and Separator Modeling
5. Multi-Well Production Network Simulation

Day 4 – Production Optimization

1. Production Constraints and Bottleneck Identification
2. Choke and Well Allocation Optimization
3. Separator and Wellhead Pressure Optimization
4. Flowline and Gathering-System Optimization
5. Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis

Day 5 – Integrated Field Modeling & Case Study

1. Integrated Well–Network Modeling
2. Production Forecasting and Field Performance
3. Debottlenecking and Capacity Expansion
4. Production Optimization Case Study
5. Model Validation, Results Interpretation and Best Practices