Development Geology Course
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1. How to select optimum drill sites for field development
2. Use log and rock data to identify reservoir rock, non-reservoir rock, and pay
3. Determine fluid distribution in a field and identify reservoir compartments
4. Estimate field reserves through the life of a field
5. Characterize carbonate and clastic rocks by productivity
6. Construct geologic reservoir models
7. Determine field drive mechanism
8. Apply seismic analysis to reservoir development
9. Determine depositional characteristics to optimize development
10. Compile a development plan
11. Use economic techniques to evaluate different development plans
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1. Geologic characteristics that impact field development
2. Appraisal: Determining recoverable hydrocarbons
3. Reservoir fluid properties and saturation
4. Influence of capillarity on hydrocarbon distribution and fluid contacts
5. Reserve and resource evaluation
6. Volumetric reserve estimation and calculation
7. Stratigraphic influence on field production
8. Depositional and digenetic controls on reservoir rock, barriers, and hydrocarbon distribution
9. Describing reservoir rock to understand reservoir behavior in carbonate and clastic rocks
10. Determining if hydrocarbons can be recovered from in a given field, what is pay?
11. The impact of drive mechanism: aquifer characterization, distribution, and mapping
12. Seismic applications in appraisal and development
13. Development drilling: How to optimize hydrocarbon recovery
14. Economic impact on field development
15. Subdividing the reservoir into working units
16. Reservoir pore space configurations and mapping
17. Building a static reservoir model using deterministic and stochastic techniques
18. Key factors affecting the development of Fractured Reservoirs
19. Steps in building a geologic reservoir model
20. Impact on barriers on field development
21. Secondary and tertiary field development
22. Rejuvenating mature and marginal fields
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Reservoir, development, and exploration geologists; geophysicists; petrophysicists; log analysts; petroleum engineers; and experienced technicians.