Gas Condensate Reservoirs Course

Duration: 5 Days / 20 Hours

ــــــــــــ 18/05/2025

  • This is a 5-day classroom based course with micro model reservoir condition flow visualization videos, lab visit, practical field and worked examples, hands-on exercises and discussion.

    1. Summary of Basic Reservoir Engineering

    2. Relative permeability measurement methods

    3. Phase behavior of reservoir fluids

    4. Equations of state

    5. Fluid sampling and laboratory PVT tests

    6. Prediction of phase behaviors and reservoir fluid properties

    7. Condensate formation and growth

    8. Critical condensate saturation, condensate banking, gravity drainage;

    9. Water flood

    10. Single and two phase inertial factor estimation methods.

    11. Relative permeability variations with velocity & interfacial tension due to coupling (capillary number) and inertial effects.

    12. Mechanistic models of coupling.

    13. Relative permeability correlations and calculations for use in simulators and using the next generation (universal) method.

    14. Steady state and pseudo-steady state flow equations.

    15. Material balance equations.

    16. Depletion for dry, wet and gas condensate systems.

    17. Active aquifers and pressure maintenance.

    18. High pressure and high temperature reservoirs.

    19. Perforation and fracture characteristics and effective parameters.

    20. Perforation and fracture design.

    21. Estimation of skin for perforated, fractured, deviated and horizontal wells.

    22. Well productivity calculations.

    23. NeW-COIN demonstration.

    24. Field application of fluid data in commercial simulators. 

  •  Reservoir and production engineers involved in evaluation, planning and development of gas condensate reservoirs.