Basic Reservoir Engineering - BR
Discipline: Reservoir Engineering
Level: Basic
Instructors who teach this course:
  • Dr. Rosalind Archer ,
    Dr. Rosalind Archer
    DR. ROSALIND ARCHER is Head of Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She is an accomplished technical writer, collaborator and editor with over 25 articles published in the last five years. Dr. Archer has taught courses on Well Testing, Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir Simulation and PVT Analysis for industrial clients including Chevron/Schlumberger, Chevron, China, ONGC, Petronas, Yukos Petroleum, PTT Exploration and Schlumberger. She has performed technical work for Todd Energy, Shell Todd Oil Services, Austrial Pacific Energy, Greymouth Petroleum, Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy, Scott Hawkins (USA) and Sigma Energy (USA). She has received several awards including the Supreme Excellence in teaching Award within the Faculty of Engineering. She received a PhD and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University and a BE degree in Engineering Science from the University of Auckland.
  • Dr. Iskander R. Diyashev ,
    Dr. Iskander R. Diyashev
    DR. ISKANDER DIYASHEV is a General Director for NRK-Technology, which is an engineering and consulting company based in Moscow with operations in Russia and Ukraine. He is responsible for the planning of field development, reserves evaluation and addition, planning of the exploration activities, as well as engineering and technology.

    Prior to his current job, he served as a Chief Engineer for Sibneft, one of the largest integrated oil companies in Russia with a daily production of 700,000 BOPD. In his career he worked in R&D, consulting, service and production sides of the business both in Russia and Internationally. Prior to his work with Sibneft, he was one of the key Schlumberger specialists to start the horizontal drilling project in Noyabrsk Western Siberia. He is a member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and serves on the Board of Directors of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE International), and on the Boards of private service and engineering firms. He authored about 30 technical papers. He received a Ph.D. Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, and advanced degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

  • Mr. Curtis Golike ,
    Mr. Curtis Golike
    CURTIS L. GOLIKE is an Independent Petroleum Engineering consultant operating out of Colorado. He has 32 years experience working for three oil and gas companies. His most recent operating position was with Lundin Petroleum as director of Operations managing three of their four operated assets in Russia. His specific contributions were in the areas of revitalizing old fields, remote and start up operations, petroleum economics, and introducing new technologies internationally in reservoir management. His personal skills are in team development and forming international cross cultural teams of professionals to manage specific projects. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Texas and Colorado and a member of SPE service from 2003-2006 as the Nizhnevartovsk, Siberia section chair. He received a Bachelors Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and an Executive MBA from UCLA Business School.

  • Dr. W. Greg Hazlett ,
    Dr. W. Greg Hazlett
    DR. W. GREG HAZLETT is Vice President of OGCI/PetroSkills where he designs competency-based training programs, evaluates course materials and instructors, teaches training courses, and consults on technical issues. Prior to joining OGCI, he was Vice President of a consulting firm, where he was in charge of the petroleum and geological engineering consulting group. He specializes in performing reservoir characterization, engineering and simulation studies. Studies include deep-water Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields, a granite gas reservoir offshore India, and steamfloods in California. Dr. Hazlett has also worked for Mobil as a drilling engineer, and for Texaco as a steamflood project manager in Colombia, and as a reservoir and simulation engineer in both research and Kuwait operations.

    He was a Lecturer at Texas A&M University and an Associate Professor at New Mexico Tech, and has published on petroleum engineering topics, served as SPE coordinator for the Reservoir, Gas Technology, and Fluid Mechanics and Oil Recovery Processes committees, and has testified as an expert witness. Dr. Hazlett has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University and is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas.

  • Mr. Richard S Henry ,
    Mr. Richard S Henry
    RICHARD HENRY has ten years management experience of multi-disciplinary teams including construction projects, JIT manufacturing, and (petroleum) field audits. He has sixteen years reservoir engineering experience including simulation, field management and reserves determination, and thirty years experience in programming, software engineering, and information technology. He holds a Bachelors of Science Industrial Engineering and a Masters of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

  • Dr. Anil Kumar ,
    Dr. Anil Kumar
    Dr. Anil Kumar is Founder and President of Omak Technologies, an international petroleum consulting firm located in Plano, Texas. He has extensive experience in the domestic and international upstream oil and gas industry, including business and technology management, operations, enhancing recovery from new and brown fields; planning and acquisition evaluation; and upgrading of technical workforce of an organization. Among many assignments, he has been an Engineering Manager, Planning and Economics Manager, Senior Technical Advisor, has been involved in domestic and international acquisition and merger activities, and in executive management as a Senior VP for Reliance Industries Ltd. He is recognized as a strong technology and business team builder, and excels in building collaborative relationships among diverse groups. He has worked for Gulf Oil, Chevron, Mobil, Devon Energy in Indonesia, and Reliance.  He has been involved with the major oil and gas operations in Gulf of Mexico, West Texas (Permian Basin), and international business and field operations in Norway, Aberdeen, UK, Nigeria, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, Indonesia and India. He has been responsible for the planning of large offshore platform developments in Gulf of Mexico, and development of deep water offshore fields in Indonesia and India: and engineering design and evaluation of hundreds of drilling and work over proposals including horizontal wells with multi-stage frac completions; initiation and management of tens of water floods, major CO2 and polymer projects; and acquisition of oil and gas interests . He is recipient of the prestigious SPE Formation Evaluation Award for 2013, and SPE Reservoir Engineering Award for 1997, was a SPE Distinguished Lecturer during 1995-96 , inducted as a Distinguished Member in 2001, and presented the Engineer of the Year Award for 2005 by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. He was awarded the Kapitsa Medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 2001. He has published pioneering technical papers and a research monograph on "Well Test Analysis under Water-Drive Conditions". He was Chairman of the Petroleum and Mining Engineering Department at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology , and helped create the New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center, and has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at Tulane U. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University; an MS from Louisiana State University, and a B.S. from Indian School of Mines, India, all in petroleum engineering. He has attended MBA courses.
  • Dr. Helmy Sayyouh ,
    Dr. Helmy Sayyouh
    DR. HELMY SAYYOUH is the professor of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering at Cairo University, Egypt. He was the chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department, and an active member in the Faculty Council at Cairo University, the Research Center Council and the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Engineering Sciences at King Saud University (Elsevier publications). Since 1986, he has been a Consultant Engineer in the areas of petroleum reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery, and reservoir simulation.

    In 1998, 2001 and 2006 he was awarded the distinguished prize of post-graduate studies supervision from the CAPCU-Cairo University. In 1998 and 2008 he was awarded an appreciation certificate for the significant contributions to the engineering profession. He has taught petroleum engineering courses at, King Saud University, and Cairo University. He was offered a visiting professor at the Petroleum Engineering Department, the University of New South Wales at Australia.

    Dr. Helmy Sayyouh has been involved in many consulting projects with SANCST (Saudi Arabia), Bin Ali Oil Corporation (Libya), General Petroleum Company (Egypt) and Giesum Oil Company (Egypt). He has supervised tens of Ph.D. and M.Sc students and has published more than 120 technical papers at international conferences and bulletins. His biography appeared in the 16th Edition 1999, of the Who's Who in the World. He has a B.Sc.and a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering with a Ph.D. from Penn State in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering as well as a Post Doctorate Fellowship from West Virginia.

  • Mr. Richard H. Schroeder ,
    Mr. Richard H. Schroeder
    RICHARD SCHROEDER is founder and President of RHS Management, specializing in technical and management consulting for the petroleum industry. He has more than 45 years of experience in engineering, international operations, management and teaching experience in all phases of exploration, production, research and corporate development. He specializes in reservoir management, production optimization, drilling, operations, completion and workover capabilities, personnel development, communications and multi-discipline team building. His professional experience includes: 9 years in engineering, research and supervision with Exxon; 8 years as Senior Vice President with May Petroleum, an independent drilling fund company; 8 years as President of Rosewood Resources, a privately-owned international integrated oil company; and 7 years as President/Vice Chairman/Consultant of Harken Energy Corp., an international exploration company. He has authored articles and manuals on various phases of petroleum engineering and personnel management. He is a member of API, SPE, IPAA, and TIPRO, is a Tau Beta Pi Fellow, and has various outstanding lecturer awards. He received a B.S. in Engineering Science and an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Dr. John P. Seidle ,
    Dr. John P. Seidle
    DR. JOHN SEIDLE is a Vice President and Senior Reservoir Engineer with MHA Petroleum Consultants, a Denver based petroleum consulting firm. He has more than 25 years experience in unconventional gas reservoirs, primarily coalbed methane. His coalbed methane experience includes exploration, development, production optimization, and enhanced recovery projects in the USA, Canada, Australia, India, Poland, South Africa, Colombia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Mexico, China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. He has also performed reservoir engineering studies and reserve evaluations for gas shales and conventional gas and oil projects throughout the USA. He has taught an industry coalbed methane course for over a decade. He has co-authored 21 technical papers, a monograph chapter and holds 6 patents. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Wyoming and a member of SPE, SPEE, and CIM. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado.

  • Dr. George Slater
    Dr. George Slater
    DR. GEORGE E. SLATER is an instructor/consultant with over 45 years experience as an engineer and professor. In addition to creating software systems used worldwide to integrate engineering and geological data, he has worked in various management positions as a reservoir engineer, and taught at Pennsylvania State University. He has authored a number of papers on Reservoir Simulation and engineering problems, and is a 46-year member of the Society of Professional Engineers of AIME. He received a B.A. in Arts & Letters with M.S. and PhD degrees in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.



Related courses
View the Progression Map
Well Test Design and Analysis - WTA
Applied Reservoir Engineering - RE
Reservoir Engineering for Other Disciplines - REO
About the course Designed For You will learn Course Content
About the course
The intent of Basic Reservoir Engineering is development of a more complete "understanding" of the characteristics of oil and gas reservoirs, from fluid and rock characteristics through reservoir definition, delineation, classification, development plan, and production. Data collection, integration and application directed toward maximizing recovery are stressed. Basic reservoir engineering equations are introduced with emphasis directed to parameter significance and an understanding of the results. For nearly 30 years this has been one of our most popular and successful courses. As part of the Basic Reservoir Engineering course, there are class exercises designed to be solved by hand with a calculator. For those that prefer to use spreadsheets to do the calculations, participants are welcome to bring their own laptop computer.
Designed For
Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, engineering trainees, technical managers, technical assistants, technicians, chemists, physicists, technical supervisors, service company personnel, sales representatives, data processing personnel, and support staff working with reservoir definition, development and production
You will learn
  • The fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media
  • How reservoirs are characterized by fluid type and drive mechanisms
  • The basis for reservoir fluid distribution
  • About oil and gas well performance and pressure buildup analysis
  • About oil displacement and optimizing reservoir performance
  • The basics of enhanced oil recovery
  • How oil and gas in place can be estimated and recovery predicted
Course Content
  • Reservoir fluid properties
  • Coring practices and rock properties
  • Fundamentals of fluid flow
  • Reservoir fluid distribution
  • Reservoir classification
  • Reservoir drive mechanisms
  • Oil and gas well performance
  • Pressure buildup analysis
  • Oil displacement concepts
  • Estimation of oil-in-place and gas-in-place
  • Recovery techniques
Basic Reservoir Engineering - BR
Discipline: Reservoir Engineering
Level: Basic
Instructors: Rosalind Archer, Iskander Diyashev, Curtis Golike, W. Greg Hazlett, Richard Henry, Anil Kumar, Helmy Sayyouh, Richard Schroeder, John Seidle, George Slater
The intent of Basic Reservoir Engineering is development of a more complete "understanding" of the characteristics of oil and gas reservoirs, from fluid and rock characteristics through reservoir definition, delineation, classification, development plan, and production. Data collection, integration and application directed toward maximizing recovery are stressed. Basic reservoir engineering equations are introduced with emphasis directed to parameter significance and an understanding of the results. For nearly 30 years this has been one of our most popular and successful courses. As part of the Basic Reservoir Engineering course, there are class exercises designed to be solved by hand with a calculator. For those that prefer to use spreadsheets to do the calculations, participants are welcome to bring their own laptop computer.
Who should attend:
Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, engineering trainees, technical managers, technical assistants, technicians, chemists, physicists, technical supervisors, service company personnel, sales representatives, data processing personnel, and support staff working with reservoir definition, development and production
You will learn:
  • The fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media
  • How reservoirs are characterized by fluid type and drive mechanisms
  • The basis for reservoir fluid distribution
  • About oil and gas well performance and pressure buildup analysis
  • About oil displacement and optimizing reservoir performance
  • The basics of enhanced oil recovery
  • How oil and gas in place can be estimated and recovery predicted
Topics Covered:
  • Reservoir fluid properties
  • Coring practices and rock properties
  • Fundamentals of fluid flow
  • Reservoir fluid distribution
  • Reservoir classification
  • Reservoir drive mechanisms
  • Oil and gas well performance
  • Pressure buildup analysis
  • Oil displacement concepts
  • Estimation of oil-in-place and gas-in-place
  • Recovery techniques