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Wireline Formation Testing and Interpretation - WFT |
Discipline: Petrophysics Level: Specialized Duration: 5 days Instructor(s): Andrew Chen, John Spivey |
Formation testing and sampling tools (FTs) with wireline and while-drilling are widely used in exploration/appraisal and reservoir development projects. Over the past two decades, modern tools, such as MDT, RCI, RDT, and FRT, have emerged to become as one of the critical formation evaluation means in drilling projects with high cost/risk and high reward environments. In recent years, FT tools while-drilling provide alternatives of formation testing at earlier timing, flexible operational sequences in complicated wellbores access to reservoirs. FT pressure data and fluid samples are acquired for predicting hydrocarbon resource sizes and accessing key development uncertainties. This course is designed to satisfy the interdisciplinary needs of geoscientists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers with an increasing use of FT data. Practical and hands-on exercises are worked in the class. In the ends, the participants are expected to apply the learned skills in maximizing chances of acquiring quality data with improved formation evaluation outcome certainty. |
Designed For: Geoscientists, petrophysicists, wellsite supervisors, reservoir engineers, and geodata technologists of multidisciplinary formation evaluation and development teams engaging in explorations, appraisals, and field development activities. |
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Instructors: DR. ANDREW CHEN has worked with British Petroleum, AJM Petroleum Consultants, Schlumberger and other companies as a reservoir engineer and reserve evaluator, and has been responsible for operation reservoir engineering, oil and gas reserve and resource estimates, economical forecast and budgeting, acquisition and deposition, equity financing, and mid-stream supply studies. He also specializes in wireline formation test (WFT) design, data interpretation, and technical training. He has more than 20 years of petroleum engineering and teaching experience. During his tenure with Schlumberger Canada, he was responsible for providing a variety of reservoir engineering technical support, WFT technical/data interpretation practice including training of operators and clients, troubleshooting problem tests, and coordinating land and offshore projects for reservoir description and formation evaluation. Dr. Chen has provided consulting services in many Canadian and international companies in reservoir engineering, pressure transient analysis, and regional pressure data interpretation, with projects from Canada, the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Central Asia, Indonesia, Australia and PNG, and the North Sea. He also teaches an extensive and unique five-day wireline test interpretation course, 'Wireline Formation Testing and Interpretation' with OGCI/PetroSkills in the industry worldwide, and frequently provides in-house practical WFT interpretation and application workshops, including his seminar in Southeast Asia on the comparison of wireline testing versus well test/DST, from technical and economical/financial parameters, to regulatory and operation considerations. He holds a PhD in fluid mechanics from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Before that, he held an academic teaching position for six years in reservoir engineering. DR. JOHN P. SPIVEY has over 20 years experience in the petroleum industry, with interests in pressure transient analysis, production data analysis, reservoir engineering, continuing education, and software development. From 1984 to 1990, he worked for SoftSearch, Inc. (later Dwights EnergyData) developing petroleum economics and engineering software. In 1990, he joined S.A. Holditch & Associates (SAH), which was purchased by Schlumberger (SLB) in 1997. While at SAH/SLB he conducted reservoir simulation, gas storage, and tight gas application studies and taught industry short courses in well testing and production data analysis. He actively participated in on-going development of SABRE, SAH numerical reservoir simulator, and in research in techniques for production data analysis for gas wells. He also designed and developed PROMAT, an analytical production data analysis and forecasting program, and WELLTEST, an interactive pressure transient test analysis program. In 2004, he started his own reservoir engineering consulting company, Phoenix Reservoir Engineering, and software development company, Phoenix Reservoir Software, LLC, which provides PMTx, a software package for analyzing production and production log data and forecasting future performance for multilayer low permeability reservoirs. Since 1992, he has served as Visiting Assistant Professor or Adjunct Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in gas reservoir engineering and pressure transient analysis, and serving on several graduate student committees. He is the editor of the SPE Reprint Series Vol. 52, Gas Reservoir Engineering, and Vol. 57, Pressure Transient Testing, and coauthor of SPE Textbook Series Vol. 9, Pressure Transient Testing and has published numerous papers and articles in industry journals and trade publications. He received a BS Physics from Abilene Christian University, a MS in Physics from the University of Washington, a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. In-House Course Presentations All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below. Telephone 1- 832 426 1234 Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244 E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com Public Course Presentations How to contact PetroSkills: 1-800-821-5933 toll-free in North America or Telephone 1-918-828-2500 Facsimile 1-918-828-2580 E-Mail registrations@petroskills.com Internet www.petroskills.com Address P.O. Box 35448, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153-0448, U.S.A |