Modern Well Test Analysis is a 5-day well test analysis course personally conducted by Dr. Roland N. Horne. This highly regarded course has been attended by thousands of oil and gas, and geothermal professionals around the world for more than 20 years.
In this course, Dr. Roland Horne will teach you how to:
- Interpret well tests to determine the properties of oil, gas and geothermal reservoirs.
- Analyze transient well data to diagnose well condition.
- Design well tests for maximum efficiency and success.
- Use computer-aided interpretation tools.
Participants will learn the latest techniques to analyze complex wells or reservoirs. Modern topics that will be included are:
- Horizontal wells
- Fractured and stimulated wells
- Multilayered reservoir analysis
- Variable rate and continuously monitored well tests
- Derivative plot interpretation
- Nonlinear regression and computer-aided analysis
- Multiple well tests
- Gas well analysis using pseudopressure and normalized pseudopressure
- Naturally fractured reservoirs
This course is hands-on, and consists of lecture presentations and doing exercises using laptops and software featuring all the latest well test analysis techniques. The course will use commonly applied commercial well test interpretation software, which will allow the participants to practice analyzing real and example well test data, using the same tools likely to be used every day in their companies.
Attendees should bring their own laptop to the training and are encouraged to bring their own well test data for discussion during the course – either in the class or individually with the instructor.
Participants will also receive a textbook on modern well test analysis written by Dr. Roland Horne and more than 30 examples of well test examples for further learning after the course is over
Course Outline
- Well Test Objectives
Buildup, drawdown, interference and reservoir limit testing. Test design to meet specific needs.
- Well Test Concepts
Wellbore storage and skin. Dual porosity. Reservoir boundaries. Superposition and desuperposition. Rate-normalization. Radius of investigation and drainage area. Dimensionless variables.
- Computer-Aided Approaches
Graphical presentations. Derivative plot. Recognition of reservoir characteristics. Nonlinear regression. Confidence intervals. Data preparation and filtering.
- Graphical Analysis Methods
Horner and MDH plots. Locating the correct semilog straight line. Boundary effects. Fractured wells. Average reservoir pressure.
- Special Topics
Horizontal wells. Gas wells. Fractured wells. Multilayered reservoirs. Interference tests.
- Field Examples
The course will include field examples from a wide variety of different types of well tests from across the world. Included are oil wells, gas wells, geothermal wells, injection wells, thermal recovery wells, horizontal wells, buildup tests, drawdown tests, and interference tests.
About Dr. Roland N. Horne
Roland N. Horne is Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University and was Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department.
He is an internationally-recognized expert in the area of well test analysis and has twice been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on well-testing subjects.
Under him, more than 50 people have obtained Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University. Currently, Stanford University is recognized as one of the top schools in the world for the study of well test interpretation.
Prof. Horne has written more than 90 technical papers and two books on the subject of well testing. He is an SPE Honorary Member, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the USA.
Roland Horne is the Technical Programme Chair of World Geothermal Congress 2020 in Reykjavik. He is also a member of Geothermal Resources Council Board of Directors.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Reservoir engineers
- Geothermal engineers
- Production engineers
- Drilling engineers
- Development geologists
- Petroleum engineers
If you like to receive a pdf file of this course outline, please contact LDI Training.
Course Information
Date: TBA
Location: TBA
Tuition: TBA
Registration Methods
- Register online HERE.
- Send email to lditrain@singnet.com.sg
Contact information
Email : lditrain@singnet.com.sg
Website : https://oilandgascourses.org