Chapter 1 - The Oil & Gas Production System

1.00 Introduction (2 min.) Sample Lesson
1.01 The Physics Of Production (10 min.)
1.02 Datasets & Data Sources (4 min.)
1.03 Chapter 1 Quiz (2 min.)
1.04 Chapter 1 Exercise (1 min.)
1.05 Chapter 1 Exercise Answer (2 min.)

Chapter 2 - Properties of Reservoir Fluids

2.01 Properties of Fluids & Mixtures (11 min.)
2.02 Properties of Gases (15 min.)
2.03 Properties of Oils (8 min.)
2.04 Properties of Water (6 min.)
2.05 Chapter 2 Quiz (2 min.)
2.06 Chapter 2 Exercise (1 min.)
2.07 Chapter 2 Exercise Answer (2 min.)

Chapter 3 - Reservoir Performance Modeling

3.01 Gas Reservoir Performance (14 min.)
3.02 Oil Reservoir Performance (9 min.)
3.03 Unconventional Reservoir Performance (10 min.)
3.04 Chapter 3 Quiz (3 min.)
3.05 Chapter 3 Exercise (1 min.)

Chapter 4 - Well Performance Modeling

4.01 Mechanics Of Fluid Flow - Part 1 (12 min.)
4.02 Mechanics Of Fluid Flow - Part 2 (27 min.)
4.03 Tubing Performance Curves (7 min.)
4.04 Artificial Lift (4 min.)
4.05 Production Chokes (19 min.)
4.06 Chapter 4 Quiz (3 min.)

Chapter 5 - Examples

5.01 Well Performance Example - Gas Well (15 min.)
5.02 Example 1 Continued (7 min.)
5.03 Example 1 Continued - Optimization (4 min.)
5.04 Example 2 - Oil Well Production (4 min.)
5.05 Example 2 Continued - Artificial Lift (4 min.)
5.06 Example 3 IPR / TPC Modeling (4 min.)
5.07 Example 4 Production Modeling (2 min.)

Modern Nodal Analysis Of Unconventional & Conventional Wells / Chapter 1 - The Oil & Gas Production System

Lesson 1.00 Introduction

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01. Lesson 1.00: Introduction

Welcome to this course. My name is Ivan Olea. My background is in petroleum engineering. I started my career at the Mexican Petroleum institute modeling gas and condensate wells and offshore wells for simulation studies. I've been doing modeling work for quite a while. I joined in 2008 S&P Global (formerly it was Fekete Associates), and then I just marketed. From there I had the opportunity to work in the development of nodal analysis and production engineering tools, including some of the tools that are currently in Harmony, formerly Fekete Associate's software, and now is part of S&P global. I've been lucky enough to work in a very diverse range of projects, including gas well deliquefaction, artificial lift evaluation, and production decision projects in general and also reservoir engineering projects as well as reservoir evaluations.
Today I want to talk about... By the end of this course what I expect you to learn from this, is to appreciate the differences and challenges that come from modeling or trying to forecast unconventional wells compared to conventional wells. For this, we need to get an overview of different aspects of this, so get some fundamentals of fluid properties and fluid mechanics. And that implies multiphase flow calculations, multiphase flow in pipes, and also multiphase flow in the reservoir. To better model or predict the performance of a well, we need to have a full picture of what's happening. So we need to have at least a basic level of understanding of all these different subjects. Now each of these topics will require a dedicated course in itself, so I'm going to try to cover the most important points. But it's assured that there's plenty of information about each of these topics in the literature and also in some of the other courses available here in the SAGA platform. Well, thank you.