Digital Core Analysis and its Application to Reservoir Engineering
Course overview
The course will start with a review of fundamental, so that the basic physical laws governing flow and transport - at the small scale - are properly understood. Then the latest developments in imaging and modelling technology will be reviewed. The emphasis will then be on the prediction of multi-phase flow - capillary pressure and relative permeability. Attendees will understand how to use these quantities for the design and interpretation of field-scale recovery and how to use numerical prediction as a complement to direct experimental measurements.
The course will not only introduce digital rock physics, but will educated participants in the deeper and richer appreciation of multi-phase flow properties and their impact on the field-scale recovery enabled by this technology.
The course is designed for
Reservoir engineers and petrophysicists, and any other scientists and engineers interested in flow and transport processes in porous media.
Course objectives
This course will provide an in-depth description of digital core analysis with an emphasis on fundamentals and practical applications. The course will allow reservoir engineers and petrophysicists to make the best use of the latest imaging and modelling technology to complement traditional measurements, and to use the results intelligently to predict and interpret field-scale recovery.
Course outline
Prediction of relative permeability and capillary pressure
Three-phase relative permeability
Consequences for large-scale recovery
Perspectives and future of digital rock technology
Recap of the fundamentals
- Wettability
- Capillary pressure
- Darcy's law
- Fick's law
- relative permeability
- Conservation equations
Imaging and pore-scale experiments
Displacement processes and link to wettability and multiphase flow
Direct computation of flow and transport in segmented images
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Potential
| Location | Start Date | End Date | Cost | Trainer | Book |
| Upon request | £2,950 | Professor Martin Blunt | Make enquiry |
I would recommend this course to my colleagues without hesitation.
NCOC, Kazakhstan
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