Helix offers a number of specialized courses in the areas of reservoir engineering and reservoir simulation.
All courses contain extensive examples so that the material presented can be used in a practical manner.
This course serves as a practical guide to the art of reservoir simulation.
A step by step approach to conducting a simulation is presented, starting with construction of the reservoir grid to completing a history match and making forecasts of future performance. This course includes extensive hands-on sessions on a commercial reservoir simulator.
This course focuses on optimization of gas condensate reservoirs.
Due to the tendency of valuable liquids to drop out as the reservoir is depleted, it is essential that reservoir development be carefully planned from the start to minimize liquid dropout. The use of reservoir simulation to model the complex phase behavior of gas condensates and to evaluate alternative production strategies will be discussed.
The concepts will be illustrated with field case studies.
This course gives a practical introduction to the design and implementation of hydrocarbon miscible and CO2 flooding.
The phase behavior of miscible gas/ oil systems is discussed first. Then the design and implementation of miscible gas flooding using both analytical methods and numerical reservoir simulation will be discussed. The course will make extensive use of case histories and simulation studies.
This course provides an overview of the phase behavior of hydrocarbon fluids.
The phase behavior and production characteristics of dry gases, wet gases, gas condensates, volatile oils, and black oils will be discussed. The phase behavior of oil/miscible gas systems will also be discussed. Correlations that can be used to determine phase behavior of hydrocarbons will be presented, as well as more complicated equation of state methods. The effects of phase behavior on recovery for different types of reservoirs and different types of fluids will be discussed using case studies.