WORKSHOP 6: Introduction to Formation Testing – Data and Analysis
INSTRUCTORS: Juan Carlos Nunez, Dr. Gibran Hashmi, Dr. Sefer Coskun, Shahid Azizul Haq
Date: Sunday, June 11, 2023
Time: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fee: $375.00 for registered attendees; $475.00 non-registered (includes lunch)
Maximum Capacity: 30
Course summary: This workshop addresses the information acquired from formation testing. The training has been designed to teach the practical aspects of job design, data acquisition, QAQC and analysis of Formation Tests. Field examples are used to illustrate the process and workflow. By the end of the course the attendee should be capable of pressure gradient analysis to identify fluids, fluid contacts, barrier identification, obtain field pressure and mobility from a formation tester, conduct related transient analysis, identify, quantify, and mitigate sources of pressure and depth errors and to understand the importance of real-time data monitoring and petrophysical integration.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the primary applications of Wireline and LWD formation testing
- Describe the data acquisition procedure for pressure, mobility and fluid sampling
- Station sequences: pre-tests, fluid sampling, post-tests, MiniDST
- Downhole fluid analysis sensors and techniques
- QC of mobility and pressure data
- Pressure gradient analysis: identification of fluid type and fluid contacts; gradient uncertainties
- Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA) specific to FT, VIT design
- MiniDST analysis
- Multiwell analysis
- Minifrac analysis
Who Should Attend?
Petrophysicists, Reservoir Engineers, Ops Geologists
Teaching Methods
Lectures and computer labs with software – Bring your computer.
About the Instructors
Juan Carlos Nunez received a Petroleum Engineering degree from the Central University of Venezuela (Caracas-2009), a M.Sc. in Petroleum Economics and Management from the IFP-School (Paris-2010) and a M.Sc. in Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons from the Formation Center of Repsol (Madrid/Edinburgh-2012). Wide experience in reservoir engineering currently working at the KAPPA Training and Consulting Services in Reigate, UK as Reservoir Engineer providing technical support for oil and service companies worldwide on Formation Test Analysis (Product Champion in Azurite), Production Logging, Pressure Transient Analysis, Numerical Modelling and Nodal Analysis.
Dr. Gibran Hashmi is a global reservoir engineering domain expert with Wireline & Perforating product line at Halliburton. His areas of interest include reservoir characterization, well testing, production analysis, reservoir simulation, fluid and heat transfer in wellbores, petrophysics and geomechanics. Dr. Hashmi holds a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from University of Minnesota, and Master’s and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University. During his time in the industry, Dr. Hashmi has worked extensively on reservoirs globally, analyzing pressure transient tests in different lithologies worldwide. He has authored more than 15 industry publications and holds four patent applications. He conducts internal trainings on aspects of reservoir engineering and formation testing and sampling.
Dr. Sefer Coskun has more than 35 years of experience in the petroleum industry, with interests in pressure transient analysis, reservoir simulation and formation testing and fluid sampling. After completing his BS degree in Geological Engineering and working 5 years for Oil and Gas exploration in Turkey he pursued his PhD degree in Canada and worked for Scientific Software Intercomp (SSI) as a Reservoir Simulation Engineer. He joined Baker Hughes in 1997 and worked as a Reservoir Engineer in Canada, Bahrain, UAE, and United States. He has specialized in formation testing and fluid sampling in last 20 years and currently is the Formation Testing and Fluid Sampling Global Discipline Lead at Baker Hughes.
Shahid Azizul Haq is Reservoir Engineering Advisor in SLB. He currently holds two positions: Reservoir Domain Head (RDH) for SLB Well Construction and SLB Eureka Reservoir Discipline Career Leader (DCL). He is subject matter expert on formation testing (FT), production logging (PL) and pressure transient analysis (PTA). He has been with SLB for 35 years. For the past 15 years, as RDH, Shahid’s primary role is to manage the development of new formation testing and reservoir engineering techniques/workflows/answer products for the “while drilling” environment. He has pioneered the workflow of Real Time Productivity Steering also known as RTPS, a key enabler for the real-time applications of reservoir engineering while drilling horizontal wells. Shahid has co-authored more than 30 technical papers. He holds BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering. Shahid has been a member of various SPE, SPWLA and IPTC program committees as well as the Editorial Review Committee for SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering. Shahid received 2017 SPE Regional Service Award for Gulf Coast North America Region. He was SPE Distinguished Lecturer for 2019-20 and the title of his talk was “Reservoir Engineering While Drilling” in Horizontal Wells.