Apply a repeatable review cycle to reservoir simulation and modelling and act on what it produces.
Advanced Simulation and Modelling of Oil Reservoirs
Turn reservoir simulation and modelling from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on reservoir simulation and modelling both accrue interest. Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in simulation and modelling — it punishes it. The programme takes participants through the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Participants apply reservoir simulation and modelling to their own operating asset throughout, so the output is directly usable. Practitioner evidence points the same way: this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. It is written for people who have to make simulation and modelling work with the resources they already have. Buying a tool rarely fixes reservoir simulation and modelling; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting simulation and modelling, ready to be adapted internally. The programme closes with an action plan for this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Capture and act on lessons from incidents and near misses involving simulation and modelling.
Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from reservoir simulation and modelling.
Prepare the technical case for capital investment in simulation and modelling.
Estimate what reservoir simulation and modelling costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
Quantify the production impact of decisions taken on simulation and modelling.
Assign clear ownership for each element of reservoir simulation and modelling across the functions involved.
Who Should Attend
Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting reservoir simulation and modelling.
Officers preparing reports on simulation and modelling for boards or oversight committees.
Project engineers delivering capital work involving reservoir simulation and modelling.
Facility and plant managers accountable for simulation and modelling.
Inspection and integrity engineers assessing reservoir simulation and modelling.
Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes simulation and modelling.
Course Modules
Reservoir simulation and modelling: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving reservoir simulation and modelling from approval to execution
- Identify where judgement in reservoir simulation and modelling is legitimate and where it is not.
- Model the economics of simulation and modelling at low, base and high price cases.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of reservoir simulation and modelling.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to simulation and modelling and remove nuisance alarms.
Session 2What the instrumentation on simulation and modelling is and is not telling you
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when reservoir simulation and modelling underperforms.
- Set escalation thresholds for simulation and modelling that work out of hours.
- Confirm that lessons from reservoir simulation and modelling are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to simulation and modelling.
Simulation and modelling: competence, certification and handover
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping simulation and modelling alive after the initial push
- Check that reservoir simulation and modelling still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving simulation and modelling.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to reservoir simulation and modelling.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates simulation and modelling is under control.
Session 2What the last incident involving simulation and modelling should have taught us
- Define the safe operating envelope for reservoir simulation and modelling and how deviations are detected.
- Anticipate the objections simulation and modelling will raise and prepare the answers.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of reservoir simulation and modelling before proposing changes.
- Verify isolation points for simulation and modelling are proven and documented.
Simulation and modelling: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Competence and handover on simulation and modelling when experienced staff leave
- Confirm that contractual obligations around reservoir simulation and modelling are understood.
- Benchmark the organisation's simulation and modelling against comparable operations.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of reservoir simulation and modelling current.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios simulation and modelling can create.
Session 2The decisions in reservoir simulation and modelling that cannot be delegated
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about reservoir simulation and modelling.
- Identify the failure modes of simulation and modelling with the highest consequence.
- Rehearse the briefing on reservoir simulation and modelling that would follow an incident.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on simulation and modelling.
Simulation and modelling: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The permit and isolation regime that simulation and modelling actually requires
- Check that the permit regime covering reservoir simulation and modelling matches the actual hazard.
- Review the instrumentation on simulation and modelling for coverage gaps.
- Confirm handover documentation for reservoir simulation and modelling is complete and current.
- Verify six months later that changes to simulation and modelling have held.
Session 2Deciding between life extension and replacement for simulation and modelling
- Prepare the summary of reservoir simulation and modelling that senior management will read.
- Test the procedure for simulation and modelling against a realistic scenario.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on reservoir simulation and modelling.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on simulation and modelling.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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