• Subsurface Pressures

• Why understanding pressures is so important

• Fundamentals of normally pressured, overpressured and underpressured formations

• Overpressures and how to detect them

• Overpressures due to hydrocarbons

• Reservoir Drive mechanisms (primary and secondary recovery)

• Logging whilst drilling (LWD)

•  Reservoir Rock Properties

• Porosity

• Permeability (absolute, Kv, Kh, problems of averaging,)

• Capillary Pressure

• Effective and relative permeability

• Mobility ratio & the concept of immiscible displacement

• Well Testing

• RFT & MDT - mechanics, theory, application and interpretation in exploration and development

•  DST - mechanics, theory, application and interpretation (introduction)

• DST – productivity testing, introduction to transient flow testing, flow regime concept

• Quantitative radial flow analysis for reservoir properties, skin

• Quantitative radial flow analysis for reservoir properties, skin (continued)

• Recognising reservoir boundaries and depletion, well testing quiz

• Reservoir Fluid properties

• Sampling of reservoir fluids

• Petroleum types and properties

• Fluid behaviour in the reservoir (bubble point, dew point, etc) and its implications for field

development

• Concepts in field appraisal and development

• Overview of objectives in appraisal and development programs

•  One phase and two phase expansion, gravity drainage, water drive, rock compressibility.

• Concept of depletion

• Pressure support mechanisms (water injection, gas reinjection etc)

• Recovery factors

• Factors that control them and ways to estimate them (analytical techniques, reservoir simulation)

• Overview of displacement theory, effect of reservoir heterogeneity

• Enhanced Oil Recovery

• Artificial Lift & Reservoir Stimulation

•  Types of reservoir stimulation