Reservoir Fluid Properties & Phase Behavior Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the role of reservoir fluid properties and phase behavior in reservoir, production, and facilities engineering decisions on Day 1.
• Explain hydrocarbon composition and phase behavior of pure, binary, and multicomponent systems.
• Interpret phase diagrams, including bubble point, dew point, critical point, cricondenbar, cricondentherm, and retrograde condensation.
• Classify reservoir fluids as black oil, volatile oil, gas condensate, wet gas, or dry gas using field and laboratory data.
• Calculate gas properties, including compressibility factor, formation volume factor, density, viscosity, and compressibility.
• Calculate oil and formation water properties, including bubble point pressure, solution gas-oil ratio, formation volume factor, viscosity, and compressibility.
• Apply and evaluate industry correlations for estimating fluid properties when laboratory data are limited.
• Plan fluid sampling programs, including bottomhole, formation tester, and separator sampling, to obtain representative samples.
• Interpret laboratory PVT tests, including compositional analysis, constant composition expansion, differential liberation, constant volume depletion, separator tests, and viscosity measurements.
• Apply quality control and consistency checks to PVT data and reports.
• Apply equation of state modelling, including plus-fraction characterization, lumping, and tuning, and select black oil or compositional models.
• Apply fluid properties to material balance, reservoir simulation, separator optimization, flow assurance, gas injection, and miscibility assessment by the end of Day 5.

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Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Explain why fluid properties are critical for reservoir and production decisions.
• Understand how hydrocarbon mixtures change phase with pressure and temperature.
• Read and interpret phase diagrams confidently.
• Identify the type of reservoir fluid from available data.
• Calculate key gas properties.
• Calculate key oil and water properties.
• Choose and apply suitable fluid property correlations.
• Plan sampling to obtain representative fluid samples.
• Interpret standard PVT laboratory tests.
• Check PVT reports for quality and consistency.
• Understand how equation of state models are built and tuned.
• Apply fluid properties in reservoir, production, and enhanced recovery studies.

Course Outline