Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Training Course

Name: Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Training Course
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Build practical reservoir calculations, surveillance records, and introductory forecasts for early-career subsurface decisions.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Bangkok, San Diego, Doha, Seoul, Manama, Johannesburg and more
Next session: 8 – 12 November 2026, Bangkok
Average fee: 7,500 €

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Overview

Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Training Course is a one-week foundation course for early-career reservoir, petroleum, production, subsurface, and asset engineers who leave with a Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Workbook. Participants connect rock and fluid properties, hydrocarbons in place, pressure behavior, reservoir drive mechanisms, material balance, well productivity, surveillance, and introductory forecasting through structured calculations and asset decisions. Agile Leaders Training Center presents reservoir engineering fundamentals for practical field-development support.

Who Should Attend

Reservoir functions responsible for volumes, pressure trends, recovery, and forecasts
Production functions responsible for well performance, inflow, and surveillance evidence
Subsurface functions responsible for integrating geology, fluids, pressure, and production data
Asset functions responsible for development assumptions, uncertainty, and decision records
Technical-support functions responsible for calculations, data quality, and multidisciplinary reviews

The course assumes participants can use basic algebra, spreadsheets, and field data, and it leaves out advanced simulation, specialist well-test interpretation, detailed waterflood design, EOR design, and petrophysical interpretation.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that evaluate porous-fluid systems and production performance.

Oil and gas reservoir and production engineering
Subsurface studies and field-development planning
Energy asset management and reserves support
Geothermal reservoir and production teams
Underground gas storage technical teams

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply rock, fluid, PVT, and saturation concepts
Build volumetric hydrocarbons-in-place estimates with uncertainty
Analyze Darcy flow, radial flow, and pressure behavior
Use drive-mechanism and material-balance evidence
Evaluate well productivity, decline trends, and surveillance data
Build an introductory reservoir forecast and development decision record

Course Agenda

Day 1: Establish Reservoir Inputs

Reservoir Rock Porosity, Permeability, and Saturation Worksheet
Fluid PVT Property and Phase-Behavior Reference Sheet
Net Pay, Area, Thickness, and Data-Quality Register
Uncertainty Range and Assumption Classification Matrix
Reservoir Engineering Unit-Conversion and Data Check

Day 2: Calculate Volumes and Flow

Oil and Gas Volumetric Hydrocarbons-in-Place Worksheet
Reserves, Resources, Recovery-Factor, and Uncertainty Bridge
Darcy Flow Rate and Pressure-Drop Calculation
Radial Flow Geometry and Wellbore Pressure Profile
Volumetric Sensitivity and Scenario Comparison Table

Day 3: Diagnose Reservoir Energy

Pressure History and Depletion Trend Plot
Solution-Gas, Gas-Cap, Water, Gravity, and Combination Drive Matrix
Material-Balance Conservation and Tank-Model Worksheet
Production, Injection, and Pressure Surveillance Dashboard
Well-Test Indicator and Escalation Checklist

Day 4: Connect Wells to Development

Productivity Index and Inflow Performance Relationship Sheet
Decline-Curve Trend and Forecast Boundary Worksheet
Waterflood and EOR Screening Context Matrix
Reservoir Surveillance Exception and Action Register
Development Concept, Well Count, and Uncertainty Decision Map

Day 5: Practice Reservoir Decisions

Suggested Exercise: Validate Rock, Fluid, and Saturation Inputs
Suggested Exercise: Calculate In-Place Volumes and Recovery Ranges
Suggested Exercise: Diagnose Drive Mechanism from Field Evidence
Suggested Exercise: Build a Well and Reservoir Production Forecast
Capstone Exercise: Complete the Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Workbook

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to connect calculations, surveillance evidence, and development choices.

Suggested activity: screen rock, fluid, pressure, production, and uncertainty inputs before calculation.
Suggested activity: reconcile volumetric, material-balance, productivity, and decline evidence for a field case.
Suggested activity: compare recovery and development scenarios without performing detailed simulation or EOR design.
Suggested activity: assemble assumptions, calculations, plots, exceptions, and decisions in the course workbook.

FAQs

Who suits reservoir engineering fundamentals training, and what does it assume?

Reservoir engineering fundamentals training suits early-career reservoir, petroleum, production, subsurface, asset, and technical-support engineers. It assumes basic algebra, spreadsheet use, and familiarity with field data.

How does reservoir engineering fundamentals training differ from advanced reservoir simulation?

Reservoir engineering fundamentals training uses hand calculations, simple worksheets, pressure and production evidence, and introductory forecasts. Advanced reservoir simulation builds and calibrates numerical models for detailed prediction.

How are hydrocarbons in place estimated in reservoir engineering?

Hydrocarbons in place are estimated from reservoir area, net thickness, porosity, fluid saturation, and fluid-volume factors, with ranges used to show input uncertainty.

What do reservoir drive mechanisms indicate?

Reservoir drive mechanisms indicate which natural energy sources move fluids toward wells, including solution gas, gas cap, water influx, gravity drainage, or a combination.

Why is material balance used in reservoir engineering?

Material balance relates pressure, production, fluid expansion, influx, and injection through conservation of mass, helping engineers test in-place volume and drive assumptions.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Workbook containing checked inputs, volumetric estimates, flow calculations, drive diagnostics, material-balance records, productivity analysis, surveillance plots, forecasts, and development decisions. The workbook changes disconnected field data into a traceable engineering basis. It supports onboarding, technical reviews, asset discussions, and selection of further specialist studies.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Bangkok	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
San Diego	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€16,000
Doha	Week 46, 2026 15 – 19 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€7,000
Seoul	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Manama	Week 47, 2026 22 – 26 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Johannesburg	Week 47, 2026 22 – 26 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Zanzibar	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Amsterdam	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
London	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Addis Ababa	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Singapore	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Dubai	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Barcelona	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Trabzon	Week 03, 2027 24 – 28 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Marbella	Week 04, 2027 31 January – 4 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Rome	Week 05, 2027 1 – 5 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Prague	Week 06, 2027 8 – 12 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,500
Kuala Lumpur	Week 07, 2027 15 – 19 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Lagos	Week 08, 2027 28 February – 4 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewReservoir Engineering Fundamentals Training Course is a one-week foundation course for early-career reservoir, petroleum, production, subsurface, and asset engineers who leave with a Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Workbook. Participants connect rock and fluid properties, hydrocarbons in place, pressure behavior, reservoir drive mechanisms, mat…

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Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals Training Course