TRACS International’s Mark Bentley will be leading a series of training courses in Perth, Australia, over the next couple of weeks. The first, on Mature Field Management, is designed for petroleum engineers, geoscientists, facilities engineers, commercial staff and other disciplines who expect to play a part in evaluating, screening and maturing oil and gas field development opportunities. The course is most effective when delivered to a mixed discipline group.

The course is designed to give participants an appreciation of the evaluation and planning activities associated mature oil and gas field management.

This 3-5 day course covers a wide range of content, including:

Exploration and Appraisal

• Contrasting approaches to green and brown field development
• Overview of strategic options for mature field management
• Evaluation methods
  • Workflows, overview of tools
• Field activity to date
  • review of reservoir, wells and facilities performance
  • forecasting the no further activity production profile
• Managing the base production profile
• Locating the remaining oil (LTRO) in the reservoir
  • surveillance mapping
  • reservoir modelling (analytical, numerical)
• Improving reservoir recovery
  • infill drilling, management of sweep efficiency
  • enhanced oil recovery (EOR) 
• Improving well performance
  • well interventions, recompletions and workovers
• Identifying options to improve surface facilities performance
  • debottlenecking
  • flow assurance
• Feeding the hopper with incremental project opportunities
• Dealing with uncertainty and risk
  • cost, resource and market uncertainty
  • human bias in uncertainty estimation
  • applying risk management tools
• Economic evaluation of the incremental activity opportunities
• Building production skins on to the base production profile
• Making asset management decisions to support the strategy

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