Course content

The course is teaching the methodology and the petroleum engineering skills needed to plan the life cycle of gas and oil fields from the discovery, through the assessment phase, the project and development phases, the field operations period and the abandonment phase. It addresses topics as reserve and recovery estimation, reservoir depletion, production scheduling, number of wells and well placement, planning of production gathering and testing systems, designing well construction, well and production system performance, field processing facilities and export product control.
The course introduces the concept of Integrated Field Mangement, including performance and optimization of field production from the reservoir to the export point.

Learning outcome

To develop capabilities to integrate all petroleum engineering skills including: reservoir, petrophysics, drilling, production and facilities engineering into a process of planning and managing gas and oil fields during their entire life cycle. Upon completion of the course, the participants will understand the procedures involved in planning and managing field production. They will understand the concept of Integrated Field Management and will be acquainted with commercial programs to perform operations technologies, production facilities, seabed and sub-sea facilities, and general approach to offshore field development.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and exercises including one small individual project. The exercises and the project account for 40% of the final grade of the course. The course is taught in English. The lectures and exercises will relate to an offshore field in Norway (North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea) and will use this field as the focus of the learning.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Recommended previous knowledge

TPG4145 Reservoir Fluids and Flow or equivalent petroleum engineering knowledge. Engineering courses in flow and process technology. Previous courses in reservoir, drilling, production and petrophysics.

Course materials

Given at semester start.

Credit reductions