The course focuses on the key geoscience concepts that underpin oil and gas field development and reservoir management. A profitable development of an oil or gas field starts with a good understanding of the subsurface. Efficient field development must take into account simultaneously the constraints in well drilling, production scheme, equipment, and reservoir management.

Topics Covered:
Introduction to development geology, Geological factors controlling field development; Geochemistry in Exploration and Production Development; Geologic and engineering analysis of gas condensate reservoirs; Depositional environments and their flow characteristics, Identification of sandstone depositional environments and associated facies, Carbonate depositional models and facies, Diagenesis of sandstone and carbonate reservoirs, Reservoir correlation based on Electro Logs, Reservoir Heterogeneity and Flow Unit Definition; Reservoir seals and Reservoir Barriers, Reserves estimate (deterministic) and Volumetric uncertainties, Subsurface mapping and Geological modelling, Developing geologically complex reservoirs: Fractured reservoirs; Aquifer characterisation, New oil (incremental oil) from old field, Role of Synergy in field development. Geological and engineering challenges in developing unconventional reservoirs, Field development optimization and production enhancement using worldwide geological analogs.