Two wells in the same reservoir can perform worlds apart. This course works through the factors that decide how much of a reservoir's potential actually reaches the wellbore — what you inherit from the rock, and what you design into the well.
Refined over 15 years of classroom delivery to national and international operators, now rebuilt as a problem-based, self-contained online programme for working petroleum engineers.
Course 02 explains why two similar wells perform differently, and which of those reasons an engineer can actually influence. You learn to attribute lost productivity to the right cause before reaching for a fix.
Trace how heterogeneity, natural fractures, partial completion and deviation each add to skin.
Anticipate phase behaviour and diagnose gas wells that load up with liquid as pressure depletes.
Judge how much wellbore radius really matters, and where mechanical limits cap productivity.
Specify geometry, phasing and charges that punch past drilling damage into clean rock.
Some factors you inherit from the rock; others you engineer into the well. Each module isolates one family and shows exactly how it moves the productivity index, for better or worse.
The reservoir you inherit: how heterogeneity, fractures and well placement shape what's possible.
What happens when phases compete, from segregated flow to gas wells that load up with liquid.
How much wellbore radius really matters, and where mechanics constrains productivity.
Engineering the tunnels that connect well to reservoir, and getting past drilling damage.
Every module opens with a real well problem. You work the engineering, then the theory is introduced to explain what you found: the way the material was honed in the classroom over fifteen years.
Each topic is anchored to a field scenario with real data, not an abstract derivation.
You isolate the factor at play and quantify its effect, then the theory frames why.
The drivers you learn here feed directly into the diagnostics and remediation courses.
Run Course 02 as a pilot for a cohort, or licence the full eleven-course programme. We'll tailor the rollout around your assets and engineering levels.
