PetroTeach offers 3-day course on Upscaling in Reservoir Simulation. The course will discuss the interaction between static and dynamic modeling and strategies that will improve the quality of the upscaled model for different development scenarios
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RES 420 | 14 - 16 Dec 2025 | Abu Dhabi | 2990 |
| RES 420 | 26 – 28 Aug 2025 | Online | 1390 |
| RES 420 | 4 – 6 Sep 2025 | Online | 1390 |
| RES 420 | 3 – 5 Jun 2025 | Stavanger | 2990 |
* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!
PetroTeach offers 3-day course on Upscaling in Reservoir Simulation. The course will discuss the interaction between static and dynamic modeling and strategies that will improve the quality of the upscaled model for different development scenarios. This 3-day course is designed to give the insight to geologists and geophysicists on how to solve the challenges on upscaling of reservoir model.
The aim of this course is to provide the skills needed to understand the process of upscaling a static reservoir model to a coarse model suitable for flow simulation. Not all static models can be accurately upscaled, so the course will focus on ‘upscalability’ and techniques to maximize information retention during the upscaling workflow. It will consider a number of different modelling strategies and investigate, in some depth, the interaction between the static and flow simulation models. By the end of the course participants will be able to design static and dynamic models that will improve the quality of the upscaled model for different development scenarios.
o Introduction to upscaling
o Discussion of typical upscaling problems
o Identification of user-specific issues
o Upgridding, fundamental constraints of scale and grid design
o Upscaling static properties
o Revision and exercise
o Upscaling dynamic properties
o Discussion on why we don’t upscale porosity or permeability
o Upscaling quality control
o Case studies and horror stories
o The ‘un-upscalable grid’
o Practical aspects of upscaling with commercial software
Professor Stephen Tyson is the Chair Professor in Petroleum Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei and is responsible for the development of teaching and research in this area. Previously he was the Chair of Subsurface Modeling at the Centre for Coal Seam Gas and Director of the Centre for Geoscience Computing in the School of Earth Sciences at The University of Queensland.
He has worked in reservoir characterization and modeling in the oil industry for more than 30 years in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. He has worked extensively in the Asia-Pacific and Australia. His current research interests are in model validation, verification and acceptance criteria for both static and dynamic models, upscaling, uncertainty modeling and non-linear geostatistics. He is also an honorary professor in Petroleum Engineering at the University of New South Wales and EAGE instructor.
The course is designed for geologists and reservoir engineers who struggle to match fluid volumes between the geological and simulation models.
The learning objectives of this course are:
o An understanding of the benefits of upscaling
o An ability to make intelligent decisions during the static modeling workflow that will impact on the efficiency of upscaling
o An appreciation of the theoretical limitations of upscaling and the practical limitations of upscaling algorithms in commercial modeling programs
o A problem-solving and critical-thinking approach to modeling to improve upscaling effectiveness
Registration is now OPEN!
* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!
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