Task GENERA

MINIMUM COMPETENCE BREADTH

Understand the conventional lab

Understand and apply basic and techniques for determining Ø,
permeability and fluid saturations
special core analysis. and know how to interpret the
data.

Understand how routine core

Perform reservoir characterization analysis is used to identify net pay
and fluid contacts.

Conduct log analysis and Understand the importance of

various well logs to well correlation
interpretation. of petrophysical data.

Understand the significance of oil,

gas and water PVT data and
Perform PVT analysis. measurement, and application
techniques.

Understand the principles of phase

Understand and determine oil and behavior to distinguish the general
properties and behavior of black
gas phase behavior. oil, volatile oil, gas condensate and
dry gas reservoir fluids.

Determine initial reservoir conditions Calculate Bo above bubble point

and fluid contacts. using oil compressibility.

Analyze single/multi-phase flow Calculate Bo above bubble point

under reservoir conditions. using oil compressibility.

Calculate original oil or gas in place

from rock and fluid properties and
Determine initial oil or gas in place. geologic isopach maps. Understand
material balance principles for
determining initial oil or gas in plac

Use conventional well test analysis to Understand the principles of well

test design and analysis to evaluate
understand and perform reservoir well performance and reservoir
analysis. characteristics.
Use conventional well test analysis to Understand the principles of well
test design and analysis to evaluate
understand and perform reservoir well performance and reservoir
analysis. characteristics.

Understand the differences

Apply relevant oil and gas reserves between different reserve
definitions. categories, including proved,
probable and possible categories.

Understand appropriate ranges of

Perform oil and gas recovery recovery factors for given rock and
estimates. fluid properties and drive
mechanisms.

Understand fluid flow characteristics Understand various methods of

of oil reservoirs and determine assessing reservoir performance
reservoir performance. from production data.

Understand fluid flow characteristics Understand various methods of

of gas reservoirs and determine assessing reservoir performance
reservoir performance. from production data.

Analyze reservoir/fluid recovery Know the main enhanced recovery

under secondary or improved mechanisms and have an
recovery mechanisms. appreciation of their application

Understand and apply recovery Know the main recovery processes

from non conventional gas
processes to recovery from non- reservoirs, including shales and
conventional gas reservoirs. coal beds.

Understand and apply reservoir

Evaluate reservoir performance using simulation to analyze reservoir
reservoir simulation performance and optimize
reservoir development.
 Understand and apply reservoir
Evaluate reservoir performance using simulation to analyze reservoir
reservoir simulation performance and optimize
reservoir development.

Understand and apply decision & risk Understand the concepts of

analysis to estimate recovery factor decision and risk analysis and have
an appreciation of the key factors
and reservoir performance that control uncertainty in recovery
prediction. factor and reservoir performance.

Awareness of reservoir
surveillance. Able to access
Reservoir Surveillance essential data and provide ideas for
improvements.

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 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILL

MINIMUM COMPETENCE DEPTH

Use routine core analysis data to group/correlate

core data and determine permeability variation and
heterogeneity.

Understand how routine core analysis is used to

identify net pay and fluid contacts.

Apply well log results (resistivity, FDC/CNL, gamma

ray and sonic logs in open hole completions; and
CBL, TDT, diplog, carbon oxygen and production logs
in cased holes) to correlate porous and non-porous
lithologic members from logs and cores. Interpret a
production logging survey.
Assess validity of PVT data, and adjust results to
correct errors. Estimate PVT data from oil and gas
properties and correlations.

Understand the principles of Equation of State and

its use in fluid characterization.

Estimate reservoir pressure from interpretation of

RFT/MDT survey.

Assess the productivity effects of relative

permeability, imbibition, heterogeneity and
gravity/capillary/viscous forces, fluid flow
calculations.

Apply material balance techniques, including gas cap

and water influx, for determining initial oil and gas in
place.

Apply conventional well test data (including pressure

build-up, draw down, fall-off/injection) to determine
well performance and reservoir characteristics.
Calculate vertical/horizontal well productivity
Apply conventional well test data (including pressure
build-up, draw down, fall-off/injection) to determine
well performance and reservoir characteristics.
Calculate vertical/horizontal well productivity
indices.

Understand the differences between different

reserve categories, including proved, probable and
possible categories.

Assess appropriate recovery factor ranges and

calculate recoveries for field or reservoir applying
conventional (deterministic & performance)
methods and drive mechanisms.

Apply principles of drive mechanisms, material

balance, pressure maintenance, recovery estimating,
decline analysis and volumetrics to determine oil
reservoir performance. Determine where to
perforate production and injection wells taking into
account degree of pressure communication and
impermeable barriers.

Use drive mechanism, material balance (gas and

condensate) for recovery estimation, decline analysis
and volumetrics to determine gas reservoir
performance.

Understand the principles of reservoir/fluid behavior

and recovery processes under miscible, chemical
flooding, steam based thermal and combustion
processes.

Calculate reserves and well/reservoir performance

for tight, fractured; understand the principles of
production performance of coal-bed methane gas
reservoirs.

Use basic reservoir engineering principles, including

flow through porous media, relative permeability,
nodal analysis and multi-phase flow to evaluate
single well applications and black oil or gas
reservoirs.
Use basic reservoir engineering principles, including
flow through porous media, relative permeability,
nodal analysis and multi-phase flow to evaluate
single well applications and black oil or gas
reservoirs.

Can determine the key reservoir engineering and

geoscience factors that influence recovery factor,
number of wells required and production profile.

Able to provide specific performance improvement

recommendations through recompletions, new
drilling, injection pattern changes, etc. Establish
plans and procedures to effect same.
NERAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILL

ABOVE MINIMUM COMPETENCE

Understand and apply special core analyses including capillary pressure/

saturation-height relationships, correlation with well logs, estimation of free water

level/transition zone, pore size distribution and relative permeability.

Using core and RFT data, integrate reservoir performance and well tests with geoscience data
to determine reservoir layering and continuity. Reconcile measured data with known
depositional environment.

Perform quantitative interpretation and analysis in open hole and cased hole environments.
Determine individual layer pressures and contribution to the total flow from each separate
layer.

Calculate PVT data from oil and gas compositional analysis using correlations or non-EOS
model.

Determine/analyze compositional effects.

Estimate reservoir pressure from interpretation of pressure transient tests.

Determine the productivity effects of relative permeability, imbibition, heterogeneity and

gravity/capillary/

viscous forces.

Incorporate J-curve Sw vs. height into oil and gas in place calculations. Manipulate various
forms of material balance equations and determine most appropriate form for use for any
type of situation to calculate original oil and gas in place.

Be familiar with testing and data from stimulated wells (hydraulically fractured, acid) and the
use of tracer tests to analyze fluid flow paths. Calculate cold water skin effect for injection
wells.
Be familiar with testing and data from stimulated wells (hydraulically fractured, acid) and the
use of tracer tests to analyze fluid flow paths. Calculate cold water skin effect for injection
wells.

Understand and be able to apply statistical methods or reserve estimation using probability
using appropriate ranges of uncertainty and probability estimates.

Develop techniques to improve recovery factor for a wide range of rock and fluid properties
for various recovery methods using a variety of techniques.

Apply coning and multi-phase flow analysis to oil recovery calculations and optimal field
development. Recommend when to cease production and recomplete a well.

Apply coning aspects of gas, back pressure and isochronal testing and tubing hydraulics and
deliverability; application of optimal field development.

Apply concepts of process design (e.g. profile control, pressures, temperatures, fluid
composition, injectivity etc.) to compute incremental recovery performance.

Understand analysis of gas recovery and water removal for coal-bed methane gas production.
Assess recovery from CBM wells.

Be familiar with specialized simulation techniques (such as matrix solution methods,

numerical analysis, vectorization, finite element/difference analysis and parallel processing).
Determine areas of the reservoir that are unswept or inefficiently drained and identify new
well locations with geological input. Know and be able to use company or commercial
simulation software to characterize the reservoir, history match, and predict future
performance.
Be familiar with specialized simulation techniques (such as matrix solution methods,
numerical analysis, vectorization, finite element/difference analysis and parallel processing).
Determine areas of the reservoir that are unswept or inefficiently drained and identify new
well locations with geological input. Know and be able to use company or commercial
simulation software to characterize the reservoir, history match, and predict future
performance.

Can quantify reservoir engineering uncertainties in the context of other uncertainties using
appropriate ranges of uncertainty and appropriate decision and risk analysis techniques.

Develop near- and long-term production and reserve targets for reservoirs. Actively follow
reservoir performance and provide solutions to shortcomings from targets.