COURSE OVERVIEW:

Advanced PVT data validation is essential for ensuring high-quality reservoir fluid characterization, accurate simulation inputs, reliable reservoir performance predictions, and sound development planning. Poorly validated PVT data can lead to major errors in reservoir models, incorrect well deliverability forecasts, inefficient surface-facility design, and suboptimal production strategies. This course provides participants with a comprehensive and technically rigorous understanding of how to validate, interpret, and integrate PVT data from sampling through laboratory analysis to equation-of-state (EOS) modelling.

Participants will learn best practices for sample acquisition, quality screening, laboratory test validation (CCE, CVD, DL, DLE, swelling tests), consistency checks, EOS tuning, sensitivity analysis, and advanced data-conditioning workflows. Real case studies from oil, gas condensate, volatile oil, and heavy oil reservoirs demonstrate common PVT pitfalls, sources of uncertainty, and practical solutions for enhancing data reliability. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to confidently validate laboratory data and ensure robust input for reservoir simulations and production engineering workflows.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of the course, the participants will be able to:

• Understand the role and importance of high-quality PVT data in reservoir engineering.
• Identify common sampling issues and validate sample integrity before laboratory analysis.
• Validate key laboratory tests including CCE, CVD, DL, DLE, and constant-composition expansion.
• Perform consistency checks across measured PVT properties such as viscosity, density, and Z-factor.
• Assess the thermodynamic realism of laboratory data using phase-behavior principles.
• Evaluate fluid compressibility, saturation pressures, and volume behavior for quality assurance.
• Recognize laboratory errors, instability issues, and anomalous data trends.
• Apply EOS models and perform EOS tuning using validated PVT datasets.
• Conduct sensitivity studies to evaluate the impact of PVT uncertainty on reservoir performance.
• Integrate PVT validation workflows with compositional reservoir simulation.
• Validate gas condensate and volatile-oil laboratory data with retrograde considerations.
• Interpret advanced viscosity correlations and matching techniques.
• Prepare comprehensive data-validation reports and technical justifications.
• Improve decision-making in field development through reliable PVT integration.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Reservoir Engineers
• Petroleum Engineers
• PVT Specialists and Laboratory Engineers
• Production and Facilities Engineers
• Reservoir Simulation Engineers
• Geoscientists working with fluid characterization
• Professionals seeking advanced PVT analysis capability

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY

A highly interactive combination of lectures, discussion sessions, and case studies will be employed to maximize the transfer of information, knowledge, and experience. The course will be intensive, practical, and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance the learning experience. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and at the end of the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.