Course Details

This course is appropriate for a wide range of professionals but not limited to:

• Production and Petroleum Engineers
• Reservoir and Completion Engineers
• Well Performance and Optimization Engineers
• Field Operations and Production Technicians
• Subsurface and Surface Engineering Personnel
• Anyone involved in well modeling, system analysis, or production optimization

• Expert-led sessions with dynamic visual aids
• Comprehensive course manual to support practical application and reinforcement
• Interactive discussions addressing participants’ real-world projects and challenges
• Insightful case studies and proven best practices to enhance learning

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Understand the principles and workflow of nodal analysis
• Model and interpret inflow and outflow performance relationships
• Identify system bottlenecks affecting well performance
• Optimize tubing size, choke settings, and well operating conditions
• Integrate artificial lift into nodal analysis applications
• Apply nodal analysis tools for enhanced production decision-making

DAY 1

Fundamentals of Nodal Analysis and Production System Modeling

• Overview of production systems and flow dynamics 
• Role of nodal analysis in well performance and production optimization 
• Reservoir, wellbore, tubing, flowlines, and surface facilities 
• Reservoir and fluid properties affecting well performance 
• Flow regimes, pressure, temperature, and fluid behavior 
• Productivity Index and well deliverability principles 
• Inflow and outflow performance fundamentals 
• Nodal selection, system boundaries, and pressure balance 
• Data requirements and quality control 
• Integrated production system performance assessment

DAY 2

Well Inflow and Outflow Performance Analysis

• Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR) fundamentals 
• Reservoir inflow mechanisms and IPR curve development 
• Oil well inflow models and productivity methods 
• Vogel and Fetkovich correlations 
• Gas well deliverability analysis 
• Effects of reservoir pressure depletion on inflow 
• Vertical Lift Performance (VLP) and wellbore hydraulics 
• Multiphase flow and pressure loss calculations 
• Tubing, horizontal, and surface flow performance 
• IPR–VLP matching, operating point, and sensitivity analysis
   

DAY 3

Production Optimization and Advanced Nodal Analysis Applications

• Integrated nodal analysis and production optimization workflows 
• Identification and resolution of production bottlenecks 
• Tubing size, choke, and flowline optimization 
• Completion design, skin, and stimulation assessment 
• Artificial lift performance and gas lift optimization 
• Network modeling and flow assurance considerations 
• Sensitivity studies and future production forecasting 
• Troubleshooting production problems using nodal analysis 
• Integration of reservoir, well, and surface models 
• Software-based workflows and real-world production optimization case studies