Total Research Center-Qatar (TRC-Q), held several professional training sessions in reservoir engineering during the first quarter of 2013. In January, Dr Gerard Massonnat, an international expert from Total, gave a one-day course on the mapping of the permeability in petroleum carbonate reservoirs, which is essential for the production of oil and gas. More than 50 attendees from Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas, Dolphin Energy and Total attended this lecture.
In March 2013, Andre Fil, one of the most experienced scientists in reservoir simulation in Total, also gave a new course on reservoir simulation. A reservoir simulator is complex software that allows simulation and prediction of the behaviour of a hydrocarbon field. As reservoir simulators become more and more complex, Total has designed a project at his headquarters to determine the characteristics of simulators of the future. To match the production history and predict the future production of large oil and gas fields, this software takes into account an increasing amount of data, including geophysical, geological, reservoir and production data.
Dr Philippe Julien, the Director of TRC-Q, welcomed the participants and explained to them the three main research activities undertaken by Total Research Center-Qatar. TRC-Q is focused on some of the main challenges of Qatar, including production of carbonate reservoirs (geochemistry, acid stimulation of wells), metrology (smart metering of hydrocarbon production, testing of air quality) and petrochemicals. In acid stimulation, a joint Qatar Petroleum and Total research team works in the TRC-Q premises. For geochemistry, a new joint research and development project between QP, Total and Q-Analytica, a specialised company, was started in February 2013.
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