Total Research Centre-Qatar (TRC-Q) held several professional training programmes in reservoir engineering in Doha.
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 the lecture.
Very recently, Andre Fil, one of Total’s most experienced scientists in reservoir simulation, also gave a new course on reservoir
simulations.
A reservoir simulator is a complex software, which allows to mimic and to predict the behavior of an
hydrocarbons field.
As reservoir simulators become more and more complex, Total defined a project in its headquarters to determine the characteristics of the simulators of the future.
To match the production history and to predict the future production of large oil and gas fields, this new software takes into account an increasing amount of data, including geophysical, geological, reservoir and production data.
Dr Philippe Julien, director, TRC-Q, welcomed the participants and explained to them the three main research activities
undertaken by the
centre.
TRC-Q is currently focused on some of the main challenges of Qatar, including production of carbonate reservoirs (geochemistry, acid stimulation of wells), metrology (smart metering of hydrocarbons production, measurement of air quality) and
petrochemicals.
In acid stimulation, a joint Qatar Petroleum and Total research team works in the TRC-Q premises. In geochemistry, a new joint research and development project between QP, Total and Q-Analytica, a specialised company, was started in February.
TRC-Q organises about 10 very high-level professional training courses a year.
By sharing knowledge and skills, global energy major Total said it “clearly wants to support the development of a knowledge-based economy.”
“The goal of the TRC-Q is to carry out very innovative research and to share it with our industrial partners- Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas and Dolphin Energy,” Dr
Julien said.