Training & Consulting

Piri Technologies offers worldwide workshop & training courses and consulting services. If you are interested in scheduling a training seminar or need assistance with your technical projects, let us know! Several examples of our workshop & training courses are listed below:

Fundamentals of Flow through Porous Media

• Pore-scale displacement mechanisms
• Single-, two-, and three-phase flow in porous media
• Relative permeability
• Interfacial phenomena
• Multi-scale approach for characterization of flow and transport in the subsurface

Recent Developments in EOR Research

• Complex non-Newtonian fluids
• Nanofluids, surfactants, polymers
• CO2, hydrocarbon gas
• Foam
• Engineered low-salinity brine
• Other EOR techniques

Advanced Characterization Techniques for Unconventional Reservoir Rocks

• Multiphase flow in propped and unpropped fractures
• Proppant wettability and fracture conductivity
• Routine and Special Core Analysis (RCAL & SCAL) on nano-Darcy rocks: Porosity & permeability, original fluid content, water blockage, and steady-state two- & three-phase relative permeability measurements in ultra-tight rocks
• Confined fluid phase behavior in nano-porous systems
• Advanced multi-scale (macro, micro, nano, & atomic) imaging for rock evaluation

Primary Hydrocarbon Production Enhancement and EOR in Unconventionals

• Experimental evaluation of recovery enhancement through the introduction of advanced well stimulation chemical additives to hydraulic fracturing fluids
• Experimental studies of foam-assisted hydrocarbon gas injection (FAGI) EOR in unconventional reservoirs

Developing Robust Production Forecasts: Do’s and Don’ts

• Key factors in developing a production forecast
• How to account for uncertainties in the forecast
• Factors impacting short-term and long-term forecasts
• Recommendations for different field/reservoir types/production maturity
• Checklist of Dos and Don’ts

*Conventional/Unconventional; Greenfield/Brownfield

Experimental Techniques & Protocols for Rock and Fluid Characterization

• Core cleaning and conditioning techniques
• Routine Core Analysis (RCAL)
• Special Core Analysis (SCAL)
• Wettability and its characterization techniques
• Unsteady-state flow processes
• Steady-state two- and three-phase relative permeability measurement
• Capillary pressure measurement
• Characterization of fluid-fluid and rock-fluid interactions
• in situ characterization of saturation using x-ray imaging techniques (macro and micro scales)
• Advanced multi-scale (macro, micro, nano, & atomic) imaging for rock evaluation

Digital Rock Technology (DRT)

• Computational modeling of multiphase flow and transport in faithful representations of disordered pore space using HPC resources and domain decomposition techniques

Maximize the Value of Exploiting Conventional/Unconventional Reservoirs by Leveraging Subsurface Excellence, Innovation, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

• Typical Stages of Conventional & Unconventional Reservoir Developments
• Potential Value Enhancement Levers during the discovery-production start-up phase (conventional)
• Key Subsurface Excellence “Evaluation Lenses”, Frameworks/Examples
• Benchmark recoverable volume per completion and recovery factor estimates
• Develop Robust Production/Injection Forecast & Recoverable Volume Delivery Expectations
• Proper Reservoir Surveillance and Management to deliver the sanction promise
• Maximize ultimate recovery
• Digital Rock Technology for Developing Relative Permeability Input Data
• Enhancing Offshore Water Injection Delivery and Performance
• Increasing Potential Waterflood Recovery with Low Salinity Water & New Chemical Cocktails
• Conventional Reservoir Brownfield Development Optimization using Digital Behavior Twins
• Enhancing Unconventional Reservoir Recovery using Gas Injection