Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide For Fundamental Investors

Discover how to take the most complex project and break it down into simple, achievable steps–from initial planning to celebration! All of the techniques and tools you need to get started can be found in this handy course.

Reservoir management is fundamental to the efficient and responsible means of extracting hydrocarbons, and maximising the economic benefit to the operator, licence holders and central government.  All stakeholders have a social responsibility to protect the local population and environment.  The process of managing an oil or gas reservoir begins after discovery and continues through appraisal, development, production and abandonment; there is cost associated with each phase and a series of decision gates should be in place to ensure that an economic benefit exists before progress is made.  To correctly establish potential value at each stage it is necessary to acquire and analyse data from the subsurface, the planned surface facilities and the contractual obligations to the end-user of the hydrocarbons produced.  This is especially true of any improved recovery methods proposed or plans to extend field life.  To achieve all the above requires a multi-skilled team of professionals working together with a clear set of objectives and associated rewards.  The team’s make-up will change over time, as different skills are required, as will the management of the team, with geoscientists, engineers and commercial analysts needed to address the issues as they arise..