Fekete Engineering Software & Services

Fekete Harmony™ / F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™ Training Course

Who Should Attend: Engineers and technologists involved in any of the following areas: exploitation, reserves, production / operations and well testing.

General Notes: For your convenience we have aligned the dates of our Fekete Harmony™ / F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™, F.A.S.T. RTA™ and Unconventional Gas Workshop training courses so they can be taken consecutively. Clients registering in two of these courses will receive a $100 discount. Clients registering in all three courses will receive a $400 discount.

Basic Windows navigation skills are recommended. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data as time will be allotted to go through examples in class.

Course Description

This course provides instruction for the Fekete Harmony™ interface common to F.A.S.T. RTA™ and F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™ and for production data analysis using traditional methods such as decline and material balance. Participants will learn how to:

Create projects and organize wells/groups in Fekete Harmony™
Import / input, view, and manipulate data
Create custom templates and workflows
Perform decline, volumetrics, material balance, water-oil ratio, and type well analyses
Review, compare, and export results from F.A.S.T. RTA™ and F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™

Software Course Topics

Software Usage

Well Manager and GIS
Importing data and setting up the file
Wellbore and fluid property calculations
Analysis and forecasting
Reporting and output
Advanced features

Production Analysis Theory and Practice

Traditional decline
Gas and oil volumetrics
Gas and oil static material balance
Water-oil ratio forecasting
Type well decline
Selected examples

Course Instructors

	Casey O'Shea, P. Eng. Casey O’Shea, a petroleum engineering graduate from the University of Alberta, is Vice President of Operations at Fekete’s Houston Office. Casey’s industry experience started in the consulting side of Fekete modeling gas gathering systems, conducting reservoir studies, and evaluating reserves. Applying the practical side, Casey moved into the software development department to lead the engineering design team for Fekete Harmony™ and F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™.
	Ralph McNeil, P. Eng. Ralph McNeil is a Senior Technical Advisor at Fekete Associates Inc. His main responsibilities currently include training, support and technical development. Ralph has over 30 years of petroleum experience in reservoir engineering, property evaluations, modeling of gathering systems, and software development. He has published six (6) technical papers ranging gathering system analysis to reserves determination / production forecasting as well as two (2) technical videos.
	Krystina Edwards, P. Eng. Krystina Edwards, a graduate from the University of Alberta, is a technical advisor involved with the F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™ and F.A.S.T. Evolution™ teams and has been with Fekete since 2007. She uses F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™ on a daily basis to analyze production data and conduct reserves evaluations. Her course incorporates theory and practical examples using traditional methods and primes users for the integration of F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™ with F.A.S.T. RTA™.
	Zubin Maliel, B.Sc. Zubin Maliel is a Technical Advisor with Fekete whose primary responsibilities are to provide technical support for Fekete’s F.A.S.T. DeclinePlus™ and F.A.S.T. RTA™ applications. A graduate of the Physics program at the University of Calgary, Zubin has been with the company since 2010. Zubin’s teaching methodology focuses on practical workflows and techniques that can be implemented using Fekete’s software to analyze production data.
	Kristina Epp, EIT. Kristina Epp is a Technical Engineer at Fekete and has worked with the support, training and technical development of Fekete Harmony™. She is a graduate from the University of Alberta, has a background in Openhole Wireline and has been with Fekete since 2011. Her course covers the theory and practical applications of traditional production analysis methods and gives the user a broad understanding of the Fekete Harmony™ environment.