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Harmony Enterprise™ Software Training

Harmony Enterprise is a comprehensive engineering application for analyzing, monitoring and predicting oil and gas well performance and evaluating reserves. Designed for engineers, geologists and technologists, our Harmony Enterprise Training courses teach you how to master everything in the software from basic features and functionality to advanced tasks.

Key benefits:

  • Get more out of your production and flowing pressure data
  • Apply leading-edge curve fitting techniques to your decline analyses
  • Perform powerful type well analysis efficiently on hundreds of wells
  • Compare well performance among different operators for conventional/unconventional wells
  • Evaluate your reservoirs without having to shut in your wells
  • Improve and simplify your reservoir simulations

Course Descriptions

Harmony Enterprise™ – Getting Started Online
  • Length: 30 Minutes

  • Summary: This free introductory training video includes an introduction to Harmony Enterprise, including project creation and data management. Students will create a Harmony project database, customize data views and hierarchies and load data from multiple source types.
  • Prerequisites: Students should have an understanding of basic geoscience and engineering well data including well attributes, reservoir and fluid properties, and production data. Basic Windows navigation and spreadsheet skills are also recommended.
  • Topics:
    • General project creation and management
      • Create a new project
      • Connect to an existing project
      • Make custom hierarchies and filters
      • Create custom groups based on attributes
      • Navigate the Attributes tab, including customized views and templates
    • Data loading and organization within Harmony
      • Import data from text files, smart files, and the database connection wizard
      • Add wells using Enerdeq
      • Use the Diagnostics tab, including customized views and templates
      • Add shapefiles and customize their appearance
      • Create bubble maps
    • Role Based Security
      • What is Role Based Security (RBS)?
      • How to check entitlements and modify roles
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Harmony Forecast™ – Getting Started Online
  • Length: 90 Minutes
  • Summary: This free training video includes a basic introduction to navigation and forecasting in Harmony Forecast. Participants will learn how to:
    • Connect to Harmony project database
    • Import data from several source types and manage that data efficiently
    • Perform a decline analysis and create a decline workflow
    • Perform a type well analysis and use that analysis to describe production for a new well
  • Prerequisites: Students should have an understanding of basic engineering principles including: well attributes, production data, Arps decline analysis and Type well analysis. Basic Windows navigation and spreadsheet skills are also recommended.
  • Topics:
    • General project creation and management
      • Connect to an existing project
      • Create a new project
      • Make custom hierarchies and filters
      • Create custom groups based on attributes
      • Navigate the Attributes tab and create a custom attribute
    • Data loading and organization within Harmony
      • Import data from text and smart text files
      • Import data from Harmony single user files
      • Add wells using Enerdeq
      • Show diagnostics plot for a group of wells
    • General decline analysis workflow
      • Navigate the Diagnostics tab
      • Create a decline analysis
      • Adjust or modify a decline analysis
      • Add additional decline analyses
      • Manage the Results Viewer
      • Create and apply a Workflow
      • Adjust and apply global decline settings
      • Create a cumulative plot and s cross plot of analysis results
    • General type well analysis workflow
      • Show diagnostics plot for a group of wells
      • Create a type well
      • Remove outlier wells
      • Align production data
      • Adjust type well plot
      • Normalize type well data
      • Use different well group rates to create declines (average rate, P90, P50, P10)
      • Restrict production data range used to fit decline data
      • Add a type well analysis and use settings from previous type well analysis
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Harmony Forecast™
  • Length: 1 day, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
  • Summary: 
  • This course will provide an introduction to general navigation and forecasting in Harmony Forecast. Students will complete decline analysis, typewell analysis, and reserves during this 1-day class.
    Participants will learn how to:
    • Connect to a Harmony Enterprise™ project database
    • Load data from several source types and manage project data efficiently
    • Perform general decline analyses and create an analysis Workflow
    • Perform a general typewell analysis and use that analysis to describe production for a new well
    • Create and update reserves
  • Prerequisites: Students should have a basic understanding of engineering principles, including well attributes and reservoir properties, production data quality, pressure calculations in pipes and conventional reservoir analysis. At least some prior experience with the Harmony environment is expected. An ideal prerequisite is the Harmony Forecast™ Getting Started course. Alternatively, attending the Harmony Enterprise™ - Getting Started course would be satisfactory.
  • Topics:
    • General project creation and management
      • Connect to an existing project
      • Make custom hierarchies and filters
      • Query the database to create custom groups based on attributes
      • Navigate the Attributes tab and create a custom attribute
      • Import shapefiles
    • Data loading and organization
      • Import data from plain-content and markup files
      • Import data from existing Harmony files
      • Connect to data sources such as Enerdeq or the IHDC
      • View results, create reports, and export data
    • General decline analysis
      • Navigate the Diagnostics tab
      • Create a decline analysis
      • Modify an existing decline analysis
      • Create volumetric and ratio analyses
      • Use the Forecast worksheet
      • Manage the Results Viewer
      • Create and apply an analysis Workflow
      • Adjust and apply decline settings to a group of wells
      • Evaluate analysis results using cross plots and other tools
      • Create a ratio forecast
    • General typewell analysis
      • Show diagnostics plot for a group of wells
      • Remove outlier wells
      • Align production data by peak rate
      • Use statistical rates to create declines (average rate, P90, P50, P10)
      • Normalize production data against different attributes
      • Restrict the production data range used to fit decline data
      • Use a typewell to describe production in future (planned) wells
      • Handling survival bias
      • Analyze a ratio typewell
    • General unconventional gas workflow
      • Create non-Arps declines including multi-segment, stretched exponential, Duong
    • Well monitoring
      • Investigate well performance based on specific forecast
      • Sort and map the wells with the highest deviation from forecast
Harmony Reservoir Conventional – Getting Started Online
  • Length: 42 Minutes
  • Summary: This free training video provides an overview of the tools and features included in Harmony Reservoir. Students will learn how to apply the Simplified RTA Workflow to a conventional Gas Well which includes Type Curves and Analytical Modeling.
  • Prerequisites: At least some prior experience with the Harmony environment is expected. An ideal prerequisite is the Harmony Forecast™ course. Alternatively, attending the Harmony™ - Getting Started course would be satisfactory.
  • Topics:
    • Diagnostics
      • Evaluating data quality before starting an analysis
      • Creating custom templates for use in a workflow
    • Type Curves
      • How to use Conventional Type Curves
      • Data Filtering
      • Flow regime identification
    • Flowing Material Balance
      • How to use the Flowing Material Balance plot to interpret contacted area
    • Analytical Modeling
      • Advantages and Limitations of Analytical Models
      • Populating parameters into an Analytical Model
      • History matching with an Analytical Model
Harmony Reservoir Conventional
  • Length: 2 days, 8:30am – 4:30pm
  • Summary: This course will provide a comprehensive methodology for production data analysis that combines the use of several powerful rate transient analysis tools and techniques. Students will use typecurves, flowing material balance, analytical model and hybrid numerical model analyses during this 2-day class. Participants will learn how to:
    • Critically assess data quality and perform qualitative diagnostics on well production data
    • Identify reservoir flow regimes from rate/pressure response
    • Estimate reserves, OGIP/OOIP and drainage area
    • Determine reservoir parameters such as permeability and skin
    • Perform production data history matching, using both analytical and hybrid numerical models
    • Assess well performance and identify optimization candidates
    • Examine the practical aspects of rate transient analysis using examples
  • Prerequisites: Students should have a basic understanding of engineering principles, including: well attributes and reservoir properties, production data quality, pressure calculations in pipes and conventional reservoir analysis. At least some prior experience with the Harmony environment is expected. An ideal prerequisite is the IHS Harmony Forecast™ course. Alternatively, attending the IHS Harmony™ - Getting Started course would be satisfactory.
  • Topics:
    • Production Analysis Theory and Practice
      • Review of traditional methods, including decline, volumetric, and static material balance analysis
      • An introduction to rate transient analysis (RTA), including key concepts like:
        • Flow regimes in the reservoir, and how they affect data characterization
        • The pseudo-steady state inflow equation
        • Superposition
    • Theory and usage of selected Typecurve analyses
    • Theory and usage of the Flowing Material Balance (FMB)
      • Including both single phase and multiphase
    • Theory and usage of analytical and hybrid (numerical) models
    • Advanced considerations such as:
      • Water drive (aquifer effects)
      • Overpressured reservoirs and geomechanical effects
      • Multi-well analysis
    • General Software Usage
      • Well management and GIS
      • Importing data and well configuration
      • Wellbore pressure calculations
      • Data evaluation and filtering
      • Analysis, modelling and forecasting for both single and multiwell scenarios
      • Reporting and output
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Harmony Reservoir Unconventional – Getting Started Online
  • Length: 52 Minutes
  • Summary: This free training video provides an overview of the tools and features included in Harmony Reservoir. Students will learn how to apply the Simplified RTA Workflow to an Unconventional Oil Well which includes URM analysis, Analytical Modeling and Multiphase Hybrid Modeling.
  • Prerequisites: At least some prior experience with the Harmony environment is expected. An ideal prerequisite is the Harmony Forecast™ course. Alternatively, attending the Harmony™ - Getting Started course would be satisfactory. Students should have an understanding of basic engineering principles including:
  • Topics:
    • Diagnostics
      • Evaluating data quality before starting an analysis
      • Viewing ratios as a data diagnostic
    • Type Curves
      • Limitations of conventional type curves for an Unconventional Well
      • Data Filtering
      • Flow regime identification
    • Flowing Material Balance
      • How to use the Flowing Material Balance plot to interpret contacted area
    • Unconventional Reservoir Module
      • How to use the square root time plot to interpret the Stimulated Reservoir Volume
    • Analytical Modeling
      • Creating an Analytical Model
      • Advantages and Limitations of Analytical Models
      • Populating parameters into an Analytical Model
      • History matching with an Analytical Model
    • Multiphase Hybrid Modelling
      • Creating a Multiphase Hybrid Model
      • Advantages of Multiphase Hybrid Model
      • History matching with a Multiphase Hybrid Model
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Harmony Reservoir Unconventional
  • Length: 1 day, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
  • Summary: This course will provide a comprehensive methodology for well performance analysis, with specific focus on unconventional oil and gas. The approach combines the use of several powerful rate transient analysis tools and techniques. Students will use typecurve, flowing material balance, unconventional reservoir, analytical model and hybrid numerical model analyses during this 1 day class. 
    Participants will learn how to:
    • Critically assess data quality and perform qualitative diagnostics on well production data
    • Identify reservoir flow regimes from rate/pressure response
    • Estimate reserves, OGIP/OOIP and drainage area
    • Determine well performance parameters
    • Recognize pressure dependent permeability
    • Identify optimization candidates, including re-fracturing
    • Forecast production, focusing on the inherent uncertainty in unconventional plays
    • Examine the practical aspects of rate transient analysis using examples
  • Prerequisites: At least some prior experience with the Harmony environment is expected. An ideal prerequisite is the Harmony Forecast™ course. Alternatively, attending the Harmony Enterprise™ - Getting Started course would be satisfactory.
    Students should understand basic engineering principles including: Well attributes and reservoir properties, Production data quality, Pressure calculations in pipelines and wellbores, Conventional reservoir analysis.
    Basic Windows navigation skills are recommended prior to attending.
  • Topics:
    • An introduction to well performance analysis
      • Review the fundamentals of rate transient analysis
      • Learn the modern production analysis methodology
      • Compare the constant rate and constant pressure solutions for key equations
    • The transition from conventional to unconventional
      • Describe a horizontal well with multiple fractures
      • Define stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) and cross-sectional area to flow (Ac)
      • List the expected flow regimes for a horizontal multifrac well
    • Data diagnostic workflow
      • Navigate the Diagnostics tab
      • Use a typecurve to evaluate data validity
      • Filter data using automatic and manual methods
      • Identify expected flow regimes using typecurves
    • Reservoir interpretation
      • Determine contacted area from the flowing material balance (single/multi-phase)
      • Identify first linear flow with the specialized plot
      • Estimate formation conductivity (Ac√k) and the time to end of linear flow (telf)
      • Evaluate SRV parameters, including permeability and fracture half-length
    • Modeling
      • History match data to confirm interpretation
      • Forecast future production, and compare with decline forecasts
      • Evaluate uncertainty with Monte-Carlo probabilistic methods
    • Advanced tools and methods
      • Recognize pressure dependent permeability and apply geomechanical methods
      • Apply adsorption to shale reservoirs
      • Interpret gas-condensate or volatile-oil reservoirs with modified black-oil analyses
      • Evaluate wells as re-fracturing candidates, or history match wells that have already been re-fractured
      • Multi-well/Multi-layer modeling
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VirtuWell – Getting Started Online
  • Length: 50 Minutes
  • Summary: This free training video will give an overview of the VirtuWell tools in the Harmony environment, including software interface and navigation, and how to perform basic tasks. Students will perform production optimization workflows for both oil and gas. Participants will learn how to:
    • Perform Nodal Analysis on both gas and oil well
    • Investigate well flow for optimization with regard to liquid loading and erosion
    • Perform wellhead forecasting using RTA analytical models
  • Prerequisites: Students should have an understanding of basic geoscience and engineering principles including reservoir and fluid properties, production data, Wellbore Completions, Nodal Analysis: Rawlings Shellhardt, Vogel. Basic Windows navigation and spreadsheet skills are also recommended.
  • Topics:
    • Harmony
      • Importing and setting up data
      • Calculate sandface pressure
      • View unloading velocity on the diagnostics plot
      • Export results
    • VirtuWell
      • Pressure Gradient - Performing an analysis
      • Gas AOF/TPC - Adding IPR and TPC curves
      • Oil IPR/TPC - Adding IPR and TPC curves
      • Advanced Forecasting
      • Wellhead forecasting to investigate future well performance
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VirtuWell
  • Length: 1 day, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
  • Summary: Students will learn multiphase calculations, their limitations and applications, and how to determine pressure profiles that are complicated by changing phase behavior. Students begin the course by familiarizing themselves with the main features of VirtuWell and are shown various aspects of the software in more depth. To gain hands-on experience, students are encouraged to follow along with examples. The examples allow students to become familiar with wellbore modeling and to recognize opportunities for wellbore optimization.
  • Prerequisites: Basic working knowledge of reservoir and production engineering concepts plus basic Windows navigation skills.
  • Topics:
    • Overview of Harmony user interface
    • Wellbore pressure losses
    • Gas Wells
      • Reservoir deliverability
      • Tubing performance curves, tubing selection
      • Liquid loading and erosion
    • Oil Wells
      • Inflow performance curves
      • Tubing performance curves
      • Gas lift optimization
    • Advanced Production Forecasting from existing RTA models (gas and oil wells)
      • Leveraging available analytical models to perform nodal analysis
      • Production forecasting with changing tubing size or flowing conditions
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Global Course Schedules

Onsite training is available for any course listed below. Contact us to schedule a class.

Aberdeen - United Kingdom
IHS Markit Office - Exchange No1 - 2nd Floor
62 Market Street
Aberdeen
AB11 5PJ, United Kingdom
+44 (0)12 2459 7800

More classes coming soon

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Calgary AB – Canada
IHS Markit Office - Sun Life Plaza, Suite 800, 112-4th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta, T2P0H3
403.213.4200

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast March 24 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional March 25 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania - United States
Holiday Inn Express  
4000 Horizon Vue Drive  
Canonsburg, PA 15317  
724.473.4300

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast May 5 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional May 6 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register

Dallas, Texas - United States
5430 LBJ Freeway, Suite 800
Dallas, Texas 75240
972-560-4420

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast March 25 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional March 26 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register

Dubai, U.A.E. - United Arab Emirates
IHS Markit Office - Dubai Internet City
Units A101 - 109, Block A, Office Park
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
+9714 3635800
+44 (0)20 7260 2000

More classes coming soon

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast June 8 9:30 am - 5:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional June 9 9:30 am - 5:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Forecast September 21 9:30 am - 5:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Conventional September 22-23 9:30 am - 5:30 pm $2,000 Register

Englewood, Colorado – United States
IHS Markit Office – 321 Inverness Drive South,
Englewood,
CO 80112
303.858.6450

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast February 25 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional February 26 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register

Houston, Texas – United States
IHS Markit Office - 1401 Enclave Parkway,
Suite 200, Houston,
TX 77077
281.531.4660

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast February 19 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional February 20 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Forecast March 16 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional March 17 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Forecast May 5 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional May 6 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register

London – United Kingdom
IHS Markit Office – Ropemaker Place,
25 Ropemaker Street,
London, EC2Y 9LY, United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7260 2000

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast April 20 9:00 am - 5:00 pm £750 Register
Harmony Reservoir Conventional April 21-22 9:00 am - 5:00 pm £1,500 Register
Harmony Forecast November 09 9:00 am - 5:00 pm £750 Register
Harmony Reservoir Conventional November 10-11 9:00 am - 5:00 pm £1,500 Register

Midland, Texas - United States
Midland College 
105 W. Illinois Avenue 
Midland, TX 79701 
432.683.2832

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast May 5 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional May 6 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - United States
IHS Markit Office
210 Park Avenue, Suite 1425  
Oklahoma City, OK 73102  
405.415.3612 

Course Date Time Cost Register
Harmony Forecast April 7 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register
Harmony Reservoir Unconventional April 8 8:30 am - 4:30 pm $1,000 Register

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