Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals

Synthesis

Day 1 :RESERVOIR ROCK PROPERTIES
Porosity, pore pressure & compressibility
One phase flow: Darcy’s law & permeability from cores & logs
Multiphase systems: saturation from cores & logs, capillary pressure & relative permeability, wettability
Lab measurements
Quiz

Day 2 :
RESERVOIR FLUID PROPERTIES
Gas liquid equilibriums
Pure component & mixtures, oil & gas identification
Oil, gas & water properties
Black oil functions, oil & gas classification
PVT studies
Reservoir fluid sampling
Quiz

Day 3 :
WELL TESTING
Principles & objectives
Pressure drawdown
General overview & semi log analysis, investigation radius & flow regimes, well bore storage, skin & productivity index
Pressure build-up
General overview & semi log analysis
Log-log analysis
Homogeneous reservoir, other cases
Quiz

Day 4 :
DRIVE MECHANISMS
Introduction
Main drive mechanisms, material balance equation, reservoir description
Natural depletion
Oil expansion above Pb, gas expansion, dissolved gas expansion, aquifer drive, gas-cap drive

Day 5 :
DRIVE MECHANISMS (CONTINUED)
Improved oil recovery
Water injection, immiscible gas injection
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
Enhanced gas injection, chemical methods, thermal methods
Quiz

Language

Français & Anglais

Audience type

Graduates and post-graduates petroleum and reservoir engineering students.

Planned duration

15 to 20 hours in 5 days.

Support material

Slides, Videos, Exercises, Quizzes

Prerequisite

None

Objectives

To review basic reservoir engineering data (rock & fluid properties). To review well test objectives & interpretation methods. To review main drive mechanisms.

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