Department of CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGcoretheory
OIL AND GAS RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
CHE 4401
Syllabus
- 01Basic concepts of reservoir engineering: calculation of hydrocarbon volumes, fluid pressure regimes, recovery factor, volumetric gas reservoir, hydrocarbon phase behaviour
- 02PVT analysis for oil: definition of parameters, fluid sampling, laboratory testing
- 03Material balance applied to oil reservoirs
- 04Reservoir drive mechanisms, solution gas drive, gas cap drive, natural water drive
- 05Darcy's law and applications: fluid potential, radial steady state flow, well stimulation
- 06Two phase flow: effective and relative permeability
- 07Radial flow differential equation, conditions of solution
- 08Application of the stabilized inflow equations
- 09Enhanced oil recovery
References
- Dake L. P., Fundamental of Reservoir Engineering, Elsevier, 2007.
- Smith H. C., Tracy G. W., and Farrar R. L., Applied Reservoir Engineering: Volume I and II, OGCI, 2008.
- Satter A., Baldwin J., and Jespersen R., Computer-Aided Reservoir Management, Pennwell, 2000.
- Ahmed Tarek, Reservoir Engineering Handbook (4e), Gulf professional publishers, 2010.
Credits Structure
3Lecture
0Tutorial
0Practical
3Total