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Formation Evaluation - PTRL5107
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Petroleum Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.petrol.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Reservoir petrophysics. Basic parameters and relationships. Data control, acquisition and interpretation from cores, well logs and well tests. Integration of these data for the evaluation of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
General purpose well logs. Fluid and formation resistivities. Porosity measurements from cores and well logs. Wellsite log interpretation. Lithology, saturation and permeability studies. Hydrocarbon mobility determination. Shaly sand analysis. Complex reservoir interpretation. Practical work with core, log and well test data for reservoir quality evaluation and quantitative reservoir studies. Special Project (Ref: PTRL3023)

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