Reservoir Engineering 1 - PTRL6001

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Basic concepts of origin, accumulation and recovery of hydrocarbon fluids. Fluid properties, PVT behaviour and classification of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Material balance equations for gas cap, solution gas, depletion and water drive reservoirs, and gas reservoirs. Reservoir rock properties and core analysis procedures, porosity-permeability relationships. Darcy's law for linear and radial flow, steady-state and pseudo steady-state flow. Wellbore damage, skin-factor and well productivity. Horizontal wells. Wettability, capillary pressure and vertical distribution of reservoir fluids.