Unit A: Porosity. The fluid content of subsurface rocks. Salinity, permeability, fluid saturations. Darcy's Law. The permeability coefficient. The measurement of permeability. The permeability of 'Dirty' Sands. Electrical and acoustic properties of reservoir rocks. The interpretation of fluid content data. Fundamentals of the behaviour of hydrocarbon fluids. PVT properties of oil-gas systems. Composition and phase diagrams of natural gases. Pseudo-critical properties of hydrocarbons. Surface tension and properties of the liquid and vapour phases. Properties of water and brines.

Unit B: An integrated reservoir engineering and formation evaluation laboratory incorporating experiments in porosity, permeability, capillary pressure, resistivity of reservoir rocks and PVT properties of crude oil. Introduction to the API standard laboratory equipment and their processes in measuring the above rock and fluid properties. Sample preparation from whole cores of different types of rock and shale. Demonstration of differences of properties in different rocks by conducting various experiments. Understanding PVT properties of a mixture of hydrocarbon and their phase behaviour under different test conditions.