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 Formation Evaluation - PTRL3023
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: PTRL2014, PTRL2016
 
 
Offered: Session Two
 
 
Fee Band: 2
 
  

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Unit A-Well Log Analysis: Porosity measurements from well logs. Sonic, Formation Density and Neutron logs. Lithology plots. Saturation, irreducible saturation and permeability studies from well logs. Shaly sand analysis. Complex- reservoir analysis. Dipmeter logs. Wireline Formation Testing. Integration of, core, log ,well test and seismic data evaluation. Cementing quality monitoring. Cased hole well logs. Practical work with logs from an Australian oil/gas field. Unit B-Well Testing: Theory of transient well testing. Principle of superposition. Drawdown and buildup tests. Actual and ideal buildup tests. Effects and duration of afterflow. Horner's approximation. Use of pseudopressure in gas well testing. Constant bottomhole pressure tests. Practical aspects of design and performance of field tests. Analysis of transient pressure data, effects of boundaries, reservoir heterogeneity , multiphase flow. Study of production, DST and formation interval tests. Pulse testing and multiwell tests. Computer assisted well test analysis techniques.

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