UNSW Handbook Course - Natural Gas Engineering

Natural Gas Engineering - PTRL4016


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Petroleum Engineering
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Offered: Session One
	Fee Band: 2

Description

Rock and fluid properties. Gas-in-place by volumetric and material balance methods. Ultimate recovery and future performance predictions. Dry gas, wet gas and retrograde condensate reservoirs. Hydorcarbon phase behaviour. Fluid sampling and laboratory tests. Abnormally high-pressured reservoir analysis. Waterdrive reservoir recovery and rate sensitivity. Water coning, critical rates and time calculations. Gas flow through porous media. Delivery tests. Pressue transient test analysis. Applicability of the real gas potential and oil flow equations in addition to classical gas well methods. Gas storage. Pressure maintenance. Recovery optimisation. Maximum efficient rate. Tight gas reservoirs. Naturally fractured reservoirs. Horizontal wells.

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