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Reservoir Engineering A - PTRL2019
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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: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite:MATH1231,PTRL2018
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Introduction to Reservoir Engineering. Reservoir Description. Hydrostatic pressure and geothermal gradients. Rock porosity, permeability and compressibility. Porosity-permeability relationships and rock microstructures. Volumetric and initial hydrocarbon volume. General fluid properties. Oil-gas phase behaviour and fluid PVT properties. Fluid Statics. Fluid flows, laminar and turbulent flows. Boundary layers. Flow in pipes, friction in pipe, Euler and Bernoulli's equation. Angular momentum equation. Steady flow energy equation. Minor losses. Flow over surfaces. Fluid flow in porous media. Darcy's law. Steady state inclined flow and pressure potential. Steady-state radial flow. Flow in series and in parallel. Compressible gas flow Klinkenberg effect. Vertical well model and skin effect.

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