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Reservoir Engineering B - PTRL3009
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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: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite:PTRL2019
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Recovery factors, mobilisation, displacement and sweep efficiencies. Fractional flow analysis and displacement efficiency. Heterogeneity and gravity segregation and their effect on recovery. Water and gas coning. Unsteady-state field water influx calculations. Determination of aquifer parameters from history matching. Pseudo relative permeability and vertical equilibrium. Decline curve analysis.

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