Course Content
1- Introduction
- Description of reservoirs
- Systems of Units used in the Petroleum Industry and onversion
- Notions of Hydraulics: Physical State, Pressure, Density and Compressibility, Viscosity, Capillary Pressure, Equation of Navier-Stokes.
- Bernouilli's Equation, Applications
- Basic Notions of Rock Mechanics: Moduli and Failure
2- Rock Properties
- How they are studied (cuttings, Cores, logs, in situ Tests)
- Types of Rocks with emphasis on Reservoir Rocks; homogeneity/Heterogeneity,Isotropy/Anisotropy, layering, dip, fractures
- Porosity (Primary and Secondary), Fluid Saturation, Capillary Pressure, Permeability absolute and relative,
- Mechanical Properties (Density, Moduli, Compressibility, Sound Velocity), electrical properties, other properties (temperature...)
3- Fluid Flow in Reservoir Rocks
- Reservoir Fluids characterization: Petroleum and water
- Flow Equation (monophasic with and w/o gravity forces)
- Flow Equation for a vertical well and incompressible liquid (steady state); well tests
- Other cases: deviated or horizontal well, gaswell, fractured reservoir, injection wells
- Multiphase flow
- Modeling
NB : This training can be delivered in Frensh Language