Objectives

The objective of this course is to initiate candidates to reservoir engineering discipline mainly the rock and fluid properties, the different types of reservoir , the calculation of oil initially in place and reserves , the different recovery systems   

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Content  

1. Petroleum system

-Rock formation

-Hydrocarbon formation

-different components of petroleum systems

         II.           Rock properties

                       -porosity

                       -permeability

                       -saturation

                       -wettability

           III. Introduction to open hole logging

                     -lithology logs

                     -porosity loogs

                     -resistivity logs

         IV .    Different types of reservoirs

                        -oil reservoirs (saturated and undersaturated)

                        -gas reservoirs (dry , wet and condensate)

         V.          Fluid properties

                         -enveloppe phase

                         -oil properties (density,Bo,GOR,RS, viscosity,compressibility)

                              -gas properties ( density,Bg,compressibility factor,viscosity,compressibility,..)

           VI. Hydrocarbon in place and reserves calculations

                        -volumetric method

                       -material balance

          VII. Recovery mecanisms

                       -Primary recovery

                       -Secondary recovery

                     -Tertiary recovery