Petroleum Reservoir Engineering AND Field Developement: 4., - , Decline Curve Analysis
Petroleum Reservoir Engineering AND Field Developement: 4., - , Decline Curve Analysis
DEVELOPEMENT
1. Characteristics of crude oil and natural gas, classification of crude and its
physico-chemical properties.
2. Petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks: porosity, permeability, fluid
saturation. Fluid flow through porous media.
3. Reservoir fluid properties. Reservoir fluid sampling and PVT studies.
4. Material Balance, Reservoir energies & drives - Water influx; Gas,
condensate and oil reservoirs. Thermodynamics of fluid system – Phase
behavior of single & multiphase systems, Decline curve analysis.
5. Well performance: productivity index, IPR. Water and gas coning, Open
flow potential for gas wells.
6. Applications of horizontal wells, ERD & multi-laterals.
7. Oil & Gas field development: Oil and gas field development: Principles
of oil and gas filed development; rational development plan; well spacing
and patterns, Reservoir drives and drive mechanism, Economics of field
development