Petroleum Reservoir Engineering-1 ((PE 241) course outline, Spring 2006

Week

Dates

Subject

Comments

1

Jan 9-15

Introduction: Units and unit conversions

Chapter 1

Assign HW1

2

Jan 16-22

MLK holiday on Monday (no class)
Types of reservoirs

Oil : Low shrinkage, High shrinkage, Black oil

Gas: Dry gas, Wet gas, Condensate gas

McCain chapter 5 Submit HW1

3

Jan 23- 29

Rock properties:

Porosity, Absolute Permeability, Isothermal compressibility, Permeability averaging

Chapter 2 
Assign HW2

4

Jan 30 - Feb 5

Fluid properties correlations (Oil, Gas, Water)

  • Z-factor (Gas only), Density, Formation volume factor, Isothermal compressibility, Viscosity

Chapter 3

Submit HW2
Assign HW3

5

Feb 6-12

Rock-fluid interaction properties

  • Effective and relative permeability
  • Capillary pressure

Chapter 4

Submit HW3
Assign HW4

6

Feb 13-19

Reservoir volumetics

  • Calculation of fluid contacts
  • Calculation of  IHIP
  • Test # 1 on Wednesday

Chapter 5

Submit HW4

7

Feb 20- 26

Material Balance Equation (MBE):  Calculation of IGIP by Material Balance methods

Chapter 5

Assign HW 5

8

Feb 27 - Mar 5

Calculation of IOIP by MBE,  Mid-Semester Exam (Wed. March 1)

Chapter 5 Submit HW5

9

Mar 6-12

Oil MBE cont’d.

Assign HW 6

10

Mar 13-19

Spring recess (St Pats). No classes (Thurs & Fri)

Submit HW 6 on Wed.

11

Mar 20-26

Generalized Darcy’s law

  • Concept of potential and Darcy’s law, Units

Chapter 9

Assign HW 7

12

Mar 27-Apr 2

SPRING BREAK

 

13

Apr 3-9

Darcy’s law for liquids under steady and pseudo-steady flow

  • Permeability averaging and its applications
  • Inflow performance calculations

Chapter 9

Submit HW 7
Assign HW 8

14

Apr 10-16

 Darcy’s law for gases under steady and pseudo-steady flow

  • Real gas potential, P, P2, and m(p) methods

Chapter 9

Submit HW 8

15

Apr 17-23

  • Applications to deliverability testing

HW 8 returned

16

Apr 24-April 30

Test # 2 on Monday

Decline Curve Analysis                                     Chapter 8

17

May 1-7

DEAD WEEK , Catchup and Review

18

May 8-14

Exam week. Optional Final exam