PETE 563: Reservoir Management and Evaluation
Petroleum Engineering
Graduate
Spring, 2015
Abdollah Esmaeili
esmaily_ab@yahoo.com
+994554745542
307N , Tuesday and Friday 19:40 – 21:00
Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
9:00 – 21:00
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Prerequisites
Language
Compulsory/Elective
Required textbooks
and course materials
Consent of instructor
English
Required
Core textbook:
1. Tarek Ahmed, Nathan Meehan. Advanced Reservoir Management and
Engineering, 2011, 702 pages
2. L.P. Dake, Fundamentals of reservoir engineering, 1998, 498 pages
3. B.C Craft, M. Hawkins, Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, 1990, 226
pages
4. Boyun Guo, William C. Lyons, Ali Ghalambor,
Petroleum Production
Engineering, 2007, 287 pages
5. Ali Danesh, PVT and Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids, 1998, 390
pages
Course website
Course outline
The course teaches the principles and techniques necessary for a petroleum engineer
to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary field development team. Emphasis is
placed on the fundamentals of appraisal, field development planning and reservoir
management and evaluation, supported by field case studies. On completion,
participants will understand the multi-disciplinary nature of the workflows that
underpin oil and gas field development projects. The course combines theoretical
foundations with practical applications. We will begin with a general overview in
each topic and then go into more detail on several concepts.
Course objectives
Generic Objective of the Course:
Reservoir Management and Evaluation is a unique combination of reservoir geoscience and reservoir engineering centred on the individual reservoir rather than the
wider regional geology. Most development decisions in oil companies are based on
the predictions of models of the subsurface. We teach our students the most effective
ways to combine the geology, geophysics and reservoir engineering disciplines in
order to develop models which provide the most robust predictions. The main
objective of this course is to provide a thorough training in aspects of reservoir
geology, geophysics and engineering, related to the appraisal and development of
subsurface hydrocarbon resources. Upon completion this course, students will be in a
unique position of having a thorough understanding of the both the geosciences and
engineering issues relevant to hydrocarbon reservoir behavior. This course is
deliberately intensive, typically consisting of working 2 days per week of lectures and
practical work, including tutorial exercises designed to teach practical skills in
addition to learning theory. The course can be included a field trip for those with and
without prior practical experience. The most challenging and fulfilling aspect of our
course is the project work, where students are tasked to propose a development plan
for a field. The project integrates all the learning in reservoir management and
evaluation.
Learning outcomes
Participants will learn to:
1. Demonstrate the use of routine core analysis data to measure and understand the
controls on porosity and permeability.
2. Apply special core analysis data to understand concepts of capillary pressures, rock
wettability and relative permeability. Also, to relate these rock properties to the
estimation of hydrocarbon saturation and column height, seal capacity and pore-scale
fluid displacement.
3. Determine hydrocarbon-water contacts and understand how these vary in response
to different fluid types and rock properties.
4. Analyze the PVT relationship of reservoir fluids and demonstrate how variability in
fluid properties impacts on field development planning and production.
5. Analyze reservoir energy and drive mechanisms and their effect on reservoir
performance and hydrocarbon recovery.
6. Examine the principles of reservoir management including well pattern options,
production forecasting and uncertainty.
7. Contrast field appraisal and development strategies using different case studies,
including volumetric and economic considerations and the effectiveness of multidisciplinary teams to optimize production throughout field life.
Teaching methods
Evaluation
Policy
Lecture
Group discussion
Exercises
Simulation
Case analysis
Course paper
Others
Methods
Midterm Exam
Case studies
Class Participation
Assignment and
quizzes
Project
Presentation/Group
Discussion
Final Exam
Others
Total
 Preparation for class
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Date/deadlines
Percentage (%)
30
10
10
5
45
100
The structure of this course makes your individual study and preparation outside
the class extremely important. The lecture material will focus on the major points
introduced in the text. Reading the assigned chapters and having some familiarity
with them before class will greatly assist your understanding of the lecture. After
the lecture, you should study your notes and work relevant problems.
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Withdrawal (pass/fail)
This course strictly follows grading policy of the College of Engineering. Thus, a
student is normally expected to achieve a mark of at least 65% to pass. In case of
failure, he/she will be required to repeat the course the following term or year.
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Cheating/plagiarism
Cheating or other plagiarism during the Quizzes, Mid-term and Final
Examinations will lead to paper cancellation. In this case, the student will
automatically get zero (0), without any considerations.
Week
 Professional behavior guidelines
The students shall behave in the way to create favorable academic and professional
environment during the class hours. Unauthorized discussions and unethical behavior
are strictly prohibited.
Tentative Schedule
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Topics
Introduction.
 Fundamental Concepts
 Progress from Discovery to Development
 Oil and Gas Industry Operations
 Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas Wells
 Oil and Gas Reservoir Recovery Concepts
 Behaviour of Reservoir Fluids
 Reservoir Drive Mechanisms
 Reservoir Rock properties
 Reservoir Fluid properties
 Reserves and Production Profiles
 Economical Considerations
Reservoir Geological Concepts
 Geological Features
 Oil and gas fields geology
 Different geological environments
 Basics of Structural Geology and Geophysics
 Measurable Reservoir Properties
 Hydrocarbons in Place
Reservoir Sedimentology
 Different Sedimentary Environments
 Primary Fabric of Reservoirs
 Depositional Features
 Flow of Hydrocarbons through Reservoirs
 Processes Responsible for Deposition of Sediments
 Porosity and Permeability
Rock Mechanics, Geo-mechanics and Geo-physics
 Rock Deformation
 Rock/Fluid Interactions
 Geophysical Surveying of Reservoirs
 Measuring Key Properties of Reservoirs
 Measurements of Rock Properties
 Principles of Core Measurements
 Pc and Saturation Relationships
 Relative Permeability Measurement
 Petrophysical Core Measurements
 Relation of Core Measurements to Logs
Formation Evaluation
 Concept of Formation Evaluation
 Well Logging
 Tools Used in Logging
 Interpretation of Well Logs
Textbook/Assignments
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Well Testing
 Introduction to Well Testing
 Overview of Well Behavior and Testing,
 Objectives of Well Testing
 Flow Equations
 Types of tests
 Well bore Skin Factor - damage and stimulation
 Well bore Storage
 Hydraulically and Naturally Fractured Wells
 Data Quality (Pressure, Production and Fluids)
 Well Test Interpretations
Well Testing
 Water Injectivity Tests
 Well Test Design and Planning
 Horizontal Well Test
 Drill stem and production tests
 Build up and interference tests
 Pressure Transient Analysis
 Wire line formation and production test
 Flow Regimes – Vertical Wells
 Flow Regimes – Horizontal Wells
 Drawdown Analysis (or Injection)
 Build up Analysis
Well Testing
 Production Forecasting and Analysis
 Test design, complex models, pitfalls, etc.
 Fundamentals of Fluid Flow in Porous Media
 Superposition
 Analysis of Flow Tests
 Radius of Investigation,
 Drainage Area Pressure, Distance to Boundaries
 Flow and Build-Up Test Analysis for Gas Wells
 Non-Darcy Flow
 Multi rate Tests
Midterm Exam
Reservoir Engineering
 Reservoir fluid and rock properties
 Coring practices and rock properties
 Fundamentals of fluid flow
 Reservoir fluid distribution
 Reservoir classification
 Reservoir drive mechanisms
 Oil and gas well performance
 Reservoir fluid displacement concepts
 Estimation of oil-in-place and gas-in-place
Reservoir Engineering
 Formation Damage
 Reservoir Volume
 Fundamental of Reservoir Description
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Coring and Core Analysis
Volumetric Behavior
Fluid Distribution
Reservoir Fluid Phase Behavior
Crude Oils - PVT Analysis
Material (volumetric) Balance Equations
Fluid Flow in Porous Medium
Oil Well productivity
Gas reservoirs
 Natural gas
 Conventional gas reservoirs
 Estimation initial gas in place
 Unconventional gas reservoir
 Gas and Gas Condensate
Oil Reservoirs
 Saturated Oil Reservoir
 Under Saturated Oil Reservoir
Fractured reservoirs
 Naturally fractured reservoirs
 Behavior of naturally fractured reservoirs
 Hydraulically fractured wells
Oil and Gas Production Problems
 Well Problems and Identification
 Water Coning
 Gas Coning
 Formation Damage
Oil and Gas Production Problems
 Well Work-over Operations
 Hydraulic Fracturing
 Sand Management
 Produced Water Control
 Oil Production and the Environment
Recovery
 Enhanced oil recovery methods
 Miscible methods
 Chemical methods
 Thermal methods
Reservoir Modeling
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Geological modelling (static)
Software programs
Dynamic modelling (simulation)
Reservoir simulators
Simulation position in the field life
Methodology and advantages of reservoir
simulation
 “Black oil” and compositional models
 Modules of typical reservoir simulators
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Final Exam
This syllabus is a guide for the course and any modifications to it will be announced in advance.