PETE 343
PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING I
Fall 2008-2009
Dr. Parlaktuna
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Estimation of hydrocarbon pore volume and recovery factor. Classification of oil reservoirs.
Reservoir performance prediction for solution gas drive, water drive, gas-cap drive, drainage
and combination drive reservoirs using material balance approach. Water influx theory. Water
and gas coning in oil producing formations. Characterization of fractured reservoirs. Decline
Curve Analysis.
COURSE OUTLINE
1. Introduction
2. Review of Fundamental Rock and Fluid Properties
3. Reservoir Drive Mechanisms, Reserve Estimates
3.1. Drive Mechanisms
3.2. Volumetric Calculations
3.3. Reserve Definitions
3.4. Probabilistic Approach for Reserve Estimates
4. Material Balance Equations
4.1. Introduction
4.2. General Material Balance Equation
4.3. Material Balance Equations for Different Drive Mechanisms
4.4. Material Balance Expressed as a Linear Equation
5. Fluid Flow through Porous Media
5.1 Single phase steady state and pseudo steady state model
5.2 Definition and derivation of volumetric average pressure equations
5.3 One well and multi well problems - Superposition
6. Water Influx
7. Predictive Methods for Reservoir Performance
6.1. Tarner Method
6.2. Schilthius Method
6.3 Havlena Odeh Method
8. Decline Curve Analysis
9. Coning (Reading Assignments)
Books:
Course Book: Dake, L.P., (1978) Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering, Elsevier Scientific
Publishing Company, Amsterdam
Reference Book: Craft B.C., Hawkins, M.F., (1959) Applied Petroleum Reservoir
Engineering, Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey.
Midterms:
1st Midterm:
2nd Midterm:
November 8, 2008
December 27, 2008
Grading:
Midterm I and II
Final
Homeworks
(Saturday)
(Saturday)
20 % each
30 %
30 %