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PETE 202 – Physics of Oil and Gas Reservoirs
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Undergraduate
Fall, 2014
Rovshan JAVADZADE
rovshan.javadzade@gmail.com
(+994 50) 614 9895
11 Mehseti str. (Neftchilar campus), Room #203N, Saturday
9:00-11:50
Saturday, 12:00 – 13:20 or by appointment
Prerequisites
Language
Compulsory/Elective
English
Required
Required textbooks
and course materials
Core textbook:
Properties of Petroleum Fluids, 2nd Ed., McCain, Penn Well
Supplementary material:
Class Lecture Handouts and Additional Reading Materials
Course website
Course outline
This course provides students with a fundamental background on the determination
and evaluation of fluid, rock and rock-fluid properties of oil and gas reservoirs. Helps
student to understand the fundamental difference in reservoir according to their fluid
properties and how it can affect the reservoir energy. Provides students with a basic
understanding of fluid flow in porous media, two and three phase flow, physical
processes during the displacement of oil by water and gas.
Course objectives
To give an introductory level of understanding about the physical processes that occur
in oil and gas reservoirs, evaluation and correlation of physical properties of
petroleum reservoir fluids, properties of petroleum reservoir rocks - porosity, relative
and effective permeability, compressibility and capillary characteristics, measurement
methods and influencing factors, to improve the physical characterization of oil and
gas reservoirs, and increase understanding of the transport mechanisms for oil, gas
and water in porous rocks in order to contribute to increased oil recovery. To be able
to search the literature on the required subject and topic provided.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course the students should be able:
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Explain the physical meaning and evaluate the impact of fluid and rock properties
in reservoir engineering and production problems.
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Define the Structure and Properties of Porous Materials, Statics of Fluids in
Porous Media, discuss the influencing factors, and describe the methods of
determining values of these properties.
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Understand characteristics of different hydrocarbon reservoirs and their
properties, phase behavior of reservoir fluids, to analyze the phase and ternary
diagrams
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Reproduce the flow equations in differential form, explain their meaning,
integrate the equations for typical reservoir system.
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Explain fluid flow in porous medium, multi-phase flow, displacement
mechanisms, relative permeability, capillary pressure, hysteresis phenomenon,
physical processes that occur during fluid displacement, miscible and immiscible
fluids
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Teaching methods
Evaluation
Policy
Be familiarized with fluid sampling methods and PVT experiments
Lecture
Group discussion
Experiential exercise
Simulation
Case analysis
Course papers
Others
Methods
Midterm Exam
Case studies
Class Participation
Assignment and quizzes
Project
Presentation/Group Discussion
Final Exam
Others
Total
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x
x
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Date/deadlines
08.11.2014
Percentage (%)
30
10
20
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40
100
Preparation for class
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 and cases
from the end of the chapter and sample exam questions.
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Withdrawal (pass/fail)
A student is normally expected to achieve a mark of at least 60% 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.
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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.
We
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Tentative Schedule
1
Date/Day
(tentative)
Topics
Textbook/Assignments
20.09.2014
INTRODUCTION
- “Physics of Oil and Gas Reservoirs” and its role in
Petroleum Engineering
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
-
2
27.09.2014
3
04.10.2014
Petroleum system. Types and composition of
reservoir rocks
Generation of hydrocarbons
Oil and gas composition, hydrocarbon and nonhydrocarbon components
The Role of PVT
PHASE BEHAVIOR
- Pure component system
- Two-component mixtures
- Three-component mixtures
- Ternary diagrams
- Fluids classification
Properties of the Five Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
- Black Oil
- Volatile Oil
- Retrograde Condensate Gas
- Dry Gas
SAMPLING
-
4
11.10.2014
5
18.10.2014
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
 Joule-Thomson effect
Wet Gas
Bottom Hole sampling
Surface sampling
PVT EXPERIMENTS
- Constant mass expansion for oil
- Flash test for oil
- Multi stage test for oil
- Differential liberation for oil
- Viscosity measurement
- Constant mass expansion for gas
condensate
- Constant volume depletion for gas
condensate
- Swelling test
- Multiple contact test
- Gas Chromatography analysis
Structure and Properties of Porous Materials (part 1)
- Porosity
- Specific Surface
- Formation Resistivity Factor
- Rock Compressibility
Structure and Properties of Porous Materials (part 2)
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
─PERMEABILITY
6
25.10.2014
7
01.11.2014
- Darcy’s law
- Radial flow
- Darcy’s law for permeability to gas
- Slip effect and Klinkenberg correction
- Composite porous media
- Permeability-porosity correlation
Statics of Fluids in Porous Media
- Saturations
- Wettability
- Interfacial Tension
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
8
08.11.2014
9
15.11.2014
10
22.11.2014
11
29.11.2014
12
06.12.2014
13
13.12.2014
14
20.12.2014
15
27.12.2014
16
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TBA
Capillary Pressure
MID TERM EXAM
RELATIVE PERMEABILITY
- Effective permeability
- Relative permeability and Wettability
- Characteristics of water-oil relative
permeabilities
- Gas-Liquid relative permeabilities
- Measurement methods
Basics of Fluid Flow in Porous Medium
- Types of Fluids (From its compressibility
point of view)
- Flow Regimes
- Reservoir Geometry
- Techniques for averaging permeabilities
Multiphase Displacement Through Porous Medium
- Drainage
- Imbibition
- (Jamen effect)
- Hysteresis
MISCIBLE and IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS
GAS INJECTION (miscible and immiscible gas)
- First-Contact Miscibility
- Minimum Miscibility Pressure
- Minimum Miscibility Pressure in terms of
Ternary diagram
MULTI-CONTACT MISCIBILITY
- Condensing Gas Drive
- Vaporizing Gas Drive
- Slim Tube Experiments
- Minimum Miscibility Richness
Physical processes in Reservoir Drive Mechanisms –
Primary Recovery
- Fluid expansion and pore shrinkage
- Solution gas drive
- Gas cap expansion
- Natural aquifer influx
- Gravity
- Compaction
Physical processes in Reservoir Drive Mechanisms –
Secondary Recovery and EOR
- Water and Immiscible gas injection
- Thermal/Miscible gas/Chemical methods
- Tongue – Fingering - Coning
FINAL EXAM
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
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Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
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Lecture Notes and
Additional Reading
Materials
This syllabus is a guide for the course and any modifications to it will be announced in advance.