Course: Reservoir Engineering

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Course title Reservoir Engineering
Course code KGE/XRE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Exercise
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Spirov Pavel, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Module 1 and 2: introduction to oil and gas, introduction to reservoir, formation of reservoirs, geochemistry, crude oil origin, source rocks, reservoir rocks, kerogen types, oil window, elemental composition of crude oil and gas, basic analytical methods, migration of hydrocarbons, requirement for formation of oil and gas fields, overview of oil and gas reserves, Petroleum chemistry: Overview Module 3: - Exploration of oil and gas field, - Anatomy of oil and gas fields, contour maps - Hydrocarbon traps - Elysian and artesian water drives Module 4: - Exploration - Seismic methods - Gravity methods - Resistivity methods - Borehole methods Module 5: Seismic method in details - 3 D seismic - Refraction - Reflection - VSP method - 4 dimension Module 5 Reservoir types, trap types, reserves Module 6: - PVT properties of oil, binary diagrams, classification of oil and gas reservoirs, oil reservoirs such as: Undersaturated oil reservoir, Saturated oil reservoir, Gas-cap reservoir. There will be also explained : black oil, ordinary, low shrinkage oil, near critical oil, low volatile oil.......), In gas reservoirs will be: Retrograde gas-condensate, Near-critical gas-condensate, Wet gas, Dry gas) Module 7 Reservoir fluid properties - Natural gases - Crude oil systems - Reservoir water systems Gases = Ideal gases, Real gases EFFECT OF NONHYDROCARBON COMPONENTS ON THE Z-FACTOR, COMPRESSIBILITY OF NATURAL GASES, Z - compressibility factor, Gas formation volume factor, Gas formation volume factor, Exercise on PV = RT Exercise on gas compressibility factor - z Module 8 Properties of crude oil systems Fluid gravity Specific gravity of the solution gas Gas solubility Bubble-point pressure Oil formation volume factor Isothermal compressibility coefficient of undersaturated crude oils Oil density Total formation volume factor Crude oil viscosity Surface tension Crude oil gravity - Exercise Module 9 - development and production Stages of development Primary, Secondary, Tertiary recovery Natural drive mechanisms - Water drive (artesian and ellision) , Solution gas drive, Gas cap drive, Gravitational Module 10 - volumetric, calculation of reserves Calculation of volumes Calculating Gross Reservoir Volume (GRV) Module 11 - Reservoir fluid flow , one phase flow Types of fluids in the reservoir Flow regimes Reservoir geometry Number of flowing fluids in the reservoir Module 12 - multiple phase flow Frontal displacement Buckley-Leverett theory Calculation of the speed of a Section Sw Module 13 - Recovery Recovery factor, Analysis of efficiencies, Areal sweep efficiency, Displacement efficiency Module 14 - Introduction to EOR Various EOR such as chemical, biological, CO2, thermal methods Exercises and lab work: - Distillation, basic understanding of distillation - Drawing of contour maps - Understanding of chromatograms - Viscosity and density, Exercise: crude oil gravity - PVT diagrams - Calculation of reserves - Formation volume factor calculation

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes

After competition of this course, students will know basement of reservoir engineering. They will gain essential knowledge which each oil/gas engineer should know.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Participation in lectures, assignments, lab work.
Recommended literature
  • Ali Danesh. (1998). PVT and Phase Behaviour of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids. Elsevier.
  • R. Cossé. (1993). Basics of Reservoir Engineering. Editions Technip.
  • Tarek Ahmed. (2001). Reservoir engineering handbook. Gulf Pub.


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