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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312150 (v.1) Petrophysics 324

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Area: Department of Petroleum Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Introduction, core recovery handling and preservation procedures, routine and special core analysis, porosity, permeability, fluid saturation, relative permeability, electrical properties of rocks, acoustic properties of rocks, mechanical properties of rocks, capillary pressure, wettability, clays and their influence on rock properties, pore network modelling, hydraulic unit zonation and flow zone indicator, effect of stress on core data, porosity-permeability-stress relationship, naturally fractured reservoirs, rock properties from log analysis, combining core and log data for reservoir characterization, expert system applications in petrophysics.
Field of Education: 030399 Process and Resources Engineering not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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