PEEN6004 (v.1) Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering
| Area: | WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering |
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| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 4.0 |
| TUITION PATTERNS: | The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline. |
| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
| Equivalent(s): |
313061 (v.1)
Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering 605
or any previous version
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| UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: | The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline. |
| Syllabus: | This unit covers the fundamental knowledge a petroleum reservoir engineer needs to know in providing a qualitative and quantitative description of a hydrocarbon reservoir and how to manage its performance. The first 4 chapters, apart from covering basic rock and fluid properties (e.g. porosity, saturation, gas-oil ratio (GoR), gas solubility (Rs), formation volume factor (FVF), etc.), they also define and discuss concepts such the volumetrics, reserves, reservoir drive mechanisms, recovery factor and static fluid distribution in real hydrocarbon reservoirs. From chapter 5 to chapter 8, the fundamentals of reservoir dynamics are covered. Initially, the Darcy’s Law and its applications are discussed in details. Then, the Radial Diffusivity Equation (RDE) is derived and used to model fluid flow in porous rocks under various flowing phases. Chapter 7 covers the basics of transient well testing of oil wells where the transient solution to RDE is used to analyse the results of drawdown and build-up tests in the context of some basic reservoir heterogeneities such the presence of a single sealing fault. The last chapter covers the derivation of a new version of RDE using the gas pseudo pressure suitable for handling gas flow in porous media. It also covers the derivation of various forms of deliverability equation for gas wells and how they can be used to interpret the results of different types of deliverability tests. |
| Field of Education: | 030303 Mining Engineering |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Fully Online |
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| 2020 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | ||
| 2020 | Miri Sarawak Campus | Semester 1 | Y |
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Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
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