312150 (v.1) Petrophysics 324

Area:	Department of Petroleum Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
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.
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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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