Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals

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1. 1

   The Reservoir Engineer and the Field Life Cycle

   • What Reservoir Engineering Is For
   • The Field Life Cycle and the Engineer’s Tasks
   • Reservoir Pressure, Temperature and Oilfield Units
   • Reservoir Data and the Integrated Asset Team
2. 2

   Rock Properties

   • Porosity: Where the Fluids Are Stored
   • Permeability and Darcy’s Law
   • Fluid Saturation and Wettability
   • Capillary Pressure and the Transition Zone
   • Reading Relative Permeability Curves
3. 3

   Reservoir Fluids and PVT

   • Hydrocarbon Phase Behaviour and the Phase Envelope
   • The Five Reservoir Fluid Types
   • Oil PVT Properties: Bo, Rs, Bubble Point and Viscosity
   • Gas PVT: the z-Factor and Bg
   • PVT Sampling and Laboratory Tests
4. 4

   Hydrocarbons in Place, Uncertainty and Reserves

   • Volumetric Estimate of Oil in Place (STOIIP)
   • Volumetric Estimate of Gas in Place (GIIP)
   • Uncertainty and Probabilistic Estimates
   • SPE-PRMS: Reserves and Resources in Plain Terms
   • Recovery Factors and Estimating Recoverable Volumes
5. 5

   Drive Mechanisms and Material Balance

   • Primary Recovery and Solution Gas Drive
   • Gas Cap Drive
   • Water Drive and Aquifer Support
   • Compaction, Gravity Drainage and Combination Drives
   • The Material Balance Concept
   • Gas Material Balance and the p/z Plot
6. 6

   Well Performance and Production Forecasting

   • Radial Flow into a Well
   • Productivity Index and Inflow Performance
   • Skin: Damage and Stimulation
   • Pressure Transient Testing in Outline
   • Decline Curve Analysis: the Arps Family
   • Exponential Decline: A Worked Forecast
7. 7

   Improved Recovery, Simulation and Reservoir Management

   • Waterflooding: Displacement and Mobility Ratio
   • Sweep Efficiency and Waterflood Performance
   • Gas Injection, Pressure Maintenance and EOR in Overview
   • Reservoir Simulation Explained
   • History Matching and Forecast Uncertainty
   • Reservoir Surveillance and Management