Reservoir Engineering detailed syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (PE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the PE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Petroleum Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PE 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of reservoir engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
Introduction to Reservoir Engineering, Basic principles, definitions and data – Reservoir fluids, oil, gas, Gas formation volume factor, oil formation, volume factor, water formation volume factor – oil, gas water, rock compressibility – Resistivity index, wettability and contact angle, effective permeability characteristics, capillary pressure curves – Resistivity factors and saturation exponents. Fluid PVT analysis and oil gas phase behaviour.
Unit II
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Unit III
Multi-phase flow: Relative permeability-fractional flow. Well performance – inflow performance, tubing performance.
Unit IV
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Unit V
Well performance – Reservoir management and simulation – reservoir data acquisition – Reservoir simulation. Mathematical basis of bottom hole analysis; Differential equations for radial flow in a porous medium. Pressure draw down and build up analysis.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
On completion of the course, the students would
- L.P. Dake L Elsevier, Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering, Development in Petroleum Science. 1980
- Craft, B.C. and Hawkins M.F. revised by Ronald E. Terry and J. Brandon Rogers Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering third edition, Prentice-Hall (2014)
Reference Books:
- Craft, B.C. and Hawkins M.F. revised by Ronald E. Terry and J.Brandon Rogers Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering third edition, Prentice-Hall (2014)
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