Reservoir Engineering detail syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (Petro), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17PC63), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
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Course Objectives:
To enable the students to
- Understand the rock and fluid properties of a hydrocarbon reservoir
- Describe the nature of the fluid flow and pressure distribution in a reservoir
- Understand the effects of production/ injection on recovery of reserves
Module 1
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Module 2
Reservoir Geology and Geophysics: Geological models, Hydrocarbon generation and migration, reservoirs, Traps, Seismic development survey, Example of reservoirs. Fundamentals of reservoir fluid flow- reservoir geometry, fluid flow equations, steady state and unsteady state flow, constant terminal pressure solution. Horizontal and vertical oil well and gas well performance.
Module 3
Reservoir fluid behaviour and properties-classification of reservoir and reservoir fluids. Properties of natural gases. Direct calculation of compressibility factors. Methods of calculating viscosity of natural gases, properties of crude oil systems. Methods of calculating viscosity of the dead oil. Properties of reservoir water. Analysis of reservoir fluid and rock properties-composition of reservoir fluid, separation test, laboratory analysis of gas condensate system, porosity and capillary pressure. Rock compressibility, reservoir
heterogeneity. Dynamic pseudo-relative permeabilities, two phase and three phase relative permeability.
Module 4
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Module 5
Water flooding and vapour liquid phase equilibrium- factors to consider in water flooding, optimum time to water flooding, selection of flooding patterns, overall recovery efficiency, displacement efficiency, vertical sweep efficiency. Equilibrium ratio, flash calculations, equilibrium ratios for real solution. Application of the equilibrium ratio in reservoir engineering.
Course Outcomes:
Students will understand the location, formation, fluid content of a hydrocarbon reservoir; understand the definitions of reserves; be aware of the role of reservoir engineering in exploration and development
Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):
- Critical Thinking
- Problem solving
- Use of modern tools
- Life – long Learning
- Collaborative and multidisciplinary work
Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
- There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- L.P.Dake L Elsevier, Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering, Development in Petroleum Science. 1980
- Craft B.C and Hawkins M.F. – Applied Petroleum R eservoir Engineering 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1991
Reference Books:
- Dake, L.P. Practice of Reservoir Engineering Elsevier 2001
- William C.Lyons, Gary J.Plisga Standard Hand Bo ok of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering Second Edition – (Elsevier), Gulf Publ ishing, Burlington U.S.A (2005).
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