Reservoir Rocks and Fluid Properties detail syllabus for various departments, 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17PC563), 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:
This course enables students to
- Petroleum reservoir system and fluid properties
- Basic principles and operations in upstream petroleum industry
Module 1
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Module 2
Porosity and Permeability relationship -Porosity. Permeability. Porosity – Permeability relationship. Electrical properties of rocks. Measurement of formation resistivity. Correlation of FR with porosity, permeability and water saturation. FR of Shaley Reservoir rocks. Formation evaluation.
Module 3
Capillary Pressure and Well ability – Fluid Saturation and Capacity pressure. Determination of capillary pressure. Pore size distribution. Wettability. Evaluation of wettability and its effect on oil recovery. Alteration of wettability. Effect of wettability on electrical properties of rocks.
Module 4
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Module 5
Reservoir fluid properties – Phase behaviour of Hydrocarbon system. Fluid rock interactions. Reservoir fluid characteristics. PVT analysis. Flashliberation and differential liberation study.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course students are able to learn the use of Darcy’s Law to calculate permeability of single phase; definition of interfacial tension; use of capillary pressure to determine saturation changes in reservoir; definition of effective and relative permeability; use of drainage/imbibition curves to characterize reservoir relative permeability.
Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):
- Critical Thinking
- Problem solving
- Use of modern tools
- Research Skill
- Life-long learning
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:
- Craft, B.C. and Hawkins M.F. Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering second edition, Prentice-Hall (1991)
- DjebbarTiab : Theory and pratice of measuring R eservoir rock and fluid Transport properties
Reference Books:
- Amyx, J.W., Bass D.M. & Whiting., R.L., Petrole um Reservoir Engineering McGraw Hill 1998
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