Properties of Reservoir Rocks
Level: Basic
Upcoming Sessions:
To Be Determined
Please Contact Us at tahmed@mtech.edu for more information
Instructor: Dr. Djebbar Tiab
Designed for:
Newly hired petroleum engineers and other professionals who are interested in obtaining a
fundamental background in reservoir properties.
Course Overview:
This is a basic course aimed at introducing the concepts of reservoir properties to the
newly hired petroleum engineer or other non-technical professionals.
Course Content:
- Introduction to Petroleum Geology
- Introduction to Petroleum Exploration (Video)
- Origin of Petroleum
- Primary and Secondary Migration
- Reservoir Traps (Video)
- Petroleum Exploration Methods
- Coring
- Introduction
- Objectives of Coring Programs
- Conventional Coring
- Core Handling
- Core Alteration and Handling
- Core Alteration During Recovery
- Filtration Invasion
- Core Preservation
- Core Analysis (Video)
- Drill-Stem Testing (Video)
- Test Tool Components
- Interpretation of DST
- Exercises
- Introduction to Petroleum Exploration (Video)
- Porosity and Permeability
- Introduction
- Porosity
- Factors affecting the magnitude of porosity
- Engineering & Geological Classification of Porosity
- Fluid Saturation
- Permeability
- Classification of Permeability
- Measurement of Permeability
- Klinkerberg Effect
- Fluids Contacts
- Wettability & Interfacial Tension
- Capillary Pressure & Water Saturation
- Exercises (11)
- Formation Resistivity and Water Saturation
- Formation water resistivity, chemical analysis
- Shale properties method, correlations
- Resistivity of shaly reservoirs
- Evaluation of shaly reservoirs
- Capillary Pressure and Wettability
- Interfacial tension and capillary pressure
- Wettability
- Pore size distribution
- Fluid Flow Through Porous Media
- Darcy’s law, linear flow through fractures and channels
- Radial flow of oil, unsteady state, pseudosteady state
- Radial flow of gas, turbulent flow
- Multi-permeability rocks, naturally fractured rocks, dual-porosity