PET E 475: Applied Reservoir Engineering

PET E 475

Course Contents

Predicting Oil Reservoir Performance by the Material Balance Technique

Tracy’s method

Muskat’s method

Tarner’s method

Relating reservoir performance to time

Oil reserve evaluation and production prediction by Decline Curve Analysis

Constant-Percentage Decline

Hyperbolic Decline

Harmonic Decline

Oil reserve estimation and prediction by volumetric methods

Displacement of oil and gas by another fluid

Recovery performance before and after breakthrough

Displacement Efficiency

Areal Sweep Efficiency

Vertical Sweep Efficiency

Reservoir Geostatistics

Basic concepts (e.g., Expected Value, Variance, etc)

Data sources  (well Tests, well Logs, Geophysics, etc) and data assemblage

Kriging and Co-Kriging methods

Monte Carlo Simulation