PE3403 Reservoir Engineering Syllabus:

PE3403 Reservoir Engineering Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

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

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

Fluid flow in reservoirs, Fluid movement in water flooded Reservoirs – Recovery efficiency – Areal or pattern. Sweep efficiency, – Vertical or invasion sweep efficiency, – Permeability variation – Cross flow – Estimates of volumetric sweep efficiency – Estimation of water flood recovery by material balance – prediction methods – Monitoring injectivity. Darcy Law and application.

UNIT III

Multi-phase flow: Relative permeability-fractional flow. Well performance – inflow performance, tubing performance.

UNIT IV

Recommended methods for assessing residual oil – Existing wells, new wells, Chemical Flooding, Gas injection, Thermal recovery – Well Testing.

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.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

On completion of the course students are expected to
CO1: Gain the knowledge about the reservoir fluids and their properties.
CO2: Obtain the knowledge of rocks present over the reservoir.
CO3: Gain the knowledge about the multiphase flow and well performance
CO4: Understand the concepts of the oil/gas recovery techniques.
CO5: Understand the mathematical relationships that are designed to describe the flow behaviour of the reservoir fluids.

TEXT BOOKS:

On completion of the course, the students would
1.L.P. Dake L Elsevier, “Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering”, Development in Petroleum Science. 1980
2.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:

1. 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)