Course

Reservoir Engineering II - PTRL6007

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Petroleum Engineering

Course Outline: http://www.petrol.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: enrolment in Petroleum Open Learning program

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Pore-scale description of fluid distribution and displacement. Relative permeability and extension of Darcy's law to multi-phase flow. Fractional flow theory and displacement efficiency. Heterogeneity and sweep efficiency. Estimation of field recovery factors. Gravity stabilized displacements. Water and gas coning for vertical and horizontal wells. Decline curve analysis. Natural water influx and aquifer history matching. Pseudo-relative permeability and capillary pressure, calculation of dynamic and vertical equilibrium pseudos. Use of pseudo functions in reservoir simulation.
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