Reservoir Engineering

Basic Reservoir Engineering

This course presents the geologic origins and the important properties of petroleum reservoirs, and how to estimate their potential production. Participants learn through a combination of class problems, examples and workshops.

Topics Include

• Depositional environments, basic structures, and hydrocarbon traps
• Large scale exploration techniques
• The properties of reservoir rock, such as porosity, fluid saturation, pore volume, and permeability
• Reservoir fluid properties, such as API gravity, formation volume factor, gas solubility, density, and viscosity
• Common classes of reservoirs according to the types of fluids they contain and their characteristic performance
• Sources of reservoir data

Who Should Attend

This course is for engineers and technologists who want to learn more about reservoir engineering.