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ADVANCE RESERVOIR ENGINEERING

2014 Semester 2

Dr. Mohamed Ali

Petroleum Engineering Department

(PED)

Advanced Reservoir Engineering

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General
Instructor: Mohamed Ali Hamid Ali
Office: GP2-210
Office Hours:
Wednesday 11:00-01:00 pm
Friday 11:00-12:00 am

Phone: +60 85 443939 Ext: 2202

E-mail: mohamed.a@curtin.edu.my
Course notes, homework and quiz, and test
solutions will be available at e-learning system.

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Assessment
Final Exam
Course work

45%
55%

Course work:
Test (Fri. 10 Oct. 2014, 4-6 pm)
Assignment (5)
Quiz (5)

40%
10%
05%

Total

55%

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General Remarks
Be punctual: class attendance (maximum late 10
minutes)
Be quiet, set your hand phones in silent mode.
No chat, social networking or sleeping.

On each exam, you will be responsible for all

material covered to that point in the course.
The date of the final is fixed. It is possible, but
unlikely that the times of the other exams will be
changed.

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General Remarks
There will be no makeup of assessments. If you miss a test, you
will receive a zero on the exam. unless (i) you notify me prior
to the exam that you will miss it and (ii) have a medical excuse.
If late submission of assignments or other work is accepted,
students will be penalised by ten percent per calendar day for
a late assessment submission
You cannot pass this course without taking the final exam.
The University policy on attendance and cheating will be
enforced

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Weekly Timetable
Monday

Time: 10-12 am
Venue: GP3-201

Lecture 1

Tuesday

Time: 08-10 am
Venue: GP3-102

Lecture 2

Time: 04-06 pm
Venue: GP3-203
11:00-01:00 pm

Tutorial

Wednesday

Consultation
Thursday

Friday

11:00-12:00 am
Consultation

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Syllabus
1. WTA using Type Curve techniques
2. Material balance for oil and gas reservoirs
3. Material balance with water influx
4. Immiscible displacement
5. Production Performance Forecasting
6. Pseudo functions
7. Enhanced oil recovery

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Syllabus
1. WTA using Type Curve techniques
2. Material balance for oil and gas reservoirs
A type curve is a graphical representation of a particular,
3. Material balance with water influx
highly idealised, theoretical, mathematical model of the
4. Immisciblepressure
displacement
response of the well-reservoir configuration during
welltest procedure.
Type curves are derived from
5. Productiona Performance
Forecasting
solutions to the flow equations under specific initial and
6. Pseudo functions
boundary conditions. For the sake of generality, type curves
presented in dimensionless terms
7. Enhancedare
oilusually
recovery

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Syllabus
1. WTA using Type Curve techniques
2. Material balance for oil and gas reservoirs
3. Material balance with water influx
4. ImmiscibleThe
displacement
material balance equations can be derived by equating
of reservoirForecasting
fluids that exist in and out of the
5. Productionmasses
Performance
reservoir with respect to time during the producing life of a
6. Pseudo functions
hydrocarbon reservoir. Material balance can be performed
easily by analyzing the pressure drop in the reservoir as
7. Enhancedvery
oil recovery
a result of fluid withdrawal from the reservoir.

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Syllabus
1. WTA using Type Curve techniques
2. Material balance for oil and gas reservoirs
3. Material balance with water influx
4. Immiscible displacement
5. ProductionIn Performance
certain geologicalForecasting
settings aquifers have been found that
are so large compared to the reservoirs they adjoin as to
6. Pseudo functions
appear infinite. This chapter will focus on reservoirs that are
7. Enhancedinoilcommunication
recovery with large active aquifers, and will
quantify the effect this communication has on the reservoir
performance.

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Syllabus
1. WTA using Type Curve techniques
2. Material balance for oil and gas reservoirs
3. Material balance with water influx
4. Immiscible displacement
5. ProductionIn Performance
Forecasting
any scientific or engineering application of analytical
6. Pseudo functions
methods, the approach is generally to set up the basic
of the subject, and its mathematical description in
7. Enhancedtheory
oil recovery

one dimension. Such a description is provided through the

displacement theory of Buckley and Leverett. So, this
chapter describes analytical methods of calculating
recovery for an immiscible displacement process in porous
media.
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Syllabus
1. WTA usingReservoir
Type Curve
techniques
production
performance analysis and forecasting
are fundamental
of the reservoir engineer
2. Material balance
for oil responsibilities
and gas reservoirs
and lie at the heart of reserves determination. Several
3. Material balance
techniqueswith
havewater
been influx
developed for the purpose of
forecasting, ranging from simple curve fitting of
4. Immiscibleproduction
displacement
production data to the rigorous physical modelling of the
5. Production
Performance Forecasting
drive mechanisms over time (Decline Curve Analysis).
6. Pseudo functions
7. Enhanced oil recovery

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Syllabus
1. WTA using Type Curve techniques
Immisciblefor
displacement,
most
notably water displacing oil,
2. Material balance
oil and gas
reservoirs
is a key physical phenomenon in many reservoir
3. Material balance
with water influx
developments. A thorough understanding of this topic is
4. Immiscibleessential
displacement
for all reservoir engineers (Chapter3, 1D). This
will now address
the complexities of immiscible
5. Productionchapter
Performance
Forecasting
fluid displacement on a reservoir scale and present
6. Pseudo functions
extensions of the analytical methods already developed.
7. Enhanced oil recovery

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Syllabus
1. WTA using Type Curve techniques
2. Material balance for oil and gas reservoirs
Enhanced with
recovery
refersinflux
to any of a variety of techniques
3. Material balance
water
energy is added to the reservoir in order to
4. Immisciblewhereby
displacement
increase the amount of oil and gas that can be economically
5. Productionrecovered
Performance
Forecasting
from the
reservoir. It is also called tertiary
recovery because it comes after natural and secondary
6. Pseudo functions
recoveries in the production order.
7. Enhanced oil recovery

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Course outline
Week Date

Chapter

4 15 Aug

1. WTA using Type Curve techniques

18 29 Aug

2. Material balance for oil and gas reservoirs

Remarks

Tuition Free Week (1-5 Sep)

3

8 12 Sep

3. Material balance with water influx

15 26 Sep

4. Immiscible displacement

Tuition Free Week (29 Sep- 3 Oct)

5

7 17 Oct

5. Production Performance Forecasting

20 31 Oct

6. Pseudo functions

1 5 Nov

7. Enhanced oil recovery

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TEST

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Course Objectives
Monitor and manage a hydrocarbon reservoir over long term.
Acquire in-depth technical knowledge of a number of
important practical aspects of Reservoir Engineering.
Compared with the unit Fundamentals of Reservoir
Engineering, this unit looks at a hydrocarbon reservoir from a
broader but more practical perspective.

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Course Outcomes
Describe the concept of reservoir
engineering for conventional and
unconventional reservoirs
Estimate hydrocarbon originally in place in
the reservoir, using different methods such
as, material balance, volumetric methods,
and probabilistic method for different types
of drive mechanisms

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Course Outcomes
Use production decline analysis models to perform production
forecasting
Use the Buckley and Leverett theory to evaluate water
flooding performance
Apply Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods to increase
ultimate recovery in various types of reservoirs

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Requirement
Knowledge

Rock Properties
Fluid Properties
Reservoir Engineering
Well Test Analysis
Decline Curve Analysis

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References
There is no single text book for the course, but the following
references could be useful:
Recommended Advance Reservoir Engineering, Course Notes, Aug
2014, Curtin.
Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering by Dake, L P, Elsevier
Practice of Reservoir Engineering By: Dake, L.P., Elsevier
Reservoir Engineering Handbook by Tarek Ahmed, Gulf Professional
Publishing, Elsevier
Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, B C Craft and Hawkins,
Prentice-Hall,Inc
The Properties of Petroleum Fluids, by William D McCain, PennWell
Publishing Company.
Properties of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids, by Emil J. Burcik, IHRDC
Integrated Petroleum Reservoir Management, Abdus Sattar and
Ganesh Thakur, PennWell Publishing Company.
Advanced Reservoir Engineering, by Tarek Ahmed and Paul D
McKinney, Gulf Professional Publishing, Elsevier

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References
Applied Reservoir Engineering, Volume 1 and 2, Smith, C R, Tracy, G W,
Farrar, R L, OGCI and Petro Skills Publications.
Natural Gas Engineering Handbook, by Boyun Guo and Ali Ghalambor, Gulf
Publishing Company
Natural Gas A Basic Handbook, James G Speight, Gulf Publishing
Company
Gas Reservoir Engineering, by John Lee and Robert A Wattenbarger, SPE
Phase Behavior, by Curtis Whitson and Michael Brule, SPE
The Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Waterflooding, by Forrest F Craig, SPE
Pressure Buildup and Flow Tests in Wells, Mathews, C S, Russel, D G, SPE
Enhanced Oil Recovery, Don W Green and G Paul Willhite, SPE
Miscible Displacement, Fred I Stalkup Jr, SPE

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