Reservoir Rock Properties

(Rock/Fluid Properties)
Class time: 10-10:50 MWF
Instructor: James Sheng,
Office: 211A
806 834 8477
james.sheng@ttu.edu

Open office:
After class
4-5 pm, MWF,
4-5 pm everyday one week before exams
Drop by or by appointment

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CEOs Objective?

Contents of the Course

Coring
Porosity
Fluid saturation
Permeability
Relative permeability
Capillary pressure
Interfacial tension
Wettability
Mechanical properties
Electrical properties

How much oil?

How fast oil comes?

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How oil gas water

Distributed?

How fast for each?

Objective:
Understand the fundamental concepts about
reservoir rocks
interactions between rocks and fluids
It is necessary to understand these fundamentals
for future petroleum courses.

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Prerequisites:
ENGL 1302 English, MATH 2350 Calculus III
CE 3305/ME 3370 Fluid mechanics
PHYS 2401 Physics II
PETR 3302 (corequisite) Reservoir Fluid Properties

References
1. Abhijit Y. Dandekar. 2006. Petroleum Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties.

2. PETR-3402 Reservoir Rock properties Laboratory Manual, Fall 2010.

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Rules
Classroom:
No cell phone
No iPad
No computer
Attendance is required.
Going out of and coming back to class is a rude attitude.
Disruptive behaviors will lead to a lower grade or grade F.
Homewok:
Submission by deadlines
25% deduction for 1 day late
Solutions to homework will not be released,
But simple answers or explanations will be given in class.
No correction for grades after one week.
Mid-term but not final
exam
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Sheng be returned.

Grading rules
Points
Assignments 15
Quiz
15
Mid-tem exam 15
Final exam
30
Lab
25
--------------------------------Total
100
Grade
A
B
C
D
F

Points
90-100
80-89
70-79
60-69
<60

If your score is near a boundary of two grades

(e.g. between A and B), your final grade will
depend on your attendance, class behaviors,
numbers of finished homework and quizzes.
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Petroleum Professionals and Their Roles

Geologist Find possible oil deposits

Geophysicist Image oil reservoir structures

Drilling engineer Drill wells
Completion engineer Design wells (configurations)
Production engineer Produce oil (wellbore flow)

Facility engineer Design field facilities to transport oil (above ground flow)
Petrophysicist Interpret rock/fluid properties from logging data
Reservoir engineer Design how to develop the field (underground flow)

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Petroleum Professionals and Their Needs to Know Rock/Fluid Properties

Geologist Find possible oil deposits

Lithology, petrography, depositional environment

Geophysicist Image oil reservoir structures

Seismic wave velocity depends on rock density

Drilling engineer Drill wells

Drilling bits depends on rock strength

Completion engineer Design wells (configurations)
How to leave well open depends on consolidated or unconsolidated sands
Production engineer Produce oil (wellbore flow)
Producing sand or not determines the method and equipment

Facility engineer Design field facilities to transport oil (above ground flow)
Not much rock, but fluid properties

Petrophysicist Interpret rock/fluid properties from logging data

Used most of data
Reservoir engineer Design how to develop the field (underground flow)
Used most of test and interpreted results
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