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Reservoir Fundamentals for Geoscientists & Engineers
Pick up where Introduction to Petroleum Systems leaves off — with oil in a trap — and learn how geoscientists and reservoir engineers answer three questions: how much is there, how fast will it flow, and how much can we recover? Short videos, interactive labs and quizzes take you from porosity and PVT to volumetrics, SPE-PRMS reserves, drive mechanisms, well performance, decline curves and a Niger Delta case study, at the level you need to explain confidently in a graduate interview.
4-5 hours9 sections20 lessons
Course Content
Section 1: 00 - Introduction
1 lessons
Section 2: 01 - Rock Properties
3 lessons
Section 3: 02 - Fluids in the Rock
2 lessons
Section 4: 03 - Reservoir Fluids
2 lessons
Section 5: 04 - How Much Is There?
3 lessons
Section 6: 05 - Drive Mechanisms
2 lessons
Section 7: 06 - Wells and Pressure
2 lessons
Section 8: 07 - Forecasting Production
2 lessons
Section 9: 08 - Recovery
3 lessons
What You'll Learn
- Explain porosity, permeability, saturation and capillary pressure, and what controls each
- Identify reservoir fluid types from the phase envelope and GOR, and use Bo, Rs, Bg and API gravity correctly
- Estimate oil and gas in place with the volumetric equations and express the uncertainty as a range
- Classify volumes under SPE-PRMS and explain P90, P50 and P10 the way the industry uses them
- Diagnose drive mechanisms from pressure, GOR and water-cut trends, and describe well performance using productivity index, skin and IPR
- Forecast production with decline curves (quoted as year-1 effective decline plus b) and material balance, and discuss recovery methods for Niger Delta reservoirs