MRED 407 RESERVOIR ENGINEERING I

Theory: Introduction to Petroleum Engineering, physical and chemical properties of hydrocarbon (HC) mixtures, Gibbs phase law, phase equilibria of a pure substance, binary and multiple systems; phase windows; properties and constitutive equations of gases, volumetric coefficient of gas phase; properties and constitutive equations of liquids, volumetric coefficient of liquid phase; properties of biphasic systems, total volumetric coefficient of transformation; phase equilibria, equilibrium coefficients; sampling methods for liquid reservoirs (LR), properties of LR; oil, gas condensates, surface separations of HCl; transformations of PVT data, Petroleum Engineering correlations.

Laboratory exercises: program PVTlab; phase equilibrium (P-T) diagram of oil; boiling point and compressibility coefficient of HC mixture; volumetric oil production coefficient (Bo) and gas to liquid ratio (GOR), chromatographic analysis of produced HC gases and liquids and calculation of the composition of the oil in the reservoir; WinProp simulator.