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Department

of

Petroleum

Engineering

PETE 590: Special Topics

in

Petroleum

Engineering

“

Advanced

Petrophysics”

Instructor

Dr

Hamoud

A

Al

Anazi

Office

Phone

:

Email

:

Class Time

Office

hours:

None

13874

7835

Hamoud

.

anazi

.

l

@

aramco

com

UT 17 1815

TB A

Course

Description:

Credits

:

3

Reservoir

rocks properties,

Interaction of

rocks

with

reservoir fluids

, Porosity

and

permeability

,

Theories of

capillary

pressure

and wettability

,

Relative

permeability

affect on

production

,

Application

of Darcy

’

s law

, Laboratory

procedures

for

determination of

rock

and

fluid properties, Hydrodynamic

dispersion

in

porous media

,

Drainage

and

imbibitions,

Pore

size

distribution

,

Three

phase relative

permeability

,

Surface and

interfacial tension

,

Capillary pressure

hysteresis

Textbook

:

Djebbar

Tiab

and Erie

C. Donaldson:

“

Petrophysics

:

Theory

and

Practice of Measuring Reservoir

Rock

and

Fluid

Transport

Properties

”

Third

Edition

,

2012.

Link

to Textbook

through

KFUPM

Library:

http

://www.sciencedirect.com /

science

/book/

9780123838483

Goals:

To

enable

the student to understand the

main factors

affecting the

petrophysical properties

of

a reservoir

and selec t or

derive the

proper correlations

/models needed to assess and

predict

the

reservoir petrophysics

.

Prerequisite: Graduate

Standing

Topics

:

1

Mineral

Composition

of

Reservoir

Rocks

Sandstone

b

Carbonate

C

Clay Minerals

2

Porosity

Types of

Porosity

Classification of Porosity

Factors Affecting

Sandstone and

Carbonate Porosity

3

Permeability

Laboratory Determination

of Permeability

conventional and

pressure

pulse

decay

techniques

, advantages

and

disadvantages

of each

technique


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Field

D

etermination

of

Permeability

O

ther

than

we

ll testing

techniq

ues

Meas

urement o

f Directiona

l

Perme

ability Using

Whole

Cores

c

onventional and pressure

pulse decay

techniques

advantages

and

disadvan

tages

of

each

techniqu

e

Labora

tory

Determi

nation

of

Non

Darcy

Flow

Coefficient

Fact

ors

ffecting Permeability

Permeability

Porosity

and

other

Well Log

Parameters Correlations

Empiric

al

Correlation for

Pe

rmeability

and Hydraulic

Condu

ctivity

Permeabilit

y

D

istribution

Wettabi

lity

Conce

pt

of

Wettability

Determ

ination of Wettabilit

y

Using

Contact

n

gle

,

m

ott

US M

,

and

N

MR

Cla

ssification

of

Wettability

of

Petroleum

Reser

voirs

Ef

fect

of

Wettability on

Rock/F

luid Interactio

ns and Reco

very

Rest

oration

of Original

Wettability

Wettability lteration

Ca

pillarity

an

d

C

apillary

Pressure

Concept

of

Capil

larity and Capi

llary Pres

sure

Surface and Interfa

cial

Tensions

Measurement

s of

surface and

Interfacia

l

Tension

s

Drainag

e and

I

mbibition

F

actors ffectin

g Capillar

y

Pre

ssure

C

urve

Ca

pillary Pr

essure

Measureme

nts

using

Porous

Plat

e

and

Centri

fuge

m

ethods

Conversion

s

of

Lab

oratory Capi

llary

Pressur

e Da

ta

to

R

eservoir

Conditions

veraging

Capillary

Pressure Dat

a

Capillar

y Pressur

e

Hyst

eresis

Capilla

ry

Im

bibition

Pore Size Distri

bu tion from

Mercur

y

Capi

llary Pressure

Est

imation o

f

Permeability

from

Mercury Capillary

Pr

essure

Pore Size Distribution from

NMR

Capillary

Pressure

Evaluation u

sing

Pore

Scale

Mod

eling

C

apillary

P

ressure for Natur

ally

Fractu

red Reservo

irs

6

Relative

P

ermeabilities

Concepts

of

Effective

and

Relative

Permeabilities

Labor

atory

Measure

ment

of

Two

Phase

Relative

Permeabiliti

es

by

Steady St

ate Method

Laborator

y

M

easurement

of

T

wo

Phase

Relat

ive

Perm

eabilities

b

y

Unsteady

State Met

hod

nalysis

of

Steady

Stat

e

and

Unsteady State

Relative

Permeability

Data

including

Capillary

Pressure

an

d Capillarity

Pressure

End

Ef

fects

Fact

ors

ffecting

Relat

ive

Permea

bilities

Relative Permeability

Model

s

Modeling

Primary Draina

ge

Re

lative P

ermeability f

or

Rock Types


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Measure of

R

eservoir

Heter

ogeneity

D

ykstra

P

arsons

Coefficie

nt

Lorenz

Coe

fficient

H

ydraulic

Flow Unit

8

H

ydrodynamic Disper

sion

in

Porous

Media

Concept

of

Dispersion

Mechanica

l

Di

spersion

Molecular

Dif

fusion

Convec

tion

Dispersion

Equ

ation

Miscible

Dis

placement

Equation

Determin

ation of

D

ispersion

Co

efficient

Lon

gitudinal D

ispersion

Coef

ficient

Longitu

dinal Dispers

ivity

T

ransverse

Dispers

ion

Co

efficient

Trans

verse

Dis

pe rsivity

Factors

Affecting

Dispers

ion

Coeff

icients

Dimension

al

Analysis

of Dispersio

n

in

Porou

s

Media

9

Na

tural ractured Reservoirs

Definitio

n and Classif

ication

Physical

Characteris

tics

of

Fr

actures

a

nd

F

racture

Patterns

Double

and triple porosity

A

Triple Porosity

Model for Petrophy

sical

Analy

sis of Naturally

Fractured

Rese

rvoirs

Evaluat

ion of

Matri

x

Fracture

Imbib

ition

Trans

fer

Functions

C

omputer

Usage

:

MS Exc

el

an

d

W

ord

Prepared

by

:

Dr

Hamoud A

Al

Ana

zi

Add

itional

R

emarks

Term

Project

:

A

term project will

be

gi

ven

and

focusin

g

on

writing

a

report

that

describe

s

/

calculates the es

sential petro

physica l

properties

of

such

re

servoirs us

ing

some

ac

tua l

core d

ata

/

l

ab

measuremen

ts

Grading

Homework

Assignme

nts

10

Atte

ndance

and

p

articipation

5

Mid

Term Exam

30

Term

P

roject

15

F

inal

Exam

40

Class Rules

Atten

dance is

mandatory

No

ma

ke

up

exams

Assi

gnments

w

ill be

given

on

week

ly basis

and

will

be

due the

follo

wing week

Assignment

s

will be

gra

ded

for eff

ort

a

nd

correctness

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