Engineering - Course - Reservoir Characterization

This course covers the definition of petroleum reservoir heterogeneity using conventional methods and possible improvements to these methods. It also includes the following topics: reservoir rock properties and their spatial variations, estimation of reserves, introduction to theory and application of geostatistics to reservoir characterization, impact of geologic structure on oil recovery methods, review of basic statistical concepts and methods, reservoir rock and fluid property evaluation by statistical methods. Moreover, the course highlights the emerging methods in petroleum reservoir characterization and the integration of core, log, well test, and seismic data evaluation. It also presents the fundamental geostatistical concepts including: variogram analysis, estimation variance, and kriging. Pre-req.: PTRE202, PTRE303