Application of ABET Criterion

King Saud University

Petroleum Engineering Department
PGE 361: 2(2,1,0)
Reservoir Rock Properties and Fluid Flow

Instructor:

Assistant Professor. Ahmed A. Gawish, Petroleum Engineering

Office: 2B-86.
Phone: 966 1 4676889
E-mail: agawish@ksu.edu.sa

Textbooks:
1. Applied Reservoir Engineering. Chapter (2) (Properties of Reservoir Rocks)
By Charles R. Smith, et. al.
2. Petroleum Reservoir Engineering (Physical Properties) Chapters (2, and 3),
James W. Amyx, et. al. 1960.
3. Reservoir Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, Gulf Professional
Publishing, Chapters (4, and 5), Tarek Ahmed 2001.
4. Petroleum Engineering Handbook Chapter (26), Howard B. Bradley, et. al.
Third printing SPE. 1992.
5. Principles of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Chapter (3) By Gian Luigi
Chierici, Translated from the Italian by Peter J. Westaway, 1995.
6. Worldwide Practical Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Methods, H.C. "Slip"
Slider, 1983.
7. Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific
Publishing Company, Dake, 1978.
Prerequisite:

PE 251

Description

Porosity and its types, permeability and its types, capillary pressure curves,
laboratory determination of physical properties (core analysis), subsurface
measurement, steady state and unsteady state flow of incompressible and
compressible fluids in linear and radial porous system.

Objectives:

To instruct the students in the fundamentals of reservoir rock properties and

flow of fluids through porous media.

Topics Covered:
1. Rock Porosity: definition of porosity, total porosity, absolute porosity,
primary and secondary porosity, factors affecting porosity, measurement of
porosity, and subsurface measurement of porosity (3 classes)
2. Permeability: definition of permeability, absolute permeability, effective
permeability. General form of Darcy's law, single phase flow of
incompressible, slightly compressible and compressible fluid in linear and
radial porous media. Horizontal and vertical flow, Klinkenberg effect.

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Average absolute permeability, weighted, harmonic, and geometric average

permeability. Flow in channels and fractures. Measurment of permeability.
Absolute permeability correlations, Timur, Morris-Biggs equations. (10
classes)
Fluid Saturations: definition and the significance of the critical saturation for
each phase, methods for determining fluid saturations, factors affecting fluid
saturation. ( 2 classes)
Wettability definition and calculation, surface and interfacial tension, capillary
pressure, laboratory measurements of capillary pressure, capillary pressure
curves and hysteresis, initial saturation distribution in a reservoir, Leverett JFunction, and converting laboratory capillary data. (5 classes)
Single phase flow in porous rock and multiphase flow in porous rock: Darcy's
equation and reservoir systems, relative permeability, drainage and imbibition
process. Effective and relative permeability, laboratory determination of
relative permeability, two-phase relative permeability correlations, relative
permeability from capillary pressure data, relative permeability from
analytical equations, relative permeability ratio, dynamic pseudo-relative
permeabilitys, normalization and averaging relative permeability data. Threephase relative permeability use of effective and relative permeability. (7
classes)
Electrical properties of rock-fluid systems: electrical conductivity of fluid
saturated rock, use of electrical formation resistivity factor, cementation
factor, and saturation exponent resistivity relations, measurement of electrical
properties of rock, effect of clay on resistivity. empirical correlation of
electrical properties. (3 classes)
Classes problems (16 classes)
Tests: (2 classes plus final exam.)

Classes/Tutorials: Class are held two times per week in 50 minutes lectures plus one tutorial
class of 50 minutes per week
Evaluation

10% for Attendance, participation, quizzes and home works. 40% for two
midterm exams and 50% for the final examination.

Course Improvement Actions:

Some basic background and prerequisite material are often reviewed during this course.
Course contents are regularly reviewed and up to date materials are quoted.