Elements of Reservoir Rocks & Fluid Properties

1. Oil
Rock
Ekeh Modesty (P.Eng)
Dept. of Petroleum Engineering
UCSI University
Email: ekehmodesty@ucsi.edu.my
water

2.  Test 1 10%
 Mid Term 20%
 Test 2 10%
 Laboratory 10%
 Final Exams 50%

3. The aim of this course it to introduce students to;
1. Critical Reservoir Rock properties (oil,gas & water) and PVT
relationship
2. Importance of porosity and permeability
3. Single & multiple Phase Flow in porous rock
4. Electrical Properties of rock-fluid system
5. Basic reservoir fluid behaviour

4.  Upon completion of this course student should know;
• Definitions of porosity , saturation and how they are used to estimate oil
and/or gas,
• Determine the physical nature of a reservoir.
 Determine the chemical composition of reservoir fluids and their effect on
geological and engineering studies.
• The definitions of absolute, effective and two and three phase relative
permeabilities.
• Have the ability to calculate flow rates from Darcy’s law for both single and
multiphase flow conditions under linear or radial flow
• Understand hydrocarbon phase behaviour
• Identify types reservoir fluid from P-T phase diagram
• Define and calculate formation volume factors of reservoir fluids

5.  Petroleum Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties, by Abhijit Y. Dandekar,
pub. Gulf Publishing Company, ISBN-10 0849330432
 Reference Books
1. McCain, W.D., Jr.: The Properties of Petroleum Fluids, Publisher: CRC
(February 23, 2006). ISBN-10: 0849330432 ,ISBN-13: 978-
0849330438
2. Robert, P.M.: Properties of Reservoir Rocks: Core Analysis, Gulf Publishing
Company (1980)

6. Knowledge makes
the difference ?