This document discusses different types of oil reservoirs based on their driving mechanisms and fluid compositions. There are six main driving mechanisms that provide natural energy for oil recovery: rock and liquid expansion, depletion, gas cap, water, gravity, and combination drives. Reservoirs are also classified based on their initial pressure and temperature relative to the fluid properties. Depending on initial reservoir pressure compared to the bubble point pressure, reservoirs can be undersaturated, saturated, or gas-cap. Gas reservoirs are classified based on their phase diagrams as retrograde gas-condensate, near-critical gas-condensate, wet gas, or dry gas. Development considerations vary depending on the reservoir type and conditions.

1. Oil RESERVOIR

2. There are basically six driving mechanisms
that provide the natural energy necessary
for oil recovery:
• Rock and liquid expansion drive
• Depletion drive
• Gas cap drive
• Water drive
• Gravity drainage drive
• Combination drive

3. The Depletion Drive Mechanism
This driving form may also be referred to by the following
various terms:
• Solution gas drive
• Dissolved gas drive
• Internal gas drive

4. In this type of reservoir, the principal source of
energy is a result of gas liberation from the crude
oil and the subsequent expansion of the solution
gas as the reservoir pressure is reduced. As
pressure falls below the bubble-point pressure,
gas bubbles are liberated within the micro- scopic
pore spaces. These bubbles expand and force the
crude oil out of the pore space as shown
conceptually in Figure below.
The Depletion Drive Mechanism

5. Solution Gas Drive Reservoir
OIL
OIL + GAS

6. Water Drive Oil
Reservoir

7. WATER DRIVE RESERVOIR

8. Gas Cap Drive Reservoir
Gas-cap-drive reservoirs can be identified by
the presence of a gas cap with little or no
water drive as shown in Figure below.
Due to the ability of the gas cap to expand,
these reservoirs are charac- terized by a
slow decline in the reservoir pressure.

9. Combination Drive
Reservoir

10. Gas Cap Drive Reservoir

11. The Gravity-Drainage-Drive Mechanism
The mechanism of gravity drainage occurs in
petroleum reservoirs as a result of differences in
densities of the reservoir fluids.

12. Factors that affect ultimate recovery
from gravity-drainage reservoirs are:
• Permeability in the direction of dip
• Dip of the reservoir
• Reservoir producing rates
• Oil viscosity
• Relative permeability characteristics

14. Gravity Drainage Reservoir

15. Gravity Drainage Reservoir
Injection Well
Production
Well

16. Petroleum reservoirs are broadly classified as oil or gas
reservoirs. These broad classifications are further
subdivided depending on:
• The composition of the reservoir hydrocarbon
mixture
• Initial reservoir pressure and temperature
• Pressure and temperature of the surface
production
CLASSIFICATION OF RESERVOIRS AND
RESERVOIR FLUIDS

17. Pressure-Temperature Diagram
Figure 1-1 shows a typical pressure-temperature
diagram of a multi- component system with a
specific overall composition. Although a dif-
ferent hydrocarbon system would have a different
phase diagram, the general configuration is
similar.

18. Typical P-T Diagram of
Hydrocarbon Fluids

20. Oil Reservoirs
Depending upon initial reservoir pressure pi, oil reservoirs can be sub- classified into
the following categories:
1. Undersaturated oil reservoir. If the initial reservoir pressure pi (as represented by
point 1 on Figure 1-1), is greater than the bubble-point pressure pb of the
reservoir fluid, the reservoir is labeled an undersatu- rated oil reservoir.
2. Saturated oil reservoir. When the initial reservoir pressure is equal to the bubble-
point pressure of the reservoir fluid, as shown on Figure 1-1 by point 2, the
reservoir is called a saturated oil reservoir.
3. Gas-cap reservoir. If the initial reservoir pressure is below the bubble- point
pressure of the reservoir fluid, as indicated by point 3 on Figure 1-1, the reservoir
is termed a gas-cap or two-phase reservoir, in which the gas or vapor phase is
underlain by an oil phase. The appropriate quality line gives the ratio of the gas-
cap volume to reservoir oil volume.

22. Gas Reservoirs
In general, if the reservoir temperature is above the
critical tempera- ture of the hydrocarbon system,
the reservoir is classified as a natural gas reservoir.
On the basis of their phase diagrams and the
prevailing reservoir conditions, natural gases can be
classified into four categories:
• Retrograde gas-condensate
• Near-critical gas-condensate
• Wet gas
• Dry gas

44. Initial Conditions Development Conditions

57. 1. Development of a heavy oil Field.
2. How to expoit a light oil Field.
3. How to exploite Deep Oil Reservoir.
4. Plan of Development of Oil Reservoir Field with Strong Water Drive.
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