Course Content: Reservoir rock and fluid properties, reservoir fluid flow, gas and oil well performance and recovery, material balance, and decline curve analysis.

Lecture Materials

1. Fundamental Concepts [pdf]
2. Properties of Reservoir Rock [pdf]
3. Reservoir Pressure and Temperature [pdf]
4. Properties of Reservoir Fluid [pdf]
5. Volumetric Method of Reservoir Analysis [pdf]
6. Material Balance Equation (MBE) [pdf]
7. Gas Reservoir Analysis [pdf]
8. Oil Reservoir Analysis [pdf]
9. Decline Curve Analysis [pdf]
10. Fluid Flow Through Porous Media [pdf]

Reference Books

1. Dake, L. P. (1978). Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company.
2. Craft, B. C., Hawkins, M. F., & Terry, R. E. (1991). Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall.
3. Ahmed, T. (2018). Reservoir Engineering Handbook (5th ed.). Gulf Professional Publishing (Elsevier).
4. Blunt, M. J. (2017). Reservoir Engineering.The Imperial College lectures in petroleum engineering ; volume 2.