| Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester |
| Scope and form: Lectures, exercises and project |
| Evaluation: Project report
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| Examination: 13-scale |
| Previous course: 36417 |
| Prerequisites: Mathematical analysis 3 or similar |
| Preferred prerequisites: 21411 |
| Aim: To provide knowledge of physical and mathematical background of the reservoir engineering, of the parameters governing the petroleum production, and of the analytical and numerical methods used for evaluation of fluid distributions and flows in oil and gas reservoirs. |
| Contents: Properties and models of the porous rocks. Thermodynamic properties and phase equilibria of the hydrocarbon mixtures. Capillary forces and fluid distribution in porous space. Fluid distribution on the reservoir scale. Governing equations of flows in porous media. The Darcy Law. Steady and unsteady flows. Stream lines and systems of wells. Well tests. Multiphase flows in porous media. Theory of waterflooding. Flows in heterogeneous reservoirs. Visualization of the flows with an X-ray computer tomography scanner. Compositional reservoir simulation. Pecularities of the Danish petroleum reservoirs. |
Contact: Alexander Shapiro, building 229, (+45) 4525 2881, ash@kt.dtu.dk
Erling Halfdan Stenby, building 229, (+45) 4525 2875, ehs@kt.dtu.dk |
| Department: 028 Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Keywords: Oil and Gas, Wells, Petroleum reservoirs, Flow, Porous media |
| Updated: 10-05-2001 |
