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GL5018: RESERVOIR SURVEILLANCE AND OPERATIONAL PETROPHYSICS (2016-2017)

Last modified: 28 Jun 2018 10:27


Course Overview

Reservoir surveillance provides an understanding of well and reservoir performance to enable efficient management of production. The course gives an overview of the role of petrophysics in the long-term monitoring of reservoirs, including use of legacy data in understanding evolution of reservoir performance. This links to the day-to-day reality of petrophysical operations, which provide many of the inputs to predict reservoir performance and to determine the value of assets. A clear understanding of modelling objectives, methods to be used and uncertainties, across all of the subsurface disciplines is necessary to ensure that reservoir properties are effectively represented.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor David Macdonald

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Geology And Petroleum Geology (GL) (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

  • Planning reservoir surveillance
  • 4-D seismic
  • Well testing
  • Well test analysis
  • Down hole pressure monitoring
  • Pulsed neutron logging
  • Production logging
  • Drilling and completion principles and techniques
  • Petrophysical input to well planning
  • Pore pressure prediction
  • Well bore stability
  • Overburden characterisation
  • Real-time data and geosteering
  • Mudlogging data and wellsite geology
  • Formation evaluation for well completion
  • Wireline and cased hole operations
  • Fluid sampling by logs and production
  • Coring operations

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%)

Resit: Two-hour exercise under examination conditions

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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