Petroleum Reservoir Engineering

By Prof. Pankaj Tiwari | IIT Guwahati

Learners enrolled: 947 | Exam registration: 84

ABOUT THE COURSE:

The fundamental concepts of the Petroleum Reservoir Engineering is very much important for petroleum production and the allied engineering for safe and efficient operation of petroleum reservoirs. The course provides a broad outlines with respects to both the basic and advanced topics in the field of reservoir engineering including enhanced oil recovery, reservoir simulation tools and unconventional production of natural gas.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Under graduate and post graduate students, professional practitioner in the discipline of Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering

PREREQUISITES: Bachelor Degree (enrolled/completed) in any Engineering discipline

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Petroleum Industries/companies: ONGC, OIL, GAIL, IOCL, etc.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Chemical Engineering
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	21 Aug 2023
End Date :	13 Oct 2023
Enrollment Ends :	21 Aug 2023
Exam Registration Ends :	15 Sep 2023
Exam Date :	29 Oct 2023 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Lecture 1 : Petroleum Reserves: Origin and Composition

Lecture 2 : Petroleum Geology- Reservoir Deposition

Lecture 3 : Oil Well Drilling Methods: Well Completion

Week 2: Lecture 4: Basic Reservoir Engineering

Lecture 5: Oil Migration and Traps

Lecture 6: Reservoir Drive Mechanisms: Pressure Driven

Week 3: Lecture 7: Hydrocarbon Fluid Classification-Phase Diagram

Lecture 8: Reservoir Fluid Properties- Gas

Week 4: Lecture 9: Reservoir Fluid Properties- Oil

Lecture 10: Reservoir Fluid Properties- Water

Lecture 11: Reservoir Rock Properties

Week 5: Lecture 12: Conventional Petroleum Production System

Lecture 13: Fundamental of Oil and Gas Flow in Porous Media

Lecture 14: Reservoir Deliverability

Week 6: Lecture 15: General Equation for radial flow of Oil and Gas in Reservoir

Lecture 16: Inflow Performance Relationship Steady and Unsteady Sates

Lecture 17: Material balance in Oil and Gas Reservoirs- Volumetric basis

Week 7: Lecture 18: Oil and Gas Well Testing Methods

Lecture 19: Predicting Reservoir Performance

Lecture 20: Production Decline Curve Analysis

Week 8: Lecture 21: Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)- Thermal and Non-Thermal

Lecture 22: Introduction to Reservoir Simulation

Lecture 23: Unconventional Natural Gas Production

Lecture 24: Review Class

Books and references

1.R.E Terry, M Hawkins and B.C. Craft, Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Prentice Hall 1991.

2.L.P. Dake, Fundamental of Reservoir Engineering, Elsevier, 1983

3.T. Ahmed and P. Mckinney, Advanced Reservoir Engineering, Elsevier, 2004

4.G.L. Chierici, Principles of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Springer-Verlag, 1994

Instructor bio

Prof. Pankaj Tiwari

IIT Guwahati

Prof. Pankaj Tiwari is serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati since Aug 2012. He has received doctoral degree from University of Utah, USA (2012) and Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (2006). He also worked at General Electric, Plastic division at JFWTC Bangalore (2007) on developing the monomer for high performance polymer (HPP). He has taught Natural Gas Engineering as an elective course to UG, PG and PHD students at IIT Guwahati for three consecutive years (2013, 2014 and 2015).

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: 29 October 2023 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Guwahati .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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