Syllabus of Properties Of Reservoir Rocks
(Second Semester 2018-2019)
Lecturer’s information:
Email: mosab.afuniv@gmail.com
Course description:
This course mainly discusses the main physical properties of rocks which are: porosity and its types, permeability and its types, saturation or rock with water and oil, capillary pressure, specific surface, and other perpetrates.
This course also studies some of the physical properties of the fluids existing in the rock's pores such as surface tension, angle of wittability, and other related properties. Form the other hand, this course includes detailed demonstration of the following lab devices as long as measuring methods using these devices and methods of processing data obtained from the results of these measurements:
Porosity measuring device, sample washing device, water and oil saturation measuring device;
Absolute permeability by gas measuring device;
Absolute permeability by water measuring device;
Capillary pressure measuring device for one sample;
Capillary pressure measuring device for multiple samples;
Relative permeability measuring device;
Compression of rock core samples measuring device.
Targets of the course:
Acquiring students the knowledge and comprehension of the basic principles of properties of reservoir rocks and enabling them to carry out the relevant lab measurements;
acquiring students the knowledge and comprehension to describe the above mentioned devices, calibrating these devices, and operating these devices as well as knowing procedures to prepare an oil-sample for measurement, in addition to mathematical processing of the results obtained from these measurements;
Teaching language: Arabic
Language of academic books and references: Arabic and English.
Prescribed books and teaching materials:
Petrophysics-1 (Physics of oil and gas formation)- Al-Baath University
Properties of reservoir rocks (the hard copy).
Schedule of Lectures
# Week Subject Reading Drills
1 15/9-19/9 Porosity of the rocks Section one Rock samples washing device (Soxhet extractor).
2 22/9-26/9 Property of fluid-saturation and granular structure of rocks. Section one Rosca device for measuring the rock porosity.
3 29/9-3/10 Absolute permeability of rocks. Section one Porosity determination using mercury injection method and Cope method.
Problems on the above.
4 6/10-10/10 Effective permeability and relative permeability of rocks. Section one ASTM device for measuring saturation of rock samples with oil and water.
5 13/10-17/10 Relation between permeability, porosity and pores size. Section one Rosca device for measuring absolute permeability using gas.
6 20/10-24/10 Reservoir properties of fractured rocks. Section two Rosca device for measuring absolute permeability by water.
7 27/10-31/10 Capillary properties (surface tension). Section three Relative permeability measuring device.
8 3/11-7/11 Height of liquids in capillary tubes. Section three Drills and mathematical problems.
9 10/11-14/11 Distribution of pores according to their sizes, curves of capillary pressure. Section three Drills and mathematical problems.
10 17/11-21/11 Interpretation of capillary pressure curves. Section three Capillary pressure measuring device for multiple samples.
11 24/11-28/11 Calculation of capillary pressure average. Section four Capillary pressure measuring device for multiple samples.
12 1/12-5/12 Analytical study of formation indexes properties. Section five Capillary pressure measuring device for one sample.
13 8/12-12/12 Theoretical principles of oil displacement by water and by gas in the porous medium. Section six Drills and mathematical problems.
14 15/12-19/12 Theoretical principles of oil displacement by water and by gas in the porous medium. Section six Revision of all the above.
Periodical Tests and the Final Exam:
Test Date Subjects Test Type Test language Mark out of 100
Quiz (1) 29/10/2018 Prescribed lectures until the date of the quiz Paper based Arabic 5
Quiz (2) 10/12/2018 Prescribed lectures until the date of the quiz Paper based Arabic 5
Final Exam 7/1/2019 All of the lectures Paper based Arabic 60
General Remarks:
None.
