ENERGY 222: Advanced Reservoir Engineering

Course Description

Lectures, problems. Content relevant for oil/gas reservoirs, carbon storage operations, general subsurface flow systems. Partial differential equations governing subsurface flow, tensor permeabilities, steady-state radial flow, skin, and succession of steady states. Injectivity during fill-up of a depleted reservoir, injectivity for liquid-filled systems. Flow potential and gravity forces. Displacements in layered systems. Transient radial flow equation, primary drainage of a cylindrical reservoir, line source solution, pseudo-steady state. Prerequisite: some knowledge of subsurface flow. ENERGY 221 useful but not essential.