Advanced Petroleum Engineering

Fall 2008

(Zsay-shing Lin)

What is Petroleum Engineering ?

What are the areas in petroleum

Engineering ?

What are the purposes of each areas in

petroleum Engineering ?

What is
the Advanced Petroleum Engineering ?

Advanced Petroleum Engineering

Outline
Introduction
Reserves definition and classification

Garb, F.A., Oil and gas reserves classification, estimation, and

evaluation, J. Pet. Tech. (March 1985) 373-390.

Etherington, J.R., and Ritter, J.E., The 2007 SPE/AAPG/WPC/SPEE

Reserves and resources classification, definitions and guidences.

Defining standard! paper SPE 107693 presented at the 2007 SPE

Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium held in Dallas, Texas.

April 1-3, 2007.

Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE), Petroleum resources management

system, http://www.spe.org/spe-app/spe/industry/reserves/prms.htm

Reserves Estimation

Analogy method to estimate reserves

Volumetric method to estimate reserves
Material balance method to estimate reserves
Decline curve method to estimate reserves
Simulation method to estimate reserves

Thermal recovery

Outlines

(1) Introduction

(2) Brief description of main thermal process

(3) Physical and mathematical description of heat and mass transfer

in porous media

(4) Heating the reservoir

(6) Case studies simulation studies

(5) Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD)

References

Thermal recovery
(1) Prats, M., Thermal Recovery, Monograph Vol. 7, Society of
Petroleum Engineers of AIME, Dallas,TX, 1986.
(2) Carlson, M.R., Practical Reservoir Simulation: Using, Assessing,
and Developing Results, PennWell Publishing Co., Houston,TX,
2003.

Other references
(A) Dake , L.P., Fundamentals of Reservoir
Engineering, revised edition, Elsevier Scientific
B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2001.
(B) Ahmed, T., and McKinney, P., Advanced
Reservoir Engineering, Gulf Publishing
Company, Houston, Texas, 2004
(B) Craft, B.C., and Hawkins, M.F. , Revised
by Terry, R.E. , Applied Petroleum Reservoir
Engineering, Second edition., Prentice Hall ,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991.

Other references
(D) (
, Chapter 24 )

2004.

Other references
Fundamentals of Petroleum, Petroleum Extension Service, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas,1979.

Archer, J. S., and Wall, C.G., Petroleum Engineeringprinciples and

practice, Graham & Trotman, MD, 1986.

Donohue, D.A.T., and Lang K.R., A First Course in Petroleum

Technology, International Human Resources Development Corporation,
Houston,1986.

Hyne,N.J., Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration,

Drilling and Production, Penn Well Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2001.

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References
Web sites
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