Reservoir engineering is a branch of petroleum engineering that applies scientific principles to the fluid flow
through porous medium during the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs so as to obtain a high
economic recovery. The working tools of the reservoir engineer are subsurface geology, applied mathematics,
and the basic laws of physics and chemistry governing the behavior of liquid and vapor phases of crude oil,
natural gas, and water in reservoir rock. Of particular interest to reservoir engineers is generating
accurate reserves estimates for use in financial reporting to the SEC and other regulatory bodies. Other job
responsibilities include numerical reservoir modeling, production forecasting, well testing, well drilling and
workover planning, economic modeling, and PVT analysis of reservoir fluids. Reservoir engineers also play a
central role in field development planning, recommending appropriate and cost effective reservoir depletion
schemes such as waterflooding or gas injection to maximize hydrocarbon recovery. Due to legislative changes
in many hydrocarbon producing countries, they are also involved in the design and implementation of carbon
sequestration projects in order to minimise the emission of greenhouse gases.
Contents
1Types
2See also
3Notes
4References
5External links
Types[edit]
Reservoir engineers often specialize in two areas:
Surveillance engineering, i.e. monitoring of existing fields and
optimization of production and injection rates. Surveillance engineers
typically use analytical and empirical techniques to perform their work,
including decline curve analysis, material balance modeling, and
inflow/outflow analysis.
Dynamic modeling, i.e. the conduct of reservoir simulation studies to
determine optimal development plans for oil and gas reservoirs. Also,
reservoir engineers perform and integrate well tests into their data for
reservoirs in geothermal drilling.
See also[edit]
Enhanced oil recovery
Flow Zone Unit
Fluid dynamics
Geothermal energy
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum geology
Reservoir simulation
Seismic to simulation
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
Craft, B.C. & Hawkins, M. Revised by Terry, R.E. 1990 "Applied
Petroleum Reservoir Engineering" Second Edition (Prentice Hall).
Dake, L.P., 1978, "Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering" (Elsevier)
Frick, Thomas C. 1962 "Petroleum Production Handbook, Vol II" (Society
of Petroleum Engineers).
Slider, H.C. 1976 "Practical Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Methods"
(The Petroleum Publishing Company).
Charles R. Smith, G. W. Tracy, R. Lance Farrar. 1999 "Applied Reservoir
Engineering" (Oil & Gas Consultants International)
External links[edit]
Society of Petroleum Engineers
Categories:
Engineering disciplines
Petroleum engineering
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