Rin PE 4613 - Lecture Notes GAS RESERVOIR ENGINEERIN by Djebbar Tiab, Ph.D. Professor School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering The University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Summer University 2000,Djebbar TIAB, Ph.D. Professor, School of Petroleum & Geological Engineering, the University of Oklahoma Director, the University of Oklahoma Graduate Program in Petroleum Engineering in Algeria Dr. Tiab is the Senior Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He received his B.Sc. (May 1974) and M.Sc. (May 1975) degrees from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and Ph.D. degree (uly 1976) from the University of Oklahoma - all in Petroleum Engineering, with a minor in mathematics. He is also the Director of “The University of Oklahoma Graduate Program in Petroleum Engineering in Algeria”, which started in July 1997 on the campus of the Algerian Petroleum Institute (IAP) in Boumerdess, and is expected to last 8 years. Before joining the University of Oklahoma in 1977, he worked as an assistant professor at the New Mexico School of Mining and Technology, where he taught drilling & well completion, production engineering, well logging and natural gas engineering. At the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Tiab taught various petroleum and general engineering courses including: oil reservoir engineering, natural gas engineering, well test analysis, fluid mechanics, properties of reservoir fluids, fluid flow through porous media, introduction to engineering, advanced reservoir engineering, advanced natural gas engineering, petrophysics, advanced petrophysics, and advances in pressure transient analysis. Dr. Tiab was president of the consulting firm United Petroleum Technologies Corporation (UPTEC) for fourteen years: 1980 - 1984 and 1990 — present. He has consulted for a number of oil companies and offered training programs in petroleum engineering in the USA and overseas. He worked for over two years in the oil fields of Algeria for Alcore, S.A., an association of Sonatrach and Core Laboratories. He has also worked and consulted for Core Laboratories and Westem Atlas in Houston, Texas, for four years (1989-1993) as a Senior Reservoir Engineer Advisor.As a researcher at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Tiab received several research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Department of Energy (DoE), U.S. Department of HEW, oil companies, Oklahoma Mining and Mineral Resources Institute, EPSCoR and the Energy Resources Institute. He is a member of the U.S. Research Council, SPE, Core Analysis Society, Pi Epsilon Tau, and American Men and Women of Science. He served as a technical editor of various SPE journals. He is currently a member of the SPE Pressure Analysis Transaction Committee Dr. Tiab is the author of over 100 journal and conference technical papers in the area of pressure transient analysis, petrophysics, natural gas engineering, reservoir characterization, reservoir engineering and injection processes. In 1975 (MS. thesis) and 1976 (Ph.D. dissertation), Tiab introduced the pressure derivative technique which revolutionized the interpretation of pressure transient tests. He received several patents in the area of reservoir characterization (identification of flow units). He is the senior author of the textbook “PETROPHYSICS”, published by Gulf Publishing Company, 1* Edition in October 1996 and 2" Edition in 2000. He is currently working on two new books: “Advances in Pressure Transient Analysis” and “Advances in Petrophysics.” Dr. Tiab supervised 21 Ph.D. and 47 MSc. students at the University of Oklahoma. He received the Outstanding Young Men of America Award (1983), the SUN Award for Education Achievement (1984), Ker-McGee Distinguished Lecturer Award (1985), the College of Engineering Faculty Fellowship of Excellence (1986), the Halliburton Lectureship Award (1987-89), Who’s Who in Engineering (1989) and the UNOCAL Centennial Professorship (1995-1998). He also received the prestigious 1995 SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty. The citation read, “He is recognized for his role in student development and his excellence in classroom instruction. He pioneered the pressure derivative technique of well testing and has contributed considerable understanding to petrophysics and reservoir engineering through his research and writing.”