Notre Dame University - Louaize

Faculty of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

PEN 302 - Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

Semester: Fall 2020 Lecture time: MWF 4:00-5:00 Section: A Room: Online

Credits: 3 credits

Contact hours: Three 50-minute lecture sessions a week.

Instructor: Naji Khoury, Ph.D., P.E.

Office hours / contact: MWF 6:00 - 7:00, or by appointment @

nnkhoury@gmail.com

Textbook: Ronald E. Terry (Author), J. Brandon Rogers: Applied Petroleum Reservoir

Engineering (3rd Edition), ISBN: 0133155587, Prentice hall, 2014.

Supplemental materials:
 Research papers on reservoir engineering

Catalog description Fundamentals of evaluation of oil and gas reservoirs.

Reservoir volumetrics. Material balance. Darcy’s law and equation of continuity.
Diffusivity equation. Streamlines. Well models. Introduction to well testing.
Decline curve analysis. Natural water influx.

Type of course: major course.

Pre-requisite/Co-requisite: PEN 205, PEN 220, MAT 235.

Course Learning Outcomes and their correlation to Student Outcomes:

Student
Course Learning Outcomes
Outcomes
Identify types of reservoirs 1

Evaluate reservoir volumes in terms of economic factors 1,2

Solve problems on Darcy’s law and summarize the findings 1, 3
Analyze a published paper on reservoir engineering, write a summary,
4,5,7
and recognize how the authors cite the references. Group work.

Course topics:

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 Notre Dame University - Louaize
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

PEN 302 - Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

No. of Reading
Topic covered
weeks assignment
0.5 Introduction Chapter 1
0.5 Gas properties Chapter 2

1 Oil and water properties Chapter 2

1 Chapter 3
Material balance equation(MBE)
1 Single phase gas reservoirs and volumetrics Chapter 4

2 Gas condensate reservoirs Chapter 5

1 Undersaturated oil reservoirs Chapter 6
1 Saturated oil reservoirs Chapter 7

2 Single phase flow - Darcy's law and equation of continuity. Chapter 8

Diffusivity equation. Streamlines. Well models.
1 Productivity index, superposition, pressure transient analysis Chapter 8
(well testing)
2 Water influx Chapter 9
1 Displacement of oil and gas Chapter 10
1 History matching and decline curve analysis Chapter 12
Assessment measures:
Exam # 1 25%
Exam # 2 25%
Final Exam 35%
Project/Class/Asgn. 15%

Additional course policies and requirements:

 Homework assignments will be announced in class.
 No Make-up exams are given.
 Each student should acquaint her/himself with NDU’s codes, policies and
procedures involving academic misconduct, including, but not limited to
plagiarism, cheating, etc… A source of guidance can be found at
http://www.ndu.edu.lb/Library/Assets/Files/Documents/NDU_Student
%20Handbook_2017-2018.pdf.

Prepared by / date:
Dr. Dacun Li, April 2019

Revised:
Naji Khoury, September 2020
Dr. Dacun Li, April 2019

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