DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERNG

SUBJECT NAME: RESERVOIR ENGINEERING - I YEAR: THIRD

SUBJECT CODE: PE8503 SEMESTER: FIFTH

QUESTION BANK
UNIT - 1
2 Marks
1. What do you mean by Reservoir Engineering?
2. What do you mean by datatypes? What are the types?
3. Explain Coring?
4. Define reservoir rock & fluids?
5. Describe production system along with its elements?
6. Rock Compressibility – Explain definition & terminologies.
7. What are the types of wettability?
8. What is meant by residual oil saturation?
9. What is permeability?
10. Define Absolute permeability?
11. Define Relative permeability?
12. Define Effective permeability?
13. What do you mean by formation resistivity?
14. Define fluid saturation and its types?
15. What do you mean by connate water saturation?

16 Marks

1. Explain reservoir engineering basic principles & roles of a reservoir engineer?

2. What are the various oil & gas properties?
3. Explain about the kinetic theory of gases & derive the relationship for compressibility for natural gases?
4. Explain in detail
i) Oil Formation volume factor
ii) Gas formation volume factor
iii) Water formation volume factor
5. Derive the relationship between wettability & contact angle
6. Derive the relationship between resistivity index, capillary pressure, wettability
7. Explain in detail about the application of PVT analysis of oil & gas with neat diagram.
8. Write detailed notes on analysis of PVT behavior of oil & gas?
9. How are basic PVT parameters determined in the laboratory? Also discuss the PVT parameter conversion for field
conversion?
 UNIT -2
2 Marks

1. What is formation evaluation?

2. What are formation evaluation tools?
3. What are the steps involved in formation evaluation?
4. Define Coring. What are the types of coring?
5. Define Core preparation & preservation?
6. Explain Core analysis?
7. What are reserves? What are the types of reserves?
8. What are total reserves?
9. What are proved reserves?
10. What are unproved reserves?
11. Define probable reserves?
12. Define possible reserves?
13. Classify the reserves based on the status?
14. Name the gases that are present inside the reservoir

16 Marks

1. What is material balance equation? Derive and discuss it with reference to combination reservoirs.
2. What do you mean by reservoir drives? Explain in detail about the classification of reservoir drives?
3. How do you predict primary recovery in solution gas drive.
4. Explain in detail about the classification of reserves?
5. Write notes on the methods of estimating the reserves?
6. Explain in detail about the secondary & enhanced recovery mechanism with neat diagram?
7. Write in detail about spacing of wells & well pattern?
 UNIT - 3
2 Marks

1. What are the types of important drive mechanisms?

2. Define Mobility & Mobility ratio?
3. Discuss viscous fingering?
4. What is sweep efficiency?
5. Name the factors to be initiated on secondary recovery?
6. Name few factors to be considered for the selection of flooding patterns?
7. Name the factors that influence areal sweep efficiency & vertical sweep efficiency?
8. Modify the form of MBE when there is no water?
9. How do you estimate volumetric sweep efficiency?
10. Define crossflow & cross flow index?
11. What is an aquifer?
12. What are the characteristic trends occurring during the production of depletion drive reservoirs?

16 Marks
1. Explain about different kinds of sweep efficiencies in detail.
2. i) Explain different types of well recovery methods
ii) Waterflood & factors considered in waterflood
3. Explain in detail about the various types of well injection pattern.
4. A saturated oil reservoir is under consideration to be water flooded immediately after drilling & completion. Core
analysis test include that the initial & residual oil saturation are 70% and 35% respectively. Calculate
displacement efficiency when the oil saturation is reduced to 65,60,55,50 & 35%. Assume that B0 will remain
constant throughout the project life.
5. Explain in detail about depletion drive, segregation drive, water drive and expansion drive?
6. Bring out the application of material balance in estimating water flood recovery? / Estimation of water flood
recovery by material balance?
7. How is fluid movement in water flooded reservoirs studied? Discuss the estimation of water flooded recovery by
material balance?
8. Discuss about the following:
i) Prediction methods of WOR
ii) Performance Evaluation
9. i) Explain Darcy law with its application & limitations?
ii)Permeability Variation
10. i) Draw the graphs for pressure decline curves.
ii) What is the conversion factor between k, expressed in Darcies & in cm2 & m2 respectively?
iii) Explain Darcy law for linear & radial flow?
 UNIT - 4
2 Marks

1. What is residual oil? What are the methods of assessing the residual oil?
2. What do you mean by EOR? Differentiate between various EOR methods?
3. List out various well patterns?
4. What do you mean by flooding?
5. What are the types of wells? Explain.
6. What is skin factor?
7. What is chemical flooding?
8. What are the three chemicals used in chemical flooding?
9. What are the methods of usage of polymers in oil production?
10. What is gas injection?
11. Name any two gases used for injection method?
12. What is thermal recovery?
13. Draw the pressure profilr during the steam soak production phase?
14. What is oil well testing? Outline the methods of oil well testing?
15. Why oil well testing should be carried out?

16 Marks

1. How residual oil is assessed using new well? Discuss the other methods for assessing residual oil?
2. What are the types of wells – Explain.
3. Illustrate briefly about chemical injection process under EOR with a neat diagram? How is it helpful in recovering
remaining oil from reservoir?
4. Explain in detail about polymer flood injection sequence with schematic representation & discuss about the types of
polymers used for flooding?
5. Demonstrate briefly about the gas injection process & what are the suitable fields for application, purpose &
limitations?
6. Write explanatory notes on thermal recovery methods?
7. Explain different types of well testing methods & how this method is benefitted?
8. Discuss in detail about the forms of in-situ combustion process with a neat sketch.
 UNIT - 5
2 Marks
1. Write about the classification of reservoir flow system?
2. Write an equation for flow rate of slightly compressible fluid & compressible fluid under pseudo steady state?
3. What do you mean by productivity index?
4. Define specific productivity index?
5. Define productivity ratio?
6. Name three forms of flow regimes?
7. Define steady state?
8. What is radial ddiffusivity?
9. What do you mean by skin factor?
10. Write the application for radial diffusivity equation?
11. Define bottom hole pressure?
12. What is sampling? What are the types of sampling available?

16 Marks

1. Explain in detail about the linear flow of reservoir fluids under steady state condition?
2. Explain in detail about the radial flow of reservoir fluids under steady state condition?
3. Describe the flow rate equation for unsteady state flow with a neat diagram?
4. Explain the well inflow equation for a stabilized flow condition?
5. Discuss the radial inflow equation for a stabilized flow condition?
6. Discuss constant terminal rate solution of radial diffusivity equation & its application in oil well testing?
7. An incompressible fluid flow in a linear porous media with the following properties:
L = 2000 ft
H = 20’
W = 300’
P1 = 2000 psi
P2 = 1990 psi
k = 100 mD
ɸ = 15%
μ = 2 cP
Calculate
i) Flow rate in bbl/day
ii) Apparent fluid velocity in ft/day
iii) Actual fluid velocity in ft/ day

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