PETROLEUM RESERVOIR

ENGINEERING
CHG812
(Day & Time Periods: Wednesday 11-1pm)

O. Olamigoke, PhD
Dept. of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
University of Lagos, Nigeria
(oolamigoke@unilag.edu.ng)
CHG812 Course Description
• Introduction to Reservoir Engineering.
• General composition of reservoir rock and Fluid
Properties.
• Volumetric Calculations.
• Reservoir Type and Drive Mechanisms.
• Material Balance.
• Decline Curve Analysis.
• Well Testing.
• Immiscible Displacement

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 References
• Ezekwe, N., Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Practice, 2011
Pearson Education, Inc.
• Lyons, W., Working Guide to Reservoir Engineering, 2010 Gulf
Publishing
• Donnez, P., Essentials of Reservoir Engineering, 2007 Technip
• Ahmed, T. and Mckinney, R., Advanced Reservoir Engineering
2005 Elsevier Inc
• Dake, L.P., The Practice of Reservoir Engineering, 2001 Elsevier
• Craft, B.C. and Hawkins M.F., Applied Petroleum Reservoir
Engineering, 1991 Prentice-Hall Inc
• Dake, L.P., Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering, 1998
Elsevier Science
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 Learning Outcomes

• Understand fundamental concepts for Reservoir

Engineering Analysis
• Understand basic hydrocarbon recovery processes
• Apply knowledge to different hydrocarbon reservoir
systems for the purpose of evaluating past
performance and forecasting future production.

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 CHG812 Lecture Schedule
(36 Contact Hours – 12 Weeks)
Week TOPIC
• …1 Introduction to Reservoir Engineering
2 General composition of reservoir rock and Fluid Properties
3 Volumetric Calculations
4 Reservoir Type and Drive Mechanisms
5 Material Balance
6 Material Balance
7 Mid Semester Test
8 Fluid Flow in Porous Media
9 Decline Curve Analysis
10 Well Testing
11 Immiscible Displacement
12 Revision 5
 Basis for Grades

Components
Mid Semester Test 1 15%
Mid Semester Test 2 15%
Individual Assignments / Tutorials 10%
Final Examination 60%
100%
Teaching – Dr. O. Olamigoke
Grading – Dr. A.B. Ehinmowo

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 Ground Rules
• Keep your phones on vibration or silent mode
• You are free to note typographical errors on the slides.
Notify me after the class. Please take note of the
slide number.
• If you have a question, raise your hand. Note that all
questions can’t be entertained in class. Any questions
I can’t answer will be treated in the next class.
• The number of attendees at each class would be taken.
This would be used to confirm day’s attendance list.

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 Motivating Quote
True teaching, then, is not that which gives
knowledge, but that which stimulates pupils to
gain it. One might say that he teaches best who
teaches least; or that he teaches best whose
pupils learn most without being taught directly.

- John Milton Gregory

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Introduction to Reservoir
Engineering
– Lecture 1
 What is Reservoir Engineering?
• Reservoir engineering is the discipline that assesses and plans
the recovery of oil and gas reservoirs.
• These engineers work with the other disciplines to find
opportunities to optimize the value of oil and gas assets. For
example: Optimization of the field rates vs capital expenditure and the
Optimization of the Production capacity vs gas contract rates

• Reservoir engineers need to understand the dynamics of

reservoir rocks, fluids, wells and the surface facilities, all tied
together with economics in mind.
• Reservoir engineering is the discipline that:
– Creates forecasts of oil, gas & water rates
– Determines the number of wells
required in a field, the well types
and locations
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 What is Reservoir Engineering?
• You can’t see into the reservoir!
• We need to measure, make assumptions, and create models
to manage and reduce uncertainties in oil and gas recovery.
• We continue taking measurements, to check the models
against reality, and can re-calibrate the models to improve
our forecasts.

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 Properties for Reservoir
Characterization – Lecture 2
 What are Rocks?
 A rock is a naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more
minerals, or organic matter

 Minerals are the building blocks of rocks

 Geologists define a mineral as: A naturally occurring inorganic

solid crystalline substance which has a fixed structure and a
chemical compositon which is either fixed or which may vary
within certain defined ;limits

 Rocks are classified by how they are formed, their composition

and texture

 Rock change overtime through rock cycle

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 Types of Rocks
• There are 3 types of rocks
found on Earth:
– Igneous
– Sedimentary
– Metamorphic

• Knowing the differences

between these 3 types of
rocks allows us to learn
about Earth’s past.

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The Petroleum System concept

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Basic Reservoir Rock-Fluid Properties
• Fluids (oil, gas but also water) are accumulated in the pore space of
the reservoir rock. Therefore the fundamental reservoir rock
properties are:
– Porosity: How much space is available in the rock?
– Fluid Type: Is it oil, gas or water?
– Saturations: Which volume fraction of the pore space is occupied by
oil, gas and water?
– Permeability: At what rate can I produce or inject a fluid?
• Reservoir Rocks can be classified into two major types:
– Clastic Rocks: (Sandstone, siltstone, claystone, and shale)
– Carbonate Rocks: (Limestone, Dolomite)
• These two types have different pore properties, abundances, &
importance for the world’s hydrocarbon production
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 Porosity - Definitions
• Porosity is defined as the ratio of the pore volume to the bulk
volume of a substance. In oil and gas reservoirs, the pore volume is
the space available for the storage of the hydrocarbons and water.
Porosity is normally expressed as a percentage of bulk volume and
is symbolised by φ.

• Total Porosity: is defined as the ratio of the volume of all the pores
to the bulk volume of a material, regardless of whether or not all of
the pores are interconnected.
• Effective Porosity: is defined as the ratio of the interconnected pore
volume to the bulk volume of a material, i.e. it does not include dead-
end pore-space.
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 Porosity - Definitions
• Porosity in sands and sandstones varies primarily with grain size
distribution, grain shape, packing arrangement, cementation, and
clay content. These parameters control the overall pore geometry as
well as the porosity value.

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 Porosity - Definitions
• Porosity in sandstones varies primarily with grain size distribution,
grain shape, packing arrangement, cementation, & clay content.

47.6% 39.5% 26.0%

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 Porosity - Texture
• The porosity of typical hydrocarbon productive sandstones ranges
between 3 & 38 % in gas reservoirs and 10 - 38 % in oil reservoirs.
Porosity in carbonate rocks can be much more variable in magnitude
than it is in sandstones. In some carbonates, such as reef build-ups
and chalks, it is very high, in a few cases exceeding 50 percent.
However, the fractures commonly encountered in carbonate rocks
contribute little to the porosity.
• Primary porosity describes the pore spaces between grains that are
formed during depositional processes, such as sedimentation and
diagenesis.
• Secondary porosity is formed from post-depositional processes,
such as dissolution, reprecipitation, and fracturing.

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 Porosity - Texture
• The development of vugs and fractures as found in carbonate
reservoir rocks are examples of Secondary Porosity and is a function
of the depositional history and diagenesis of the rocks. Often,
carbonate reservoir rock’s porosity can be correlated with the degree
of dolomitisation, as the dolomitisation of limestone can generate up
to 12% additional porosity due to shrinkage of the crystalline lattice.
While vugular porosity can be large, caverns of some tens of metres
size having been encountered in some rare cases, fractures, which
make up the other major component of secondary porosity tend to be
of a smaller aperture.

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 Fluid Saturations
• Saturation of any given fluid in a pore space is the ratio of the
volume of the fluid to the total pore space volume. For example, a
water saturation of 10% means that 1/10 of the pore space is filled
with water.
• The saturation Si describes the volume fraction of a fluid i in a
porous rock as: Si = (volume of fluid i) / (volume of pores)
• The saturation of the fluids in a porous rock must sum up to 1:
Sgas + Swater + Soil = 1
• The Sw commonly derived is the portion of the porosity that is water.
• By necessity, (1-Sw) is the hydrocarbon saturation of the pore-space.
• The Bulk Water Content (bulk volume of the fluid) is the product of
porosity, φ and Sw.

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Saturation Distribution - Waterflood
•…

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 Water Saturation
• The Sw of the rock is dependent upon the balance between the
gravity forces and the adhesive forces of the water–rock system. The
water saturation of a reservoir rock is therefore a function of
Capillary Pressure (Pc), which in turn is controlled by pore-
geometry, wettability and the height of the hydrocarbon column.
• A major goal of Formation Evaluation is to define and use reservoir
saturation - height relationships. These are determined through
developing relationships between porosity, permeability, lithology
and saturation, as a function of height above Free Water Level.
• Most water saturations are determined from the formation’s
electrical properties.

Note: When averaging saturation data, the bulk

water should be summed and divided by the sum of
the porosity thickness products.
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 Saturation Exercise
• ….

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 Water Saturation
• In a water-wet porous rock, the water, depending on its interaction
with minerals and bonding type is presented as:
– Free movable water in the pore space (Bulk Volume Movable BVM)
– Capillary bound water, connected with the grain surface [Bulk Volume Immovable (BVI)]
– Clay bound water (CBW), with its strong clay-water effects
• These water types have different physical properties and effects

These water types have

different physical properties
& effects (e.g. with respect to
permeability or electrical
resistivity)

Volumetric description of a
hydrocarbon-bearing clastic
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 Critical Saturation
• Critical oil saturation, Soc
For the oil phase to flow, the saturation of the oil must exceed a certain
value which is termed critical oil saturation. At this particular saturation,
the oil remains in the pores and, for all practical purposes, will not flow.
• Critical gas saturation, Sgc
As the reservoir pressure declines below the bubble-point pressure, gas
evolves from the oil phase and consequently the saturation of the gas
increases as the reservoir pressure declines. The gas phase remains
immobile until its saturation exceeds certain saturation, called critical
gas saturation, above which gas begins to move.
• Critical water saturation, Swc
The critical water saturation, connate water saturation, and irreducible
water saturation are extensively used interchangeably to define the
maximum water saturation at which the water phase will remain
immobile.
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 Moveable & Irreducible Oil Saturation
• Movable oil saturation, Som
Movable oil saturation Som is another saturation of interest and is
defined as the fraction of pore volume occupied by movable oil as
expressed by the following equation:
• Som = 1 – Swc – Soc

• Where Swc = connate water saturation

• And Soc = critical oil saturation

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 Residual Saturation
• Residual oil saturation, Sor
During the displacing process of the crude oil system from the porous
media by water or gas injection (or encroachment) there will be some
remaining oil left that is quantitatively characterized by a saturation
value that is larger than the critical oil saturation. This saturation value is
called the residual oil saturation, Sor. The term residual saturation is
usually associated with the non-wetting phase when it is being displaced
by a wetting phase.
• For Residual gas saturation, Sgr this refers to gas left in the reservoir after
development.
• A notation used is the letter “S” for saturation, the next letter stands for
the residual phase while the last letter denotes the displacing phase.
• Examples:
– Sorw residual oil saturation to water displacement
– Sorg residual oil saturation to gas displacement
– Sgrw residual gas saturation to water displacement 29
 Hydrocarbon In Place Volumes
• Static models are concerned with characterizing and quantifying the structure
prior to any production from the field. Hence, key parameters that the models
aim to determine are:
– STOIIP = stock tank oil initially in place; usually measured in stock tank barrels (stb)
– GIIP = gas initially in place; usually measured in billion standard cubic feet (Bcf)
– GBV = gross bulk volume; the total rock volume of the reservoir containing hydrocarbon
– NPV = net pore volume; the pore space of the reservoir
– HCPV = hydrocarbon pore volume; the pore space actually containing hydrocarbon
– φ = porosity; the proportion of the formation that contains fluids
– k = permeability; usually expressed in millidarcies (md)
– Sw = water saturation; the proportion of the porosity that contains water
– Sh = hydrocarbon saturation; the proportion of the porosity that contains hydrocarbon
– FWL = free water level; the depth at which the capillary pressure in the reservoir is zero;
effectively the depth below which no producible hydrocarbons will be found

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 Hydrocarbon In Place Volumes
• Static models are concerned with characterizing and quantifying the structure
prior to any production from the field. Hence, key parameters that the models
aim to determine are:
– HWC = hydrocarbon/water contact; the depth below which the formation is water bearing as
encountered in a particular well. Likewise, OWC for oil and GWC for gas
– GOC = gas oil contact; the depth below which any gas in the reservoir will be dissolved in the
oil
– Gross thickness = the total thickness of the formation as encountered in a particular well; it is
not related to the fluids in the formation
– Net thickness = the part of the gross thickness that contains porous rock subject to given cutoff
criteria
– Pay thickness (Net Pay) = the part of the net thickness that is considered to be capable of
producing hydrocarbons in a particular well

• Because of inherent uncertainties in all the parameters used to determine

STOIIP or GIIP, geologists will usually develop probabilistic models, in
which all the parameters are allowed to vary according to distribution
functions between low, expected, and high values.
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Net Pay Definition

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 Production, Recovery & Reserves
• In order to predict the hydrocarbons that may be actually produced from a
field (the reserves), it is necessary to construct a dynamic model of the field.
This will generate production profiles for individual wells, subject to various
production scenarios. Additional terminology that comes into play includes:
– Reserves = the part of the STOIIP or GIIP that may be actually produced for a given
development scenario. Oil companies have their own rules for how reserves are categorized
depending on the extent to which they are regarded as proven and accessible through wells.
Terms frequently used are proven reserves, developed reserves, scope for recovery reserves,
probable reserves, and possible reserves.
– Remaining reserves = that part of the reserves that has not yet been produced
– Cumulative production = that part of the reserves that has already been produced
– UR = ultimate recovery; the total volume of reserves that will be produced prior to
abandonment of the field
– NPV = net present value; the future economic value of the field, taking into account all future
present value costs and revenues
– RF = recovery factor; the reserves as a proportion of the STOIIP (or GIIP)
– Bo = oil formation volume factor; the factor used to convert reservoir volumes of oil to surface
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 HCIIP & Recovery Factor
• In order to predict the hydrocarbons that may be actually produced from a
field (the reserves), it is necessary to construct a dynamic model of the field.
This will generate production profiles for individual wells, subject to various
production scenarios. Additional terminology that comes into play includes:

The equation for Oil Initially in Place, N in STB:

The constant 7,758 is the number of barrels in

each acre-ft, Vb is bulk volume in acre-ft, φ is
the porosity, (φVb is pore volume), Soi is the
initial oil saturation, Boi is the initial oil
formation volume factor in reservoir barrels per
stock tank barrel, A is area in ft2.

• Ultimate Recovery = (Hydrocarbons Initially in Place) X (Recovery Factor)

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 Permeability - Definition
• Permeability
– Characterises the ability of the rock to transmit fluid; it connects the
fluid flow rate with the applied gradient and the fluid viscosity.
– Is controlled by the connected passages of the pore space (pore
throats),
– Is a tensorial property and exhibits, in many cases, an anisotropy
(mostly expressed by horizontal (kh) and vertical permeability (kv))
• Permeability is a pore space property that is mainly controlled by:
which is a constant when the following boundary conditions are
met:
1) Interconnected Porosity (clay decreases permeability by several
orders of magnitude)
2) Pore size and fracture width

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Permeability and Porosity Relationships
• The Geological environment and
depositional factors influencing
porosity also influence permeability,
and often there can be an obvious
relationship between the two.
• The relationship varies with formation
and rock type, and reflects the variety
of pore geometry present.
• Typically, in sandstone reservoirs,
increased permeability is A typical k – φ plot
accompanied by increased porosity.
Post depositional processes in sands including
• Constant permeability accompanied compaction & cementation result in a shift to the
left of the permeability-porosity trend line, while
by increased porosity indicates the dolomitisation of limestone tends to shift the
presence of more numerous but permeability-porosity trend lines to the right.
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Permeability and Porosity Relationships
• The porosity-permeability relationship with tendencies for clastic and
carbonate rocks is shown in the figure below.

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 Directional Permeability
• Permeability is a directional quantity and should be truly considered a tensor
property.
• Water-borne deposition of sand occurs with alignment of the long axis of the
grains parallel to the current. In Aeolian sands the long axis may be at right
angles to the paleo-wind direction. The greatest cross-sectional area of the
grains lies in a horizontal plane. Permeability is highest parallel to the long
axis of the grains.
• Vertical permeability (perpendicular to bedding planes) is usually less than
horizontal permeability, due to platy minerals lying flat along bedding planes.
This vertical permeability may be further reduced by shale laminations in
sands, or stylolites in carbonates. In reservoir description the ratio between kv
and kh is an important factor in understanding sweep efficiency and recovery.
• Fractures or joint trends existing in carbonates and hard, low porosity sands,
result in widely varying directional permeability. This anisotropy is important
in understanding reservoir behaviour.

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