GL5518: Reservoir Surveillance And Operational Petrophysics

GL5518: RESERVOIR SURVEILLANCE AND OPERATIONAL PETROPHYSICS (2020-2021)

Last modified: 05 Aug 2021 13:04

Course Overview

Reservoir surveillance provides an understanding of well and reservoir performance to enable efficient management of production. The course gives an overview of the role of petrophysics in the long-term monitoring of reservoirs, including use of legacy data in understanding evolution of reservoir performance. This links to the day-to-day reality of petrophysical operations, which provide many of the inputs to predict reservoir performance and to determine the value of assets. A clear understanding of modelling objectives, methods to be used and uncertainties, across all of the subsurface disciplines is necessary to ensure that reservoir properties are effectively represented.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Term	Second Term	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Professor David Macdonald

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Geology And Petroleum Geology (GL) (Studied)
Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

Planning reservoir surveillance
4-D seismic
Well testing
Well test analysis
Down hole pressure monitoring
Pulsed neutron logging
Production logging
Drilling and completion principles and techniques
Petrophysical input to well planning
Pore pressure prediction
Well bore stability
Overburden characterisation
Real-time data and geosteering
Mudlogging data and wellsite geology
Formation evaluation for well completion
Wireline and cased hole operations
Fluid sampling by logs and production
Coring operations

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	100
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
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Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Factual	Remember	ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide.

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