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This document outlines the course content for ENPE 300: Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering. It introduces reservoir engineering as a branch of petroleum engineering that applies scientific principles to optimize oil and gas recovery. The course covers topics such as reservoir properties, fluid flow mechanisms, recovery factors, and production forecasting to help students build a foundation in reservoir evaluation and management. It also discusses career opportunities for reservoir engineers in oil and gas companies, service companies, and consulting firms.

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This document outlines the course content for ENPE 300: Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering. It introduces reservoir engineering as a branch of petroleum engineering that applies scientific principles to optimize oil and gas recovery. The course covers topics such as reservoir properties, fluid flow mechanisms, recovery factors, and production forecasting to help students build a foundation in reservoir evaluation and management. It also discusses career opportunities for reservoir engineers in oil and gas companies, service companies, and consulting firms.

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ENPE 300:

Fundamentals of
Reservoir Engineering

Chapter 1: Introduction
Announcement
 Safety in class

 Four Labs:

 Course Syllabus
What is Reservoir Engineering
 Reservoir engineering is a branch of petroleum
engineering that applies scientific principles to the
drainage problems arising during the development
and production of oil and gas reservoirs so as to
obtain a high economic recovery.

 Knowledge Background required: mathematics,


physics, computer science (computer science minor),
geo-science (geology minor), environment science,
economics, Business management. etc.
Position of Reservoir Engineers in
Petroleum Engineering

Geophysics

Geology

Drilling
Reservoir Engineering
Engineering

Economics
Production
Engineering
Tasks of Reservoir Engineers
1. How much oil and gas is originally in place?
(Original Oil In Place, OOIP)
2. What are the trapping mechanisms for the reservoir?
3. What are the drive mechanisms for the reservoir?
4. What will be the recovery factor?
5. What will future production rates from the reservoir
be?
6. How can the recovery be increased economically?
7. What data we need to answer these questions?
Reservoir Engineering Courses
 ENPE 300: Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering
 ENPE 302: Applied Reservoir Engineering
 ENPE 381: Gas Reservoir Engineering
 ENPE 410: Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods
 ENPE 440: Well Logging and Formation Evaluation
 ENPE 450: Well Testing
 ENPE 470: Reservoir Modeling
 ENPE 475: Evaluation of Oil and Gas Properties
 ENPE 486: Heavy Oil Recovery
Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering

 This course is to help you


build the foundations in
Petroleum Engineering
 Knowledge is very scattering
 Lots of new and
comprehensive concepts
 Ask your own questions
General View
1. Petroleum Systems Engineering:
 Complexity vs. Systems & Multidisciplinary Approach
2. Reserve Play:
 Conventional Oil & Gas
 Heavy Oil
 Unconventional Gas, Shallow & Shale Gas, Coal
Bed Methane (CBM)
 Deep Tight Gas
 Oil Sands

* Fortunately, Western Canada has all kinds of reserves listed


Potential Positions

 Petroleum Engineers
 Production & Completion
Engineers
 Researchers focusing on new & promising
technologies
 Consultants working in various technical
areas
 Managers and VPs for oil field
development
 Domestic and overseas opportunities
Key Technical & Information Sources

1. www.spe.org
Technical papers
SPE membership
2. www.petsoc.org
Petroleum Society Membership
3. SPE Journals
4. JCPT
5. JPSE
6. Others: for example, AAPG
Technical Areas
Petroleum Eng. Areas:

 Geology, Geophysics
 Drilling Engineering
 Reservoir Engineering
 Production Engineering
 Economics
 Company and project management
 Emerging new technologies, Water flooding, EOR, CO2 flooding and
Sequestration, SAGD, VAPEX for oil Sands
 Application of knowledge of other disciplinary: Mechanical
Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Information
Management, Physics, Thermodynamics, ….
 Land Issue
Opportunities
Oil & Gas Corporation, Services Companies, Consulting firms:

 BP, Shell, Nexan, CNRL, Cenovous(Husky), ….

 Schlumberger, Halliburton, ….

 SIR, ARC, SRC, CMG, Corelab, Geoscout, Accumap,


IHS, HIS-Fekete….

 Graduate study and Research programs at UofR, UofC,


UofA, UofM, UofD, etc.
Potential Positions

 Petroleum Engineers

 Production & Completion Engineers

 Researchers focusing on new & promising


technologies

 Consultants working in various technical areas

 Managers and VPs for oil field development

 Domestic and overseas opportunities


Key Technical & Information Sources
1. www.spe.org
Technical papers in e-library (requires your
UofR email address)
SPE Canada membership

3. SPE Journals

4. JCPT – Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology

5. JPSE – Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering

6. Others: for example, AAPG


Exercise Ch. 1:
Supposing that your career objective after graduation is a reservoir
engineer, you have two more years to prepare yourself to meet your
objective. In order to make a perfect routine for yourself to archive
your objective, you need do some research now. Please go to the
websites of different oil companies and/or job posting websites and
find at least five junior reservoir engineer positions. Based on the
descriptions and requirements of those positions, please summarize
the following in detail:

1. Technical responsibilities of reservoir engineers


2. Other important required qualifications of reservoir engineers
3. List ten key words for all required qualifications

Then prepare a few slides for this exercise, save your powerpoint file in
your flash Thursday class. We will discuss and summarize your
findings.

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