School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Reservoir Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation
  • Unit Code

    ENS6202
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Mohammadreza KAMALI

Description

This unit provides advanced knowledge of reservoir petrophysics and formation evaluation in petroleum engineering practice. It is a core unit of the petroleum engineering discipline. Students will study reservoir formation evaluation techniques and learn how to interpret well-log data to determine reservoir properties in order to have better understanding of reservoir performance.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the petrophysical properties of hydrocarbon reservoirs and the interaction between rock and fluid on the reservoir condition.
  2. Describe the process of hydrocarbon generation and reservoir formation.
  3. Investigate advanced techniques to determine petrophysical properties of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
  4. Interpret well-logging data from various logging techniques, in order to identify rock and fluid properties.
  5. Measure and analyse petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks.

Unit Content

  1. Process of oil and gas formation in source rock, migration of hydrocarbon from source rock to reservoir rock, differences between source rock and reservoir rock and the concept of hydrocarbon traps.
  2. Fundamentals of physical properties of reservoir rocks, rock-fluid properties and interactions between reservoir rock and reservoir fluid.
  3. Fundamental knowledge of formation evaluation and well-log analysis.
  4. Well-log interpretation for formation evaluation and determination of rock/fluid properties.
  5. American Petroleum Engineering (API) standards for laboratory measurement of rock and fluid properties.
  6. Laboratory procedures for measurement of reservoir properties such as rock porosity, permeability, compressibility, two/three phase relative and effective permeabilites, wettability, capillary pressure and fluid saturation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheory exercises20%
Laboratory Work ^Experimental Work and reports20%
ProjectPresentations and reports 20%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Reservoir Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation
  • Unit Code

    ENS6202
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Mohammadreza KAMALI

Description

This unit provides advanced knowledge of reservoir petrophysics and formation evaluation in petroleum engineering practice. It is a core unit of the petroleum engineering discipline. Students will study reservoir formation evaluation techniques and learn how to interpret well-log data to determine reservoir properties in order to have better understanding of reservoir performance.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the petrophysical properties of hydrocarbon reservoirs and the interaction between rock and fluid on the reservoir condition.
  2. Describe the process of hydrocarbon generation and reservoir formation.
  3. Investigate advanced techniques to determine petrophysical properties of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
  4. Interpret well-logging data from various logging techniques, in order to identify rock and fluid properties.
  5. Measure and analyse petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks.

Unit Content

  1. Process of oil and gas formation in source rock, migration of hydrocarbon from source rock to reservoir rock, differences between source rock and reservoir rock and the concept of hydrocarbon traps.
  2. Fundamentals of physical properties of reservoir rocks, rock-fluid properties and interactions between reservoir rock and reservoir fluid.
  3. Fundamental knowledge of formation evaluation and well-log analysis.
  4. Well-log interpretation for formation evaluation and determination of rock/fluid properties.
  5. American Petroleum Engineering (API) standards for laboratory measurement of rock and fluid properties.
  6. Laboratory procedures for measurement of reservoir properties such as rock porosity, permeability, compressibility, two/three phase relative and effective permeabilites, wettability, capillary pressure and fluid saturation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheory exercises20%
Laboratory Work ^Experimental Work and reports20%
ProjectPresentations and reports 20%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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