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.
