PNG 305Rock and Fluid Properties

3 credits · Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering · Penn State

This course introduces students to rock properties, fluid properties, and interaction between rock and fluids. It covers fundamentals of reservoir rock and fluid properties, including lithology of reservoirs, porosity and permeability of rocks, Darcy's law, and distribution of rock properties, saturation, wettability, capillary pressure, effective and relative permeability, phase behavior of single- and multi-component systems, compositional and black-oil models, solution gas-oil ratios, formation volume factor, compressibility, density, viscosity, and interfacial tension. These topics are covered in the context of fundamental properties needed to engineer subsurface reservoirs for applications in the energy sector, including conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon production, energy or gas storage, carbon geo-storage, wastewater disposal, groundwater, and geothermal energy.