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.
Objectives Reservoir Engineering
To continuously monitor the reservoir and collect relevant data and interpret it to be able to
determine (present conditions)
estimate (future conditions) and control the movement of fluids through the reservoir so that we can: enhance ( increase recovery factor)
accelerate ( increase production rate) the oil recovery.
What is reservoir?
Reservoir is that portion of a trap which contains oil and/or gas as a single hydraulically connected system.
it is a rock layer
porous so that stores oil
permeable so that allows flow of oil
has a mechanism to prevent escape of oil (trapping mechanism)
