{"id":20,"date":"2021-11-01T16:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/?p=20"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:57:55","slug":"what-is-reservoir-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/2021\/11\/01\/what-is-reservoir-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Reservoir Engineering?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<ul class=\"has-background-background-color has-background wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Reservoir Engineering<\/strong> 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.<\/li><li><strong>Objectives Reservoir Engineering<\/strong><ul><li>To continuously monitor the reservoir and collect relevant data and interpret it to be able to<ul><li>determine (present conditions)<\/li><li>estimate (future conditions) and control the movement of fluids through the reservoir\u00a0 so that we can: enhance ( increase recovery factor)<\/li><li>accelerate ( increase production rate) the oil recovery.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>What is reservoir?<\/strong><ul><li>Reservoir is that portion of a trap which contains oil and\/or gas\u00a0 as a single hydraulically connected system. <ul><li>it is a rock layer <\/li><li>porous so that stores oil <\/li><li>permeable so that allows flow of oil <\/li><li>has a mechanism to prevent escape of oil (trapping mechanism)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Discuss the typical reservoir image below:<ul><li>How many reservoirs?<\/li><li>What are the trapping mechanism?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/files\/2021\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2456\/2021\/11\/image.png 688w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2456\/2021\/11\/image-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><figcaption>Source UTM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akhmalsidek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}