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The document outlines a course titled 'Reservoir Rock Properties' offered by the Petroleum Engineering Department at Suez University, aimed at third-level students. It covers various aspects of reservoir rocks, including their lithology, porosity, permeability, and fluid interactions, along with practical laboratory measurements. The course includes assessments such as midterms and final exams, with a detailed grading breakdown.

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The document outlines a course titled 'Reservoir Rock Properties' offered by the Petroleum Engineering Department at Suez University, aimed at third-level students. It covers various aspects of reservoir rocks, including their lithology, porosity, permeability, and fluid interactions, along with practical laboratory measurements. The course includes assessments such as midterms and final exams, with a detailed grading breakdown.

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RESERVOIR ROCK

PROPERTIES
ALI MOUSTAFA ELSAYED WAHBA ELLAITHY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF PETROLEUM AND MINING ENGINEERING
SUEZ UNIVERSITY

E-mail: [Link]@[Link]
Tel.: (+20) 1021122314 – (+20) 1555545827
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RESERVOIR ROCK PROPERTIES
• Department offering the course: Petroleum Engineering Department
• Academic level: Third Level
• Semester (Based on final exam timing): Seventh Semester
• Date of specification approval: 1/10/2023
• Title: Reservoir Rock Properties Code: PE 331
• Lectures: 2
• Tutorial/Lab: 2
• Total: 4
• Prerequisite: Introduction to Petroleum Engineering
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❖Catalogue Course Description:

• Introduction to reservoir rock; coring and core handling, rock types; sandstone
and carbonate rocks, pore types, petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks;
porosity, fluid saturations, flow regimes, reservoir geometry, permeability
concepts; absolute, effective, & relative, weighted-average permeability, rock
compressibility, routine and special core analysis laboratory (SCAL), capillary
pressure, wettability, surface and interfacial tension, electrical properties of the
rock, rock-fluid interactions, Laboratory measurements of rock properties.
✓ Prerequisite: Introduction to Petroleum Engineering
• Systematic theoretical and laboratory study of physical properties of petroleum
reservoir rocks, lithology, porosity, relative and effective permeability, fluid
saturation, capillary characteristics, compressibility, rock stress, and fluid-rock
interaction.

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RESERVOIR ROCK PROPERTIES
❖Overall aims of the course:

• By the end of this course, student will learn how to:

▪ Determine reservoir rock lithology.


▪ Measure different types of reservoir rock porosity.
▪ Measure reservoir fluid saturation.
▪ Measure reservoir rock permeability.
▪ Measure reservoir fluid effective and relative permeability.
▪ Measure reservoir rock capillarity.
▪ Measure reservoir fluid-rock interaction.
▪ Measure reservoir rock compressibility.
▪ Measure reservoir rock stress.

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RESERVOIR ROCK PROPERTIES
• Assessment Schedule Week
• Midterm 8th week
• Final Exam End of Term
• Weight of Assessments %
• Final exam: 60%
• Semester work:
▪ Mid-Term exam: 13.33%
▪ In Class Quizzes: 6.67% (Week 4th, 6th and 12th)
▪ Assignments: 3.33%
▪ Attendance: 10%
▪ Lab. exam: 6.67%
• TOTAL 100 %
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REFERENCES
1. Tarek Ahmed “Reservoir Engineering Handbook”.

2. Ekwere J. Peters “Petrophysics”.

3. Abhijit Y. Dandekar “Petroleum Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties”.

4. Tiab and Donaldson “Petrophysics”.

5. “Reservoir Rock Properties” Prof. Dr. Hamid M. Khattab.

6. “ROCK AND FLUID PROPERTIES” Dr. Tarek Elkewidy.

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THANK YOU

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