Course Objectives:

• To become familiar with the basic physical properties of reservoir rocks including: porosity, permeability, relative permeability, capillary pressure, electrical, acoustic, nuclear and mechanical properties.
• To know the basic definitions for these properties, and to know the relations between them, and the dependence of these properties on various rock parameters and physical conditions.
• To know and understand the basic techniques for measuring these properties in the laboratory, and to understand the potential sources for error and uncertainty in these techniques.
• To be able to relate these properties as measured in the laboratory to the likely performance of a petroleum reservoir, and to be able to compute average reservoir values.

Texts:     The official text for the course will be a set of typed lecture notes that can be purchased from the SPE office. A lab manual for the laboratory is included in the notes.