Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.   Recognize reservoir forming (sandstone and carbonate) rock types, their textures and pore structures

2.   Handle and prepare cores according to standard core handling procedures

3.   Define porosity, discuss the factors which effect porosity, and describe the methods of determining values of porosity.

4.   Define the coefficient of isothermal compressibility of reservoir rock and describe methods for determining values of formation compressibility.

5.   Reproduce the Darcy equation in differential form, explain its meaning, integrate the equation for typical reservoir systems, discuss and calculate the effect of fractures and channels, and describe methods for determining values of absolute permeability.

6.   Explain boundary tension and wettability and their effect on capillary pressure, describe methods of determining values of capillary pressure, and convert laboratory capillary pressure values to reservoir conditions.

7.   Describe methods of determining fluid saturations in reservoir rock and show relationship between fluid saturation and capillary pressure.

8.   Define resistivity, formation resistivity factor, resistivity index, saturation exponent, and cementation factor and show relationships between them; discuss laboratory measurement of electrical properties of reservoir rocks; and demonstrate their calculations from laboratory electrical measurements.

9.   Differentiate permeability, relative permeability, reproduce typical relative permeability curves and show effect of saturation history on relative permeability; illustrate the measurement of relative permeability; and demonstrate some uses of relative permeability data.

10. Demonstrate the techniques of averaging porosity, permeability, and reservoir pressure data.