PGE 302
Petroleum Engineering Laboratory 1
3
Course Description
At the end of this course, the students should be able to:
1. analyze drill cuttings;
2. determine the lithology of a given formation;
3. determine rock properties (porosity, permeability, fluid saturations, capillary pressure
curves and others) and fluid properties (bubble point pressure, dew point pressure and oil
formation volume)
Course Outline
Analysis of drill cuttings. Determination of lithology. Determination of porosity. Fluid
saturations. Capillary Pressure. Permeability; electrical properties, effective permeability and
relative permeability. Physical properties of petroleum and its products. Gravity. Viscosity.
Surface tension. Thermodynamic behavior of naturally-occurring hydrocarbon mixtures.
Differential and flash vaporisation tests at elevated pressures and temperatures.