Importance of the study of reservoir engineering // Petroleum engineering

During my training as an Oil Engineer at the Universidad del Zulia, at the oil school, in the core of Maracaibo there was a curricular unit that caught my attention, and this was the one from Reservoir Engineering, were two deposits engineering that gave me in the academic formation, Reservoir Engineering I and Reservoir Engineering II.

I found in his study and understanding the way to understand the deposit as a source of understanding for the drilling of future wells that could be executed, that is why the study of the deposit I consider it to be the art that every Petroleum Engineer has to forecast the behavior or operation of the same, where it is even possible to predict the production of the deposit in conditions of proved reserves or in presumed production.

Some basic aspects to consider in the study of reservoir engineering.

It is incredible to think that through the study of reservoir engineering, we can predict the production behaviors of a future reservoir, and through this we can adapt the best production techniques and stimulation of it.

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The part of reservoir engineering has intrinsic many studies and contributions of a scientific nature, all this coupled with the ability of the engineer in reservoirs to be able to predict, leads to having to handle diverse information obtained by engineering colleges in geology, that these are in charge of identifying the reservoir rock class, its mineral composition, granular classification, and other characteristic properties of the reservoir rock or reservoir such as porosity and permeability.

There is an existing complexity for the Petroleum Engineers at the moment of considering the deposit in its totality, since its study must frame:

• Type of geological trap (Structural or stratigraphic).
• Lateral extension of the deposit.
• Deposition processes.
• Possible outcrops where meteoric waters can infiltrate.
• Possible dips.

Many of that information does not have the Petroleum Engineer, so it is necessary to work hand in hand with the geophysicists, to provide electrical profiles, temperature and calibration records, and even records of drilling muds and weather. drilling. All this society makes the production forecasts of the deposit can be optimized, since the records can be compared and corroborated before giving a final prediction.

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Conclusion

The study of reservoir engineering is of the utmost importance, since we can not go to design the construction of an oil well without first having gathered all the geological information such as electrical registers, pressure registers, among others. Another of the importance that it has, is that even once we have several wells producing, with the capacity and petrophysical information that we have, we can predict the future production for the deposit in production, we can even predict the production of proved reserves of deposits that do not are in production.