PET 404 - Reservoir Engineering

3 credits (Hrs: 3 Lec.)

Reservoir Engineers assess and optimize the recovery of oil and natural gas. This course builds on the fundamental rock and fluid property concepts to derive and apply material balance equations, fluid flow in porous media equations, and pressure transient theory.

Prerequisite(s): PET 304, PET 372, M 273; Corequisite(s): M 274. Course generally offered both semesters.