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24-Pet-A3 Fundamental Reservoir Engineering: December 2018

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  1. Question 1 Reservoir Engineering Terminology
  2. Question 2 p/Z Material Balance for a Volumetric Dry-Gas Reservoir
  3. Question 3 Interference Test — Pressure at an Observation Well
  4. Question 4 Steady-State Core Flood — Effective and Relative Permeability
  5. Question 5 Capillary Pressure — Water-Oil Contact and Transition-Zone Thickness
  6. Question 6 Combination Gas-Cap/Oil-Zone Material Balance
  7. Question 7 Decline-Curve Analysis — Harmonic Decline from a Rate-vs-Cumulative Plot

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17-Pet-A3 — Fundamental Reservoir Engineering · National Exams, December 2018 · 3 hours, closed book, approved Casio/Sharp calculator only · five (5) questions constitute a complete exam paper (the first five as they appear in the answer book are marked), all questions equal value, all parts of a multipart question equal weight.

Reference texts: Craft, B.C. & Hawkins, M.F., Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, 3rd ed. (material balance, well testing, relative permeability, Darcy flow); Ahmed, T., Reservoir Engineering Handbook, 5th ed. (material balance, transient well testing, gas PVT, decline-curve analysis); Lyons, W.C. (ed.), Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, 3rd ed.; McCain, W.D., The Properties of Petroleum Fluids, 3rd ed. (PVT properties, Z-factor correlations).