Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

GNG 203 — Rock and Fluid Properties

2 units · GNG department course · Nigerian universities

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Course contents

Composition and porosity of reservoir rock. Darcy’s law and the concept of permeability and relative permeability; capillary phenomena, surface tension forces, wettability, compressibility and static distribution of fluids. Electric conductivity; chemical, physical and thermodynamic properties of underground fluid. Gas laws, behavior of liquid, phase equilibrium, Viscosities of hydrocarbons, uses of fluid properties in reservoir engineering, rock and fluid property correlation. Laboratory The laboratory section is based on materials covered in this course, including coring and core analysis, determination of petrophysical properties, such as porosity, permeability, water saturation and gas formation volume factor. 300 Level

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