GEOL40620

Learning Outcomes:

As well as providing experience in teamwork, analysis and decision-making to tight deadlines, the exercise reinforces the feedback between pressure and flow rate, and roles of sweep and drainage efficiency in oil-field reservoir production.

Indicative Module Content:

A practical exercise run over one week and punctuated by operational deadlines. Operational decisions are based on analysis of maps and well data and incremental reservoir production data. Teams can work entirely on paper or use Petrel as they choose. A final report based on a post-mortem examination of field performance is written individually.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

This is a hand-on module. Following an introduction to the dataset, pairs (usually) of students work together over the course of a week to develop the reservoir. The module coordinator is available throughout for informal discussion with the teams and, more formally, twice-daily when the students submit their operational plans. At the end of the operation period, the students are presented with a flow model of their reservoir which forms the basis of the post-mortem analysis.

Not applicable to this module.

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback will be provided on performance on an ongoing basis.