Module 1: Introduction to Petroleum Reservoir Fluids and Phase Behavior

Module 1.1: Introduction to Petroleum Reservoir Fluids

• Introduction 
• Chemical composition of petroleum fluids
• Solid components of petroleum fluids (waxes, asphaltenes, hydrates)
• Classification of petroleum fluids (black oil, volatile oil, condensate, wet gas and dry gas)
• Other unconventional oils (heavy oil and tar sands)
• Other hydrocarbon fluids of interest (CNG, LNG, LPG, NGL)
• Formation waters
• *Active learning activities

Module 1.2: Introduction to Phase Behavior

• Phase behavior of pure component
• Phase behavior of two-component system
• Phase behavior of multicomponent system
• Phase behavior of petroleum fluids (black oil, volatile oil, condensate, wet gas and dry gas)
• *Active learning activities

Module 2: PVT Experiments and Reservoir Fluid Properties

Module 2.1: Reservoir Fluid Properties

• Properties of dry gases
• Properties of wet gases
• Properties of black oils
• Properties of reservoir water
  
• •PVT correlations for reservoir fluids
  
• *Active learning activities

Module 2.2: PVT Experiments

• Wellstream compositions
• Constant Composition Expansion (CCE)
• Differential Liberation (DLE)
• Constant Volume Depletion (CVD)
• Multistage Separator Test
• *Active learning activities
  

Module 3: Fluids Sampling and PVT Report Analysis

Module 3.1: Petroleum Reservoir Fluids Sampling

• Practical considerations of fluid sampling
• Methods of fluid sampling
• QC (Quality Check) of reservoir samples
• *Active learning activities
  

Module 3.2: Understanding PVT Report

• Adjustment of black oil laboratory data
• Example PVT Report #1
• Example PVT Report #2
• Generating black-oil PVT functions from PVT lab experiments
• *Hands-on calculations

Module 4: Advanced Topics on Reservoir Fluids Modeling

Module 4.1: Equations of State

• Cubic EOS
• Non-cubic EOS
• Mixture mixing rules
• EOS applications

Module 4.2: Plus Fractions Characterization

• Crude oil assay
• Plus fraction characterization methods
• Splitting and lumping