Petroleum Engineering Laboratories

Reservoir Rock Properties Laboratory
 Name

Reservoir Rock Properties Laboratory
 Objectives:
  1. To teach The Student the Basic Measurements of Reservoir Rock Properties.
  2. To provide research facilities to faculty and graduate students
Location Building 2 Room 114
Functions

This fully equipped laboratory provides the following conventional and special rock property studies:

  1. Determination of porosity by liquid saturation, gas expansion, and resistivity methods.

  2. Determination of absolute, effective and relative permeabilities by steady-state and unsteady-state methods under reservoir conditions of pressure and temperature.

  3. Determination of capillary pressure by porous diaphragm, centrifuge, and mercury injection methods.

  4. Grain size analysis by sieve method.
Major Equipments

  1. Gas Permeameter

  2. Liquid Permeameter

  3. Helium Porosimeter

  4. Resistivity Meter

  5. Capillary Pressure Cells

  6. Refrigerated Centrifuge Machine

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