Principles and techniques of petroleum reservoir description. Subsurface data from geological and engineering sources. Random variables and probability distributions. Linear and non-linear regression. Univariate and bivariate descriptions. Measures of heterogeneity. Estimation techniques. Kriging and sequential Gaussian simulation. Contour and image maps and cross-sections. Averaging and scale up of reservoir properties. Correlation of saturation functions. Deterministic and probabilistic reserve estimation methods.

Pre-requisites: PETE313