Prerequisites: GE1013 (Earth Science), GE2033 (Crystallography - Mineralogy - Petrography), GE2001 or GE2011 (or concurrent enrollment).

Rock as a porous medium. Basic rock properties such as density, porosity, permeability, compressibility. Fluid-rock interactions and related properties such as relative permeabilities, capillary, wettability, connate and irreducible saturations, acoustics and electrical properties. Field and lab measurements and introduction to applications for formation evaluation using well logs.