Before discussing reservoir engineering research, it is useful to consider the place of reservoir engineering within the broad field of study of petroleum engineering. Petroleum engineering includes the major specialties of drilling, production, and reservoir engineering. Other specialties important to development and production include petroleum geology, geophysics, geochemistry, fluid transmission, marine operations, refining, natural gas production and processing, computer science and reservoir simulation, and economics. Although petroleum engineering is frequently involved in planning the drilling of an exploration target, the main activity actually begins upon completion of an exploratory well.

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