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Petroleum Engineering (PETE) Advanced Courses
offering in Petroleum Engineering: PETE 301 Reservoir Engineering (3-0-3) Derivation of the general material balance equation.
Estimation of water influx using steady and unsteady-state models.
Application of the general material balance equation for determining initial
oil in place and gas cap size and water influx constant under
different drive mechanisms. Application of the general material balance
equation for determining the initial gas in place for conventional gas
reservoir. Estimation of the initial gas and condensate in place for gas
condensate reservoir. Decline curve analysis. Prerequisites: PETE 204: Reservoir Rock
Properties PETE
205: Petroleum Fluid Properties Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 302 Subsurface Production Engineering (3-3-4) Study of the fundamentals and applications of completion and
workover operations including various completion designs, reservoir and
mechanical considerations, basic tubing design, subsurface equipment,
completion and workover fluids, perforating, stimulation, sand control and
remedial cementing. Horizontal well completion technology. Laboratory
sessions involve actual completion and workover problem solving, and
demonstration of the design and operation of basic completion and control
equipment. Prerequisite: PETE 203: Drilling Engineering Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 303 Well Logging (3-3-4) Comprehensive study of modem well logging methods, open hole
and cased hole log interpretation methods. Production logging. Design of
logging programs and examples of applications. Prerequisites: PETE 204: Reservoir Rock properties Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 306 Well Testing (2-0-2) Derivation of the diffusivity equation for slightly compressible fluid. Solution of the diffusivity equation using Boltzman transformation. Pressure drawdown and buildup tests. Injection and fall-off tests. Average reservoir pressure. Reservoir limit tests. Type curve matching. Pulse and drill stem tests. Test design and instrumentation. Prerequisite: PETE 301: Reservoir Engineering Back to Course
Sponsorship program PETE 400 Special Topics (3-0-3) The course will cover a special topic in one of the areas of
the petroleum engineering discipline. Topics will be selected according to
the faculty expertise and the students' interest and enrollment. Prerequisite: Consent of the Department Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 402 Reservoir Simulation (2-3-3) Basic theory and practices in reservoir simulation,
Formulation of equations governing single phase and multi-phase flow in
porous media. Introduction to finite difference methods and solution
techniques. Solutions of systems of linear equations. Applications using a
black oil simulator. Prerequisites: SE
301: Numerical Methods Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 404
Production Facilities Design (3-3-4) Overview of petroleum surface operations including types,
applications, and design of two and three phase separators; oil treatment
equipment; vapor recovery processes; gas treatment processes and equipment;
produced-water treatment and disposal; flowlines, gathering lines and
transportation; oil, water and gas metering. Laboratory sessions cover design
principles of production facilities leading to the complete design of one
basic production unit. Prerequisites: CHE; 204: Transport Phenomena I Back to Course
Sponsorship program PETE 405 Water Flooding (2-0-2) Basic theoretical and design aspects of waterflooding
processes. Review of capillary phenomena and relative permeability
characteristics of reservoir rocks. Theory of immiscible displacement
including piston-like and frontal advance mechanisms. Injectivity
analysis and performance prediction of linear and pattern flooding.
Heterogeneous reservoirs. Problems encountered in water flooding
projects. Prerequisites: CHE; 204: Transport Phenomena I
PETE 301: Reservoir Engineering Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 407 Petroleum Economics (3-0-3) Introduction to the
standards and practices of economic analysis in the petroleum industry.
Brief review of the principles of economic evaluation, typical
decision making situations including risk analysis, alternative
reservoir depletion schemes utilizing decline curve analysis, secondary stage
development options, and various improved oil recovery methods. Analysis involves
reserve estimation and forecasting of capital investment, operating cost, and
manpower requirement. Prerequisites :Senior Standing for
PETE and Earth Sciences Students Back to Course
Sponsorship program PETE 408 Seminar (0-2-1) Lectures are presented on subjects related to preparation of technical presentations, use of visual aids, and platform and vocal techniques. Each student is then required, as a practice, to prepare and deliver a presentation on selected subjects. Each presentation is discussed and methods for improvements are highlighted. Finally, students are evaluated for their final presentations. Prerequisites: Senior Standing. Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 410 Natural Gas Engineering (3-0-3) Estimation of gas reserves using different
forms of the general material balance equation for gas reservoir. Prediction
of gas reservoir performance subject to water drive. Derivation of the basic
flow equations for real gas and their solutions and applications for
analyzing gas well testing. Analysis of hydraulically fractured gas well
tests. Gas field development. Storage of natural gas. Prerequisite: PETE 301: Reservoir Engineering PETE
306: Well Testing Back to Course Sponsorship program All
Petroleum Engineering Courses (Undergraduate Program ) Petroleum Engineering
( Graduate Program ) Course offering in Petroleum
Engineering ( Graduate Program ): PETE532 Well Performance 3-0-3) The course provides detailed study of the inflow performance relationships and the horizontal, vertical and inclined multiphase flow correlations and mechanistic models. These are then used to determine the current and future performance of the well and the optimum size of the tubing and flow line as well as the optimum production strategy for the whole life of the well. The course emphasizes computer applications through the utilization of student-developed and commercially available software. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 544 Natural Gas Engineering (3-0-3) The course is intended to provide students with the techniques needed to estimate gas reserves for normally and abnormally pressured gas reservoirs, water drive gas reservoirs, and gas condensate reservoirs. Production forecasting and decline curve analysis. Productivity enhancement through gas cycling. Fundamental gas flow equation and its solutions in terms of pressure, pressure squared and pseudo function. Gas well test design and analysis. Analysis of hydraulically fractured gas well tests. Gas field development including reservoir deliverability, total system analysis (inflow/outflow performance of gas wells), and optimum development patterns. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE
545 Advanced Reservoir
Simulation (3-0-3) The theory of petroleum reservoir simulation with modern
modeling and prediction techniques. Finite difference representation of flow
equations. Construction of grid systems and time step selection. Modeling of
multi-phase flow. Solution methods of a system of equations. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 599
Seminar (1-0-0) Graduate
students working towards either M.S. or Ph.D. degrees, are required to attend
the seminars given by faculty, visiting scholars, and fellow graduate
students. Additionally, each student must present at least one seminar on a
timely research topic. Among other things, this course is designed to give
the student an overview of research in the Department, and a familiarity with
the research methodology, journals, and professional societies in his
discipline. Graded on a Pass or Fail basis. Back to Course Sponsorship program PETE 610
Thesis (0-0-6) The student
has to undertake and complete a research topic, under the supervision of a
graduate faculty member, to investigate a specific problem in Petroleum
Engineering. Back to Course Sponsorship program All Petroleum
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