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Graduate Course Description
PETE 512 Advanced
Drilling Engineering I (3-0-3)
This course provides the
student with a thorough understanding of the drilling operations and the
various factors affecting them. Topics covered include drilling
fluid hydraulics, hole stability, penetration rate, buckling and bending
of drilling strings, well trajectory control, and optimization of
drilling operations.
Prerequisite:
Graduate Standing
PETE 513
Advanced Drilling Fluids (3-0-3)
The course
provides an in-depth coverage of drilling fluids chemistry and
archeology. Coverage includes both classical and evolving drilling
fluid systems, clay chemistry, shale stabilization, drilling fluid
additives and contaminants, and addresses the various problems and
solutions related to drilling fluids.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
PETE 523 Well Test
Analysis (3-0-3)
The
course provides students with the theoretical background and skills
needed for well test design and analysis. Solutions of the fundamental
flow equation including wellbore storage and skin for slightly
compressible fluids are presented and discussed. The general buildup
theory and its application to infinite and bounded reservoirs is
addressed and discussed. Analysis of common well tests using recently
developed methods and techniques to determine reservoir parameters of
homogeneous and heterogeneous systems.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
PETE 524
Advanced Well Logging (3-0-3)
The
course provides the students with the basic and advanced skills and
techniques needed to interpret modern well logs. These skills and
techniques are then used for identification and evaluation of potential
hydrocarbon zones from a standard suite of logs. Clean and shaly
formation interpretations are covered. Computer Applications are
emphasized.
Prerequisite:
Graduate standing and consent of instructor
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
PETE 533
Surface Production Facilities (3-0-3)
The
course provides a detailed description, performance analysis, and design
of oil, water and gas handling facilities. Design of individual
components of the production system using hand calculations is first
emphasized to provide complete understanding of the physics of the
various processes; then, computer programs are utilized. The course
concludes with a term project. The project integrates learned material
for the design of a complete surface production system.
Prerequisite:
Graduate standing and consent of instructor
PETE 543
Advanced Waterflooding (3-0-3)
Detailed analysis of the
theory, design, and performance prediction of waterflooding of oil
reservoirs. Fundamentals of rock and fluid interactions. The fractional
flow equation. Linear immiscible displacement. Prediction of areal sweep
efficiency using the CGM method and stream-tube models. Water
injectivity in various flood patterns. Heterogeneous reservoirs.
Prerequisite:
Graduate Standing
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
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
PETE 551
Petroleum Economic Analysis (3-0-3)
Statistical methods and operations research, application to project
screening and management decision, evaluation of processing facilities.
Engineering justification for capital outlay in the petroleum industry.
Prerequisite: PETE 550- Petroleum Economics.
PETE
560 Mathematical Methods in Petroleum Engineering (3-0-3)
The course covers
selected topics on advanced mathematical and numerical methods and
modeling in petroleum engineering. This includes numerical
differentiation, integration, non-linear regression, and numerical
inversion of La Place transforms. Applications include analysis of rock
properties, fluid properties, and reservoir engineering.
Prerequisite:
Graduate Standing
PETE
580 Virtual Petroleum Engineering (3-0-3)
The course presents real
problems and scenarios that simulate a petroleum engineering office
environment. A multidisciplinary approach will be the dominant approach
to all presented problems. Realistic office settings and simulation of
field problems will be used to enhance the learning experience. The
course will emphasize problem solving and learning through
well-structured assignments and class discussions. Experienced industry
experts may be utilized at certain stages of the course.
Prerequisite:
Graduate standing and consent of instructor
PETE 590
Special Topics in Petroleum Engineering (3-0-3)
Advanced
topics selected from the major areas of petroleum engineering covering
recent developments.
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.
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.
PETE 616
Offshore Drilling Engineering (3-0-3)
Offshore
platforms and mobile vessels. Motion compensators and risers design.
Offshore rigs and equipment. Offshore directional drilling. Wellhead and
well control systems.
PETE 617
Advanced Drilling Engineering II
(3-0-3)
This course is intended to
cover the recent advances and changes in drilling technology.
Emphasis will be on the areas of horizontal and multilateral drilling
and completion, slim holes and evolving drilling techniques.
Optimization and cost-effective drilling practices are studied in detail
with the utilization of available computer packages.
Prerequisite:
PETE 512
PETE
627 Automated Well Test Analysis (3-0-3)
The course is intended to introduce the graduate student to the
latest technology in well interpretation and design using interactive
well test computer models. Common types of well tests and reservoir
models, and the identification under various conditions of oil and gas
wells are presented and discussed. The graduate student will demonstrate
his understanding of the course material through development of a well
test program to estimate reservoir parameters based on non-linear
regression techniques for several reservoir models.
Prerequisite:
PETE 523
PETE 628
Reservoir Characterization (3-0-3)
The course is intended to
provide the student with advanced concepts in geostatistics. Spacial
correlation, variograms, and covariograms of petrophysical variables.
Static (cores, logs, seismic) and dynamic (flow) data are used to
characterize the reservoirs. Estimation of spacial distribution of
variables using kriging, co-kriging, and conditional simulation.
Applications of geostatistical techniques to construct reservoir
simulation models.
Prerequisite:
Graduate Standing
PETE
635 Well Stimulation (3-0-3)
The course starts with
detailed discussions of the various types of formation damage, their
causes and effect on well productivity. The various stimulation
and damage removal methods are then introduced with detailed study of
the theory, design and pre- and post-treatment analysis of sandstone and
carbonate matrix acidizing. At the conclusion of the course, the
student should be able to design a complete stimulation job starting
from the selection of the candidate well and ending with the
post-treatment performance evaluation.
Prerequisite:
PETE 532 or
consent of instructor
PETE
637 Applied Hydraulic Fracturing (3-0-3)
The course provides the
student with the knowledge and tools needed to design and analyze
hydraulic and acid fracturing jobs. An overview of the fundamentals of
rock mechanics and its application to hydraulic fracturing will be
presented. Then, the data requirements and various elements of
massive hydraulic fracturing treatment design are covered in detail.
Finally, the design of fracture treatment using analytical tools and
commercial simulators is discussed in detail. The course concludes
with a term project to design a fracturing treatment and evaluate the
post treatment performance of the well.
Prerequisite: PETE
532
PETE 638
Artificial Lift
(3-0-3)
This course
is designed to enable the student to first make decisions on the need
for artificial lift and the best artificial lift method for any given
well and field conditions; then, to design and optimize the artificial
lift installation. Students taking this course are expected to be
familiar with well performance evaluation and analysis. Therefore,
the course concentrates on discussing the various types and applications
of artificial lift methods with detailed study of the theory, design and
analysis of gas lift, electric submersible pump, sucker rod pump,
downhole separations and hydraulic pump installations. Recent advances
in artificial lift technology will also be highlighted.
Prerequisite:
PETE 532
PETE 645
Fluid Flow in Porous Media (3-0-3)
Generalization of Darcy's law and multiphase fluid flow in porous media.
Concept of relative permeability. Performance of displacement
mechanisms. Buckley~Leverett theory and frontal advance calculations.
Dietz method, original and modified Style's methods.
PETE 648
Enhanced Oil Recovery
(3-0-3)
The theoretical and design
aspects of enhanced oil recovery methods as practiced in post-waterflood
oil reservoirs. Miscible displacement methods including dry, rich, and
liquefied petroleum gas. Hot fluid injection. In-situ combustion.
Chemical processes employing polymers and/or surfactants. EOR screening
criteria.
Prerequisite:
PETE 543
PETE 649
Advanced Fluid Properties (3-0-3)
Theoretical and empirical
aspects of the properties of petroleum fluids relevant to petroleum
reservoir calculations. Phase behavior. PVT tests and correlations.
Phase equilibria. Equations of state and phase behavior calculations.
Petroleum fluid characterization. Interfacial tension in multi-phase
systems. Applications in reservoir simulation.
Prerequisite:
Graduate Standing
PETE
670 Reservoir Rock Mechanics (3-0-3)
The course provides detailed
coverage of the fundamentals of rock mechanics including the theories of
elasticity and failure mechanics, borehole stresses and acoustic wave
propagation. Laboratory and field methods of acquiring rock
mechanics data relevant to field applications are discussed in detail.
The course concludes with thorough discussions of the application of
rock mechanics in studying borehole stability, sand control, reservoir
compaction and fracturing.
Prerequisite:
Graduate Standing
PETE 685
Artificial Intelligence in Petroleum Engineering (3-0-3)
The course provides coverage
of both theoretical and programming aspects of artificial intelligence
techniques with applications to the various areas of petroleum
engineering. The basics of Expert Systems, Artificial Neural Networks,
Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Programming will be covered with their
applications in reservoir characterization, reservoir engineering,
drilling engineering and production operations. The course is concluded
with individual projects utilizing commercial software to solve real
problems.
Prerequisite:
Graduate Standing
PETE
699 Seminar (0-0-0)
Attendance of departmental
seminars given by faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars. A
graduate (Ph.D.) student is expected to contribute seminars on
literature searches of topics of current interest to Petroleum
Engineering. Graded on a Pass or Fail basis.
PETE 710
Ph.D. Dissertation (0-0-12)
Involves
original research on a chosen problem within the field of Petroleum
Engineering. Although the work can be theoretical, experimental research
is encouraged. The overall result should be a scientific contribution
adding to further knowledge in petroleum engineering.
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