Petroleum Engineering (PETR)
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1000 Level Courses
1101. Introduction to Petroleum Engineering (1). Prerequisite: PETR major or department approval. Introduction to the petroleum engineering profession. Group discussions and selected readings on requirements, responsibilities, ethics, opportunities, and history of petroleum engineering.
1305. Engineering Analysis I (3). Corequisites: MATH 1451 and PETR 1101. Introduction to engineering fundamentals, dimensions, units, and conversions. Synthesis and analysis of typical engineering problems. Introduction to the use of computers, computing, and structured programming. Fulfills core Technology and Applied Science requirement.Back to Top
3000 Level Courses
3302. Reservoir Fluid Properties Design (3). Prerequisites: MATH 2450; PETR 1101, 1305; CHEM 1307; PHYS 2401; CE 3305 or ME 3370; ME 2322 with a grade of C or higher; 2.5 GPA; PETR major; or departmental approval. Corequisite: PETR 3402. Design of reservoir fluid properties, including PVT behavior of hydrocarbon systems. Investigation of the nature, methods of estimation, and use of reservoir fluid properties. Laboratory PVT demonstrations. (Design Course)
3304. Formation Evaluation (3). Prerequisites: PHYS 2401, MATH 2450 or PETR 3402 with a C or higher; department approval; 2.50 GPA. Corequisites: PETR 3401, 3306. Use of open-hole well logs including logging suites for the electric survey to the induction and laterlog suites to determine volume and relative producibility of hydrocarbon reserves. Analysis and design techniques of actual well logging packages are emphasized.
3306. Reservoir Engineering (3). Prerequisites: PETR 3302, 3402; PHYS 2401; and MATH 3350 with a C or higher; department approval; 2.50 GPA. Corequisite: PETR 3401, 3304. Understanding the fundamentals of fluid flow through porous media, reservoir types and recovery mechanisms. Estimation of hydrocarbon in place for oil and gas reservoirs. Application of material balance calculations for various reservoir types and applications of fluid flow through porous media in predicting production performance.
3308. Engineering Communications (3). Prerequisites: ENGL 1301,1302, junior or senior standing, department approval. Written and oral communication techniques for professional engineers, including writing matrix, fog index, computer analysis, and visual aid production, proposal writing, and other tools. (Writing Intensive)
3401. Petroleum Development Design (4). Prerequisites: A grade of C or higher in MATH 2450; PETR 1101, 1305; PHYS 2401; CE 3305 or ME 3370; ME 2322. GPA 2.5 or higher; PETR major or departmental approval. Rotary drilling; well completion practices, including casing, cementing, hydraulics, perforating, workover design and rheology lab. Design and use of equipment. (Design Course)
3402. Reservoir Rock Properties (4). Prerequisites: ENGL 1302, PETR 3302, MATH 2450, CE 3305 or ME 3370, and PHYS 2401 with a C or higher; 2.50 GPA; department approval. Corequisite: PETR 3302. Understanding the basic properties of reservoir rocks and how they relate to the storage and production of oil and gas. Important concepts such as heterogeneity, capillary pressure, relative permeability, resistivity are included as part of the course. The course is complemented by relevant lab experiments where the students get hands on experience on measuring some of the single and multiphase flow properties of reservoir rocks. (Writing Intensive)Back to Top
4000 Level Courses
4000. Special Studies in Petroleum Engineering (V1-6). Prerequisite: Department and instructor approval. Individual studies in petroleum engineering areas of special interest. Can be used for practical curriculum training, but petroleum engineering majors may not use it as a substitute for PETR 4331 or PETR elective. May be repeated for credit.
4121. Petroleum Engineering Seminar (1). Prerequisites: CE 2301 or ME 2301, CE 3302 or ME 3302, CE 3303 or ME 3403, CE 3305 or ME 3370, ME 2322, IE 3301, and CHEM 1307/1107 with a C or higher; senior standing; 2.50 GPA; department approval. Study of engineering problems of special interest and value to the student.
4300. Petroleum Property Evaluation and Management (3). Prerequisites: PETR 3304, 3306; IE 3301; ENGL 1301, 1302; GEOL 3305, 4324; MATH 3342 and 3350 with a C or higher; 2.50 GPA; department approval. Corequisites: PETR 4308, 4309. Economic, physical, analytical, and statistical evaluation of hydrocarbon-producing properties, emphasizing relative worth of investments based on engineering judgment, business strategy, and risk analysis using actual oil properties in team projects. (Design course) (Writing Intensive)
4303. Petroleum Production Methods (3). Prerequisites: PHYS 2401; MATH 3350; CE 3302 or ME 3302; CE 3305 or ME 3370; PETR 3302 and 3401 with a C or higher; 2.50 GPA; departmental approval. Corequisites: PETR 3304, 3306, 3402. Natural flow analysis—reservoir performance (Inflow Performance Ratio), wellbore performance (Tubing Performance Ratio), surface flowline performance (Flow Performance Ratio). Artificial Lift Methods. Wellbore Stimulation–Acidizing, Hydraulic fracturing. (Design Course)
4306. Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes (3). Prerequisite: PETR 3302, 3304, 3306, 3401, 4303 with a C or higher, 2.50 GPA, departmental approval. Corequisites: PETR 4307 and 4405. Introduction to EOR processes mechanisms, frontal advance theory and application, mechanisms of water-flooding and miscible processes and application to reservoir performance prediction.
4307. Drilling Engineering (3). Prerequisites: A grade of C or higher in PETR 3302, 3304, 3306, 3401, 3402, 4303; PHYS 2401; CE 3303 or ME 3403; CE 3305 or ME 3370; MATH 3342, 3350; GEOL 3305; IE 3301; with a 2.5 GPA. Corequi-sites: A grade of C or higher in PETR 4306, 4405, 4121. Rotary Drilling systems, drilling mechanism, well planning, blowout and well control, hole deviation, and directional drilling. (Design Course) (Writing Intensive)
4308. Advanced Reservoir Engineering (3). Prerequisites: PETR 3302, 3304, 3306, 3401, 4303; MATH 3342 and 3350; PHYS 2401 with a C or higher; 2.50 GPA, departmental approval. Corequisites: PETR 4300 and 4309. Fundamental laws, anisotropic, coordinate systems and reservoir geometry, continuity and diffusivity equations, pressure-time-volume relationships. Basic theory of transient flow and testing, type curves, pressure derivative method, buildup, drawdown, interference and reservoir limit tests. Water influx, decline curves analysis, software and reservoir models. Unconventional gas reservoirs.
4309. Well Completion, Production Facilities, and Stimulation (3). Prerequisites: PETR 3304, 3306, and 4307; IE 3301; MATH 3342 and 3350; ME 2322; CE 3302 or ME 3302, and CE 3303 or ME 3403, and CE 3305 or ME 3370 with a C or higher; 2.50 GPA; senior standing; departmental approval. Corequisites: PETR 4300 and 4308. Casing and Tubing string design. Special downhole equipment. Wellhead and Choke. Production testing. Production logging and Wellbore diagnostics. Surface facilities–separators, treaters, desalting, storage tanks, gas and oil metering. Well maintenance. (Design Course)
4331. Special Problems in Petroleum Engineering (3). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and department. Individual studies in advanced engineering areas of special interests. May be repeated for credit.
4385. Multinational Energy, Environment, Technology and Ethics (3). Prerequisites: ENGL 1301, 1302; 1320; junior or senior standing; departmental approval. Energy use in modern society and the consequences of past, current, and future energy use patterns.
4386. Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production (3). Prerequisites: ENGL 1301, 1302; MATH 1320 or higher; junior or senior standing; departmental approval. Exposes students to both engineering and geological aspects of the petroleum business and enables them to operate in an oil company team environment or independently.
4405. Natural Gas Engineering (4). Prerequisite: PETR 3302, 3304, 3306, 3401, 3402; ME 2322; PHYS 2401; MATH 3342 and 3350 with a C or higher; 2.50 GPA; department approval. Corequisite: PETR 4306 and 4307. The production of natural gas and condensate reservoirs; processing, transportation, distribution, and measurement of natural gas and its derivatives. (Design course)
5000 Level Courses
5000. Studies in Advanced Petroleum Engineering Topics (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA and department approval. Study of topics of current interest under the guidance of instructional faculty. May be repeated for credit on different topics or areas of interest.
5121. Graduate Seminar (1). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, department approval. Discussions of petroleum engineering research and special industry problems. Required each semester for all graduate students. May be repeated for credit.
5301. Teaching Experience in Petroleum Engineering (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, permission of instructor, department approval. On-the-job training in teaching petroleum topics. Students prepare and present lectures, grade problem sets, and prepare laboratory experiments. Students and instructor evaluate performance.
5302. Petroleum Environmental Engineering (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, permission of instructor, department approval. A unified treatment of all aspects of petroleum environmental well planning processes, pollution prevention and safety, management practices and self-assessment process, environmental oil and gas law.
5303. Advanced Drilling Techniques (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, PETR 4407 or consent of instructor, department approval. A unified treatment of all aspects of well planning and the optimization of oil and gas drilling processes.
5304. Advanced Well Log Analysis (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, PETR 3304 or consent of instructor, department approval. Methods of analyzing various types of well logs to obtain quantitative hydrocarbon reservoir parameters.
5305. Advanced Formation Evaluation (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, PETR 3304 or consent of instructor, department approval.Must have graduate standing in petroleum engineering. Application of petrophysical core analysis to formation evaluation. Integration of special core analysis with well logs.
5306. Advanced Artificial Lift Methods (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, permission of instructor, department approval. Study of the design and analysis of current mechanisms for lifting oil from the reservoir to surface facilities including optimization theory.
5307. Enhanced Oil Recovery (3). PPrerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Fundamental relations governing the displacement of oil in petroleum reservoirs and methods for predicting oil recovery by miscible and immiscible displacement.
5308. Pressure Transient Analysis (3). Prerequisites: MATH 3350, PER 4308, or consent of instructor; 3.50 GPA; department approval. Theory of transient fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs and applications of methods to interpret transient pressure behavior.
5309. Hydrocarbon Reservoir Simulation (3). Prerequisites: MATH 3350 or consent of instructor, 3.50 GPA, department approval. The development of unsteady state fluid flow equations for hydrocarbon reservoirs and the application of finite difference methods to obtain solutions to the equations.
5310. Advanced Simulation Techniques (3). Prerequisite: PETR 5309 and consent of department. Treatment of advanced concepts of reservoir simulation for multidimensional, multiphase flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs.
5311. Thermal Oil Recovery (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Study of the recovery of oil by thermal methods, including steam injection and in situ combustion.
5312. Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Study of 1D, 2D, 3D, one-, two-, and three-phase simulation modeling of carbon dioxide and thermal recovery applications.
5313. Numerical Applications in Petroleum Engineering (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Least squares, solving first and second order partial differential equations; backward, central, forward difference solutions, matrix, Gaussian, Adams, Rung-Kutta solutions.
5314. Nodal Analysis and Well Optimization (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Inflow performance relationships, well design, theory of the reservoir flow, flow restrictions, completion effects, multiphase phase flow, and use of computer programs for complex solutions.
5315. Horizontal Well Technology (3). Prerequisites: PETR 4303, 4407 and consent of department. Topics include why horizontal, incremental cost, historical prospective, drilling change, completion modification, production difference, reservoir aspects, pressure transient, and analysis adjustment.
5316. Advanced Production Engineering (3). Prerequisites: PETR 4303 and consent of department. Advanced study of production operations, well deliverability, inflow performance, gas lift design, production system analysis and optimization, downhole equipment and surface facilities design.
5317. Well Completion and Stimulation (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Casing string plan; Tubing String plan. Inflow-tubing-and Flowline performance Relationships. Skin calculations for gravel pack, perforation completion, and formation damage. Nodal analysis of well flow. Acid stimulation–matrix, wormhole, cavity and fractured. Borehole extension by hydraulic fracturing, abrasive/jet perforation with CT-unit, fish-bone type multilateral drain holes.
5318. Gas Production Engineering (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Design of processing, transportation, distribution, and flow measurement systems; gas storage reservoirs, flow in porous media, tubing, and pipelines; phase behavior of gas condensates; and coal bed methane.
5319. Multiphase Fluid Flow in Pipes (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Introduction to CFD software (simulator), OLGATM. Multi-phase flow vertical, inclined, horizontal conduits. Transient multiphase pipeline flow analysis. Comparison of CFD-steady-state flow and Empirical correlations for vertical and horizontal flows. Multiphase flow metering. Slug flow analysis in pipeline. Concept of flow assurance..
5320. Advanced Reservoir Engineering (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Recovery prediction, tensor permeabilities, multiphase flow, drainage equations, flow potential, streamline-streamtube methods, injectivity, displacements in layered reservoirs, and line source solutions.
5322. Computational Phase Behavior (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Advanced PVT and EOS characterization, tuning EOS by regression, gas condensate reservoirs, use of laboratory experiments and correlation to obtain PVT data, psuedoization and use of PVT programs.
5323. Advanced Phase Behavior (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Thermodynamics of equilibria, volumetric phase behavior, Gibbs and Helmholtz energy, chemical potential, phase diagram, modeling paraffins, asphaltenes, hydrates and mineral deposition, use of PVT software.
5324. Geostatistics for Reservoir Engineers (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Flow in porous media, reservoir characterization, geostatistics, estimation, simulation, case studies, quantifying uncertainties, geological simulation, data integration, grid block properties, and geostatistics software.
5325. Water Flooding Techniques (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Frontal advanced theory for multiphase flow, immiscible flow, capillary cross flow, psuedofunctions, streamlines, measures of heterogeneity, field case studies, pattern flooding, and use of black oil reservoir simulators.
5328. Advanced Property Evaluation (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Statistical evaluation of hydrocarbon producing properties, risk analysis, economic analysis of production forecasts and reserve estimation, and cash flow analysis.
5329. Advanced Core Analysis (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Rock properties relating to production of oil and gas, multiphase fluid flow, micro- and macro-interaction of fluids and reservoir rocks, Archie parameters and well logs, modeling saturations with permeability.
5380. Drilling Engineering Methods (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Drilling equipment, components, description, operation; drilling fluids; hydraulic calculations; casing design; hole problem; cost control, penetration rate, well planning; pressure control; directional drilling; bit; cement. (Leveling program course)
5381. Production Engineering Methods (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Artificial lift, inflow performance relationships, well design and application of stimulation practices, processing equipment, separator problems, emulsions, treating, and transmission systems. (Leveling program course)
5382. Well Logging Fundamentals (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Use of open-hole logs, survey of induction and lateralog suites to determine reserves. (Leveling program course)
5383. Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Reservoir performance predictions, computation of in place gas, condensate and oil reservoirs, applications of ME for reservoir mechanisms, decline curves, EOR methods, fluid flow in porous media. (Leveling program course)
5384. Basic Fluids and Rock Properties (3). Prerequisites: 3.50 GPA, consent of instructor, department approval. Reservoir fluids and rock properties, fluid sampling, phase behavior, reservoir drives mechanisms, concepts of porosity, permeability, saturations, capillary pressure and compressibility for gas-oil production. (Leveling program course)Back to Top
6000 Level Courses
6000. Master’s Thesis (V1-6).
6001. Master’s Report (V1-6).
6331. Proposal/Project Communication (3). Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. Guide to research, technical report, project planning, problem definition, grant proposals, thinking, talking, and writing in research, writing technical journal, review articles, and technical presentations.Back to Top
7000 Level Courses
7000. Research (V1-12).Back to Top
8000 Level Course
8000. Doctor's Dissertation (V1-12).Back to Top