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Undergraduate Petroleum Courses
COURSE NAME
TITLE
PROFESSOR
SEMESTER
DESCRIPTION
Introduction to Petroleum Engineering
Heinze
Fall
Introduction to the petroleum engineering profession. Group discussions and selected readings on requirements, responsibilities, ethics, opportunities, and history of petroleum engineering.
Engineering Analysis
House
Fall/Spring
Corequisite: MATH 1351. 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.
Petroleum Development Methods
Heinze
Fall
Prerequisite: MATH 1351 and PETR 1305. Introduction to petroleum engineering, rotary drilling, and well completion practices, including casing, cementing, perforating, and workovers. Discussion of equipment design and use.
Reservoir Fluid Properties
Adisoemarta
Spring
Prerequisite: MATH 1351 and CHEM 1308. Study 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.
Core Laboratory
Adisoemarta
Fall
Corequisite: PETR 3302. Laboratory determination of reservoir rock properties to include porosity, permeability, saturations, compressibility, and resistivity with weekly formal lab reports submitted.
Reservoir Rock Properties
Adisoemarta
Fall
Prerequisite:PETR 2302 and CE 3305. A study of the physical properties of petroleum reservoir rocks as they relate to the production of oil and gas, including multiphase fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs.
Petroleum Production Methods
Lea
Fall
Prerequisite:PETR 2301 and CE 3305. Artificial lift practices including design of sucker rod pumping systems and gas lift installations. Well stimulation practices including acidizing and hydraulic fracturing. Application of inflow performance relationships.
Formation Evaluation
Adisoemarta
Spring
Prerequisite:PHYS 2301, PETR 3302. 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.
Reservoir Engineering
Lawal
Spring
Prerequisite:PETR 2302 and PETR 3302. Production performance predictions and estimation of hydrocarbons in place for gas, condensate, and oil reservoirs. Applications of material balance calculations for various reservoir types and applications of fluid flow in porous media.
Engineering Communications
Lawal/House
Fall/Spring/Summer
Prerequisite:ENGL 1301,ENGL 1302, junior standing, or consent of instructor. 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)
Drilling Engineering (+Lab)
Heinze
Spring
Prerequisite:PETR 2301, PETR3303 , and CE 3305. Rotary drilling systems, drilling fluids and rheology, drilling mechanism, well planning, blowout and well control, hole deviation, and directional drilling. (Writing Intensive)
Natural Gas & Production Lab
Lea
Fall
Corequisite:PETR 4305. Experiments in production practices, including gas and liquid measurement, fluid property determination, flow metering devices, pumping well characteristics, and lease operations.
Petroleum Engineering Seminar
Heinze
Fall/Spring
Prerequisite:CE 3302, CE 3303, 3305, EE 3302, MATH 3350, ME 2322; corequisite: I E 3301 . Study of engineering problems of special interest and value to the student. Review for Fundamentals Examination.
Petroleum Property Evaluation
Oetama
Spring
Prerequisite:PETR 3304, PETR 3306, PETR 3308, I E 3301, GEOL 4324, and structural geology elective, statistics elective; corequisite: PETR 4308. 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. Senior design project. (Writing Intensive)
Natural Gas Engineering
Lea
Fall
Prerequisite:PETR 3303, PETR 3306, ME 2322; corequisite: PETR 4105. The production of natural gas and condensate reservoirs; processing, transportation, distribution, and measurement of natural gas and its derivatives.
Advanced Reservoir Engineering
Oetama
Fall
Prerequisite:PETR 3306. Frontal-advance theory and application, mechanisms of waterflooding processes, and application to reservoir performance prediction.
Well Testing Analysis
Oetama
Spring
Prerequisite: PETR 3306. Basic theory of transient flow in porous media and its application to the design and analysis of actual well tests using pressure-time relationships with emphasis on the pressure derivative. Buildup, drawdown, falloff, injectivity, pulse, interference, and drill stem tests are included for single or multiphase wells.
Advanced Production Engineering
Lea
Spring
Prerequisite:PETR 3303, PETR 3306, ME 2322, and advanced standing. Problem course in analysis, design, and application of production and processing equipment, separator problems, emulsions, treating, and transmission systems.
Petroleum Elective
Various
Fall/Spring/Summer
Prerequisite: Advanced standing. Individual studies in advanced engineering areas of special interests. May be repeated for credit.