PE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS - UNDERGRADUATE
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1001 Introduction to Petroleum
Engineering (1 hour)
Exposure to various disciplines within petroleum engineering including
drilling, production, and reservoir engineering; contemporary issues in
oil industry; professionalism and ethics in petroleum engineering.
2101 Rock and
Fluid Properties Lab (1 hour)
Experiments relating to rock and fluid properties: porosity, absolute
and effective permeabilityes, and fluid saturatins, and use of computers.
Reservoir fluid measurements (PVT) to obtain gas-oil ratios, formation
volume factors, Z factors, etc.
Corequisites: PE 2113, 2123.
2112
Rock Properties (2 hours) *will be changing to 3 hours
Spring 2009
Fundamental properties of petroleum reservoir rocks: porosity, permeability
and rock compressibility. Properties of rock containing multiple fluid
saturations; relative permeability and capillary pressure.
Prerequisites: GEOL 1014, PHYS 2053.
Corequisites: MATH 3073.
2123 Fluid Properties (3 hours)
Phase behavior and PVT properties of dry, wet and retrograde condensate
natural gases as well as volatile and black oils. Black oil PVT data from
flash and differential laboratory data; property estimation using correlations;
introduction to Gas-Liquid equilibria; properties of oilfield water; gas
hydrates and their prevention.
Prerequisites: CHEM 1013.
Corequisites: MATH 3073.
3013 Computer Applications
in Petroleum Engineering (3 hours)
Application of computers to solving various petroleum engineering problems.
Use of EXCEL VBA programming methods to solve problems of interest to
the petroleum industry, some of which require iterative solutions.
Prerequisites: PE 2113, 2123.
Corequisites: PE 3023, ES 3003.
3023 Reservoir
Engineering I (3 hours)
Volumetrics, determination of fluid contacts, gas reservoirs material
balance, oil reservoirs material balance, diffusivity equation, inflow
performance relationships, water influx, pressure transient analysis.
Prerequisites: PE 2113, 2123.
3033 Natural Gas
Engineering (3 hours)
Vapor-liquid equilibrium, inflow performance relationship, multi-point testing, non darcy
flow, gas and gas condensate reservoirs, gas metering, compression, and flow of gas in
pipelines. Well performance.
Prerequisites: PE 3023.
3041 Drilling Lab (1 hour)
Drilling Simulator Lab: controls, operations, data acquisition, hydraulics,
BOP and well control, rate of penetration vs. drilling variables. Mud
Lab: measurements of drilling mud properties, mud additives, mud contaminants,
mud liquid solids measurements.
Prerequisites: PE 3043.
3043 Drilling Engineering I (3 hours)
Rotary drilling systems, drilling fluids, drilling fluids hydraulics, cutting
fluids hydraulics, drill bit hydraulics, cuttings transport, solids control,
well control mechanics, overview of well drilling planning.
Prerequisites: ES 3003, 3023, MATH 3073.
3073 Production Engineering
I (3 hours)
Inflow performance relationships, single and multiphase flow in pipes,
components of production system, basic design of Artificial Lift systems,
and analysis and optimization of production systems.
Prerequisites: ES 3003, PE 3023.
3133 Natural Gas Engineering - Reservoir (3 hours)
Official 'Course Description' pending.
Prerequisites: ES 3053, PE 3023.
3233 Natural Gas Engineering - Production (3 hours)
Official 'Course Description' pending.
Prerequisites: PE 3073.
4013/6413
Petroleum Economics and Property Evaluation (3 hours)
Time value of money; profitability measures; engineering analysis and prediction
of cash flows of oil and gas properties; revenues, discounts, depreciation,
depletion, and risk analysis; contemporary economic issues affecting oil industry.
Prerequisites: PE 2113, 2123 or permission of instructor. Graduate
students must have completed PE 3023.
4043 Drilling Engineering II (3 hours)
Directional drilling mechanics, drill bit mechanics, drillstring mechanics, well
bore mechanics, pore and fracture pressure predictions, drilling problems,
well planning.
Prerequisites: PE 3013, 3043.
4053/6453 Formation Evaluation
(3 hours)
Electrical, acoustic, and radioactive properties of rocks. Introduction to well
logging theory and interpretation.
Prerequisites: GEOL 3153, PE 2113, 2123, PHYS 2063.
4063/6463 Well
Completion Design (3 hours)
Casing program, casing and tubing design, principles of cementing, completion
added skin, well perforating, hydraulic fracturing, sand control and acidizing.
Prerequisites: PE 3013, 3023, 3043. Graduate students
must have completed PE 3023, 3043.
4071 Production Engineering Lab
(1 hour)
Experiments on metering, multiphase flow in pipes and separation.
Prerequisites: PE 3073.
4073/6473 Production Engineering
II (3 hours)
Design and analysis of surface production processes. Fluid separation, pumping
and compression, measurement nd treatment of production fluids.
Prerequisites: PE 3013, 3073.
4113/6513 Reservoir Engineering II (3 hours)
Oil trapping, factional flow and frontal advance theory, areal and vertical sweep
efficiencies, interaction of gravity, capillary and viscous forces on flood
performance, introduction to the fundamentals of reservoir simulation, and
application of a commercial reservoir simulator in design of water flooding
and gas injection projects and in predicting reservoir performance.
Prerequisites: PE 3013, 3023.
4173 Artificial
Lift Methods (3 hours)
Theory, application, and design of the most important artificial lift methods,
including gas lift, beam pumping, and electrical submersible pumping.
Prerequisites: PE 3013, 3073.
4861-6 Special Topics in Petroleum Engineering (1-6 hours)
4871-3 Research in Petroleum Engineering (1-3 hours)
Individual and/or group study of selected problems. Oral and written reports
may be required.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
4983 Capstone Design (3 hours)
Student teams apply knowledge in the areas of geology, reservoir engineering,
production, drilling and well completions to practical design problems based
on real field data with all of the associated shortcomings and uncertainties.
Students will use commercial software to assist in their designs. Preparation
of oral and written technical presentations that propose economically feasible
and environmentally sound strategies of optimizing the production and/or operating
conditions for the given data set.
Prerequisites: Last semester senior standing and consent of instructor.
4991-3 Independent Study (1-3 hours)
Independent or group studies on special topics.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.