Post Graduate Courses in
Petroleum Engineering
1. Deficiency-Removal Courses
(3 contact hours each; no graduate credit)
PEEG 501 Oil an Gas Reservoir Engineering (3-0-3)
The course covers fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media with applications to oil and gas reservoirs, along with basics of oil and gas well test analysis.
PEEG 502 Basics of Well Drilling, Completion and Production (3-0-3)
The course is an overview of drilling engineering, well completion & workover, and production methods including artificial lift.
2. Technical Elective Courses
PEEG 510 Advanced Well Test Analysis (3-0-3)
This course is designed to give an advanced-level perspective in the area of pressure transient test interpretation. After a brief review of well testing fundamentals, interpretation techniques in complex systems are discussed. This includes topics such as varying wellbore storage, fractured wells, dual porosity systems, composite systems, layered reservoirs and horizontal wells. The course includes numerous example problems specifically designed to supplement the theoretical discussions. The use of well test analysis in reservoir characterization will be emphasized.
PEEG 511 Advanced Well Log Analysis (3-0-3)
This course introduces students to advances and latest technological developments of modern well-logging. Various in-depth analysis and interpretation methods for well logs needed for interpretation of petrophysical and mechanical properties of the porous media and fluid saturations for different lithological environments will be explored and practiced. Emphasis will be on application of results to formation and reservoir evaluation.
PEEG 520 Advanced Drilling Engineering (3-0-3)
This is a comprehensive course on drilling with topics covering from the planning stages of a drilling well, to selecting optimum operating conditions to achieve ‘cost effective’ as well as, safe drilling practices. The instructor will list the stages of planning, explain each one of them, show example cases, and finally, will let the students work on sample cases. A number of popular industry software packages will also be used to demonstrate the concepts explained during lectures. The students will have hands-on experience with these software packages. However, dangerous assumptions inherent in these software packages will also be explained.
PEEG 521 Underbalanced Drilling (3-0-3)
The course is designed to help graduate students understand different methods of underbalanced drilling (UBD), including advantages and disadvantages of each method. Operational conditions and constraints, which play important role in selecting the most suitable UBD technique will be discussed. Upon completing this course, the students are expected to be able to design, plan and run UBD operations.
PEEG 522 Wellbore Stability Analysis (3-0-3)
With more complex wells being drilled in existing environments, costs related to borehole instabilities continues to rise with drilling horizontal, multilateral and extended reach wells. This course provides a concise overview of rock mechanics principles applicable to wellbore stability analysis and highlights related topics. It is divided into several modules dealing with rock stresses, borehole stresses and failure modes, drilling in unusual pressure regimes, mud weight design and casing shoe programs. Focusing on models used in wellbore stability analysis, fundamentals, causes and effects of instabilities are discussed. Case histories will be presented and reasons for mechanical and chemical formation failures in a drilled hole will be explained. Students will be involved in calculations of well fracturing and break down conditions using advanced geomechanics software; they will gain a good understanding of the processes and physics involved including prevention.
PEEG 530 Advanced Reservoir Engineering (3-0-3)
This course covers many reservoir engineering practices in a multidisciplinary approach. The reservoir engineering topics covered range from basic reservoir rock and fluid characteristics to reservoir management, modeling and field development planning and implementation. Basic reservoir engineering equations are introduced with emphasis directed to parameter significance and its employment in reservoir engineering calculations. The course will give students a comprehensive understanding of the reservoir dynamics, which results in advanced skills to utilize all available reservoir data and their application for the sake of better managing the reservoir to maximize recovery and profit. Pertinent industrial reservoir computer models will be explained as needed.
PEEG 531 Applied Reservoir Simulation (3-0-3)
This course introduces a comprehensive review of the theory and practices of reservoir models building and application in reservoir management and development. The required data for model building and their sources will be described. The importance of data screening and quality checking will be demonstrated. The course also covers the ways by which wells are modeled in reservoir simulators. It also covers the various phases of model building from data preparation and grid design, to initialization and history matching of the reservoir model using observed open-hole Sw data and reservoir performance. The different types of simulation models such as single-well model, sector model, and full-field model will be presented and their purposes identified. Forecasting of a reservoir’s future performance under primary and secondary recovery schemes will be taught along with the interpretation of simulation results. Additional advanced topics include pseudo-relative permeability, capillary pressure, and the role of simulation in reservoir management. ECLIPSE 100 will be utilized during the tutorials but prior experience with ECLIPSE is not required.
PEEG 532 Enhanced Oil Recovery (3-0-3)
This course covers reservoir recovery life cycles and recovery processes. The limitations of depletion and pressure maintenance projects will be demonstrated and possible enhancement in oil production rates and recovery will be explored through the application of EOR methods. This course takes a comprehensive look at several aspects of improved oil recovery. Various techniques are descried and case studies presented. The latest technological improvements in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) will be presented. This course will also present the mechanisms and limitations of the different EOR methods. The help of reservoir modeling in the process will be demonstrated. Finally reservoir screening criteria, design and implementation of EOR methods will be given.
PEEG 533 Compositional Reservoir Simulation (3-0-3)
This course will deliver to the students the theory and application of compositional reservoir simulation. Phase behavior of different reservoir fluids will be reviewed, along with the fluids’ Pressure-Volume-Temperature relationships. The students will be introduced to the characterization of reservoir fluids using industry standard software. Simulation of gas injection and WAG displacement in oil reservoirs will be modeled using the industry standard compositional model of ECLIPSE 300.
PEEG 540 Advanced Well Performance Evaluation (3-0-3)
The course provides detailed coverage of inflow performance relationships, multiphase flow in pipes and well performance evaluation. The emphasis is on the analysis, design and optimization of the production system using nodal analysis. Commercial software packages will be used to apply learned methods to flowing and artificially lifted wells, injection wells and field-scale production optimization.
PEEG 541 Well Completions and Workover (3-0-3)
The course provides comprehensive coverage of the various types of well completions and their applications and selection criteria. Design and selection of tubing and subsurface production control equipment. Review of the types and applications of completion and workover fluids. Detailed study of perforating and sand control operations. Review of production logging .methods and their applications for well diagnosis. Remedial cementing and stimulation operations. Design and planning of basic workover operations.
PEEG 542 Surface Production Facilities (3-0-3)
This course provides a comprehensive coverage of the theory, design, operation, evaluation, and trouble-shooting of oil, water, and gas surface handling facilities.
PEEG 544 Artificial Lift (3-0-3)
This course covers evaluation and analysis of well production performance; screening and selection of artificial lifting methods; comprehensive study of artificial lift technology including artificial lift system design and optimization; and economic optimization of artificial lift systems.
PEEG 545 Produced Water Control and Management (3-0-3)
Emphasis of the course is dealing with the critical economic impact of produced water on maturing reservoirs, whether the source of produced water is waterflood injection or natural water drive. Topics will be chosen to meet needs and may include corrosion, scaling, emulsions, hydrates, produced water management and water shutoff.
PEEG 551 Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics (3-0-3)
This advanced course will introduce students to mechanical and engineering properties of rocks and rock masses and application of soil and rock mechanics principles to petroleum engineering problems such as borehole stability analysis, rock fracturing, sand production and acoustic wave propagation in rocks. Topics such as origins and measurement of rock stress, behavior of discontinuities, poroelastic behavior and effective stress, rock strength and failure criteria and time-dependent behavior of geomaterials, will be covered.
PEEG 552 Special Topics in Petroleum Engineering (3-0-3)
PEEG 597 Master of Engineering Graduate Project
PEEG 598 Master of Science Thesis Research
PEEG 599 Graduate Seminar
