201. Introduction to Petroleum Engineering. (1-0). Credit 1. I

Overview of petroleum industry and petroleum engineering, including nature of oil and gas reservoirs, petroleum exploration and drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production, surface facilities, reservoir mechanics, and improved oil recovery. Prerequisites: Approval of department head.

211. Petroleum Engineering Systems. (1-0). Credit 1. I

Introduction to petroleum engineering reservoir, drilling, formation evaluation, and production systems, including fundamental petroleum engineering concepts, quantities and unit systems. Prerequisites: ENGR 112; MATH 152; PHYS 218.

285. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 4.

Special problems in various phases of petroleum engineering assigned to individual students or to groups. Prerequisites: Completion of engineering common body of knowledge courses; approval of department head.

300. Summer Practice. Required. No Credit. S

Summer practice to familiarize the petroleum engineering student with practices and equipment of the petroleum industry. Approval of advisor required.

301. Petroleum Engineering Numerical Methods. (2-3). Credit 3. I

Use of numerical methods in a variety of petroleum engineering problems; numerical differentiation and integration; root finding; numerical solution of differential equations; curve fitting and interpolation; computer applications; introduction to the principles of numerical simulation methods. Prerequisites: PETE 311; ENGR 212 and 214; MATH 308.

310. Reservoir Fluids. (3-3). Credit 4. I

Thermodynamic behavior of naturally occurring hydrocarbon mixtures; evaluation and correlation of physical properties of petroleum reservoir fluids including laboratory and empirical methods. Prerequisites: PETE 311; CHEM 107; ENGR 212 and 214.

311. Reservoir Petrophysics. (3-3). Credit 4. I, II

Systematic theoretical and laboratory study of physical properties of petroleum reservoir rocks; lithology, porosity, relative and effective permeability; fluid saturations, capillary characteristics, compressibility, rock stress, and fluid-rock interaction. Prerequisites: PETE 211; ENGR 211 and 213; GEOL 104; MATH 308 or registration therein.

320. Drilling and Production Systems. (2-3). Credit 3. II

Introduction to drilling systems: components, drilling fluids, pressure loss calculations, well cementing, and directional drilling; theoretical and laboratory prediction of flowrates and pressure drops through conventional petroleum production networks; calculation of static and flowing bottomhole pressures in oil and gas wells; well deliverability via inflow (IPR)/outflow (VLP) methods; gas lift; pump lift; gas compression. Prerequisites: PETE 301 and 310; GEOL 404.

321. Formation Evaluation. (3-3). Credit 4. II

Introduction to modern well logging methods, engineering, core-log integration. Prerequisites: PETE 301 and 310; GEOL 404 or approval of instructor.

322. Geostatistics. (3-0). Credit 3. II

Introduction to geostatistics; basic statistics concepts; univariate distributions and estimators; measures of heterogeneity; hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression; analysis of spatial relationships, modeling geological media and use of statistics in reservoir modeling. Prerequisites: PETE 301 and 310; GEOL 404; petroleum engineering, geology or geophysics majors only.

323. Reservoir Models. (3-0). Credit 3. II

Determination of reserves; material balance methods; aquifer models; fractional flow and frontal advance; displacement, pattern, and vertical sweep efficiencies in waterfloods; enhanced oil recovery processes; design of optimal recovery processes. Prerequisites: PETE 301 and 310; GEOL 404.

324. Well Performance. (3-0). Credit 3. II

Steady-state, pseudosteady-state, and transient well testing methods to determine well and reservoir parameters used in formation evaluation; applications to wells that produce gas and liquid petroleum, rate forecasting, deliverability testing. Prerequisites: PETE 301 and 310; GEOL 404.

335. Technical Presentations I. (1-0). Credit 1. I

Preparation of a written technical paper on a subject related to petroleum technology and an oral presentation of the paper in a formal technical conference format; oral presentations judged by petroleum industry professionals. Prerequisites: COMM 205; junior classification in petroleum engineering.

400. Reservoir Description. (2-3). Credit 3. II

An integrated reservoir description experience for senior students in petroleum engineering, geology and geophysics; includes using geophysical, geological, petrophysical and engineering data; emphasis on reservoir description (reservoir and well data analysis and interpretation), reservoir modeling (simulation), reservoir management (production optimization) and economic analysis (property evaluation). Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification or approval of instructor. Cross-listed with GEOL 400.

401. Reservoir Development. (2-3). Credit 3. I

An integrated reservoir development experience for senior students in petroleum engineering; emphasis on reservoir description (reservoir and well evaluation), reservoir modeling (simulation), production optimization (nodal analysis, stimulation, artificial lift, facilities), reservoir management (surveillance and reservoir optimization) and economic analysis (property evaluation and risk analysis). Prerequisites: PETE 320, 321, 322, 323, 324.

403. Petroleum Project Evaluation. (3-0). Credit 3. II

Analysis of investments in petroleum and mineral extraction industries; depletion, petroleum taxation regulations, and projects of the type found in the industry; mineral project evaluation case studies. Prerequisites: PETE 401, 410, 411.

406. Advanced Drilling Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. II

Well control; underbalanced drilling; offshore drilling; horizontal, extended reach, multi-lateral drilling; fishing operations. Prerequisite: PETE 411.

410. Well Completion and Stimulation. (3-0). Credit 3. I

The design and evaluation of well completions, including: placement of casing, liners, and well tubing; perforating; gravel packing; sand control; acidizing fundamentals, design and evaluation of acidization treatments; hydraulic fracturing fluid loss, conceptual models, design and implementation evaluation; performance of horizontal wells; surface facilities. Prerequisites: PETE 320, 321, 322, 323, 324.

411. Well Drilling. (3-0). Credit 3. I

The design and evaluation of well drilling systems; identification and solution of drilling problems; wellbore hydraulics; casing design; well cementing; drilling of directional and horizontal wells; wellbore surveying. Prerequisites: PETE 320, 321, 322, 323, 324.

416. Artificial Lift. (3-0). Credit 3. II

Design of sucker rod pumping systems; kinematic analysis of the surface unit and study of the relationship between the surface unit and the downhole system; design of gas lift systems; familiarization with other lifting technologies such as submersible pumps and plunger lift. Prerequisite: PETE 410.

435. Technical Presentations II. (1-0). Credit 1. I

Preparation of a written technical paper on a subject related to petroleum technology and an oral presentation of the paper in a formal technical conference format; oral presentations are judged by petroleum industry professionals. Prerequisites: PETE 335; senior classification in petroleum engineering.

485. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 5. I, II, S

Special problems in various phases of petroleum engineering assigned to individual students or to groups. Prerequisites: Junior classification and approval of department head.