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PETE
103
(1
Credit)
Fall
Survey
of
the
Energy
Industries
(1+0)
Overview
of
global
energy
supply
and
demand,
alternate
energy
options,
Alaska
alternate
energy
resources,
and
impact
on
the
state
economy.
PETE
104
(1
Credit)
Spring
Fundamentals
of
Petroleum
(1+0)
Fundamental
principles
on
the
origin,
migration,
accumulation
and
exploration
of
petroleum.
Influence
of
rock
and
fluid
properties
on
the
principles
of
petroleum
recovery.
PETE
205
(1
Credit)
Fall
Fundamentals
of
Drilling
Practices
(1+0)
Fundamental
principles
of
drilling,
drilling
practices,
drilling
fluids,
and
drilling
problems
dependent
on
mud
control.
(Prerequisite:
Permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
206
(1
Credit)
Spring
Introduction
to
Petroleum
Production
(1+0)
Overview
of
production
practices,
surface
production
equipment,
special
production
problems
and
workover,
and
petroleum
transportation.
(Prerequisite:
Permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
211
(1
-
2
Credits)
Spring
Drilling
Laboratory
(0+3
or
6)
Measurement
of
physical
properties
of
drilling
mud;
optional
BOP
certification
and
drilling
rig
operation
experience
during
spring
break.
(Prerequisite:
PETE
205
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
301
(4
Credits)
Fall
Reservoir
Rock
and
Fluid
Properties
(4+0)
Fundamental
concepts
of
reservoir
rock
and
fluid
properties
including
porosity,
permeability,
fluid
saturations,
capillary
pressure,
relative
permeabilities,
classification
of
petroleum
reservoirs
by
fluid
phase
contents,
oil,
gas
and
water
properties,
fluid
sampling,
and
PVT
analysis.
(Prerequisites:
MATH
201X,
ES
346
and
GEOS
101X
or
GE
261.)
PETE
302
(3
Credits)
Spring
Well
Logging
(3+0)
Comprehensive
treatment
of
modern
well
logging
methods
including
formation
and
production
logging
tools
and
techniques
and
basic
concepts
of
log
interpretation.
(Prerequisite:
Junior
standing
in
engineering
or
geoscience.)
PETE
303W
(1
Credit)
Spring
Reservoir
Rock
and
Fluid
Properties
Laboratory
(0+3)
Measurement
of
properties
of
reservoir
rock
and
reservoir
fluids;
determination
of
porosity,
permeability,
fluid
saturations,
capillary
pressures,
specific
gravity
density,
viscosity,
surface
tension,
PVT
properties
and
interpretation
of
PVT
reports
for
reservoir
fluid
samples.
(Prerequisite:
ENGL
111X;
PETE
301.)
PETE
407
(3
Credits)
Fall
Petroleum
Production
Engineering
(3+0)
Production
System
Analysis,
Inflow
Performance
Analysis,
Gas
Lift
Design,
Sucker
Rod
Pumping
and
Production
Decline
Analysis.
(Prerequisites:
ES
341
and
ES
346.)
PETE
411W
(1
Credit)
Spring
Drilling
Fluids
Laboratory
(0+3)
Design,
composition
and
measurement
of
drilling
fluid
properties,
evaluation
of
mud
activities
and
chemical
treatment
of
contaminated
drilling
fluid.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X;
PETE
205;
and
concurrent
enrollment
in
PETE
426.)
PETE
421
(3
Credits)
Spring
Reservoir
Characterization
(3+0)
Reservoir
rock
properties
and
their
spatial
variations;
estimation
of
reserves;
introduction
to
theory
and
application
of
geostatistics
to
reservoir
characterization;
presentation
of
fundamental
geostatistical
concepts
including:
variogram
analysis,
estimation
variance,
kriging,
and
stochastic
simulations.
Impact
of
geologic
structure
on
oil
recovery
methods.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
301,
302,
and
GEOS
370)
PETE
426
(3
Credits)
Spring
Drilling
Engineering
(3+0)
Principles
of
drilling,
drilling
fluids
and
rheology,
drilling
problems,
drilling
hydraulics,
well
control
techniques
and
casing
seat
selection.
(Prerequisites:
ES
331,
341.)
PETE
431
(2
Credits)
Fall
Natural
Gas
Engineering
(2+0)
Natural
gas
production
and
condensate
reservoirs.
Design
of
processing,
transportation,
distribution
and
flow
measurement
systems.
(Prerequisite:
PETE
301.)
PETE
456
(3
Credits)
Spring
Petroleum
Evaluation
and
Economic
Decisions
(3+0)
Economic
appraisal
methods
for
oil
field
developmental
project
evaluations
including
risk
analysis,
probability,
and
statistics
in
decision
making
and
evaluations.
Case
studies.
(Prerequisites:
MATH
202X
and
PETE
476.)
PETE
466
(3
Credits)
Fall
Petroleum
Recovery
Methods
(3+0)
Flow
and
physicochemical
principles
of
oil
recovery
by
water,
chemical,
thermal
and
miscible
floods.
Prediction
of
recovery
for
each
of
these
methods.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
301
and
PETE
476.)
PETE
476
(3
Credits)
Spring
Petroleum
Reservoir
Engineering
(3+0)
Quantitative
study
and
prediction
of
the
behavior
of
oil
and
gas
reservoirs
under
primary,
secondary,
and
tertiary
recovery
mechanisms.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
301,
405.)
PETE
478
(2
Credits)
Spring
Well
Test
Analysis
(2+0)
Transient
flow
of
fluids
through
porous
media,
application
of
solutions
of
the
diffusivity
equation
to
pressure
buildup,
drawdown,
interference
testing
and
log-log
type
curve
analysis
and
effect
of
reservoir
heterogeneities
on
pressure
behavior.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
476
and
MATH
302)
PETE
481W
(3
Credits)
Fall
Well
Completions
and
Stimulation
Design
(2+3)
Design
of
casing
programs,
cementing,
open-hole
and
set-through
completions,
well
stimulation;
completion
and
workover
fluids;
and
evaluation
of
sand
control
and
workover
operations.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X;
PETE
205;
ES
341;
and
PETE
426.)
PETE
487A
(1
Credit)
Fall
PETE
487BW,O
(1
Credit)
Spring
Petroleum
Project
Design
(2+0)
Two-semester
course
with
emphasis
on
design
and
analysis
of
petroleum
exploration,
production
and
reservoir
engineering
systems
by
analytical,
experimental
and
computer
methods.
Identification
of
requirements,
conceptual
and
detailed
project
design
and
cost
analysis.
Completion
of
an
engineering
project.
(Prerequisites:
Senior
standing.
For
PETE
487B:
COMM
131X
or
141X;
ENGL
111X.
Note:
Oral
communication
intensive
and
writing
intensive
credits
are
earned
upon
successful
completion
of
PETE
487B.)
PETE
489
(2
Credits)
Spring
Reservoir
Simulation
(2+0)
The
theory
and
use
of
computer
reservoir
simulation
in
petroleum
reservoir
and
production
engineering.
(Prerequisites:
MATH
310
and
PETE
476.)
PETE
607
(3
Credits)
Fall
Advanced
Production
Engineering
(3+0)
Production
system
analysis,
production
optimization,
downhole
equipment
design,
surface
facilities
design,
oil
and
gas
processing,
gas
and
oil
treating
systems,
disposal
well
systems,
project
organization
and
field
development.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing,
PETE
407
or
equivalent,
permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
610
(3
Credits)
Fall
Advanced
Reservoir
Engineering
(3+0)
Concepts
and
tools
for
solving
petroleum
reservoir
engineering
problems;
advances
in
petroleum
reservoir
engineering.
Emphasis
on
material
balance
methods
and
their
application
to
estimate
reserves;
calculate
water
influx;
diversity
equations
and
solutions;
gas
and
water
coning;
streamline
tracking;
decline
curve
analysis;
productivity
index;
and
well
performance
models
for
vertical,
horizontal
and
multilateral
wells.
(Prerequisite:
PETE
476
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
630
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Water
Flooding
(3+0)
A
study
of
the
fundamental
concepts
and
procedures
for
the
design
of
waterflooding
processes
in
petroleum
reservoirs.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
301
and
PETE
476.)
PETE
656
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Advanced
Petroleum
Economic
Analysis
(3+0)
Designed
to
present
an
advanced
knowledge
of
economic
analysis
of
petroleum
production
leading
towards
increasing
cost
efficiency
in
the
petroleum
and
related
industries.
The
course
objectives
provide
qualitative
and
qualitative
description
of
production
forecasts
and
reserve
estimation;
oil
and
gas
pricing;
cash
flow
analysis;
risk
and
uncertainty
of
operation
of
oil
and
gas
production
(financing,
debt/equity
ratio,
depreciation
and
taxation).
(Prerequisites:
PETE
407,
PETE
456;
and/or
permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
661
(3
Credits)
Every
Third
Semester
Applied
Well
Testing
(3+0)
Equations
for
transient
flow
of
single
phase
fluids
through
porous
media,
extension
to
sample
multiphase
flow,
isolated
and
developed
multi-well
flow,
conventional
drawdown
and
buildup
analysis,
log-log
type
curve
analysis,
interference
testing,
fractured
wells,
pulse
tests,
and
drill
stem
tests.
(Prerequisite:
PETE
476
or
PETE
610.)
PETE
662
(3
Credits)
Every
Third
Semester
Enhanced
Oil
Recovery
(3+0)
Secondary
and
tertiary
oil
recovery
processes,
including
waterflooding
and
chemical
and
thermal
recovery
methods.
(Prerequisite:
PETE
476
or
PETE
610.)
PETE
663
(3
Credits)
Every
Third
Semester
Applied
Reservoir
Simulation
(3+0)
Mathematical
description
of
the
reservoir,
history
matching,
and
prediction
for
several
published
case
studies
of
reservoir
simulations,
class
project
application
to
simulation
of
an
Alaskan
reservoir.
(Prerequisites:
Advanced
engineering
mathematics
elective
and
PETE
610.)
PETE
665
(3
Credits)
Every
Third
Semester
Advanced
Phase
Behavior
(3+0)
The
development
and
application
of
phase
equilibrium
simulators
to
predict
fluid
properties
for
reservoir
fluids.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
321
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
666
(3
Credits)
Every
Third
Semester
Drilling
Optimization
(3+0)
Principles
of
drilling
optimization:
drilling
cost
analysis
and
control;
rheological
properties
of
drilling
fluid
for
optimum
hole
cleaning;
planning
an
optimum
mud
program
for
vertical,
directional
and
horizontal
wellbores;
optimizing
bit
hydraulics.
Use
of
software
packages
in
optimized
hydraulics.
(Prerequisite:
Graduate
standing
in
engineering
discipline
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
670
(3
Credits)
Fall
Fluid
Flow
Through
Porous
Media
(3+0)
The
study
of
transport
phenomena
in
porous
media
and
application
to
petroleum
engineering.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
301
and
PETE
476.)
PETE
680
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Horizontal
Well
Technology
(3+0)
Review
of
the
state-of-the-art
of
horizontal
well
technology
covering
recent
advances
in
drilling
and
completion
of
horizontal
wells.
Emphasis
on
field
practices,
reservoir
engineering
aspects
including
well
testing
and
well
performance
estimation,
application
of
horizontal
wells
to
gas
and
water
coning
problems
as
well
as
enhanced
oil
recovery.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
426
and
PETE
476
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
683
(3
Credits)
Every
Third
Semester
Natural
Gas
Processing
and
Engineering
(3+0)
The
study
of
natural
gas
reservoir
engineering
and
gas
production
practices;
transient
flow
of
real
gases,
gas
field
development,
gas
well
testing,
transportation
and
gas
storage
reservoirs.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
431
and
PETE
476.
Last
offered
Spring
1991.)
PETE
684
(3
Credits)
Fall
Computational
Methods
in
Petroleum
Engineering
(3+0)
Numerical
methods
used
in
the
solution
of
problems
in
drilling,
production
and
reservoir
engineering.
Application
of
operational
calculus,
numerical
integration,
Laplace
transforms,
Green's
functions,
statistical
methods,
and
nonlinear
optimization
techniques
to
petroleum
engineering.
(Prerequisites:
PETE
476,
MATH
302,
and
MATH
310.)
PETE
685
(3
Credits)
Every
Third
Semester
Non-Newtonian
Fluid
Mechanics
(3+0)
Characteristics
of
stress
in
fluids,
flow
models
of
non-Newtonian
fluids
(Bingham
plastic
fluids,
fluids
without
yield
stress),
couette
flow
analysis
of
non-Newtonian
fluids,
surge
and
swab
pressure
models
for
plugged
and
open-end
pipes.
(Prerequisites:
ES
341,
PETE
426
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PETE
689
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Multiphase
Fluid
Flow
in
Pipes
(3+0)
Multiphase
flow
in
pipes,
modeling
of
fluid
flow
of
complex
mixtures
in
pipes,
empirical
correlations
developed
in
the
literature,
and
calculation
of
pressure
gradients
and
flow
rates
during
the
flow
of
multiphase
fluids
through
vertical,
inclined
and
horizontal
pipes.
(Prerequisites:
ES
341,
MATH
310
or
ES
301,
and
PETE
407,
or
permission
of
instructor.)
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