Petroleum Engineering Courses
A $25.00 per semester student computing facility user fee is assessed for Petroleum Engineering courses at the 400-level or higher. This fee is in addition to any material/lab fees.
PETE 103 (1 Credit) Fall
Survey of the Energy Industries (1+0)
Overview of global energy supply and demand, alternate energy options, and
petroleum production technology.
PETE 205 (3 Credits) Fall
Introduction to Petroleum Drilling and Productions (3+0)
Fundamental principles of drilling, well completions, production
engineering; field trips to Alaskan oil fields if possible. (Prerequisite: MATH
200.)
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 201, ES 346 and GEOS 101 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:
PETE 301.)
PETE 407 (3 Credits) Fall
Petroleum Production Engineering (3+0)
Well completion, workovers, surface and subsurface equipment design,
sucker- rod pumping, gas lift, stimulation techniques, sand control. Laboratory
includes measurement of gas and oil streams. (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: PETE 205 and concurrent enrollment in PETE 426.)
PETE 421 (3 Credits) Spring
Reservoir Characterization (3+0)
Application of well logs to delineate reservoir rock properties and its
spatial variations. Estimation of petroleum in place. Impact of facies variation
and depositional models for the design of production policies. Impact of
formation structure on enhanced oil recovery methods. Reservoir surveillance.
(Prerequisites: PETE 301, 302, and GEOS 370)
PETE 426 (3 Credits) Spring
Drilling Engineering (3+0)
Principles of drilling, drilling fluids, drilling mud, drilling problems,
mud logging, drill stem testing, rig types, rig design and selection. Drilling
optimization. Well control. (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 202 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) Fall, 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: PETE 205, ES 341 and PETE
426.)
PETE 487W,O (2 Credits) Fall, Spring
Petroleum Project Design (2+0)
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 over the period of two
consecutive semesters. A deferred grade will be assigned at the end of the
first semester until the course requirements are met by the end of the second
semester.. (Prerequisite: Senior standing.)
PETE 489 (2 Credits)Fall, 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)
Advanced treatment of topics in reservoir engineering including derivation
and solution of the diffusivity equation, the real gas pseudo potential, and
applications of materials balance equations to water influx calculations.
(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. Last offered: Fall 1991.)
PETE 661 (3 Credits) Every Third Semester
Advanced 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
Advanced 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) As Demand Warrants
Advanced Drilling and Completions (3+0)
Offshore and onshore methods of drilling and completion methods, specialty
drilling environments, optimization during drilling, drilling hydraulics, use
of commercial computer software as applied to drilling. (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
Advanced Natural Gas 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 the 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 the instructor.)