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Course Criteria
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0.00 Credits
1 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: senior standing. Special research on current or special problems. (F, Sp, Su)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 3413, 3513, 3723, and 3813. Review and analysis of legal principles and leading cases related to oil and gas exploration, production and marketing in the areas of land titles, leases, operating agreements, contracts, acquisitions, gas marketing, environmental regulation, pollution, and litigation. (F)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: senior standing in engineering or permission. Engineering properties of earth materials, theories of rock failure, tunneling, mining and excavation procedures; nature of geologic hazards; geothermal, oil shale, oil mining, earthquake, rock bolting, permafrost engineering, etc. (F)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Engineering 3223 or equivalent. Characteristics of stress in fluids, the role of Newtonian fluid mechanics, extension of Newtonian analysis to Bingham plastics; fluids without yield stress, time dependent non-Newtonian fluids, laminar and turbulent flow, boundary layers in non-Newtonian fluids. (Sp)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 4513, graduate standing. Physical concepts involved in the flow of fluids in porous media; treatment of Darcy's Law in a mathematical sense; the concept of relative permeability applied also in a mathematical sense. (F)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: senior standing in engineering orpermission. Engineering properties of rock; rock testing techniques; in situ methods; mathematical approach to stress-strain analysis; discontinuities in rock; applications for underground openings; rock slopes; foundations and drilling. (Sp)
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 3213, Engineering 3723, Geology 3113, permission. Cost control, hole problems, planning a well, drilling; muds, drilling fluid solids removal, pressure losses, lifting capacity of drilling fluids, surge and swab pressures, pore pressure and fracture gradients, pressure control, well control equipment, blowouts, deviation in boreholes, rotary drilling bits.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission. Theory and application of continuum mechanics concepts to hydraulic fracturing, acidizing, acid fracturing and other stimulation processes. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: engineering degree or equivalent. Horizontal well technology including: horizontal drilling, horizontal well completions and stimulation, pumping and lift systems, well testing, horizontal wells in waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery, costs, economics, regulations, tax incentives.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course presents an overview of the common formation damage processes, mechanisms, theories, and parameters; methods for diagnosis, determination, and control of formation damage; and application of mathematical models for analysis of laboratory and field data (Irreg.)
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