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3.00 Credits
Review of properties of porous media. Relationships of permeability to porosity. Formulation of Fundamental Flow Equation. Constant Rate Solutions. Constant Pressure Solutions. The priniciples of Superposition, transient well testing of oil and gas reservoirs, including drawdown, build-up, faulted systems, interference, drill stem tests, isochronal test analysis. Flow Through Porous Media. Dual listed with PETE 5060. Prerequisite: PETE 3200.
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Studies development of natural gas reservoirs for normal production and as storage fields. Includes back pressure tests, hydrates, pipeline problems, cycling and use of the material balance equation. Also processing of natural gas, including compression, expansion, refrigeration, separation, sour gas treating, sulphur recovery, LNG production and carbon dioxide separation. Prerequisites: PETE 2050.
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3.00 Credits
Covers rock mechanical properties, stress and strain in rock and rock masses, rock failure mechanisms, thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) coupling, and their applications to ground surface subsidence/uplift, borehole instability, and hydraulic fracturing. Dual listed with PETE 5215. Prerequisites: ES 2330 and 2410.
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Covers knowledge of well test interpretation techniques. Theory for well testinginclude drawdown and buildup tests, single-rate and multi-rate testing, derivative analysis, wellbore storage, type curve matching, fall off and injectivity, fractured wells, fractured reservoirs, interference and pulse testing, and horizontal well analysis. Prerequisites: PETE 3200. Students must be a Petroleum Engineering major.
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3.00 Credits
Principles and practices of rotary drilling, including rock mechanics, hydraulics, drilling fluids and hole deviation. Oil and gas drilling equipment models. Drilling fluid tests, casing design. Dual-listed with PETE 5255. Prerequisite: PETE 3255.
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Simulation of petroleum reservoirs, formulation of equations, finite difference methods of solution, data preparation and input, history matching case studies. Dual listed with PETE 5300. Prerequisite: PETE 3200, MATH 2210, MATH 4440.
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3.00 Credits
The application of physical principles to increasing the irecovery form reservoirs. Miscible fluid flooding, in-situ combustion, and thermal recovery. Dual Listed with PETE 5310. Prerequisite: PETE 3200.
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3.00 Credits
Studies use of various types of open hole logs for quantitative evaluation of formations. Prerequisite: C or better in PETE 2050. Students must be a Petroleum Engineering major.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced skills course about subsurface modeling using diverse data (e.g. well data, seismic info, etc.), including model development, techniques, and practical applications. Students must have basic knowledge of mathematical and statistical modeling. Dual listed with PETE 5330. Prerequisite: Junior standing and PETE 3200 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Applies principles of economics to petroleum properties. Studies taxation, present worth, rate of return, payout and decisions under uncertainty. Prerequisite: PETE 3200. Students must be a Petroleum Engineering major.
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