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3.00 Credits
This Petroleum Technology-related environment and safety course is designed to provide specialized training and technology transfer for the oil and gas industry. This introductory course covers environmentally safe drilling techniques used to discover and produce oil and gas. Topics include: introduction to environment and safety in petroleum exploration and production. This course covers Local, regional, national and global energy environmental requirements. The course also discusses the influence of petroleum on global environment. The course includes: an overview of the environmental impact of petroleum exploration and extraction including geological, geophysical and geochemical prospecting, drilling mechanisms, formation evaluation, reservoir engineering, production engineering, processing, transportation, refining and petrochemicals.
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to develop working skills in petroleum geology. Includes: Geological history of Petroleum, microscopic examination of well cuttings, isopach contouring, interpretation of geological maps, stratigraphic correlation. The origin, migration and accumulation of Petroleum, Reservoirs with abnormal pressure and temperature. Geological techniques used in exploration for oil and gas reservoirs. Discusses field types and characteristics, traps and reservoirs, origin and migration of petroleum, stratigraphic distribution. Geological basins in selected countries. Surface geological methods for petroleum exploration.
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3.00 Credits
Practical on topographic maps, aerial photographs, satellite images and geologic maps and cross-sections. The course contains surveying using Total Station and GPS. Practical spatial data analysis for the identification of leads and prospects are discussed in this course. Particular emphasis is given to data mining techniques applied to local and commercial data bases, capturing and quantifying geologic data derived from cores and logs, using information from outcrop analogs, making digital Isopach and contour maps. Prerequisite: PET 0101.
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3.00 Credits
Topics covered in this course include definitions of geographic information, GI technologies, GI systems and GI science. Geographic information is information about places on the Earth's surface; knowledge about where something is; knowledge about what is at a given location. It can be very detailed, for example: information about the locations of all buildings in a city, information about individual Oil Well or all the wells in an oil field, or a tree in a forest or trees in a forest. It can also be very coarse, for example: climate of a large region population density of an entire country. Digital geographic information is expressed in digital form. Three main types of Geographic information technologies are used for collecting data and interpreting information: Global Positioning System (GPS); Remote Sensing; and Geographic information system (GIS). Oil-field mapping and interpretation of superimposed topographic, Geologic and isopach maps from northwest and central Pennsylvania and southern Tier New York will be provided by the instructor for practical training.
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3.00 Credits
Drilling and Completion covers Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids, and the fundamental principles of geology, chemistry, and physics that provide the scientific basis for drilling fluids technology. New material for drilling, logging, and production supervisors and engineers explains how the choice of a drilling fluid and proper maintenance can profoundly reduce total well costs. The course also defines technical terms necessary to the understanding of instructions and information provided by the mud engineers. The course discusses the introduction to drilling fluids, the development of drilling technology equipment and procedures for evaluating drilling fluids performance, clay mineralogy and colloid chemistry, rheology, filtration properties, hole stability, drilling problems, and completion fluids. Drilling technology covers directional and horizontal drilling cementing, casing and casing design, drilling fluids and well control. Completion technology covers Perforating, Stimulation, Acid and Fracing. Prerequisite: PET 0103
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic principles of organic chemistry with major emphasis on the hydrocarbons: purification, identification, structure determination and energetic. Corrosion, field water (brine) chemistry, gas laws review, stoichiometry ( mass balance ) review, phase diagrams, viscosity, octant number, cetane number, flash points, natural gas chemical composition and applications and natural gas hydrates are discussed. Laboratory demonstrations will be conducted throughout the course. Prerequiste: CHEM 0101
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4.00 Credits
This course covers Principles of Stratigraphy: Concepts of geological time and its scale. Correlation techniques, isostasy and continental drift are discussed. Stratigraphy of northwestern Pennsylvania with special emphasize of Devonian and Mississippian stratigraphy. The course also covers Introduction to Structural Geology and its role in oil exploration. The course discusses the primary and secondary structures of sedimentary rocks and determination of dip and strike and thickness of the beds. Mapping and completion of outcrops and construction of cross sections using GIS technology is included in this course. Modes of Deformation of Rocks are included in this course which includes: varieties and classification of Folds, Faults, Joints, and Unconformities. Expression of the above features on geological field maps and construction of cross sections. Geological mapping using photogrammetry. Three hours of lecture and three hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: GEOL 0101
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3.00 Credits
This course covers an introduction to oil and gas gathering and transportation. Phase behavior/separation of oil gas and water. Oil and Gas pipeline modeling, Gas dehydration, Gas compression and Gas measurement and Oil and Gas production facilities Artificial Lift. Prerequisite: PET 0104
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3.00 Credits
Open hole logging: Review of petrophysical parameters, rapid initial interpretation, log interpretation in complex lithology, computer processed interpretation. Cased hole logging: Review of porosity tool principles, thermal decay time log, cement bond logging, production logs, Cross plotting techniques. Prerequisite: PET 0202
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3.00 Credits
The course covers Place of Geophysics in Oil, Natural Gas and Mineral Exploration. The course contains technological challenge of geophysics in oil exploration. Review of Geophysical prospecting methods. The course covers the Geophysical techniques in Oil and Gas exploration. It includes Types of Seismic waves such as Attenuation, Reflection, Refraction, and Diffraction of Elastic Waves. Seismic wave generation techniques for oil and gas prospecting are included in this course. Absorption of seismic waves in Earth materials is discussed. The course includes principles involved in measuring seismic waves and measurement of the Velocities of Seismic waves in rocks. The course contains seismic recording instrumentation, practical work with EG & G Geometric 12 channel seismograph in the field, and Geophones – analog recording – digital recording and other field instrumentation techniques. Structural and Geological Interpretation of Seismic Reflection Data, and Seismic refraction prospecting is included in this course. Prerequisite: PET 0202
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