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  • 3.00 Credits

    Reservoir rocks - mineralogy, deposition, diagenesis, porosity, permeability, pore space imaging. Coring and core analysis. Intermolecular forces and fluid properties. Fundamentals of wetting and capillarity. Hydrocarbon distribution. Chemistry of crude oils. Oil-brine-rock interactions, formation damage, reservoir wettability, and oil recovery. Prerequisite: PETE 3000.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focus on learning to use/apply Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) skills; compare other risk assessment tools; practice assessing environmental impact over whole product life cycle; learning to set fundamentals for comparative risks on humans & ecosystems; to relate risk & impacts on human health to consumption/production. Dual listed with PETE 5050. Prerequisite: C or better in PETE 3200.
  • 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.
  • 3.00 Credits

    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.
  • 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.
  • 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 mathematics & statistical modeling. Dual listed with PETE 5220. Prerequisite: PETE 3200 or Consent of instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    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.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will explain how rock mechanics are applied in Petroleum-related disciplines, and its importance in enhancing production from unconventional reservoirs using stimulation techniques, e.g. hydraulic fracturing. This is a basic level course and does not go into detail but provides a good basis for simple calculations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Principles and practices of advanced topics in oil and gas drilling engineering including advances in directional and horizontal drilling, drilling fluid hydraulics and cuttings transport. Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow Analysis, pore pressures and fracture resistance estimation methods. Application of modern computer-based analysis and design methods. Dual listed with PETE 5255. Cross listed with EPE 5255. Prerequisite: PETE 3255.
  • 3.00 Credits

    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.