PET 601 – Advanced Drilling Engineering (3 Credits) Fundamentals of planning and drilling a well; rotary drilling; drilling rigs and components; drilling fluids and mud system; directional drilling and system; drilling hydraulics; casing design and casing seat selection; cementing techniques; well bore pressure and blow out control; formation evaluation (logging, LWD, coring and DST); under balanced drilling; well completion and stimulation; acidizing; hydraulic fracturing; formation damage in drilling and completion operations; horizontal well technology; drilling and completion methods for horizontal wells; coiled tubing drilling; offshore drilling operations; Health, Safety and Environmental aspects of drilling and completion operations (HSE).

PET 602 – Advanced Reservoir Engineering (3 Credits) Appraisal of oil and gas fields; material balance applied to oil fields, oil well testing; theories and techniques for well testing ; single and multi-rate well testing; derivative analysis; fractured well testing; advanced decline curve analysis; computer aided analysis and hands on experience in computer analysis of well tests, planning water/gas drive, engineering design of water/gas drive projects, numerical; Gas reservoir engineering, PVT requirements and phase behavior or gas-condensate systems, gas fields volumetric material balance, dynamics of immiscible gas-oil displacement; dry gas recycling in retrograde gas-condensate reservoirs. Software demonstration: PANSYSTEM or FEKETE well test software package.

PET 603 – Advanced Production Engineering (3 Credits) Principles of oil and gas production techniques; analysis and discussion of factors governing the flow of fluids from the formation to the stock tank; well work-over; artificial lift; design of artificial lift equipment; sucker rod pumping system design; inflow performance relationships; production logging; surface separation equipment; production system design; surface flow lines; water treating systems; gas metering and storage facilities, automatic control of production facilities; determination of reservoir response to different well completions and simulations treatment. Natural gas processing technology; A detailed review of design and operations criteria in production of natural gases from gas wells; wellhead treatment; transportation and processing of natural gases; LPG control; environmental control problems in natural processing.

PET 604 – Advanced Formation Evaluations (3 Credits) Introduction to rock and rock properties; introduction and review of formation evaluation; open hole well logs; cased hole well logs; logging while drilling; porosity logs; resistivity logs; overview of new logging technologies: NMR logs; sonic array logs; FMS/FMI; RFT/MDT; log interpretation techniques; overpressure detection from well logs, application of well logs for integrated petroleum reservoir management; practical applications using applied software. Software demonstration: ELAN, GEOLOG or FlexInLOG well log interpretation software packages.

PET 605 – Advanced EOR (3 Credits) Discussion of displacement processes for recovering additional hydrocarbons; water flooding; miscible/immiscible gas flooding; chemical flooding; in-situ combustion; steam injection; polymer and surfactant flooding; simulation of IOR processes; filed implementation of IOR processes; improved oil recovery in fractured reservoirs.

PET 606 – Research Seminars (3 Credits) Report on studies of literature or of current research is required with presentation for MSc student in petroleum engineering

PET 610 – Oil Field Technology (3 Credits) Overview of petroleum surface operations including: Types, applications, and design or two and three phase separators; Oil treatment; Vapor recovery processes; Gas treatment processes and equipment; gas faring; produced-water treatment and disposal; flow lines, gathering lines and transportation; oil, gas, and water metering; corrosion control.

PET 611 – Gas Engineering (3 Credits) Natural Gas reservoirs: MBC for volumetric and water drive reservoirs; flow after flow and isochronal test analysis; vertical flow performance. Gas-Condensate reservoirs: Properties testing and sampling; estimation of GIIP and OIIP operation by pressure depletion and by pressure maintenance or cycling; operating problems; production performance. Gas pipelines: Horizontal flow equations; design of pipeline equipment; separation; metering; compression; processing.

PET 612 – Horizontal Well Technology (3 Credits) Drilling: profile considerations; drillstring and BHA design; surveying techniques and logging; well completions; cementing; ECP and control; stimulation; formation damage in horizontal wells; producing zone data acquisition; acidizing; fracturing. Flow regimes and productivity calculations: pseudo-steady state calculations; effect of permeability anisotropy; effect of well eccentricity effective wellbore radius. Transient pressure test: analysis of different flow regimes; factors complicating the analysis; design of a BU test.

PET 613 – Advanced Topics in Well Completion (3 Credits) Completion procedures and equipment: well completion program and control; completion equipment; well, subsurface control, Christmas tree and well head assembly; completion methods; types of completion; selecting the best completion; reservoir consideration; formation properties; driving mechanism, and secondary recovery; sand control; mechanical considerations; completion fluids; perforation; well stimulation and other completion aspects.

PET 614 – Advanced Reservoir Simulation (3 Credits) Development of computer models for simulating single flow in porous media; review of flow equations and mathematical solution techniques; application of finite difference to the solution of multi-dimensional multi-phase flow equations; solution of flow equations by direct and iterative methods. Practical applications of reservoir simulation, data preparation, grid construction, initialization; well description; aquifer modeling; history matching; performance prediction.

Applied Statistics includes planning for the collection of data, managing data, analyzing, interpreting and drawing conclusions from data, and identifying problems, solutions and opportunities using the analysis.

Waterflooding is one of the most commonly used advanced oil recovery techniques in the world. This course introduces the basic concepts of water-displaced oil and offers techniques for estimating utilization, evaluating behavior, and tracking the performance of waterflood projects.

يزود هذا المقرر الطلاب بمقدمة شاملة لمبادئ كيمياء حقول النفط والتآكل. يصف أيضًا خصائص وتطبيقات المواد الكيميائية المضادة للتآكل المستخدمة في إنتاج النفط والغاز ، ويقدم النظريات الرئيسية لعلوم وهندسة التآكل ، مع إشارة خاصة إلى صناعة النفط والغاز.