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Discussion of various petroleum industry processes, identify types of reservoir exploration methods, recognize the properties of reservoir rocks and petroleum fluids, describe oil and gas production facilities downstream and upstream of the well choke, identify petroleum products, describe the handling, transportation, and marketing of petroleum products.

Measurement of rock petrophysical properties such as porosity, permeability, saturation, capillary pressure and electrical resistivity of fluid saturated rocks.

Phase behavior of pure substances, two-component and multi-component mixtures, phase behavior classification of oil and gas reservoirs, gas condensates, retrograde phenomena.

Classification of reservoirs by type and recovery mechanism, reserve and production rate estimate based on material balance, acquifer modeling and water influx calculation methods.

Properties of fluid-saturated rocks. Steady state and transient fluid flow in porous reservoir rocks as applied to petroleum engineering.

Measurements of reservoir fluid properties: flash liberation test, constant volume depletion test, constant composition expansion and separator test, preparation of PVT reports.

Rotary drilling equipment, operational procedures and drilling cost evaluation, primary functions and the composition of the drilling fluids, well control, well completion principles and methods.

Functions of drilling fluids, rheology and filtration of fluids with various concentrations of reactive and non-reactive solids, effects on plastic viscosity, yield point, gel strength, use of thinners.

Overview of stratigraphy and structural geology. Aspects of seismo-stratigraphy, morphology and development of oil and gas traps. Overview of stratigraphy and structural geology. Correlation and interpretation of stratigraphic sections. Interpretation of structural contour maps. Application to the Middle East oil fields.

Principles, applications, and interpretation of wireline well logs as applied to petroleum exploration and reservoir evaluation.

Problem-oriented applications of well-log combinations for petroleum exploration and evaluation, application of resistivity, sonic and dipmeter logs to determining lithological boundaries, faulting, and abnormal pressure zones, well Log correlations, programming well log interpretation, Shaly sand analysis.

Interpretation of gas and oil well performance using nodal system analysis, two-phase flow in pipes, design of continuous gas lift projects, rate decline analysis and production forecasting.

Review methods of calculations of IOIP, models of water influx, estimation of IOIP or IGIP and aquifer properties, understanding abnormal pressure gas reservoirs, production mechanisms of abnormal pressure gas reservoir, method of estimating IGIP for abnormal pressure gas reservoirs.

Properties of natural gas, flash calculations and types of gas reservoirs, gas reservoir performance: well deliverability tests, pressure transient tests, and reserve estimates, gas well performance, calculation of pressure losses and unloading gas wells, gas compression and gas metering, total system analysis of gas wells, gas processing.

This course is designed for students to learn the basic skills of monitoring, analyzing and projecting the performance of various secondary recovery methods. Emphasis is given to gas cycling and water flooding. Students are also introduced to tertiary recovery methods.