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Exploring mechanisms that cause low productivity either because of formation damage far in the reservoir, or near the wellbore, or because of wellbore problems, modeling formation damage, use of capillary pressure analysis for rock characterization.

Derivation and solutions of the diffusivity equation, principle of superposition, and different types of transient pressure analysis tests as applied to oil and gas wells, type-curve analysis, well test analysis of fractured formations.

An overview of all artificial lift methods. Selection, design, and operation of common methods of artificial lift, including continuous and intermittent gas lift, sucker rod pumps, electrical submersible pumps, and progressing cavity pumps. Design of crude oil and natural gas surface processing facilities. Design of two- and three-phase separators, design of natural gas and crude oil dehydrators, sweetening units, stabilization units, boosting stations, and transportation pipelines.

Solution of partial differential equations commonly encountered in petroleum engineering applications, introduction to the principles of model formulation for both linear and nonlinear systems.

Solution of partial differential equations commonly encountered in petroleum engineering applications, introduction to the principles of model formulation for both linear and nonlinear systems.

Fundamental principles underlying casing, tubing, and cementing design, packers, well completion and planning of vertical, horizontal and multilateral wells.

The course enables the audience to gain expertise in diagnosing all types of hazardous faults of a variety of engineering related operations including: storage and transportation of oil and gas, gas flaring, drilling and completion of oil wells, and safe production of hydrocarbon reservoirs. The course emphasizes the various techniques for controlling various hazardous situations and teaches the audience skills for designing inherently safe plants, and proposing changes to existing ones.

Introduction to offshore operations, procedure for the design and construction of the equipment and facilities of offshore operations, selection of offshore equipment.

Methods of crude oil and gas transportation, types of storage tanks and pressure vessels, design and selection of storage tanks according to API standards, maintenance of storage tanks.

Theories of corrosion, causes of corrosion in drill strings, casing, tubing and production equipment, evaluation of corrosion, methods of detecting corrosion, preventive measures.

Economics of the upstream sector in all its aspects: reserves, players (international oil companies, national oil companies, service companies), investments, costs and benchmarking, certainty economics applied to petroleum projects cash flow including taxation, decline curve analysis and oil and gas reserve estimate, application of uncertainty analysis and the use of statistical and probabilistic properties of reservoir description, standard methods of investment analysis when risk has to be coped with.

Development of the general material balance equation, solution of PDE using numerical methods, prediction of reservoir performance.

Application of chemical thermodynamics to the behavior of reservoir fluids, with emphasis on phase behavior of multi-component mixtures.

Geological aspects, well testing and well log analysis of naturally fractured reservoirs, reservoir performance.

Momentum, energy and mass balances as applied to the field of transport phenomena and their implications on the fluid flow in porous media .