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Mechanical behavior of rocks with application to petroleum exploration, drilling, production, and stimulation.

Planning and calculating directional well trajectory, survey calculation techniques, equipment and bottomhole assembly used in directional drilling operations, torque and drag problems in directional wells.

Drilling and completion of horizontal wells, different types of horizontal wells based on build-radius, logging systems, performance and analysis of horizontal wells.

Estimating the naturally occurring pressure of subsurface formation fluids and the maximum wellbore pressure that a given formation can withstand without fracture, well control in abnormal pressure zones.

The course focuses on practical experience that a rig crew should have to control an oil well during drilling operations. This includes various methods for handling gas and liquid kicks, handling lost circulation and performing leak-off tests, the course trains students extensively on an interactive drilling simulator in order to sharpen their drilling skills and develop reliable safety records.

Well design and planning using general drilling software packages and the ADS 9800 drilling simulator system.

An overall view of natural gas engineering with particular emphasis on occurrence of gas hydrates and their prevention, treatment of recovered natural gas for marketing.

The course emphasizes the basic fundamentals and design aspects of sandstone and carbonate reservoir stimulation by acid treatment, and by hydraulic fracturing.

Spatial correlations, use of optimal interpolation schemes (Kriging), use of synthetic field generation, use of geostatistics for the characterization of hydrocarbon reservoirs, statistical methods and their accuracies are presented.

This course is oriented toward designing and finding solutions to open-ended problems. This task integrates several areas of petroleum engineering and involves design, research and analysis skills.

Team-oriented design projects involving the application of geologic and engineering methods to the planning of drilling hydrocarbon wells. This is a capstone design course.

Correlation of Physical Properties of Rocks in Terms of Parameters Obtained from Drilling, Log Interpretation, Reservoir Engineering. Fundamental concepts of petrophsics, Flow through Porous Media, Mechanical, Electrical and Thermal Properties, and Methods of Petorphysical Measurements.

This course is intended to explore advanced concepts in reservoir engineering. It will start with a brief review of the fundamentals of reservoir engineering.

Design of drilling operation, bit selection and evaluation, mathematical modeling of bit wear and penetration rate, drilling hydraulics, determination of formation pore pressure and fracture pressure, rock mechanics, selection of drill string and casing, directional drilling, special design consideration in horizontal wells, and introduction to underbalanced drilling operation.

Shell Momentum Balance, Equations of Change for Isothermal Systems and their Applications, Macroscopic Balance and it Applications, Macroscopic Balance and its Applications, Shell Energy Balance, Multivariate and Unsteady Conduction, Analysis of Heat-Transfer Problems, Macroscopic Balance for Non-Isothermal Systems, Diffusion and Shell Mass Balance, Unsteady Diffusion, Mass Transfer Coefficients, Dispersion in Flow Through Porous Media, Equations of Change for Multi-Component Systems, Macroscopic Balance for Multi-Component Systems.