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Solving Petroleum Engineering models with an emphasis on advanced solution methods including Green's function, series solution, Bessel function method of characteristics and separation of variable. Petroleum Engineering application of scalar, vector and tensor variables and matrices.

Properties and mathematical description of enhanced oil recovery processes. Fractional flow theory as applied to both miscible and immiscible enhanced oil recovery methods. Dimensionless Phase Behavior, Displacement Efficiency, Volumetric Efficiency.

Theory and applications of enhanced oil recovery processes: Chemical Flooding; Polymer Flooding, Surfactant Flooding, Micellar-Polymer Flooding (MP), Foam Flooding, Alkaline Flooding, Miscible Flooding,

Diagnosis of Formation Damage, Rate Decline Analysis, Types of Formation Damage, Water Injection Problems, Stimulation Methods, Decision and Planning of Stimulation Operations, Sand Control, Gravel Packing.

Fluid Flow Principles, Fluid Models, Measurement of Fluid Flow Properties Drilling Muds, Mud Circulation System, The Drill-String, Motor, Turbine and Bit, The Annulus, Swab and Surge Pressures, Cutting Transport, Optimization of the Hydraulics Program.

Steps involved in the development and application of numerical reservoir simulator models to primary and secondary recovery processes in reservoir engineering. Model formulation, General Material Balances, Single Phase flow, Overall Program Structure, Finite difference Approximations, finite Element Approximations, Boundary and Initial Conditions, Well Model, Anisotropy, Error, Grid Selection, Stability Analysis, Non-linear Problems, Multiphase Flow Models, IMPES Solution, Simultaneous Solution, Stability of Multiphase Flow FDEs, Reservoir Framework, Relative Permeability, Transmissibility in Multiphase Flow Effective Relative Permeability, Capillary-gravity Equilibrium, Model Initialization, Reservoir Characterization.

Traditional ways to describe flow through porous media. Introduction to Network Models, Effective Medium Theory, Monte-Carlo Simulations, Recent advances in using Percolation Theory.

Planning Directional Well Trajectory, Calculating the Trajectory of a Well, Planning the Kickoff and Trajectory Change, Directional Drilling Measurements, Deflection Tools, Principles of BHA, Deviation Control.

Data Requirements for Completion or Workover Planning, Selection of the Best Completion, Formation Damage: Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Methods, Selection of well completion and Workover Fluids, Perforation: Selection and Design, Well System Behavior: Principles and Testing, Well Inflow System Applications, Well Outflow System: Tubing Performance, Well Inflow at outflow Performance, Tubing and Packer Systems: Types, Selection considerations, Movement and Forces in Tubing Packer Systems, Wireline Completions, Squeeze Cementing, Well Stimulation, Sand Control, workover Planning and Evaluation.

Types of Reservoir Fluids, Composition and physical Properties, Phase Behavior, Equations of State, Lash & differential Calculation, Gas Reserve Estimate, Gas, Flow in Porous Media, Gas Well Testing, Hydrate, Types, Formation, Prediction and Preventions, Gas Flow in Pipes, Estimation of Bottom Hole Pressure, Unloading Gas Wells, Gas Composition, Analyzing Performance of Gas Wells, Underground Storage of Natural Gas.

Well Test Analysis, Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, Use of transient Tests to Determine Fractured Systems, Transient Rate Analysis & Constant Pressure Production, Computer - Aided Interpretation.

Research methods, type of modeling, design, theoretical, computational and interpretive issues in applied research studies. Research components and sequence. Typical research (and data analysis) designs, rationale for use, computational and/or computing procedures, interpretation and validation of results and reporting. Attending technical industrial seminar is part of the course. Students will write and present their research proposal at the end of the semester.

This course in designed to help Petroleum Engineers involved in evaluation, reservoir management and production planning to understand behavior, recovery mechanisms, and well productivity of gas condensate reservoir.

Review of Principles of Economics, Cash Flow analysis, Oil and Gas Reserve Estimates, Decline Curve Analysis, profitability Criteria for Investment in Petroleum Industry, Project Analysis, in Terms of the Interrelation of Technical And Economic Factors, Investment Analysis in The Presence of Uncertainty and Project Planning, Reservoir Unitizantion.

Origin of Fracture, Classification of Fractures, Petrophysical Properties of fractured Reservoirs, Well Testing in fractured Reservoirs, Well Testing in Fractured Reservoirs, Well Test Equations, Detection and Identification of Fractured Reservoirs, Reservoir, Processes. Modeling Fractured Reservoirs.