GEOE 461 Petroleum Drilling and Production Engineering

Credits: (3-0) 3

Introduction to engineering principles of modern oil and gas well drilling and production engineering. Drilling topics include design of oil or gas well drilling operations (including horizontal and casing drilling), interpretation of well bore and formation properties, casing design and cementing, and well completion design. Production topics include well in-flow performance, wellbore damage characterization, acidizing and hydraulic fracturing (simulation) are discussed. Reservoir engineering topics include computer-aided design for downhole pressure, single and multi-phase flow measurements, physical modeling of oil production, and permeability testing. Global oil production and societal implications will be emphasized.

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