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Petroleum Engineering (PETE)
PETE 5343 Advanced Reservoir Engineering Prerequisites: PETE 4343 or consent of instructor.
PETE 5613 Advanced Well Completions Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Description: Topics include reservoir drive mechanisms, material balance approach to predict oil and gas reservoir properties, fluid flow in porous media, principles of secondary and tertiary recovery methods, analytical and numerical solutions for fluid flow in reservoirs, and well test analysis. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Chemical Engineering PETE 5363 Petroleum Economics and Investments Prerequisites: (PETE 5333 and PETE 5343) or consent of instructor. Description: Evaluation techniques for oil and gas properties focusing on economic analyses, reserves estimations and decision making. Evaluate three independent investment opportunities as class projects. Previously offered as ENGR 5363. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Chemical Engineering
Description: Topics include selection of well completion type, pipe design, well cementing, perforating, selection of surface and downhole equipment, corrosion mitigation, and well stimulation. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Chemical Engineering PETE 5990 Special Problems in Petroleum Engineering Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. Description: Independent study on specific topics in drilling, production and reservoir engineering. Offered for variable credit, 1-5 credit hours, maximum of 5 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-5 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Chemical Engineering PETE 6000 Doctoral Thesis Prerequisites: Consent of major professor. Description: The doctoral candidate registers for 1-15 semester credit hours each semester during which laboratory work is in process. Methods used in research and thesis writing. An original investigation of a problem in Petroleum Engineering and its report in a dissertation. Offered for variable credit. Credit hours: 1-15 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Chemical Engineering PETE 6110 Advanced Topics in Petroleum Engineering Prerequisites: Consent of major professor. Description: Specialized course addressing advanced topics in drilling, production, or reservoir engineering. May be repeated for credit if subject
PETE 5373 Advanced Well Stimulation Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Description: Hydraulic fracturing simulation and design. Unconventional resource rock mechanics and hydraulic fracturing concepts. Multistage hydraulic fracturing and fracture treatment analysis. Matrix acidizing and evaluation of treatments through methods of pumping pressure analysis. Previously offered as ENGR 5373. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Chemical Engineering PETE 5413 Advanced Well Design and Operational Analysis Prerequisites: PETE 4313 or consent of instructor. Description: Topics include information needed to plan oil or gas wells; planning the authorization for expenditures (AFE) budget; use of offset data analysis from logging and drilling for planning; pore and fracture pressure prediction; casing design; wellbore stability, drilling hydraulics, wellbore strengthening considerations in designing the mud weight window; drilling fluids and cements laboratory exercises using latest technologies/materials; completion/stimulation and real time drilling analysis. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Chemical Engineering PETE 5513 Directional Drilling Prerequisites: PETE 4313 or PETE 5313 or consent of instructor. Description: Study of directional well planning and drilling; tools and operational techniques used in directional drilling; limiting factors of reaching a predetermined subsurface target. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Chemical Engineering
matter varies. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Chemical Engineering
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