Curriculum Vitae - Harold Vance Department of Petroleum ...

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• ENG 211: Conservation Principles in Engineering II (Credit 3) – Developed class notes and
new problem sets.
• PETE 310: Reservoir Fluids. (Credit 4) Modernized and improved undergraduate laboratory
manual. Implemented field-trips to commercial laboratories and to Oil-Production leases as
part of laboratory procedures.
Introduced use of Educational Software packages: (1) SOPE, which presents a Graphical
Visualization and Simulation of Volumetric and Phase Equilibria of single and twocomponent
systems, and (2) in house developed Aggie-PVT for constant volume depletion
studies, gas hydrates and waxes, swelling, and hydrocarbon characterization.
• PETE 417: Numerical Methods. (Credit 3) Revised course contents stressing use of FORTRAN
over Spreadsheets. Developed a series of new problems and Fortran Codes and instructed
the Computer Lab session of the course as well.
• PETE 206: Rock Properties. (Credit 4) Included a field trip with an interview as part of the
course requirements. Developed a set of new exercises establishing ties with other
Petroleum Engineering courses.
• PETE 420: Reservoir Engineering. (Credit 3). Revised course content and developed new set
of class notes which were provided electronically through the local network.
• PETE 323: Reservoir Models. (Credit 3). Revised course content and developed new set of
class notes which were provided electronically through the local network. Included three
designed projects as part of the course. Performance projections of Gas Reservoirs, Oil
Reservoirs, and a Comparison of Waterflooding vs. Polymer Flooding.
Graduate Courses
• PETE 605: Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Fluids. (Credit 3) Significantly revised this course
by adding topics such as: gas hydrates, paraffin deposition, water/hydrocarbon phase
equilibria. Heavy emphasis on use of Equations of State for phase equilibria computations
and rigorous thermodynamic approaches. Elimination of repetitive material from
undergraduate courses.
• PETE 616: Engineering Near Critical Reservoirs. (Credit 3). Redesigned this course from
scratch. Incorporated workshops using commercial simulators. Stressed the use of UNIX and
Eclipse 300 simulators. The course ends with a comprehensive competition project to
develop a gas condensate field using the strategies learned in the course.
• PETE 607: Chemical and Miscible EOR. (Credit 3) Completely redeveloped this course by
incorporating more fundamentals. Topics included include rheological behavior of polymers
used in EOR, phase equilibria interactions in CO2 flooding, environmental and economic
issues.
• PETE 609: Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes. (Credit 3) Completely developed this course by
incorporating more fundamentals. Topics included include rheological behavior of polymers
used in EOR, phase equilibria interactions in CO2 flooding, environmental and economic
issues. Modern technologies in thermal flooding applications including : SAGD, insitu
combustion and use of additives to increment heavy oil recovery and in-situ upgrading.
• PETE 685:
Problems in Phase Behavior. (Credit 3-4) Design of a series of problems that require
extensive use of simulations. These include evaluation of current fluid property correlations