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Petroleum Engineering (P E)
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organizations and global markets. Explores how organizational systems
work together to meet global demands, system breakdowns, and
assessment of organizational performance. (Irreg.)
G5373 Technology Management and Industrial Engineering. Prerequisite:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Overview of principles,
theories and practices of industrial engineering. Will cover integrated
product/service and operational process design; productivity and quality
improvement; use of technology; and operations management. (Irreg.)
G5383 Emerging Topics in Project Management. Prerequisite: Admission
to Organizational Dynamics program or instructor’s consent. In-depth
examination of existing and emerging issues and problems facing project
management professionals who work as internal or external consultants.
May include issues such as risk management, project selection, conflict
resolution, and strategic management decision processes. (Irreg.)
G5980 Research Masters Thesis. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Supervised research in area agreed upon by the student and the instructor.
(F, Sp, Su)
Petroleum Engineering (P E)
2012 Introduction to Petroleum Engineering Systems. Prerequisite:
Petroleum Engineering major or permission of instructor. Overview of
petroleum engineering systems including: uses of petroleum products,
exploration, exploitation subjects such as drilling, production, reservoir and
formation evaluation, transportation and refining; marketing; government
regulation and political influence. (Sp)
2281 Engineering Co-Op Program (Crosslisted with AME, CH E, C E, C
S, ECE, ENGR, E PHY, E S, G E, I E 2281). Prerequisite: student
participation in the program. The Co-Op program provides student
placement in jobs outside the University, but in a position related to the
student’s major. On completion of a semester work period, the student
submits a brief written report. One hour of credit (elective) granted for
each work period, with a maximum credit of six hours. (F, Sp, Su)
3022 Technical Communications. Prerequisite: 2012 and English 1213.
Skill to be developed: communicating effectively and efficiently;
summarizing and distilling; reading for understanding; planning and writing
business letters, memoranda, emails, resumes, technical reports; active
listening; preparing and delivering oral technical presentations and
interviewing skill. (F)
3113 Production Engineering (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering
3113). Prerequisite: 3123, Engineering 3223. Single and two-phase flow
through pipes, gas lift, sucker rod pumping, submersible pumps, fluid
separation, gas dehydration, pipeline system design, corrosion control. (Sp)
3123 Petroleum Reservoir Fluids. Prerequisite: 3213 and Engineering
2213 or Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 2213. Properties of
petroleum behavior of gases, phase behavior of liquids, qualitative and
quantitative phase behavior of hydrocarbon systems, reservoir fluid
characteristics. Application of these concepts to the prediction of gas and
gas-condensate reservoir behavior. (F)
3153 Petrophysics. Prerequisite: 3123, Engineering 2313; corequisite,
Engineering 3223. Porosity, structure, fluid content permeability and flow
of fluids in reservoir rocks, and properties responding to well logs.
Laboratory (F)
3213 Reservoir Rock Properties. Prerequisite: 2012, Geology 1114;
corequisite: 3221. Fundamental course establishing primary petrophysical
concepts, properties and their measurement. Covers rock types,
distribution, composition and structure, porosity, permeability, resistivity,
wettability, water saturation, elastic moduli and includes effects of pressure
and temperature on rock properties. (Sp)
3221 Rock Properties Laboratory. Prerequisite: Geology 1114;
corequisite: 3213. Laboratory course aimed at exposing the student to the
measurement and analysis of reservoir properties such as porosity,
permeability, fluid saturation, grain size, elastic moduli and pore throat
sizes. The course will stress safety concerns appropriate for all laboratory
procedures, error analyses and report writing. (Sp)
3222 Petroleum Engineering Practice II (Internship). Prerequisite: junior
standing. Career-related work experience of at least eight weeks in the
petroleum industry. The internship may also involve research with faculty
members. This internship usually takes place in the summer between the
sophomore and junior or the junior and senior years in the students’
curricula. Students must obtain prior approval of proposed internship from
instructor. Written report and presentation required. (Su)
3223 Fluid Mechanics. Prerequisite: Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
2113 or Civil Engineering 2113, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
2213, Mathematics 2433 & 3113. Coverage of the fundamental of fluid
statics and dynamics. Formulation of the equations of fluid flow such as
Navier Stokes, Euler, Bernoulli, etc. and their application. Formulation of
the momentum and energy equations. Examples of ideal and viscous fluid
flow in open and closed conduits. (F)
3303 Drilling Engineering (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering
3303). Prerequisite: 3123, Engineering 2153, 3223. History of drilling,
methods and equipment, well kicks and blowouts, drilling fluids, pressure
losses in circulating systems, penetration rate, rotary drilling techniques,
formation damage, drilling costs. (Sp)
3313 Drilling and Completions I. Prerequisite: 3213, 3223 or concurrent
enrollment, Geology 1114. Drilling operations, drilling costs and
economics, drilling fluids, pressure losses in circulating systems, rotary
drilling bits and penetration rate, rotary drilling techniques, pore and
fracture gradients. (F)
3413 Subsurface Production Engineering. Prerequisite: 3123, 3313.
Tubing and packer design; hydraulic fracturing and acidizing; oil and gas
well performance; vertical lift and choke performance; systems analysis;
production operations. (Sp)
3513 Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals. Prerequisite: 3123, 3213,
and Mathematics 3113. Fundamentals of evaluation of oil and gas
reservoirs. Reservoir volumetrics; material balance; Darcy’s law and
equation of continuity; diffusivity equation; streamlines; well models;
introduction to well testing; decline curve analysis; natural water influx. (Sp)
3723 Numerical Methods for Engineering Computation (Crosslisted
with Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering,
Computer Science 3723). Prerequisite: Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering 2401 or Chemical Engineering 2002 or Computer Science
1313 or Computer Science 1323 or Engineering 1001 or Engineering
2003, and Mathematics 3113. Basic methods for obtaining numerical
solutions with a digital computer. Included are methods for the solution of
algebraic and transcendental equations, simultaneous linear equations,
ordinary and partial differential equations and curve fitting techniques. The
methods are compared with respect to computational efficiency and
accuracy. This course may not be taken for graduate credit within the
College of Engineering. (F, Sp)
3813 Formation Evaluation with Well Logs. Prerequisite: 3213, 3221.
Basic formation evaluation concepts, borehole environment, principles of
resistivity, radiation, thermal and elastic wave measurements and
measuring tools, applications to formation evaluation using commercial
software package. (Sp)
3960 Honors Reading. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors
Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Consists of topics
designated by the instructor in keeping with the student’s major program.
Covers materials not usually presented in regular coursework. (F, Sp)
3970 Honors Seminar. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors
Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. The projects covered
will vary. Deals with concepts not usually presented in regular coursework.
3980 Honors Research. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors
Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Provides an
opportunity for the gifted honors candidate to work on a special project in
the student’s field. (F, Sp)
G4033 Oil, Gas and Environmental Law. Prerequisite: senior standing.
Review and analysis of legal principles and leading cases related to oil and
gas exploration, production and marketing in the areas of land titles, leases,
operating agreements, contracts, acquisitions, gas marketing,
environmental regulation, pollution, and litigation. (F)
4113 Oil Field Development. Prerequisite: senior standing, permission.
(For nonengineering majors only). Properties of petroleum fluids and
reservoir rocks; geophysical environment and exploration methods; drilling
and completion methods; well testing; producing mechanisms; evaluation
methods. (F)
G4233 Subsurface Engineering and Tunneling. Prerequisite: senior
standing in engineering or permission. Engineering properties of earth
materials, theories of rock failure, tunneling, mining and excavation
procedures; nature of geologic hazards; geothermal, oil shale, oil mining,
earthquake, rock bolting, permafrost engineering, etc. (F)
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