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526 Course Descriptions/Petroleum Engineering612. Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs. (3-0). Credit 3. As conventional oil and gas resourcesare depleted, unconventional resources, including heavy oil and gas from low-permeability sandstones,fractured shales, coal bed, and hydrates, will assume greater roles in meeting USA and world energydemands; this course emphasizes resources, geologic and geographic occurrences, recovery technologyand economics of unconventional hydrocarbon resources. Prerequisite: Graduate classification inpetroleum engineering, geology or geophysics.613. Natural Gas Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Flow of natural gas in reservoirs and in wellbores andgathering systems; deliverability testing; production forecasting and decline curves; flow measurementand compressor sizing. Prerequisites: PETE 323 and PETE 324.616. Engineering Near-Critical Reservoirs. (3-0). Credit 3. Identification of reservoir fluid type; calculationof original gas in place, original oil in place, reserves and future performance of retrograde gas andvolatile oil reservoirs. Prerequisites: PETE 323, PETE 400, PETE 401.617. Petroleum Reservoir Management. (3-0). Credit 3. The principles of reservoir management andapplication to specific reservoirs based on case studies presented in the petroleum literature.618. Modern Petroleum Production. (3-0). Credit 3. An advanced treatment of modern petroleum productionengineering encompassing well deliverability from vertical, horizontal and multilateral/multibranchwells; diagnosis of well performance includes elements of well testing and production logging; inthis course the function of the production engineer is envisioned in the context of well design, stimulationand artificial lift.619. Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. (3-0). Credit 3. Explore all relevant subject matter in naturally fracturedreservoirs; naturally fractured reservoirs are commonplace throughout the world, however thereis a general lack of understanding of such reservoirs; provides the background for all relevant topicssuch as characterization, fluid flow, simulation and enhanced oil recovery. Prerequisite: Approval ofinstructor.620. Fluid Flow in Petroleum Reservoirs. (3-0). Credit 3. Analysis of fluid flow in bounded and unboundedreservoirs, wellbore storage, phase redistribution, finite and infinite conductivity fractures;dual-porosity systems. Prerequisite: PETE 323.621. Petroleum Development Strategy. (2-3). Credit 3. Applications of the variables, models and decisioncriteria used in modern petroleum development; case approach used to study major projects such asoffshore development and assisted recovery. Both commercial and student-prepared computer softwareused during the lab sessions to practice methods.622. Exploration and Production Evaluation. (2-3). Credit 3. Selected topics in oil industry economicevaluation including offshore bidding, project ranking and selection, capital budgeting, long-term oiland gas field development projects and incremental analysis for assisted recovery and acceleration.623. Waterflooding. (3-0). Credit 3. Design, surveillance and project management of waterfloods in reservoirs.Prerequisite: PETE 323.624. Rock Mechanic Aspects of Petroleum Reservoir Response. (3-0). Credit 3. Reservoir rocks andtheir physical behavior; porous media and fracture flow models; influence of rock deformability, stress,fluid pressure and temperature. Prerequisite: PETE 604.625. Well Control. (3-0). Credit 3. Theory of pressure control in drilling operations and during well kicks;abnormal pressure detection and fracture gradient determination; casing setting depth selection andadvanced casing design; theory supplemented on well control simulators. Prerequisites: PETE 411.626. Offshore Drilling. (3-0). Credit 3. Offshore drilling from fixed and floating drilling structures; directionaldrilling including horizontal drilling; theory of deviation monitoring and control. Prerequisite:PETE 411.627. Well Completion and Workover. (3-0). Credit 3. Development of design options, systems and proceduresto meet deliverability, safety and integrity requirements for completions and workover equipment;overview of methods in the oil and gas industry; function and design criteria of well components.Prerequisite: Graduate classification.628. Horizontal Drilling. (3-0). Credit 3. Changing a wellbore from vertical to horizontal; long- andshort-radius horizontal wells; bottomhole assemblies for achieving and maintaining control of inclinationand direction; drilling fluids; torque and drag calculations; transport of drilled solids. Prerequisite:PETE 411.