Petroleum Engineering ENPE
Instruction offered by members of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering.
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department Head - T. Harding
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department Head - P. Gu
Associate Heads - A.A. Jeje, J. Azaiez
Senior Courses
Petroleum Engineering 423 H(3-2T-1)
Oil and Gas Engineering Process Development
General approach to the design of oil and gas processing units and plants; cost estimates and oil and gas process economics; optimization techniques; introduction to linear programming. Safety and environmental considerations in process design. A team design project will be included. Written reports are required.
Prerequisites: Chemical Engineering 315.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 423 and Chemical Engineering 423 will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 507 H(3-1)
Well Logging and Formation Evaluation
An introduction to fundamentals of wireline well logging and the log interpretation techniques for oil and gas wells. Determination of basic reservoir petrophysical parameters such as lithology, porosity and fluid saturations in the near wellbore region. Types of well logging devices; physics of operation and the mechanical, electrical, acoustic and nuclear response characteristics of various well logging tools. Well log interpretation and its relationship with reservoir geology and geophysics, reservoir engineering, production engineering and drilling engineering aspects. Application of well logs for integrated petroleum reservoir management.
Prerequisites: Permission of the course instructor or consent of the Department.
Petroleum Engineering 509 H(3-1)
Well Testing
Basic theory and current techniques for well testing. Drawdown and Build up. Single-rate and multi-rate. Derivative analysis. Fractured wells, fractured reservoirs and other flow models. Advanced decline curve analysis. Computer aided analysis and hands on experience in the computer laboratory.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 523.
Petroleum Engineering 511 H(3-4)
Design for Oil and Gas Engineering I
Team design project applying principles of project engineering and management to the recovery and processing of hydrocarbons. Petroleum design considerations will include; detailed reservoir characterization; well test analysis; recovery and production forecasting; preliminary drilling, completions and facilities design, and economic evaluation. Team designs will be evaluated through both an oral examination and a major written report.
Prerequisites: Chemical Engineering 315, 405; Chemical Engineering 423 or Petroleum Engineering 423; Petroleum Engineering 523.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 511 and Chemical Engineering 511 will not be allowed.
Note: Approval of the course instructor is required for Petroleum Engineering Minor students to take Chemical Engineering 511 rather than Petroleum Engineering 511.
Petroleum Engineering 513 H(3-1T-3/2)
Flow in Porous Media
Fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media: pore structure; capillarity; single phase flow; immiscible and miscible fluid flow; pore level modelling of porous media. Concepts applied to hydrocarbon reservoirs and fluid migration in soils including; characterization of pore space, single phase flow in porous media, capillarity, wettability, routine and advance core analysis, miscibility in porous media. Similarities and differences between hydrocarbon reservoirs and soils. Introduction to enhanced oil and gas processes.
Prerequisites: Chemical Engineering 331 and Geology 377.
Petroleum Engineering 515 H(3-1)
(formerly Petroleum Engineering 413)
Drilling and Well Completions
An introduction to drilling; overview of petroleum engineering geology; basic rock properties; pressure and temperature relationships. Rotary drilling; drilling rigs; rig components and selection; overview of drilling operations; drilling fluids and mud systems; rotary drilling hydraulics; drill bits, selection and optimization; bottom hole assemblies (BHAs); directional drilling and MWD systems; horizontal and multi-lateral drilling; casing design and casing seat selection; cements and cementation techniques; wellbore pressure and blowout control; formation evaluation (logging, LWD, coring and DST); well completions; formation damage in drilling and completion operations; hole problems; drilling cost control; well planning; underbalanced drilling; coiled tubing drilling; offshore drilling operations. Environmental aspects of drilling and completion operations.
Corequisites: Prerequisites or Corequisites: Engineering 311 and Petroleum Engineering 523 or consent of the Department.
Petroleum Engineering 519 H(3-0)
Special Topics
Current advanced topics in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Petroleum Engineering 521 H(3-1)
Introduction to Drilling Engineering
Introduction to the physics of flow in porous media; overview of drilling operations; equipment; relevant processes and procedures; basic completion operation; environmental aspect of drilling and completion operations.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 521 and 515 will not be allowed.
Note: Not available to students in Petroleum, Oil and Gas or Chemical Engineering.
Petroleum Engineering 523 H(3-1)
Introduction to Reservoir Engineering
Description and estimation of rock and fluid properties; reserve estimation using volumetric and material balance methods in gas, gas-condensate and oil reservoirs; discussion of different reservoir drive mechanisms; aquifer models; Darcy's law and single-phase flow through porous media; introduction to well testing, solution of radial diffusivity equation corresponding to infinite-acting and pseudo-steady state flow, of slightly compressible fluids and real gases.
Prerequisites: Engineering 311 and Chemical Engineering 331 or Mechanical Engineering 341.
Petroleum Engineering 525 H(3-1)
Waterflooding
Discussion of two-phase flow in media, wettability, relative permeability and capillary pressure; trapping and mobilization of residual oil; immiscible displacement theory; linear waterflood calculations; viscous fingering in immiscible displacements; flood patterns and sweep efficiency considerations; characterization of reservoir heterogeneity; waterflood prediction models - Stiles, Dykstra-Parsons, CGM and Streamtube models; introduction to black-oil simulators; designing a waterflood; monitoring and analysis of waterflooding performance.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 523 or equivalent.
Petroleum Engineering 531 H(2-6)
Design for Oil and Gas Engineering II
Team Design Project continuing from Petroleum Engineering 511. Detailed design of large scale development and commercial exploitation of a petroleum resource. Topics considered will include: reservoir simulation; drilling and completion design; specification of petroleum processing equipment such as heaters, heat exchangers, contacting and separating equipment; safety and environmental issues; economic evaluation. Team designs will be evaluated through both an oral examination and a major written report.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 511.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 531 and Chemical Engineering 531 will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 533 H(3-0)
Petroleum Production Engineering
Principles of oil and gas production mechanics. Analysis and discussion of factors governing the flow of fluids from the formation to the surface facility. Reservoir inflow performance. Diagnostic analysis of well test data. Decline analysis. Wellbore hydraulics and multiphase flow. Nodal analysis for optimization of the production system. Methods of well completions and stimulation. Artificial lift. Introduction to surface facilities design.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 523 or consent of the Department.
Petroleum Engineering 543 H(3-0)
Geological Characterization of Oil and Gas Reservoirs
Introduction to applied special statistics and probability theory; review of petroleum reservoir geology, geological depositional environments, classification of reservoir heterogeneity; an overview of the reservoir modelling methodology. Introduction to various forms of data for reservoir modelling - core data, well log data, well test data, geophysical data; brief review of geostatistics for data integration; assessment of uncertainty in reservoir modelling; basics of flow modelling and assessing the impact of reservoir heterogeneity on the flow response observed at wells.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 523.
Petroleum Engineering 551 H(1-4)
Petroleum Engineering Laboratory
Laboratory experiments that demonstrate the fluid flow processes involved in oil and gas production from subterranean accumulations. Measurements of porous rock and fluid properties, such as porosity, permeability, capillary pressure, relative permeability, fluid dispersion, phase behaviour and viscosity.
Prerequisites: Chemical Engineering 405 and Petroleum Engineering 523.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 551 and Chemical Engineering 551 will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 555 H(3-1T)
Oil and Gas Field Safety and Environment
Review of safety issues, blow outs, fire and other hazards, hydrate formation and decomposition, H2S and other toxic gases, safety standards, impact of petroleum operations on the environment, handling and safe transportation and disposal of petroleum wastes.
Petroleum Engineering 561 H(3-3/2)
Fuel Science and Technology
Classification of fuels. Origin, geology, production and processing of fossil fuels. Supply, consumption and demand for fuels - historical patterns and future trends. Thermodynamics and reaction kinetics of combustion. Physical and chemical properties and influence on fuel utilization. Ecological, efficiency, safety, economic considerations. Non-conventional fuels. Transportation and handling.
Petroleum Engineering 563 H(3-0)
Materials Aspects of Oil and Gas Production
Material selection processes for the oil and gas industry covering piping, vessels and other components. Basics of corrosion, stress corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement. Corrosion prevention techniques for aqueous and gaseous corrosion. High temperature material behaviour and design procedures.
Petroleum Engineering 565 H(3-0)
Mechanics of Oil and Gas Production
Overview of drilling rigs and offshore structures. Structural design. Well drilling. Drill string design, casing design. Directional and horizontal wells. Well completion, tubing design. Artificial lift methods: sucker rod pumping system design, pumping units, fatigue loads and rod materials, wave equations, sucker rod optimization. Rotating pumps. Gas lift design. Container and pipeline design.
Prerequisites: Mechanical Engineering 479 and Petroleum Engineering 523.