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Measurements of reservoir fluid properties: flash liberation test, constant volume depletion test, constant composition expansion and separator test, preparation of PVT reports.

Rotary drilling equipment, operational procedures and drilling cost evaluation, primary functions and the composition of the drilling fluids, well control, well completion principles and methods.

Functions of drilling fluids, rheology and filtration of fluids with various concentrations of reactive and non-reactive solids, effects on plastic viscosity, yield point, gel strength, use of thinners.

Aspects of seismo-stratigraphy, morphology and development of oil and gas traps. Application to the Middle East oil fields.

Principles, applications, and interpretation of wireline well logs as applied to petroleum exploration and reservoir evaluation.

Problem-oriented applications of well-log combinations for petroleum exploration and evaluation, application of resistivity, sonic and dipmeter logs to determining lithological boundaries, faulting, and abnormal pressure zones, well Log correlations, programming well log interpretation, Shaly sand analysis.

Interpretation of gas and oil well performance using nodal system analysis, two-phase flow in pipes. Design of continuous gas lift operations.

Review methods of calculations of IOIP, models of water influx, estimation of IOIP or IGIP and aquifer properties, understanding abnormal pressure gas reservoirs, production mechanisms of abnormal pressure gas reservoir, method of estimating IGIP for abnormal pressure gas reservoirs.

Properties of natural gas, flash calculations and types of gas reservoirs, gas reservoir performance: well deliverability tests, pressure transient tests, and reserve estimates, gas well performance, calculation of pressure losses and unloading gas wells, gas compression and gas metering, total system analysis of gas wells, gas processing.

This course is designed for students to learn the basic skills of monitoring, analyzing and projecting the performance of various secondary recovery methods. Emphasis is given to gas cycling and water flooding. Students are also introduced to tertiary recovery methods.

Evaluating formations for hydrocarbon shows, mapping of fluid movement down-hole, and evaluating well integrity.

Derivation and solutions of the diffusivity equation, principle of superposition, and different types of transient pressure analysis tests as applied to oil and gas wells, type-curve analysis, well test analysis of hydraulically fractured wells.

An overview of all artificial lift methods. Selection, design, and operation of common methods of artificial lift, including continuous and intermittent gas lift, sucker rod pumps, electrical submersible pumps, and progressing cavity pumps. Design of crude oil and natural gas surface processing facilities. Design of two- and three-phase separators, design of natural gas and crude oil dehydrators, sweetening units, stabilization units, boosting stations, and transportation pipelines.

Solution of partial differential equations commonly encountered in petroleum engineering applications, introduction to the principles of model formulation for both linear and nonlinear systems.

Solution of partial differential equations commonly encountered in petroleum engineering applications, introduction to the principles of model formulation for both linear and nonlinear systems.