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PETE 402: Petroleum Production Engineering
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Petroleum Engineering
Undergraduate
Spring, 2015
Nazim Nasibov
nazim_nasibov@yahoo.com
+99455769 7908
11 Mehseti str.(Neftchilar campus), Room 403N, Saturday
18:00-21:00
Office hours
Consent of instructor
English
Required
1.Production Technology. Heriot-Watt University. Institute of Petroleum Engineering.
Author: Dr. David Davies. Edinburgh. Available at the department.
2.Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. Authors: B.C. Craft, M.F. Hawkins.
Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632.ISBN 0-13-039884-5.
3. Reservoir Engineering Handbook.
Course website
Course outline
Course objectives
Learning outcomes
Teaching methods
Evaluation
This course is designed for the Petroleum Students and other Technical Specialties.
The field of hydrocarbon production is closely related to
Petroleum Industry
specialists.

To support the students academically, to improve their chance of realizing
their potential in practice.
 To encourage students participation and in interaction and
fostering and
atmosphere of tolerance and respect.
 To develop on understanding of the theory and practice in Petroleum
Production Engineering.
 To learn engineering methods to evaluate and optimize oil and gas well
performance.
 To build background for the student’s further Petroleum Production
Engineering.
By the end of the course the students should be able:
 Planning and designing wells
 Analytical thinking
 Critical reasoning
 Team building
 Leadership
 Presentation
 Other…
Lecture
Group discussion
Experiential exercise
Simulation
Case analysis
Course paper
Others
Methods
Midterm Exam
x
x
x
Date/deadlines
Percentage (%)
30
Case studies
Class Participation
We
ek
Policy
Date/Day
(tentative)
10
Assignment and
quizzes
Project
20
Presentation/Group
Discussion
40
Final Exam
Others
100
Total
 Preparation for class
The structure of this course makes your individual study and preparation outside
the class extremely important. The lecture material will focus on the major points
introduced in the text. Reading the assigned chapters and having some familiarity
with them before class will greatly assist your understanding of the lecture. After
the lecture, you should study your notes and work relevant problems and cases
from the end of the chapter and sample exam questions.
Throughout the semester we will also have anassignment and quizzes.
 Withdrawal (pass/fail)
This course strictly follows grading policy of the School of Engineering and
Applied Science. Thus, a student is normally expected to achieve a mark of at
least 60% to pass. In case of failure, he/she will be required to repeat the course
the following term or year.
 Cheating/plagiarism
Cheating or other plagiarism during the Quizzes, Mid-term and Final
Examinations will lead to paper cancellation. In this case, the student will
automatically get zero (0), without any considerations.
 Professional behavior guidelines
The students shall behave in the way to create favorable academic and
professional environment during the class hours. Unauthorized discussions and
unethical behavior are strictly prohibited.
Tentative Schedule
Topics
Textbook/Assignments
1
[1] Ch1
2
Introduction to Petroleum Production Engineeering. The
production system and phases. Well productivity,
completion, stimulation. Associated production problems.
Remedial and Workover Techniques. Artificial lift. Surface
Processing.
Reservoir Production Concepts
Reservoir Depletion Concepts. Reservoir Drive Mechanisms.
Solution Gas Drive. Gas-Cap Expansion Drive. Water Drive
Reservoir. Gravity Drive. Compaction Drive. Combination
Drive. Reservoir Depletion or Material Balance Concepts
Application of Material Balance. The Composite Production
System. The Producing System. Utilisation of Reservoir
p.1-13
[1] Ch 2
p.1-30
Pressure. Supplementing Reservoir Energy. Fluid Injection
into the Reservoir. Supplementing the Vertical Lift Process.
3
Solutions to Exercises.
Performance of Flowing Wells
Well Inflow Performance. Darcy’s Linear and Radial Flows
in Different States. Non-Darcy Flow. Tubing Performance.
Dry Gas Flow. Single Phase Liquid Flow. Gas-Liquid
Mixture. Fluid Parameters in Multiphase Flow. Slippage.
Flowline Chokes. Completion Flow Performance and
Optimization.
4
The assignment for a course project
Wireline Services.
Surface Equipment for Wireline. Wireline Tool String.
Wireline Operating Tools. Tubing Perforator.Consulting on a
course project.
6
[1] Ch 4
p.1-39
[1] Ch 5
p.1-21
Completion Equipment.
Production Tubing. Specification of Tubing.Wellhead
Systems. Xmas tree. Packers. Packer Applications. Wireline
Nipple and Mandrel Systems. Subsurface Safety Systems.
Tubing - annulus Circulation Equipment.
7
p.1-96
Solutions to Exercises.
Wellbore Completion Concepts
Bottom Hole Completion Techniques. Selection of Flow
Conduit Between Reservoir and Surface Completion String
Facilities. Completion String Components. Wellhead Xmas
Tree. Production Tubing. Well Completion Designs. Land or
Platform Based Completions. Subsea Completions.
5
[1] Ch 3
[1] Ch 6 p 1-61
Solutions to exercises.
Multiple Zone Completions.
Multiple Zone Depletion Concepts. Multiple Zone
Completion Configurations.
Dual Zone Completion.
Completions for 3 or More Zones.Multiple Completion
Equipment. Tubing Hanger Systems. Multiple Tubing Packer
Systems.Auxiliary Equipment for Multiple Completions.
[1] Ch 7
p.1-14
Multiple Zone Completions.
8
9
Mid-term Exam
Perforating
Shaped Charge Characteristics and Performance.Principles
of Shaped Charges. Assessment of Charge Performance. API
RP. 43 Fifth Edition - Standard Tests. Significance and
Validity of API RP No 43 Tests. Perforating gun systems.
[1] Ch 8
p.1-31
Operational Considerations. Casing Damage.
10
Solutions to exercises.
Completion Installation
Programming.
Practices,
Procedures
and
Operational Constraints and Considerations.Wellbore
Preparation. Open Hole Completion.Cased Hole Completion.
Completion String Running Procedures. Hydraulic Testing
of the Completion. Surface Completion of the Well.
Production Initiation. Rreports and Documentation.
Consulting on a course project.
11
Well Intervention.
General approach to a workover. Types of intervention.
Internal
Tubing
Problems.
Tubing
Retrieval
Problems.Workover Equiptment and Techniques. Selection
of a Workover rig. Workover Benefit Analysis.Evaluation
Considerations. Economic Benefit.Absolute Measures of
Profitability. Measures Which Consider Time Value of Cash
Flow.
12
Course project presentation
13
Well Problems.
Introduction. the Source of Well Problems.Reservoir
Associated
Problems.Productivity
or
Injectivity
Problems.Reservoir Management Considerations.Completion
Associated Problems. Completions Equipment Malfunctions
or Failure. Wellbore Problems. Mechanical Failure.
Modification or Redesign. Abandonment. Responses to Well
Problems. Reservoir Problems. Productivity/Injectivity
Considerations.Reservoir Management Problems. Problems
Associated With The Completion. Lift Considerations.
Wellbore Problems and Repairs.
14
[1]Ch10
p.1-21
[1] Ch 11
p.1-28
Requirements and Operations for Abandonment.
Plug Back Abandonmen. General recommendations for plug
back. Seabed Abandonment. Recovery Of Equipment Above
Seabed. Recovery Of Equipment To A Specific Point Below
The Seabed. Fixed Drilling Locations. Floating Locations.
15
[1] Ch 9 p.1-24
[1] Ch 12 p.1-9
Advanced Wells
Horizontal Wells. Extended Reach Wells. Multi-lateral
Wells. Intelligent (“Smart”) Wells. Coiled Tubing Drilling.
Underbalanced Drilling. Multiple Fractured Horizontal
Wells. Multi-lateral Wells. Benefits of Multilateral Wells –
Economic & Technical. Extended Reach Wells. Mmultiple
[1] Ch 13 p. 1-37
fractured horizontal wells. Uunderbalanced Operations.
Smart/Intelligent Wells. Thin Zones. Coiled Tubing Drilling.
TBA
Final Exam
This syllabus is a guide for the course and any modifications to it will be announced in advance.