Petroleum Engineering

Global Petroleum Dynamics and Market System, Global Petroleum Pricing and Supply, Time Value of Money in Capital Expenditure, Fundamentals of Petroleum Project Evaluation, Petroleum Resources, Reserves And Production Forecasting, Petroleum Fiscal System, Financial Measure And Profitability, Decision Analysis

POSTGRADUATE MODULE IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PERTAINING TO THE OIL AND GAD INDUSTRY.

This is a course in Drilling Fluids Certificate Programme at the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. This course helps students to familiarise with the oil and gas industry.

COURSE CONTENT

•  INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS
• FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
  
• LAW OF THERMOCHMISTRY
  
• SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

Certificate in Drilling Fluids: The course is about special fluids used in the oil and gas activities.

Course Content

• EQUATION OF STATE AND INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS
  
• SOLUTIONS AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY
  
• SOLVENT EXTRACTION PROCESSES
  

• CHEMICAL ANALYSIS, GRAVIMETRIC AND VOLUMETRIC ANALYSES

• SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHODS OF ANALYSIS AND CHROMATOGRAPHY

• Explain and apply concepts of physical and analytical chemistry. Understand equation of state. Define the commonly used terms in thermodynamics. Explain the first law of thermodynamics. Solve numerical problems based on the enthalpy.

• Describe solutions and ways of expressing concentration. Know Henry´s Law and its application. Describe the kinds of solutions. Understand the principles of electrochemistry and electrolysis and their applications.
  

• Define relevant concepts and parameters in solvent extraction processes. Know the principles and methods for liquid-liquid extraction. Know which liquid properties are essential when using these methods.

• Know the steps in chemical analysis. Understand the principles of Gravimetric and Volumetric analyses and their applications and solve numerical problems based on these principles.

• Understand and identify spectrophotometric methods of analysis. Explain the principle underpinning chromatography, the forms of chromatography and their application.

  
  

Objective

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of some aspects of Drilling Engineering it which is not captured in Introduction to Drilling Engineering. At the end of the course students are expected to know well control operations, drilling fluid control operations, directional drilling, offshore drilling operations and the economics of any drilling operation.

Content

Formation. Pore Pressure and Fracture Resistance. Drill String: drill string design, Drill Bits: Well Control, Casing: casing design; Cementing: evaluation of cement jobs; Drilling Fluids, Solids control Hydraulics, Rheological Models, Frictional Pressure Drop in Pipes, Optimising the hydraulics of the circulating system; Directional Drilling, Drilling problems.

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of some aspects of Drilling Engineering in which is not captured in Drilling Engineering I. At the end of the course, students are expected to know well control operations, drilling fluid control operations, directional drilling, offshore drilling operations and the economics of any drilling operation.

Objective
Equip Students with knowledge on platform types, constructions and main systems and also demonstrate knowledge of equipment used during drilling operations from land and offshore installations

Content

The course highlights on Primary oil recovery phase, screening criteria, ways to improve recovery targets, life under secondary schemes, immiscible gas injection, gas flaring, waterflooding, design considerations, technical challenges, current and future R&D directions; facilities modifications and personnel training; forecasting behaviour under various IOR methods and reservoir performance analysis. Importance of IOR in field development studies, IOR project monitoring.

Objectives

To know the types, different methods and describe the general principle underlying enhanced oil recovery. To know and understand the screening guideline and the limitations of the methods of enhanced recovery methods. Discuss the feasibility of enhanced recovery methods through some case histories in the industry. 

Oil or gas wells produce a mixture of hydrocarbon gas, condensate, or oil; water with dissolved minerals, usually including a large amount of salt; other gases, including nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide (CO₂), and possibly hydrogen sulfide (H₂S); and solids, including sand from the reservoir, dirt, scale, and corrosion products from the tubing. For the hydrocarbons (gas or liquid) to be sold, they must be separated from the water and solids, measured, sold, and transported by pipeline, truck, rail, or ocean tanker to the user. Gas is usually restricted to pipeline transportation but can also be shipped in pressure vessels on ships, trucks, or railroad cars as compressed natural gas or converted to a liquid and sent as a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). The goal of a producer is to produce oil that meets the purchaser’s specifications that define the maximum allowable water, salt, or other impurities. Similarly, the gas must be processed to meet the purchaser’s water vapor and hydrocarbon dewpoint specifications to limit condensation during transportation. The produced water must meet regulatory requirements for disposal in the ocean if the wells are offshore, reservoir requirements for injection into an underground reservoir to avoid plugging the reservoir, and technical requirements for other uses, such as the feed to steam boilers in thermal-flood operations, or in special cases, for irrigation. This course looks at the equipment and processes involved in handling and transporting the processed fluid from one point to the other in a very safe manner. 

The oil and gas industry is a capital intensive and very high-risk prone industry. Therefore, before any project is implemented, a series of laboratory works are done to optimise the process of the project while minimising risk to the barest minimum. This course introduces student to laboratory experiments on reservoir rock and fluid properties, oil well cementing and drilling fluids.