Petroleum Production Engineering I

By the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. explain the operations and equipment required for subsurface completion; 2. discuss pressure losses in subsurface completion equipment; 3. explicate inflow-outflow relationship and implications in the life of the well; 4. elucidate the basic concepts in artificial lifting (gaslift, pumping, et cetera) of oil; 5. discuss formation damage: sources, implications and remedies; and 6. determine the use of Nodal Analysis software.

Introduction to Petroleum Production Engineering: subsurface operations. Operational functions and output of subsurface production engineer. Well completion: tubing, types, tubing equipment, uses of tubing, calculations. use of wirelines. packers-types; uses. Multiple zone completion. Well heads - casing and tubing hangers. Christmas tree. Nodal analysis in flow and outflow performances: governing equations, inflow performance relationship (IPR), productivity index, formation damage, fines migration and skin effect, vertical lift well head equipment performance and pressure losses, choke performance. Problem wells analysis: sand, water, hydrate, scale, unstable flow, surge, waxy crude production, etc. Well surveillance. Well stimulation: Fracturing and acidizing. Introduction to artificial lift methods. Gas lift and pumping system. Computer Application for Nodal Analysis (Proper or alternative).