Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering

Introduces engineering profession fundamentals and problem solving. Topics include description of engineering disciplines, functions of the engineer, professionalism, ethics and registration, problem solving and representation of technical information, estimation and approximations, and analysis and design.

This is a calculus-based physics course covering the fundamental principles of mechanics. It concentrates on the conservation of energy, the particle motion, the collisions, the rotation of solid bodies, simple machines and on the fluid mechanics. The focus lies on the resolution of one and twodimensional mechanical problems.

This course is intended to be taken with Physics 110. It primarily includes experiments on classical mechanics. Particular emphasis is placed on laboratory technique, data collection and analysis and on reporting.

This course covers techniques and applications of integration, transcendental functions, infinite sequences and series and parametric equations.

This course covers systems of linear equations, linear independence, linear transformations, inverse of a matrix, determinants, vector spaces, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalization.

This course covers first-order ODEs, higher-order ODEs, Laplace transforms, linear systems, nonlinear systems, numerical approximations, and modeling.

This second calculus-based physics course includes a detailed study of the fundamental principles of classical electricity and magnetism, as well as an introduction to electromagnetic waves. The course's focus targets the resolution of dc- and alternating circuits.

This course is intended to accompany Physics 220. It includes experiments on electricity, magnetism and RLC circuits. Particular emphasis is placed on three aspects of experimentation: laboratory technique, data analysis (including the treatment of statistical and systematic errors) and written communication of experimental procedures and results.

The course introduces principles of statistics and probability for undergraduate students in Engineering. The course covers the basic concepts of probability, discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, expected values, joint probability distributions, and independence. The course also covers statistical methods and topics including data summary and description techniques, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis.

Principles of economic analysis and methods in engineering including: time value of money, discounted cash flow techniques equivalence, economic measures of worth, single and multiple alternatives evaluation and selection, replacement decisions, cost estimation, equipment depreciation, the use of Minimum Attractive Rate of Return MARR and Benefit/cost analysis.

Supervised field experience of professional-level duties for 180 to 240 hours at an approved internship site under the guidance of a designated site supervisor in coordination with a faculty supervisor.

This course provides laboratory techniques to accompany General Chemistry I

This course covers external and internal forces in structures and/or machines, including conditions of equilibrium, systems of force, moments of inertia and friction. It also covers an introduction to Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Elasticity and Rock strength, Rock properties from logs, Stresses around wellbore and borehole failure criteria, Hydraulic Fracturing.

This course provides a foundation in Organic Chemistry and includes the theoretical and synthetic aspects of the chemistry of carbon compounds.

The course provides an overview and history of the petroleum industry and petroleum engineering, including nature of oil and gas reservoirs, petroleum exploration and drilling, formation evaluation, well completions and production, surface facilities, reservoir mechanics, and improved oil recovery. It introduces the importance of ethical, societal, and environmental considerations and current events on activities in the petroleum industry. It also introduces students to professional society and university resources that aid career development.

Properties of fluids, flow regimes, pressure and force calculations under hydrostatic conditions, manometers, buoyancy and stability of floating and submerged bodies, elementary fluid dynamics, conservation equations: mass, energy and momentum, continuity and Bernoulli equations, hydraulic gradient line and total energy line, linear and angular momentum equations.

Fundamental properties of reservoir rocks, namely porosity, compressibility, permeability, electric conductivity, fluid saturation, surface forces and capillary pressure, effective and relative permeability, and their applications in volumetric and flow calculations in petroleum reservoirs. Fundamental properties of reservoir fluids, namely oil, natural gas, and formation water. The course covers hydrocarbon phase behavior, equations of state, formation volume factors, gas solubility, types of vaporization, K values, and gas separation.

This course deals with the measurement of fundamental properties of reservoir rocks and fluids. Rock properties include porosity, irreducible water saturation, residual oil saturation, absolute permeability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability. Fluid properties include oil distillation, oil composition of one of oil fractions, oil density at room conditions and at high pressure and temperature conditions, oil viscosity at high pressure and temperature, surface and interfacial tensions, flash liberation process, estimation of bubble-point pressure at reservoir temperature, and oil-formation-volume factor and solution gas/oil ratio at pressures below the bubble-point pressure.

Co-requisite(s): CIEN 251
This course introduces basic drilling techniques and drilling fluid properties. Topics include rock characteristics, drilling fluids, mud weight calculations, components of rotary drilling rig, drilling hydraulics, drilling bits, factors affecting rate of penetration, cementing operations.

This course deals with lab measurements of cement and mud properties. Mud preparation, mud rheology, filtration, wall building and resistivity, mud weight control, drilling fluid contamination test, oil well cementing experiment.

This course deals with material balance (MB) techniques to estimate reserves. Topics include generalized MB equations, fluid drive mechanisms, selection of PVT data, water influx, flow through porous media, displacement of oil, fractional flow, and oil recovery by internal drive.

Logging is an essential operation to determine the key formation parameters, such as porosity, permeability, reservoir thickness, water saturation. All types of well logging techniques such as Logging while Drilling, Cased Hole Logging, and Production Logging are included. Logs are also run to gain information about well casing and cementing.

This course covers basic well performance calculations necessary for the design and analysis of naturally flowing and artificially lifted wells. Topics include Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR), Tubing Performance Relationship (TPR), Flowline Performance Relationship (FPR), Choke Performance Relationship (CPR), Gas-Lift, Electric Submersible Pumps (ESP), and production forecasting.

This course deals with additional topics in drilling engineering, namely casing design and landing, directional and horizontal drilling, drilling problems and fishing operations, well control problems and solutions.

This course introduces the properties of natural gas, covers flow of gas in reservoir, wellbore and surface pipelines. Based on such knowledge, students are able to run nodal analysis for gas production system design. This course also covers gas compression and gas operation issues.

Co-requisite(s): PENG 381
Oil distribution in the world and in the UAE: geology of reservoirs, which includes the formation of reservoir rocks, cap rocks, source rocks and the environments of depositions: petrophysical parameters of parameters of reservoir fluids: oil field waters, crude oil and natural gas; reservoir conditions: pressure, temperature and their effects on oil maturation, migration and accumulation: oil generation. Oil migration: types of oil traps: methods of exploration.

This course covers fundamental concepts of reservoir simulation to model single-phase flow in petroleum reservoirs. Topics include reservoir engineering concepts, mathematical concepts, derivation of reservoir flow equations, finite difference approximations, and their solutions, and applications to predict reservoir performance.

This course covers reservoir characterization by pressure test analysis. Topics include fluid flow equations in porous media under transient and pseudo-steady state flow conditions, pressure buildup and pressure drawdown tests, average reservoir pressure, type curve matching, well testing of heterogeneous reservoirs, pressure derivatives analysis technique, multiple well testing, and test design and instrumentation.

Topics include well completions, perforations, wellbore damage sources and detection, hydraulic fracturing, fracturing fluids, acid/rock interactions, and acid treatment of oil wells, design and evaluation of treatments, evaluation by nodal system analysis.

This is a senior level course on reservoir engineering series courses. The course covers the reservoir engineering aspects of water flooding. Topics include introduction to reservoir forces and concepts of surface and interfacial tension, wettability, capillary pressure, relative permeability; trapping and mobilization of residual oil; fluid distribution and frontal displacement theory, concept of mobility ratio, flood patterns and areal sweep efficiency considerations, pattern injection rates and pressures; characterization of reservoir heterogeneity; vertical and volumetric sweep efficiency, waterflood performance prediction models; waterflood pilot test; designing, monitoring and evaluating a waterflooding operation; water for water flooding, its sources and treatment.

Pre-requisite(s): None
This course deals with the design aspects of oil displacement by another fluid in rock samples. It builds on the experiences of students obtained in lab measurements of individual reservoir rock and fluid properties in PENG 321 to create an integrated lab measurement of all properties needed to analyze oil displacement by a displacing fluid. The displacing fluid can be chosen to study the relative permeability and displacement efficiency of water flooding, gas flooding, or any enhanced oil recovery fluids (acidic water, microbial water, polymer solution, or steam) using cores, fractured cores (sand packs and glass beads may be considered as alternatives) in one-dimensional geometry or packed layers in twodimensional geometry.

Applications of reservoir engineering techniques, reserve calculations, decline curve analysis, rate of return calculations to project design and evaluation.

A significant design effort in one area of petroleum operations. Design is based on fundamental understanding of petroleum and reservoir engineering concept and a critical review of literature of current state of knowledge for the subject under consideration. Projects may involve analysis and computer program development and/or usage combined with experimental work. Topics for projects may be developed with industry cooperation.

Continuation of phase (1).

This course covers chemical and thermal method of EOR. Specific topics include interfacial tension, entrapment and mobilization of oil in porous media, residual oil, miscibility, adsorption at solid/liquid interfaces, surfactants and micro-emulsions, miscible gas flooding, polymer flooding, thermal methods, and the effect of reservoir heterogeneity.

This is an elective and a senior level course on production engineering. The course deals with analysis and design of surface piping and storage facilities of crude oil and natural gas. Topics include fluid flow and pressure losses in pipes, pipeline design, selection and sizing liquid pumps and gas compressors, corrosion in pipes, other transportation methods, and storage of petroleum and its products.

This is an elective and a senior level course on production engineering. The course covers nature of fluids produced from oil and gas reservoirs, phase behavior of water/hydrocarbon systems, quantitative prediction of water content in light hydrocarbon systems, oil water separations, oil-water emulsions, treatment of oil field waters, oil and gas separations, flash calculations, separator sizing and design, heater-treater design, oil skimmers selection and design.

This course covers advanced topics in reservoir simulation. These include reservoir fluid flow equations in multiphase, multidimensional flow, up-scaling of rock properties, pseudo functions, vertical equilibrium, analysis of data for consistency, history matching, and applications to field cases.

Sources of hazard in chemical and petroleum industry, management of safety and loss prevention, safety programs and safety rules, typical and sources of pollutant in chemical and petroleum operations, environmental protection, rules and regulation.

A specific topic in Petroleum Engineering that is not covered in other program courses is presented in a course format.

Undergraduate research under the guidance of an engineering faculty member for juniors and seniors. Fixed credit hours; 3 credits are assigned, this is equivalent to a minimum of 9 hours of research time per week; a pass/fail grade is to be used. Student will be engaged in a creative research project at the discretion of the faculty member. The course is open to all engineering students.