Petroleum Engineering ENPE
Instruction offered by members of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in the Schulich School of Engineering.
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department Head - T. G. Harding
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department Head - R. Hugo
Associate Heads - A.A. Jeje, J. Azaiez
Senior Courses
Petroleum Engineering 313 H(3-1T-3/2)
Introduction to Flow in Porous Media
Fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media: pore structure; porosity and absolute permeability capillarity; Darcy's Law and single phase flow; immiscible and miscible fluid flow; wettability; multiphase flow and relative permeability. Concepts applied to hydrocarbon reservoirs and fluid migration in soils including: characterization of pore space, routine and advanced core analysis. Similarities and differences between hydrocarbon reservoirs and soils.
Corequisites: Chemical Engineering 331 or Mechanical Engineering 341 or equivalent.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering[ENPE313] and Petroleum Engineering[ENPE513] will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 423 H(3-2T-1)
Oil and Gas Engineering Process Development
Design of oil and gas processing units and plants; cost estimates and oil and gas process economics; optimization techniques; introduction to linear programming. Safety and environmental considerations in process design.
Prerequisites: Chemical Engineering 315.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 423 and Chemical Engineering 423 will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 429 H(3-1)
Reservoir Engineering
Description and estimation of rock and fluid properties; reserve estimation using volumetric and material balance methods in gas, gas-condensate and oil reservoirs; discussion of reservoir drive mechanisms; aquifer models; routing and special core analysis; PVT data and equation of state modeling; introduction to well testing, solution of radial diffusivity equation corresponding to infinite-acting and pseudo-steady state flow of slightly compressible fluids and real gases; introduction to reservoir modeling.
Prerequisites: Engineering 311, one of Petroleum Engineering 313, 513 or Geology 613 and Geology 377.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering[ENPE429] and 523 will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 505 H(3-1)
Oil and Gas Separation Processes
Oil and gas treating process equipment, design and operation. Two-phase and three-phase separators; heater treaters. Fluid gathering and distribution systems. Pumps and compressors. Flow measurement and production testing. Natural Gas dehydration and sweetening. Produced water treatment and disposal.
Prerequisites: Chemical Engineering[ENCH405] or consent of the Department.
Petroleum Engineering 507 H(3-1)
Well Logging and Formation Evaluation
Fundamentals of wireline well logging and the log interpretation techniques for oil and gas wells. Basic reservoir petrophysical parameters. Types of well logging devices; physics of operation and response characteristics of various well logging tools. Application of well logs for integrated petroleum reservoir management.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 429 or 523 or consent of the Department.
Petroleum Engineering 509 H(3-1)
Well Testing
Basic theory and current techniques for well testing. Drawdown and Build up. Single-rate and multi-rate. Derivative analysis. Fractured wells, fractured reservoirs and other flow models. Advanced decline curve analysis. Computer aided analysis and hands on experience in the computer laboratory.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 523.
Petroleum Engineering 511 H(3-4)
Design for Oil and Gas Engineering I
Team design project applying principles of project engineering and management to the recovery and processing of hydrocarbons. Petroleum design considerations will include; detailed reservoir characterization; well test analysis; recovery and production forecasting; preliminary drilling, completions and facilities design, and economic evaluation.
Prerequisites: Chemical Engineering 315, 405; Chemical Engineering 423 or Petroleum Engineering 423; Petroleum Engineering 429 or 523.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 511 and Chemical Engineering 511 will not be allowed.
Note: Approval of the course instructor is required for Petroleum Engineering Minor students to take Chemical Engineering 511 rather than Petroleum Engineering 511.
Petroleum Engineering 513 H(3-1T-3/2)
Flow in Porous Media
Fundamentals of fluid flow in porous media: pore structure; porosity and absolute permeability capillarity; Darcy's Law and single phase flow; immiscible and miscible fluid flow;wettability; multiphase flow and relative permeability. Concepts applied to hydrocarbon reservoirs and fluid migration in soils including; characterization of pore space, pore level modeling of porous media, routine and advanced core analysis. Similarities and differences between hydrocarbon reservoirs and soils.
Corequisites: Chemical Engineering 331 or Mechanical Engineering 341.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering[ENPE313] and 513 will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 515 H(3-1)
Drilling and Well Completions
An introduction to drilling; overview of petroleum engineering geology; basic rock properties. Fluid flow in porous media. Drilling rig types, components and selection; overview of drilling operatings; drilling fluids and mud systems; drilling hydraulics; casing design and casing seat selections; cementing; formation damage, well completions. Special topics including: directional drilling; blowout control; logging and coring; hole stability; planning and cost control. underbalanced drilling; coiled tubing drilling; offshore operations, environmental aspects.
Corequisites: Prerequisites or Corequisites: Engineering 311 or Energy and Environment 311 or consent of the Department.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering and 521 will not be allowed.
Note: Priority will be given to students in the BSc Oil & Gas Engineering Program and Chemical Engineering with Minor in Petroleum.
Petroleum Engineering 519 H(3-0)
Special Topics
Current advanced topics in Petroleum Engineering.
Prerequisites: Consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
Petroleum Engineering 521 H(3-1)
Introduction to Drilling Engineering
Introduction to the physics of flow in porous media; overview of drilling operations; equipment; relevant processes and procedures; basic completion operation; environmental aspect of drilling and completion operations.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 521 and 515 will not be allowed.
Note: Not available to students in Oil and Gas Engineering.
Petroleum Engineering 523 H(3-1)
Introduction to Reservoir Engineering
Description and estimation of rock and fluid properties; reserve estimation using volumetric and material balance methods in gas, gas-condensate and oil reservoirs; discussion of different reservoir drive mechanisms; aquifer models; Darcy's Law and single phase flow through porous media. ;introduction to well testing, solution of radial diffusivity equation corresponding to infinite-acting and pseudo-steady state flow of slightly compressible fluids and real gases
Prerequisites: Engineering 311 or Energy and Environment 311 and Chemical Engineering 331 or Mechanical Engineering 341.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering[ENPE429] and 523 will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 525 H(3-1)
Waterflooding and Enhanced Oil Recovery
Trapping and mobilization of residual oil; displacement theory; linear waterflood calculations; viscous fingering flood patterns and sweep efficiency considerations; characterization of reservoir heterogeneity; waterflood prediction models; designing a waterflood; monitoring and analysis of performance. Enhanced oil recovery: surfactant and polymer flooding, gas injection, miscible flooding, thermal recovery methods.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 523 or 429 or equivalent.
Petroleum Engineering 531 H(2-6)
Design for Oil and Gas Engineering II
Team Design Project continuing from Petroleum Engineering 511. Detailed design of large scale development and commercial exploitation of a petroleum resource. Topics considered will include: reservoir simulation; drilling and completion design; specification of petroleum processing equipment such as heaters, heat exchangers, contacting and separating equipment; safety and environmental issues; economic evaluation. .
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 511.
Petroleum Engineering 533 H(3-0)
Petroleum Production Engineering
Principles of oil and gas production mechanics. Analysis of fluid flow from the formation to the surface facility. Reservoir inflow performance. Wellbore hydraulics and multiphase flow. Nodal analysis for production optimization Acidizing and hydraulic fracturing. Water and gas coning. Diagnosis of production problems. Artificial lift; Sucker pumping; electrical submersible pumps; progressing cavity pumps; gas lift.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 523 or 429 or consent of the Department.
Petroleum Engineering 543 H(3-0)
Geological Characterization of Oil and Gas Reservoirs
Application of statistics and probability theory; review of petroleum reservoir geology, geological depositional environments, classification of reservoir heterogeneity; an overview of the reservoir modelling methodology. Data for reservoir modelling geostatistics for data integration; uncertainty in reservoir modelling; flow modelling and impact of reservoir heterogeneity.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 523, or 429 or consent of the department.
Petroleum Engineering 551 H(1-4)
Petroleum Engineering Laboratory
Experiments on Fluid Flow in Oil & Gas production. Measurements of porous rock and fluid properties, such as relative permeability, fluid dispersion, fluid phase behaviour and viscosity, unstable fluid displacement.
Prerequisites: Chemical Engineering 405, Petroleum Engineering 313 or 513 and 429 or 523.
Note: Credit for both Petroleum Engineering 551 and Chemical Engineering 551 will not be allowed.
Petroleum Engineering 555 H(3-1T)
Oil and Gas Field Safety and Environment
Review of safety issues, blow outs, fire and other hazards, hydrate formation and decomposition, H2S and other toxic gases, safety standards, impact of petroleum operations on the environment, handling and safe transportation and disposal of petroleum wastes.
Petroleum Engineering 561 H(3-3/2)
Fuel Science and Technology
Classification of fuels. Origin, geology, production and processing of fossil fuels. Supply, consumption and demand for fuels - historical patterns and future trends. Thermodynamics and reaction kinetics of combustion. Physical and chemical properties and influence on fuel utilization. Ecological, efficiency, safety, economic considerations. Non-conventional fuels. Transportation and handling.
Petroleum Engineering 563 H(3-0)
Materials Aspects of Oil and Gas Production
Material selection processes for the oil and gas industry covering piping, vessels and other components. Basics of corrosion, stress corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement. Corrosion prevention techniques for aqueous and gaseous corrosion. High temperature material behaviour and design procedures.
Petroleum Engineering 565 H(3-0)
Mechanics of Oil and Gas Production
Overview of drilling rigs and offshore structures. Structural design. Well drilling. Drill string design, casing design. Directional and horizontal wells. Well completion, tubing design. Artificial lift methods: sucker rod pumping system design, pumping units, fatigue loads and rod materials, wave equations, sucker rod optimization. Rotating pumps. Gas lift design. Container and pipeline design.
Prerequisites: Mechanical Engineering 479 and Petroleum Engineering 523 or 429.
Petroleum Engineering 571 H(3-0)
(formerly Petroleum Engineering 519.01)
Unconventional Oil Exploitation
Description and analysis of heavy oil geology and heavy oil recovery technologies. Discussion of heavy oil production mechanisms and methods, recovery process design, transportation, facilities, marketing, economics, and environmental issues.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 429 or 523, or consent of the Department.
Petroleum Engineering 573 H(3-0)
(formerly Petroleum Engineering 519.02)
Unconventional Gas Exploitation
Overview of unconventional gas resources (tight gas sands, coal bed methane, shale gas and natural gas hydrates). Geological aspects, reservoir characterization; drilling, completion and stimulation methods; appraisal and well testing; facilities and production, transportation and marketing; economics and cost drivers; environmental and regulatory issues.
Prerequisites: Petroleum Engineering 429 or 523, or consent of the Department.