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UNDERGRADUATE PETROLEUM ENGINEERING COURSES

COURSE	DESCRIPTION	PREREQUISITES
PETR 1111	Introduction to Hydrocarbon Resources Overview of petroleum industry and petroleum engineering including nature of oil and gas reservoirs, petroleum exploration and drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production, reservoir mechanics, and improved oil recovery.	MATH 1431
PETR 2311	Reservoir Petrophysics Systematic theoretical and laboratory study of lithology, porosity, effective permeability, relative permeability, fluid saturations, capillary characteristics, compressibility, rock stress and rock-fluid interactions.	MATH 1432 & PHYS 1322
PETR 3211	Petroleum Engineering Lab Determination of rock porosity, permeability, density, fluid saturation, capillary pressure, compressive and tensile strength, mechanical properties of rocks, etc.	MATH 2433, PHYS 1322, INDE 2333, PETR 1111, PETR 2311 Corequisites:PETR 3313,PETR 3315,& PETR 3321
PETR 3313	Reservoir Fluids Evaluation and correlation of physical properties of reservoir fluids. Course includes laboratory evaluation.	CHEM 1372, MATH 3321, MECE 2334, PHYS 1322 & PETR 2311 Corequisites: PETR 3211, PETR 3315 & PETR 3321
PETR 3315	Introduction to Well Logging Introduction to modern well logging methods, engineering, and core-log integration.	PHYS 1322, MATH 2433 & PETR 2311. Corequisites: PETR 3211, PETR 3313 & PETR 3321
PETR 3318	Well Drilling and Completion I Drilling systems, fluids, pressure loss calculations, well cementing, theoretical and laboratory prediction of flow rates and pressure drop through conduits, calculation of static and flowing bottomhole pressures, well deliverability, artificial life.	MATH 3321, MECE 2334, PETR 2311 & PETR 3315 Corequisite: CIVE 3334
PETR 3321	Petroleum Transient Testing Determination of reservoir permeability, pressure and structural features from analysis of transient pressure data.	PETR 2311, MECE 2334 & MATH 3321 Corequisites: PETR 3211, PETR 3313 & PETR 3315
PETR 3362	Reservoir Engineering I Rock and fluid properties, PVT behavior of crude oil and natural gas, fundamentals of fluid flow through porous media, reservoir energy.	PETR 1111, PETR 2311 & PHYS 1321
PETR 5300	Data Mining & Database Management Data mining goals, data quality, data preprocessing, OLAP, exploratory data analysis, classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, association rules, post processing, data mining case studies.	MATH 3321 & MECE 2334
PETR 5302	Reservoir Engineering II Capillary pressures, vertical distribution of gas, oil and water saturations, relative permeability and fractional flow relationships, Buckley-Leverett equation and liner displacement efficiency of gas and water drives, areal and vertical sweep.	PETR 3362, PETR 3313 & PETR 2311
PETR 5310	Petroleum Production Economics Estimation of initial reservoir contents, forecast production versus time, primary, secondary and tertiary methods, evaluation of costs and risks versus expected rewards, and various US and international contracting techniques.	PETR 3362, PETR 3313 & PETR 2311
PETR 5311	Creativity & Innovation Elements of creativity (intention, observation, imitation, improvisation, provocation, movement, judgment suspension, action, tenacity), vertical and lateral thinking processes, continuity analysis, search for alternatives, and TRIZ.	MATH 3321 & MECE 2334
PETR 5324	Theory of Reservoir Modeling Reservoir simulation methods, stream tube simulation, finite-difference, finite elements, and collocation methods, formulation of equations and resulting matrices, alternative solution mthods.	MATH 3321, MECE 2334 & PETR 3313
PETR 5325	Integrated Reservoir Characterization Focuses on modern reservoir characterization techniques including based and object-based geostatistical methods designed to capture the influence of geology on fluid flow storage.	PETR 2311, PETR 3313 & PETR 3315
PETR 5350	Natural Gas Engineering Comprehensive study of natural gas engineering. Supply of natural gas including exploration, production unconventional resources, transportation, processing, coversion and fuel cells.	PETR 3362 & PETR 3313
PETR 5372	Petroleum Production Operations I Subsurface production fundamentals for producing oil and gas wells with technical emphasis on reservoir inflow, multiphase outflow through the wellbore and surface piping to the separation facility, and gas lift/pumping artificial lift methods.	PETR 3318, PETR 2311, PETR 3313 & PETR 3315
PETR 5392	Project Management Effective management of projects based on best practices established by Project Management Institute Standards Committee.	Junior or higher class standing

ELECTIVES

CIVE 3331	Environmental Engineering (Prerequisites for PETR students: CHEM 1117, CHEM 1372, MECE 2334*)
INDE 3333	Engineering Economy I (Prerequisites: INDE 2333* or MECE 3360)
ECE 3336	Introduction to Circuits and Electronics (Prerequisites: MATH 2433* and PHYS 1322*)
MECE 2336	Mechanics I (Prerequisites: PHYS 1321* and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 2433*).
MECE 3360	Experimental Methods (Prerequisites: MECE 1331 (CHEE 1331), ECE 3336, ENGI 2304, MECE 2334* and MECE 2336)
CIVE 2330	Mechanics I (Statics) (Prerequisites: PHYS 1321* and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 1331 (CHEE 1331) and MATH 2433)
CIVE 2332	Mechanics of Deformable Solids (Prerequisites: CIVE 2330 and MATH 2433* and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MECT 3341)
MECT 3341	Computer Aided Drafting I (requires concurrent enrollment with CIVE 2332)
CIVE 3339	Geotechnical Engineering (Prerequisites: CIVE 2332 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321*)
CIVE 3337	Theory of Structures (Prerequisite: CIVE 2332)

* denotes courses required within the curriculum

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