Advanced topics including analysis and optimization of rate of penetration, abnormal pressure detection, formation fracture resistance, well control, bottom hole assembly and drillstring design, and advanced drilling hydraulics. The composition, testing, and design of cement slurries and fracturing fluids. Inflow performance for oil and gas wells. Single and multiphase flow in vertical and horizontal pipes. Wellhead separator and fluid treatment systems.
Systems approach to well performance analysis.
Design of a flowing well using nodal analysis and production decline analysis. Introduction to artificial lift techniques. The design of artificial lift systems including sucker rod pumping, submersible pumps, and gas lift. The process approach to solving problems that involve equilibrium in binary and multicomponent mixtures. Advanced reservoir engineering principles and applications including material balances, decline curve analysis, unsteady flow in porous media, partial penetration, water influx, reservoir heterogeneity, fractional flow, and frontal advance.