7th Semester Scheme

Subject Code Subject L T P Credits

PET-401 Enhanced Oil recovery PC 3 0 0 3

PEP-402 Engineering Practices PC 0 2 0 0

PER-403 Project work PR 0 0 0 3

PEA-XXX Professional Elective PE 3 0 0 3

PEB-XXX Professional Elective PE 3 0 0 3

XXO-XXX Open Elective -1 OE 3 0 0 3

Total 12 2 0 15

PC= Professional Course

PR= Project Work
PE= Professional Elective
OE=Open Elective

Note1: Apart from one compulsory subject students have to elect two subjects as professional elective

Note2: students can opt to study any one subject of any engineering branch (as offered by the respective engineering branches) apart
from their parent engineering courses.

code List of Professional electives

404 Petroleum Refining and

Petrochemicals

405 Natural Gas and LNG

406 Reservoir Mathematical Modeling

L T P C
Subject Code: PET-401 Enhanced Oil recovery
3 1 0 3

Total Marks: 100 (Internal: 40; External: 60) Total contact hours: 50

Instructional Objectives

To enable the students to understand the basics of secondary and tertiary oil recovery methods in oil & gas Industry.
 Unit
Course Outcome
I  To be able to know the pattern of flooding within the pores of reservoir
 To be able to know the effectiveness of enhanced oil recovery methods
II  To be able to know the polymers used in industry for flooding
 To be able to know the effects of polymers used on the reservoir properties
III  To be able to know the methods of gas injection for oil recovery and pressure built up
 To be able to know the thermal recovery methods

Course Content

Unit- I
Introduction: Review of primary and secondary recovery, injection rate and pressures in secondary recovery.
Flood Patterns and Coverage: Basic flooding networks, off pattern wells, natural and induced fractures.
Microscopic displacement of fluids in a reservoir: Capillary forces, viscous forces, phase trapping, mobilization of trapped phases.
Macroscopic displacement of fluids in a reservoir: Areal sweep efficiency, vertical sweep efficiency, displacement efficiency,
mobility ratio, well spacing, Recovery efficiency, Permeability heterogeneity.

Unit- II
Gas Injection-Immiscible Displacement: Dispersed gas injection, external gas cap gas injection, foam drive process for oil recovery.
Chemical Flooding: Polymer flooding and mobility control processes, flow of polymers through porous media, polymer augmented
water flooding, in-situ permeability modification, foam as mobility controller

Unit- III
Miscible Displacement Processes: Mechanism of miscible displacement, phase behavior related to miscibility, fluid properties in
miscible displacement, design procedure and criteria, high pressure gas injection, enriched gas injection, LPG flooding, Carbon
dioxide flooding, alcohol flooding.

Thermal Recovery Processes: mechanism of thermal flooding, hot water flooding, cyclic steam injection, estimation of oil recovery
from steam drive, in-situ combustion, air requirement for in-situ combustion.
Microbial oil recovery

Recommended Books:
1. Von Pollen. H.K. and Associates. Inc., “Fundamentals of Enhanced oil Recovery” – Penn Well publishing co., Tulsa (1980)
2. Latil.M. et al., “Enhanced oil recovery” – Gulf publishing co. Houston (1980)
3. Standard Hand Book of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering” – 2nd Edition 2005-William C.Lyons& Gary J.Plisga-Gulf
professional publishing comp (Elsevier).
4. F. John Fayers “Developments in Petroleum Science, 13 enhanced oil recovery”- Elsevier Scientific publication
5. E.C Donaldson & George V. Chilingarian , “Enahnced Oil recover I, fundamentals and analysis”- Elsevier Scientific publication.
 L T P C
Subject Code: PEP-402 Subject Name: Engineering Practices
0 2 0 0

Total Marks: 100 (Internal: 40; External: 60) Total contact hours: 15

Instructional Objectives: The aim of the engineering practices is to recall the previously studied courses so that the students can
better remember the fundamentals of the subjects studied in previous semester.

L T P C
Subject Code: PER-403 Subject Name: Project Work
0 0 0 3

Total Marks: 100 (Internal: 40; External: 60) Total contact hours: 45

The project work may be carried out in a group of two students or even at an individual level. The students should work on some
problem related to Petroleum Industry. The project, which is related to curriculum, is selected either by the student and approved by
the faculty member, who will be the guide for the student, or on a topic assigned by the department. The project work may be carried
out as in house project or industry sponsored project. In case of industry sponsored projects, students shall select an internal guide and
shall regularly explain him/ her about progress report. The project work shall consist of some investigation work, computer simulation
design problem, and experimentation related to curriculum. No innovative idea is to be considered for the project. Students should
carry out extensive literature survey related to the topic in the initial stages and may be presented to the faculty assigned as Guide.
Every student shall be required to submit three bound copies of project report in a typed form in standard format. Every student shall
be orally examined based on report submitted and power point presentation.

Professional Elective L T P C
Subject Code: 404
(Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals) 3 0 0 3
Total Marks: 100 (Internal: 40; External: 60) Total contact hours: 40-45

Instructional Objectives
To understand principles of refining and natural gas processing and learn chemistry and manufacture of important petrochemicals.
To get acquainted with basic separation and conversion processes used in refining of crude oil. Getting familiar with challenges
involved in refining from viewpoint of environment and energy conservation.
UNIT Course Outcomes
 To understand the theory of oil formation and the series of processes to recover crude oil
I  To understand the different crude oil refining processes to get the petroleum products

 To understand the blending of different refinery products, of cracking and isomerization.

II
 To understand the various refining utilities used in these process
 To know Indian and Global crude oil scenario
III  To understand product handling and safety

Course Content
Unit-I
Refinery Overview: Overall refinery flow schemes, Refinery products and Specifications, Crude oil composition and properties,
Evaluation of crude oil.
Refinery products: specifications, properties, test methods, additives and their uses.

Unit-II
Petroleum Refining Process: Seperations, Conversions (Thermal, Catalytic, Hydro), Treating Processes and Utility Series.
Lube Based Stocks, Production Processes, Reproduction to Lubricants, Conventional and Modern Processes.
Petrochemical Feed Stocks: Aromatics, un-saturates and saturates (linear and cyclic).

Unit-III
st nd
Petrochemicals: 1 Generation (Olefins and Aromatics) and 2 Generation (Macromolecules)
Product Handling & Safety: Loss Prevention, underground storage, Product blending

Recommended Books:
1) Nelson N.L,‘Petroleum Refinery Engineering’ , McGraw Hill Book Co. (1985)
2) James H. Gary and Glenn E. Handework, ‘Petroleum Refining Technology and Economics’, Fourth Edition, Marcel Dekker, Inc.
(2001)
3) Waquier, J.P., ‘Petroleum Refining’ Vol .I and II, Second Edition, Technip(1995)
4) Mcketta S.S. , Ed., ‘Petroleum Processing Handbook’, Marcel Dekker, Inc.(1992)
5) B.K.BhaskaraRao, ‘Modern Petroleum Refining Processes’, Fifth Edition, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. (2007)

Instructions for the paper-setter

Please go through these instructions thoroughly and follow the same pattern while setting the paper as the students have been prepared
according to this format.
Maximum Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3 Hours
The syllabus has been divided into three units. The question paper should be divided into four sections – A, B, C and D. Section A
should contain only one question (of 10 marks), which will be compulsory for the students to attempt; it should be divided into five
parts (carrying 2 marks each), covering the whole syllabus. Section B should contain three questions (of 10 marks each), covering the
syllabus from Unit-I. The questions may be divided into two sub-parts (carrying 5 marks each). Similarly, Sections C and D should
cover the syllabus from units II and III respectively. Hence, the question paper will contain ten questions in total and the students will
have to attempt any five questions from sections B, C & D selecting at least one question from each section, and not more than two
from one section.

Professional Elective L T P C
Subject Code:405
(Natural Gas and LNG ) 3 0 0 3

Total Marks: 100 (Internal: 40; External: 60) Total contact hours: 50

Instructional Objectives

To understand the physical properties of natural gas, methods of production separation, processing and metering methods of natural
gas. Also to understand the methods of storage and transportation of natural gas by various means.

UNIT Course Outcomes

  Basic introduction to natural gas its properties
 To Know the thermodynamic principles of fuel combustion, be able to write combustion reactions of fuels
I
and calculate their calorific value, and their adiabatic flame temperature.

 To know about oil &gas exploration, extraction, processing, production, transport, storage and distribution.
II
 To know about Gas gathering system and crude tank farm.

III  To know about natural gas (NG) processing, liquefaction (LNG), storage, regasification.
 Distribution and use in the energy sector and the petrochemical industry.

Course Content
Unit-I
Introduction: Natural Gas and its utilization, Natural Gas Reserves and reservoir aspects, Future of the Natural Gas Industry in India.
Properties of Natural Gas: Physical properties of natural gas and hydrocarbon liquids associated with it.
Modes of transportation of natural gas

Unit-II
Gas Gathering, Transport and Storage: Field separation and oil absorption process, Dehydration of Natural Gas, Sweetening of
Natural gas and sulphur recovery. Gas Gathering System. Steady Flow in Simple Pipeline System, Steady State and non Steady State
Flow in Pipelines, Solution for Transient Flow.

Unit-III
LNG liquefaction, properties and characteristics, cryogenic transportation and regasification
Gas Compression: Types of Compressors, Selection, Thermodynamics of Compressors, Compression calculations. Heat and Mass
Transfer Principles and Applications in Natural Gas Engineering

Gas Flow Measurement: Process control and instrumentation in natural gas processing plants. Issue and challenges to Enhance
Supply of Natural Gas.

Recommended books:
1. Natural Gas Engineering Handbook, Dr. BoyunGuo and Dr. AIi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Copyright © 2005 by Gulf
Publishing Company, Houston, Texas.
2. Natural Gas Production Engineering, Chi U. Ikoku, The Pennsylvania State University, Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar,
Florida, 1992, Copyright © 1984 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
3. Gas Production Engineering, Kumar, S. (Sanjay), 1960, Contributions in Petroleum Geology &Engineering: V-4, Copyright © 1987
by Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas.
4. Gas Production Operations, H. Dale Beggs, OGCI Publications, Oil & Gas Consultants International Inc. Tulsa.

Instructions for the paper-setter

Please go through these instructions thoroughly and follow the same pattern while setting the paper as the students have been prepared
according to this format.
Maximum Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3 Hours
The syllabus has been divided into three units. The question paper should be divided into four sections – A, B, C and D. Section A
should contain only one question (of 10 marks), which will be compulsory for the students to attempt; it should be divided into five
parts (carrying 2 marks each), covering the whole syllabus. Section B should contain three questions (of 10 marks each), covering the
syllabus from Unit-I. The questions may be divided into two sub-parts (carrying 5 marks each). Similarly, Sections C and D should
cover the syllabus from units II and III respectively. Hence, the question paper will contain ten questions in total and the students will
have to attempt any five questions from sections B, C & D selecting at least one question from each section, and not more than two
from one section.
 L T P C
Subject Code: 406 Subject Name: Reservoir Mathematical Modeling
3 0 3

Total Marks: 100 (Internal: 40; External: 60) Total contact hours: 50

Marks
Internal (40) External (60)
Instructional Objectives
To provide proficient level understanding to the students about the Reservoir mathematical modeling and how this unique method
helps in exploring and producing of hydrocarbon.
Unit Course Outcomes

I  To be able to know about the basics of modeling and simulation

 To be able to know about the Grid system and flow equations
II  To be able to know simulation using different grid systems
 To be able to know the stability analysis and well representation in simulators
III  To be able to know simulation steps such as linearization, formulation, etc.
 To be able to know about the basics of multiphase flow equations in simulation and history matching

Course Content
Unit – I
Basic theory of Modeling and Simulation, Reservoir Modeling, Reservoir Simulation, Flow Geometries and Dimensions, Grid
Systems and Boundary Conditions, Block Ordering, Derivation of flow equations in 1-D, 2-D and 3-D systems
Unit – II
CVFD, Well posed problem, Simulation with Block Centered Grid, Simulation with Point Distributed Grid, Symmetry, Finite
Difference Approximation of Reservoir Equation, Stability Analysis, Well Representation in a Simulator
Unit – III
Single Phase Flow Equations for various Fluids, Linearization of flow equation, Solution of flow equations, Multiphase flow
equations Pseudo functions, Streamline Simulation, History Matching, Field Applications

Recommended Books:
1. TurgayErtekin, Jamal H. Abou-Kassem and Gregory R. King“Basic Applied Reservoir Simulation”, Henry L. Doherty Memorial
Fund of AIME, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, TX – 2001.
2. Jamal H. Abou-Kassem, S. M. Farouq Ali, M. RafiqIslamandbook of schlumberger, “Petroleum Reservoir Simulation – A Basic
Approach”, Gulf Publishing Company, TX – 2006.
3. Khalid Aziz and Antonin Settari, “Petroleum Reservoir Simulation”, Applied Science Publishers Ltd., England – 1979.
4. “Reservoir Simulation”, Heriot – Watt University.

Instructions for the paper-setter

Please go through these instructions thoroughly and follow the same pattern while setting the paper as the students have been prepared
according to this format.
Maximum Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3 Hours
The syllabus has been divided into three units. The question paper should be divided into four sections – A, B, C and D. Section A
should contain only one question (of 10 marks), which will be compulsory for the students to attempt; it should be divided into five
parts (carrying 2 marks each), covering the whole syllabus. Section B should contain three questions (of 10 marks each), covering the
syllabus from Unit-I. The questions may be divided into two sub-parts (carrying 5 marks each). Similarly, Sections C and D should
cover the syllabus from units II and III respectively. Hence, the question paper will contain ten questions in total and the students will
have to attempt any five questions from sections B, C & D selecting at least one question from each section, and not more than two
from one section.