PETR 245-Petroleum Fluids

Spring 2013

Instructor: Hamid Rahnema, Assistant Professor

Phone: 575.835.5436
Office: MSEC 370
E-mail: hrahnema@nmt.edu
Lecture: MWF 10:00-10:50 - WEIR 102

Course Description

This course provides students with a fundamental background on the determination and
evaluation of petroleum fluid properties. It also provides mathematical tools for the analysis
and interpretation of fluid data. Incorporates design of PVT-related processes.

Text:

The Properties of Petroleum Fluids, 2nd Ed., McCain, 1990 PennWell.

Reference Materials:

Course materials are located at:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~petro/faculty/rahnema/Rahnema245.html

SPE papers, etc

Grading:

Homework ……………............................................................................................. 20 percent

Class Participation...................................................................................................... 5 percent
Class Exams (3)……….............................................................................................. 40 percent
Final Exam………………………….......................................................................... 30 percent
Total: 100 percent

Microsoft Excel
Most of the homework assignments and exercises will be done using Microsoft Excel.

Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday - 3:00 – 5:00 pm - MSEC 370

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Student Responsibilities

1. Class attendance. Students should attend all scheduled class meetings.

2. Being prepared for class. In-class quizzes will be given. Always bring your books, course
notes, and calculator to each class meeting.

3. Being prepared for exams. The instructor or TA may choose to review materials prior to
exams, but do not rely on this review as your only exam preparation. The best preparation for
exams is to stay current with the class, rework homework and reading assignments.

4. Showing respect and consideration to his classmates and the instructor. Do not talk
excessively with your neighbors during class. Do not take up class time for discussions with
the instructor that should be held outside of class. Students who disrupt the class will be
asked to leave.

Policies and Procedures:

Students are expected to attend class every session

The grade for a late assignment is zero. Homework will be considered late if it is not turned
in at the start of class on the due date. If a student comes to class after homework has been
turned in and after class has begun, the student's homework will be considered late and given
a grade of zero. Late or not, all assignments must be turned in. A course grade of Incomplete
will be given if any assignment is missing, and this grade will be changed only after all
required work has been submitted.

Each student should review the University Regulations concerning attendance, grades, and
academic dishonesty. In particular, anyone caught cheating on an examination or
collaborating on an assignment where collaboration is not specifically authorized by the
instructor will be removed from the class roster and given an F (failure grade) in the course.

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 Date Topic
January 16 W Course Introduction-Review the Syllabus
18 F Review of organic Chemistry
23 W Petroleum Chemistry
25 F Origin of Petroleum, Composition Measurement
28 M Petroleum Phase Behavior- pure Substance
30 W Petroleum Phase Behavior- Two Components
February 4 M Petroleum Phase Behavior- Multi-components Mixture
6 W The Five Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
8 F The Five Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
11 M Exercise
13 W Introduction to PVTi
15 F Quiz1
18 M Properties of Black Oils, Reservoir Fluid Studies
20 W Properties of gas Condensates, Reservoir Fluid Studies
22 F Properties of gas Condensates, Reservoir Fluid Studies
25 M Properties of Black Oil-definition
27 W Properties of Black Oil-definition

March 4 M Properties of Black Oil-Correlations

6 W Properties of Black Oil-Correlations
8 F Equation of State (EOS) - Ideal Gases
18 M Equation of State (EOS) Mixture of Ideal Gases
20 W Equation of State (EOS), Mixture Rules &BIC
22 F Exercise
25 M Quiz2
27 W Equation of State (EOS), Real gases

April 1 M Equation of State (EOS), Real gases

3 W Exercise
5 F Gas-Liquid Equilibria with EOS
8 M Gas-Liquid Equilibria with EOS
10 W Swelling Tests-Gas
12 F Properties of Volatile Oils, Reservoir Fluids Studies
15 M Swelling & MMP Tests
17 W Gas-Liquid Equilibria with K-Factors
19 F Quiz3
22 M Compositing Material Balance
24 W K-factors-Volotile Oil and gas Condensate
26 F Single Carbon Number Group Correlations
29 M Splitting carbon number Group Correlations
May 1 W Splitting (+ fractions)
3 F Grouping
6 M Exercise
Final Examination TBA

There will be additional Homework’s assignments, hand calculation, spread sheet calculation,
and paper reviews.

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ACADEMIC HONESTY
Academic honesty is highly valued Online just as it is at New Mexico Tech. A student must
always submit work that represents his or her original words or ideas. If any words or ideas
are used that do not represent the student's original words or ideas, the student must cite all
relevant sources. The student should also make clear the extent to which such sources were
used. Words or ideas that require citations include, but are not limited to, all hardcopy or
electronic publications, whether copyrighted or not, and all verbal or visual communication
when the content of such communication clearly originates from an identifiable source.
Within the Online environment, all submissions to any public meeting or private mailbox fall
within the scope of words and ideas that require citations if used by someone other than the
original author. Please note that you are responsible for the honesty of anything submitted
with your name on it.
Academic dishonesty in an Online learning environment could involve:
• Having a tutor or friend complete a portion of your assignments,
• Reusing assignments from other classes in this course,
• Having a reviewer make extensive revisions to an assignment,
• Copying work submitted by another student to a public class meeting,
• Using information from online information services without proper citation.
• Cutting and pasting a string of quotations together (even with proper citation)
instead of using your sources to support your own thinking.

ETHICS AND PLAGIARISM

Ethics are a code which guides conduct. A breach of ethics causes harm to someone.
Ethics are involved when people cheat on tests, fail to attribute information used in
term papers and theses or falsify research results--such cheating adversely affects
others. Sometimes it is difficult to see how unethical behavior might hurt others, but
being caught in unethical behavior will always hurt you.

The administration, faculty, and your fellow students at New Mexico Tech expect you
to act ethically. This includes not cheating, falsifying information, or plagiarizing,
actions which may cause your instructor or department to reduce your course grade or
to issue you a failing grade for the class, or to send you before the Disciplinary Board
for more severe treatment. Other non-ethical acts may also be cause for disciplinary
action: see the New Mexico Tech Student Handbook (available at the Student Services
Office) for more information and a more complete description.

You may not be familiar with the word "plagiarism." Plagiarism (from the Latin word
for "kidnapper") is the presentation of someone else's ideas or words as your own.
You plagiarize deliberately if you copy a sentence from a book and pass it off as your
writing, or if you summarize or paraphrase the ideas of someone else without
acknowledging your debt. You plagiarize accidentally if you carelessly forget

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quotation marks around the words of another writer or mistakenly omit a citation for
the ideas of another because you are unaware of the need to acknowledge the idea.
Whether deliberate or accidental, plagiarism is a serious and often legally punishable
offense. You do not plagiarize, however, when you draw on material from someone
else and acknowledge sources. That procedure is a crucial part of responsible
research.

There are several online sources that deal with plagiarism. One of the best at
covering the do's and don'ts of citations in an academic setting is at the University of
California, Davis. A more general discussion of plagiarism in the context of our laws
and society is available at: http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm. Here is a checklist for
avoiding plagiarism, from The Little Brown Handbook, 4th ed., 1988, pages 572-573.

1. What type of source are you using: your own independent material, common knowledge,
or someone else's independent material? You must acknowledge someone else's material.
2. If you are quoting someone else's material, is the quotation exact? Have you inserted
quotation marks around quotations run into text? Have you shown omissions with ellipses
and additions with brackets?
3. If you are paraphrasing or summarizing someone else's material, have you used your own
words and sentence structure? Does your paraphrase or summary employ quotation
marks when you resort to the author's exact language? Have you represented the author's
meaning without distortion?
4. Is each use of someone else's material acknowledged in your text? Are all your source
citations complete and accurate?
5. Does your list of works cited include all the sources you have drawn from in writing your
paper?

WHEN IN DOUBT, CITE YOUR REFERENCES:

(http://www.nmt.edu/~grad/studentinfo/Gradhb.html#ethics)