Reservoir Engineering

Objectives

To impart a fundamental understanding on multi-phase fluid flow through a petroleum reservoir.

Syllabus

Introduction to reservoir engineering; petroleum reservoir system; petroleum reserves; reservoir

pressure and temperature; reservoir fluids composition; phase behavior of hydrocarbons;
properties of reservoir liquids; fundamental properties of reservoir rocks; reservoir drive
mechanisms; single and multi-phase fluid flow through porous media; material balance equation;
basic water-drive and immiscible displacement theories. Laboratory demonstration of porosity
and permeability measurements using Helium Porosimeter and Liquid Permeameter.

Text Books:

1. Lyons, W. C. (1996). Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering.

Gulf professional Publishing (6th Edition), 1076 pages.
2. Craft, B. C., M. Hawkins., and R. E. Terry. (1991). Applied Petroleum Reservoir
Engineering (2nd

Edition), Prentice Hall, 464 pages.

3. Lake, L. W. (1989). Enhanced Oil Recovery, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs.

4. Amyx, J. W., D. M. Bass., and R. L. Whiting. (1960). Petroleum Reservoir Engineering –
Physical Properties. McGraw-Hill Inc.
5. Marle, C. M. (1981). Multiphase Flow in Porous Media. Gulf Publishing Company.

Drilling Technology

Objectives

In a structured manner, this course introduces the science and technology that is needed to drill
wells at three levels (i.e. fundamental, application and advanced) of learning

Syllabus
Module 1: Introduction to drilling, fundamentals of rock mechanics, basics of onshore and
offshore platforms, description of equipment and procedures involved with drilling oil and gas
well.

Module 2: Introduction to science and technology related to the drill bits, lateral drilling, drilling
muds, solids control, cementing, casing, well bore stability, well control, measurement-while-
drilling techniques, logging-while-drilling techniques, stuck pipe, lost circulation, and well bore
hydraulics.

Module 3: Drilling engineering, design and development of drilling methods and drilling
technologies, drill-string mechanics, mechanized and automated drilling operations, drilling
problems and their solutions, coiled tubing drilling technology, casing drilling technology and
casing fatigue, expandable tubular and their applications, drilling HPHT wells, drilling fluids for
HPHT environment, non-conventional drilling methods, high performance drilling concepts,
wellbore construction and wellbore integrity, complete life cycle assessment of the drilling
process and platform, and ecology and environment impact assessment analysis.

Text books

[1] J. J. Azar and G. Robello Samuel (2007), Drilling Engineering, PennWell Corporation, USA.
[2] R. F. Mitchell and S. Z. Miska (2010), Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering, SPE Textbook
Series, SPE USA.

HSE Management in Petroleum & Offshore Engineering

Objectives

The course will give an overview of safety and environmental issues in the petroleum industry. It
will provide detailed understanding of the methods and techniques to resolve these key issues for
making petroleum production and processing, cleaner and safer.

Syllabus

Various environmental issues and management that arise from drilling and oil exploration- safety
assurance and assessment in design and operations- hazard classification and assessments-
accident modeling, risk assessment and management- applied examples and case studies on
Industrial and Process safety.

Text Books:

1. Jan Erik Vinnem. 2007. Offshore Risk Assessment: Principles, Modeling and
Applications of QRA studies. Springer, 577pp.
2. Patin Stanislav. 1999. Environmental Impact of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry. Eco
Monitor Publishing, USA, 425pp.
3. Ramamurthy, K. 2011. Explosions and explosion safety, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi,
INDIA, pp. 288.
4. Skelton, B. 1997. Process safety analysis, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, 210pp.
5. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran 2015. HSE in offshore and petroleum engineering, Lecture
notes of online web course, Mass Open-source Online Courses (MOOC), National
Program on Technology Enhancement and Learning (NPTEL), Govt. of India.
6. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran. 2016a. Offshore structural engineering: Reliability and Risk
Assessment. CRC Press, Florida, ISBN:978-14-987-6519-0
7. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran. 2016b. Health, Safety and Environmental Management in
Offshore and Petroleum Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 978-11-192-2184-5.
8. Terje Aven and Jan Erik Vinnem. 2007. Risk Management with applications from
Offshore Petroleum Industry. Springer, 200pp.
9. William J. Cairns (Ed), 1992. North Sea Oil and the Environment: Development Oil and
Gas Resources, Environmental Impacts and Responses, International Council of Oil and
the Environment.

Natural Gas Engineering

Objectives
The objective of this course to understand flow of natural gas in reservoirs and in wellbores and
gathering systems; deliverability testing; flow measurement and compressor sizing
Syllabus
Properties and Measurement of Natural Gas: Phase behavior fundamentals, qualitative and
quantitative phase behavior, vapor liquid equilibrium.

Equation of state, critical pressure and temperature determination. Gas compressibility, viscosity
and thermal conductivity, formation volume factor.
Gas flow measurement, and fundamentals, Gas Reservoir Performance, Steady State Flow of
Gas in Production Tubing, Temperatures profiling in flowing gas systems.

Natural gas processing, Gas Compression, Gas Gathering and Transport Installation, Operation
and trouble shooting of natural gas pipelines

Unconventional gas: Coal Bed Methane, Natural Gas Hydrate, Basin Centered Gas, Tight Gas
Sands, Shale Gas. Current Technology for Shale Gas and Tight Gas Exploration and Production.
LNG: Production and Utilization, Issue and Challenges to Enhance Supply of Natural Gas

Text Books:

1. Beggs, D, H, Gas Production Operations. Edition Technip. 1984.

2. Chaudhary, Amanat U, Gas well Testing Handbook, Elsevier, 2003.
3. Ikoku, Chi, “Natural Gas Production Engineering”, John Wiley and Sons, 1984.

Reference Books:

1. Lee, J, Wattenbarger, R. A., “Gas Reservoir Engineering”, Society of Petroleum Engineers,

TX, USA, 1996.
2. Mokhatab, S, Poe, W A and Speight, J G, Handbook of Natural Gas Transmission and
Processing, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2006.
3. Kumar Sanjay, “Gas Production Engineering”, Gulf Professional Publishing, TX, USA, 1987.

Fluid Mechanics
Basic concepts of fluid flow:-
(a) kinematics – methods of describing fluid motion ; classification
of flows; streamline, Streak-line and path-lines; stream function and velocity
potentials; flow nets; (b) Dynamics – dimensional concepts of system and control
volume; application of control Volume to continuity, energy and momentum;
Euler’s equation of motion along a stream line; Bernoulli’s equation; applications to
velocity and discharge measurements.
Incompressible viscous flow:-
Laminar flow between parallel plates, and pipes ; development of laminar and
turbulent flows In pipes; Reynold’s experiment; Darcy-Weisbach equation; Moody
diagram; Major and minor losses of flow in pipes; pipes in series and in parallel.
Boundary layer:-
Definition of boundary layers; displacement, momentum and energy thickness;
laminar and Turbulent boundary layers; momentum integral equation; separation of
boundary layer; drag and lift; lift characteristics of airfoils; induced drag; polar
diagram.
Flow through Pipes:-
Definition, laminar and turbulent flow explained through Reynold’s Experiment.
Reynolds Number., critical velocity and velocity distribution. Head Losses in pipe
lines due to friction, sudden expansion and sudden contraction entrance, exit,
obstruction and change of direction. Hydraulic gradient line and total energy line.