PET E 375 Applied Reservoir Engineering (Undergraduate)
Reserves estimation. Analysis and prediction of reservoir performance by use of material balance. Primary recovery performance for water influx and solution gas drive reservoirs. Decline curve analysis. Basics of well test analysis. Pressure drawdown and buildup tests. Average reservoir pressure estimation. Drill stem testing and gas well testing. Prerequisite: PET E 295 or PET E 373. PET E 375 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained in PET E 475.
PET E 377 Modeling in Petroleum EngineeringÂ
Basics of numerical reservoir simulation and numerical solution of partial differential equations. Simulation methods as applied to specific problems in petroleum reservoir behavior. Applications on primary, secondary and tertiary recovery phases of petroleum production using commercial simulation packages. Prerequisites: PET E 295 or PET E 373, Corequisite: CH E 374. PET E 377 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained in PET E 477.
PET E 510 Applied Inverse Problem Analysis in Subsurface Engineering
Linear and non-linear inverse problem formulation. Local, global and ensemble-based optimization methods. Regularization techniques. Assessment of solution quality. Error and uncertainty analysis. Data integration. Subsurface engineering applications: model parameter estimation, production history matching, machine learning. Primary focus is on the application of various solution methods. Prerequisite: STAT 235 and CH E 374 or consent of instructor.
PET E 636 Computational Methods for Transport Phenomena in Porous Media
Single and multi-phase flow problems in porous media for compressible and incompressible flow. Multi-dimensional flow will be considered. Analytical, numerical and stochastic flow models will be developed for heterogeneous porous media. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Credit cannot be obtained for both PET E 635 and PET E 636.