COURSE NO.

PEC 13101

COURSE NAME
DRILLING FLUIDS AND
CEMENTS

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
A. Drilling Fluids:
1. Overview of Drilling Fluids: Clay chemistry and its
application to drilling fluids, Types of clays, hydration,
flocculation, aggregation and dispersion.
2. Classification, Types and applications of Drilling
Fluids: Water based, oil based, emulsion based,
polymer based, Surfactant based, Foam based and
Aerated drilling fluids.
3. Drilling Fluid Characteristics: Basic functions,
properties, maintenance and treatments of drilling
fluids.
4. Drilling fluid calculations.
5. Rotary Drilling Hydraulics : Rheology of drilling fluids,
Pressure loss calculations and Rig hydraulics.
6. Mud logging.
B. Cements:
1. Cementing, Cements & cement slurry: Objectives of
cementing, oil well cements, Classification of cement,
Slurry design, Slurry additives, Factors influencing
cement slurry design, Cementing equipments.
2. Cementing Methods: Primary cementing, Stage
cementing, Liner cementing, Plugging, Squeeze
Cementing techniques in practice. Deep well cementing,
Characteristics of good quality cementation.
3. Cementing calculations (Balanced Plug Method).
COURSE NO.
PEC 13102

COURSE NAME
DRILLING TECHNOLOGY

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Well Planning: Introduction to oil well drilling, Drilling
planning approaches.
2. Rotary Drilling Method: Rig parts, selection and general
layout.

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3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Drilling Operations & Practices: Hoisting, circulation,

Rotation, power plants and Power transmission, Rig wire
line system handling & storage.
Casing Design: Design of casing string, Liner design
and setting, Casing landing practices, Buckling criteria
and Calculation of well head loads. Casing while drilling.
Drill String: Parts function and design.
Drill Bits: Classification and design criteria of drag,
rotary, roller, diamond and PDC bits.
Coring: Different methods of core drilling.
Well Problems and Solutions: Fatigue failure, Pipe
sticking, Lost-circulation, Sloughing shale, Swabbing,
surge, gas cap drilling, Blow out and kick control.
PEC 14101

PETROLEUM PRODUCTION
OPERATION - I

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Well Equipment: Well Head Equipments, Christmas tree,
valves, hangers, flow control devices, packers, tubular and
flow lines.
2. Well Completion Design: Perforating Oil & Gas Wells Conventional and Unconventional techniques viz. through
tubing and tubing conveyed underbalanced perforating
techniques, type size and orientation of perforation holes.
Well activation, use of compressed air & liquid Nitrogen.
Down-hole equipment selection, servicing, installation &
testing, smart wells- intelligent completions.
3. Production System Analysis & Optimization: Self flow
wells - PI & IPR of self flowing and artificial lift wells,
production testing - back pressure test, flow after flow test
& isochronal test, surface layout, test design & analysis of
test data. Production characteristics of Horizontal and
multilateral wells - coning, IPR & skin factor. Multiphase
flow in tubing and flow-lines. Sizing, selection and
performance of Tubing, chokes and surface pipes.
Production Optimization Nodal System
analysis.
4. Well Production Problems and mitigation: Scale
formation, paraffin deposition, formation damage, water
production, gas production, sand deposition etc.

5. Designing Gravel Pack for Sand Control: Sand control

techniques, Formation Sand Size analysis, optimum
gravel - sand ratio, gravel pack thickness, gravel
selection, gravel packing fluid & gravel pack techniques.
6. Well Servicing & Workover: Workover system, workover
rigs and selection, rig less workover including Endless/
Coiled tubing unit, minor & major workover jobs-diagnosis
& remedial measures water shut off and gas shut offChemical treatment and conformance control. Workover &
completion fluids - types & selection, Formation damage,
Workover planning & economics, asphaltine wax.
7. Introduction to Artificial Lift Techniques.
8. Introduction to Shale Oil, Shale Gas and Oil Shale:
concept of exploration and production strategies.
COURSE NO.
PEC 14102

COURSE NAME
ELEMENTS OF RESERVOIR
ENGINEERING

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Introduction to reservoir engineering
2. Characteristics of crude oil and natural gas, classification
of crude and its physicochemical properties.
3. Reservoir Rock Properties : Porosity and permeability
determination, combination of permeability in parallel &
series beds, porosity permeability relationship, fluid
saturation determination and significance, effective and
relative permeability, wettability, capillary pressure
characteristics, measurements and uses. Coring and Core
Analysis
4. Reservoir Fluids: Phase behavior of hydrocarbon system,
ideal & non ideal system, equilibrium ratios, reservoir fluid
sampling, PVT properties determination, different
correlations and laboratory measurements, data reduction,
evaluation and application.
5. Flow of Fluids through Porous Media : Darcy's law,
single and multiphase flow, linear, radial & spherical flow,
steady state & unsteady state flow, GOR, WOR equations
6. Special type of flow: flow through fractures, Water and
gas coning.
7. Reservoir Pressure Measurements and Significance:
Techniques of pressure measurement.

8. Reservoir Drives : Reservoir drive mechanics and

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recovery factors

9. Reserve estimation: resource & reserve concept,

Different reserve estimation techniques: Volumetric, MBE,
decline curve analysis;, latest SPE/ WPC/ IS classification

COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE NO.
PEC 15101

COURSE NAME
Applied Petroleum Reservoir
Engineering and Management

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Introductory Lecture: Overview of reservoir engineering
and reservoir management
2. Introduction to oil & gas field development: Rational
development plan, Rate and order of drilling well, well
spacing & pattern, selection of development scheme,
economic aspect of development of oil and gas fields.
3. Generalized Oil & Gas MBE and its modification
4. Drive Mechanism and recovery factors; production
behaviour of oil & gas reservoirs
5. Water influx : steady and unsteady state models
6. Performance prediction of depletion drive, gas cap drive,
water drive and combination drive
7. Reservoir pressure maintenance techniques, their
advantages and limitations
8. Immiscible Displacement processes: Theory & practicesBuckley Leverette treatment of fractional flow and frontal
advance equations, water flood performance
9. Reservoir Management:
concepts, components and
applications
COURSE NO.
PEC 15102

COURSE NAME
PETROLEUM PRODUCTION
OPERATION - II

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT :
1. Gathering and collection of oil and gas: GGS, CTF and
GCS - layout, sequential treatment, and safety features on
installations.
2. Field Processing of Oil & Gas: Flash and stage
separation of oil & gas; oil & gas separators, mist extractor,
fluid level and pressure control system. Control valve
sizing, Vertical and horizontal separators, metering
separators. Working pressure and safety feature in oil &

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gas separators. Special problems in oil and gas

separation. Removal of suspended solid & water from oil &
gas. Scrubbers and wash tank. Demulsification and
desalting.
3. Storage of Petroleum and Petroleum Products:
Different types of storage system, Types & features of
storage tanks, fixed roof and floating roof tanks. Design of
storage tanks with introduction to API codes, Specification,
maintenance and operation of tank batteries, Vapour
control and gravity conservation measures. Vapour
recovery system. LPG & LNG storage.
4. Metering and Measurements: Metering of oil & gas,
Sampling and Testing of crude oil. Gauging equipment and
methods. Water and sediment determination. Orifice and
other metering devices and their characteristics.
5. Well Stimulation Techniques - Design & Selection: Type
& description, design of matrix acidization and acid
fracturing. Design of hydraulic fracturing (mini, massive &
high energy frac.). Wave technology & microbial
stimulation
PEC 15303

RESERVOIR FLUID
THERMODYNAMICS

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Work Calculations: Work calculation for compression/
expansion of ideal and non ideal gases, compression
cycles and horse power calculations - single, double and
multistage with and without clearance.
2. Thermodynamics of Gases and Liquid Hydrocarbons:
Free energy & work function, Mollier diagrams, perfect &
imperfect gaseous mixtures, Equation of state, Law of

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corresponding states, Joule Thompson effect, Arrhineous

equation and activation energy. Fugacity and fugacity
coefficient of gases and gaseous mixtures, Lewis fugacity
rules and Third law of thermodynamics.
3. Solution Thermodynamics: Vapour liquid equilibria,
equilibrium constant, partial molar properties, chemical
potential, Raoult's law and Henry's law, ideal and non ideal
solutions, Activity and activity coefficients, Gibb's Duhem
equation, Gibb's adsorption equation.
4. Phase Rule: Phase rule of single, two, three, multi
component and multi phase systems, phase behaviour in
different conditions, Thermodynamic aspects of phase
equilibria. Calculation of phase equilibria. Ternary and
pseudo ternary phase diagrams
5. Fluid Flow Thermodynamics: Single phase flow &
multiphase flow through vertical, incline and horizontal
conduits. Pressure traverse curves and their applications.
Venturi flow, nozzle flow, pipe internal flow, annular flow
and nozzle flow thermodynamics of multiphase &
multicomponent system.

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Directional Drilling: Objectives, Types of deflection tools,
tool orientation, Directional well profiles, Well path
deflection & correction.
2. Down Hole Motors: Positive displacement motors and
Turbo-drills - motor description, Power calculation and
applications. Auto-track and verti-track system. Rotary
Steerable motors, Geo-steering tools.
3. Horizontal Well Drilling: Horizontal well objectives and
selection, Different profiles, Drilling techniques, Mud
requirements & characteristics, casing and drill string
requirements and completion programs.

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4. Slant Hole Drilling: Objectives and selections, Well

profiles and applications.
5. Down the Hole Well Surveying: Well surveying
objectives, surveying methods, Surveying Analysis
methods and calculations for well coordinates.
6. Measurements While Drilling: Objectives of MWD/ LWD,
SWD, MWD tools, Telemetry system and data
interpretation.
7. Directional drilling problems and their remedies.
8. Special Methods of Drilling : Aerated drilling, Underbalanced drilling, Overbalanced drilling, HPHT Drilling,
Variable pressure regime, Plasma drilling, Electrical
Drilling, Top drive drilling, Re-entry drilling, Jet Drilling,
Extended reach drilling, Multilateral drilling, Slim hole
drilling, coil tubing drilling, Geo-steering & Drilling
automation.
9. Drilling Economics.
10.Computer Application in Drilling
COURSE NO.
PEC 16102

COURSE NAME
PETROLEUM FORMATION
EVALUATION

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Petrophysical measurements to sub-surface engineering.
2. Indirect Methods: SP and resistivity logs, radioactive
logs, acoustic logs (principles, types of tools, limitation and
applications). Evaluation of CBL/ VDL, USIT, SFT, RFT.
3. Production Logging: Introduction, type of tools,
principles, limitations and applications.
4. Special Type of Logging Tools: Casing inspection tools
(principles, application and limitation), Formation micro
scanner (FMS), NMR logging principles. Logging in highangle wells.
5. Log Interpretation and Analysis Techniques.
a) Standard log interpretation methods.
b) Cross-plotting methods: neutron-density, sonic-density and
sonic-neutron etc.
c) Clean sand interpretation
d) Concepts of invasion RXO, Tornado charts.
e) Shaly sand interpretation.

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COURSE NO.
PEC 16103

COURSE NAME
NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Introduction: Composition of Natural Gas, Utilization of
Natural Gas, Natural Gas Industry, Natural Gas
Reserves, Types of Natural Gas Resources, Future of
the Natural Gas Industry.
2. Properties of Natural Gas: Physical properties of
natural gas and hydrocarbon liquids associated with
natural gas. Reservoir aspects of natural gas.
3. Gas Compression: Types of Compressors, Selection,
Thermodynamics
of
Compressors,
Compression
calculations. Heat and Mass Transfer Principles and
Applications in Natural Gas Engineering, Use of Mollier
Diagrams.
4. Gas Flow Measurement: Process control and
instrumentation in natural gas processing plants.
5. Natural Gas Processing: Field separation and oil
absorption process, Refrigeration and low temperature
processing, Liquefaction Process, Dehydration of Natural
Gas, Sweetening of Natural gas and sulphur recovery.
Processing for LPG, CNG, system, Conversion of gas to
liquid.
6. Gas Gathering, Transport and Storage: Gas Gathering
System. Steady Flow in Simple Pipeline System, Steady
State and non Steady State Flow in Pipelines, Solution
for Transient Flow.
Transmission of Natural Gas,
Specifications. Underground Storage and Conservation
of Natural Gas.
7. 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.
8. LNG: Production and Utilization
9. Issue and Challenges to Enhance Supply of Natural Gas.

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COURSE NO.
PEC 17101

COURSE NAME
OIL & GAS WELL TESTING

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT
1. Principles of Fluid Flow for steady state, semi steady state
& non steady state conditions.
2. Diffusivity Equation Derivation & Solutions, Radius of
investigation, principle of superposition, Horners
approximation.
3. Drill Stem Testing: Equipment, DST chart observation
and preliminary interpretation. Well preparation for testing,
Multiple well testing. Effect of reservoir heterogeneities &
Well bore conditions, fractured reservoir application.
4. Pressure Transient Tests: Drawdown and buildup-test
analysis, determination of permeability and skin factor,
Analysis of pressure-buildup tests distorted by phase
redistribution, Well-test interpretation in hydraulically
fractured wells, Interpretation of well-test data in naturally
fractured reservoirs, Wellbore effects, Multilayer reservoirs,
Injection well testing, Multiple well testing, Wireline
formation testing. Wireline while drilling formation testing .
Interference testing, Pulse testing,
5. Well-test analysis by use of type curves: Fundamentals
of type curves, Rameys type curve, McKinleys and
Gringarten et al type curves.
6. Gas well testing: Basic theory of gas flow in reservoir,
Flow-after-flow test, Isochronal test, etc.
7. Applications of well testing: Well testing in horizontal
wells, Extended Reach wells & multi-laterals wells, tests
with and without flow measurement.
8. Computeraided well test analysis: Derivative plot,
diagonostic plot evaluation, data preparation, nonlinear
regression, Introduction to well testing softwares.

COURSE NO.
PEC 17102

COURSE NAME
OFFSHORE DRILLING AND

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L T P
3 1 0

PETROLEUM PRODUCTION
PRACTICES
COURSE CONTENT:
1. Introduction to offshore oil and gas operations.
2. Sea States and Weather: Meteorology, oceanography,
ice, sea bed soil.
3. Buoyancy and stability.
4. Offshore Fixed Platforms: Types, description and
operations.
5. Offshore Mobile Units: Types, description and
installation. Station keeping methods like conventional
mooring & dynamic positioning system.
6. Offshore Drilling: Difference in drilling from land, from
fixed platform, jackup, ships and semi submersibles. Use
of conductors and risers. Deep sea drilling.
7. Offshore Well Completion - Platforms and subsea
completions, Deep water applications of subsea
technology.
8. Offshore Production: Oil processing platforms, gas
processing platforms, water injection platforms, storage,
SPM and SBM, transportation and utilities.
9. Deep water technology: Introduction, definition &
prospects. Deep water regions, Deep water drilling rig
selection and deployment, Deep water production system,
Emerging deep water technologies special equipment
and systems, Remote operation vessels (ROV).
10. Divers and Safety: Principles of diving use of
decompression chambers, life boats.
11. Offshore Environmental Pollution and Remedial Measures.
COURSE NO.
GPD 17163

COURSE NAME
PETROLEUM EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICAL METHODS
(SECTION - A)

L T P
2 0 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Magnetic Method: The geomagnetic field, Magnetic
anomalies. Magnetic survey instrument, Field method of
magnetic surveys. Reduction of magnetic data, diurnal
and geomagnetic correction. Interpretation of magnetic
anomalies. Magnetic response of simple geometric
shapes. Application of magnetic survey.

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2.

3.

4.

Gravity Method: Units of gravity, gravity measuring

instruments, gravity survey, gravity anomalies, Gravity
data reduction, Drift, Latitude, Elevation, and Free-air
correction. Free-air and Bouguer anomalies. Gravity
response of simple geometric shapes. Interpretation of
gravity anomalies and application of gravity methods.
Seismic Methods: Geometry of refracted ray path,
planar interface. Two layer case with horizontal interface.
Methodology of refraction profiling. Field surveys
arrangements. Recording instruments and
energy
source. Corrections applied to refraction data.
Interpretation of refraction data. Application of seismic
refraction method, Passive seismic
Geometry of reflected ray path, planar interface, single
horizontal reflector. Importance of seismic reflection
survey over seismic refraction survey technique.
Common depth point (CDP) profiling and stacking. 2-D
data processing and interpretation of reflection data.
Introduction to 3-D data acquisition, processing and
interpretation. Applications of seismic method in oil
exploration, Concept of 4-D seismic and its application.

COURSE NO.
GLD 17154

COURSE NAME
PETROLEUM EXPLORATION GEOLOGICAL METHODS
(SECTION - B)

L T P
2 0 0

COURSE CONTENT:
Surface indications of subsurface oil and gas accumulations.
Oil accumulation parameters. Regional structural plan and
local structures. Time of accumulation vis-avis time of oil
generation. Geochemical methods of prospecting: Soil
geochemical surveys; Source rock characterization and
Hydro-geochemistry as a tool for oil exploration. Development
Geology. Theoretical principles of prognostication of
hydrocarbon reserve. Role of plane tectonics in Hydrocarbon
accumulation onshore and offshore. Sequence of geological
methods of oil exploration.
COURSE NO.
MSC 17152

COURSE NAME
INDUSTRIAL ENGG. AND

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L T P
3 0 0

COURSE NO.
PEC 17301

COURSE NAME
HEALTH,SAFETY &
ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT
IN PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
(Sessional Theory Paper)

L T P
3 0 0

COURSE CONTENT:
Health Hazards in Petroleum Production Refining and
Utilization:
1. Toxicity, Physiological, Asphyxiation, respiratory and skin
effect of Petroleum Hydrocarbons (including mixtures),
sour gases (eg Hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide
etc) with their thresh-hold limits.
2. Effect of corrosive atmosphere and additives during
acidizing, sand control and fracturing jobs etc.
Safety System:
1. Hazards analysis, developing a safe process, failure mode
analysis, safety analysis (API-14C) safety analysis
function evaluation chart (synergic approach).
2. Manual & automatic shut down system, blow down
systems.
3. Gas detection system
4. Fire detection and suppression systems.
5. Personal protection systems & measures.
6. HSE Policies, standards & specifications
7. Disaster & crisis management.
Environment:
1. Environment concepts, impact on eco-system, air, water
and soil.
2. The impact of drilling & production operations on
environment, Environmental transport of petroleum
wastes.
3. Offshore environmental studies, offshore oil spill and oil
spill control.
4. Oil mines regulations and other environmental legislations.
5. Environmental impact assessment.
6. Waste treatment methods, waste disposal method,
remediation of contaminated sites.
7. Air & noise pollution
COURSE CONTENT:
1.

Introduction: Objectives of well tests, Reservoir models,

Plotting methods

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2.

Fundamentals of Flow in Porous Media: Material balance

concepts (constant compressibility and dry gas systems),
Steady-state and pseudo-steady state flow concepts,
Inflow Performance Relations (IPRs) for Gas-Oil and GasCondensate Reservoir Systems, Development of the
diffusivity equation: Liquid and gas systems.

3.

Solutions/Models for Well Test Analysis: Steady-state,

pseudo steady-state, and transient radial flow,
Dimensionless variables radial flow diffusivity equation,
Solutions of the diffusivity equation (various cases concept of "type curves"), Variable-rate convolution:
general and single-rate drawdown cases, Wellbore
Phenomena

4.

Well Test Analysis: Variable-rate convolution: Single-rate

pressure build-up case, Conventional analysis of pressure
drawdown/buildup test data

5.

Analysis of gas well tests, Un-fractured and fractured

wells, and dual porosity reservoirs, Design of well tests,
Software for the analysis of well test data

6.

Analysis and Modeling of Production Data: Production

analysis: Introduction, empirical analysis/forecasting, and
deliverability testing,
Decline type curve analysis,
Software for the analysis of production data

COURSE NO.
PEE 17104

COURSE NAME
OIL SHALE AND SHALE GAS

L T P
3 0 0

COURSE CONTENT:
OIL SHALE:
1. Nature, origin and distribution of oil shale.
2. Petrology and geochemistry of oil shale.
3. Oil shale retorting and extraction process.
4. Characterization of oil shale.
5. Supercritical extraction oil from shale.
6. Mathematical modeling of oil shale pyrolysis.
7. Economic factor of shale oil production.
SHALE GAS:
1. History of shale gas production.
2. Extraction methods: development of current practices.
3. Location an dsize of production areas: estimated
reserves and economics.

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COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE NO.
PEC 18101

COURSE NAME
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
DESIGN

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT :
Development of Oil & Gas Fields: Selection of development
scheme, economic aspect of development of oil and gas
fields. Production variants, performance prediction, Recovery
factor, Stages of preparation of development plans.
Computation of economic indices viz. Capital investment,
payout period, IRR, Profile, Economic life etc. Analysis of
different variants based on technical and economic
considerations. Economic development of Marginal fields.
Design Oil and gas separation system: Design of two
phase and three phase separators and Heater treaters, Oil &
Gas collection and handling
Artificial Lift Technology:
Basic principles and descriptions: Gas-lift - continuous and
intermittent, chamber lift, plunger lift/sucker rod pumping,
hydraulic pumping - piston & jet type.
Design of Continuous gas lift system (pressure operated
valves) - graphical and analytical methods.
Design of Intermittent gas lift system; single point injection
standard tubing installation (Pressure operated valves) graphical and analytical methods.
Design of Sucker rod pumping system,
Characteristics and Selection of electric submersible
pumping systems
COURSE NO.
PEC 18102

COURSE NAME
ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY
TECHNIQUES

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Introduction: Historical background and review of primary
and secondary recovery, injection rate and pressures in
secondary recovery.
2. Flood Patterns and Coverage: Basic flooding networks,
directional permeabilities, off pattern wells, natural and
induced fractures.

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3. Microscopic displacement of fluids in a reservoir:

Capillary forces, viscus forces, phase trapping,
mobilization of trapped phases.
4. Macroscopic displacement of fluids in a reservoir: Areal
sweep efficiency, vertical sweep efficiency, displacement
efficiency, mobility ratio, well spacing.
5. Flow of immiscible fluids through porous media.
continuity equation, equation of motion, solution methods
Water flooding, Fractional flow equation, Frontal advance
theory. Recovery efficiency, permeability heterogeneity.
6. Water flooding performance calculations: Frontal
advance method, viscous fingering method, Stiles
method, Dykstra-Parsons Method, Water for water
flooding.
7. Gas Injection-Immiscible Displacement: Dispersed gas
injection, external gas cap gas injection, foam drive
process for oil recovery.
8. 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, WAG process;
Miceller/polymer
flooding,
phase
behavior
of
microemulsions, phase behavior and IFT, wettability
alterations, Alkali flooding.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Microbial oil recovery
12. Surface facilities for EOR processes: Treatment of water
for reservoir compatibility. Design consideration for water
handling and injection system. Pumps types & sizing,
Infectivity problems. Gas compression for injection, gas
compressors. Design consideration for gas collection and
distribution system for injection.
13. EOR Project Evaluation.

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COURSE NO.
PEE 18101

COURSE NAME
OIL AND GAS PROCESSING
SYSTEM DESIGN

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Oil desalting: Operation, variables, Heater treater
design.
2. Natural Gas Dehydration: (a) Glycol Process:
operation, effect of variables, dew point depression,
stage calculation.
3. NTU - graphical and analytical methods, Absorber sizing.
Lean oil absorption. (b) Solid-bed process: design &
operation, effect of process variables, Regeneration and
cooling calculations. Hydrocarbon recovery. (c) Hydrate
formation & inhibition.
4. Natural Gas Sweetening: Acid gases, Toxicity, Pipeline
specification. Solid-bed Process : Design, operation &
effect of variables. Adsorbent selection. Multistage
Separation, Hengsteback's Flash calculation, stabilizer
design. Amine and other absorptive process details.
5. Crude & Condensate Stabilization: LTX Stabilization.
6. Oil & Gas Treatment : Oil desalter, emulsion treatment
theory and practice, Emulsifiers & Demulsifiers, Gravity
Separation, coalescence, coalescing media, electrostatic
coalescers.
7. Treating Equipment: Vertical, horizontal, Electrostatic,
Process heat duty, Sensible heat of natural gas, Water,
Heat transfer from fire-tube. Heat exchangers- types,
fluid placement, sizing, number of tubes.
COURSE NO.
PEE18102

COURSE NAME
COAL BED METHANE AND
GAS HYDRATES

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
COAL BED METHANE:
Present status of coal bed methane. Formation and properties
of coal bed methane. Thermodynamics of coal bed methane.
Exploration & Evaluation of CBM. Drilling, completion and
logging of coal bed methane wells. Hydro-fracturing of coal
seam, Activation of well. Production installation and surface

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facilities. Well operation and production equipment. Treating

and disposing produced water. Testing of coal bed methane
wells.
NATURAL
GAS
HYDRATES:
Introduction & present status of gas hydrates. Formation and
properties of gas hydrates. Thermodynamics of gas hydrates.
Exploration & evaluation of gas hydrates. Phase behavior of
gas hydrates. Kinetics of gas hydrates. Drilling and
completion of gas hydrate wells. Prevention & control of gas
hydrates. Gas hydrates accumulation in porous medium. Gas
extraction from gas hydrates. Uses and application of gas
hydrates.
COURSE NO.
PEE 18103

COURSE NAME
ADVANCED OFFSHORE
ENGINEERING

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Introduction: Deviations from Onshore drilling, Challenges
, Rig types:Jack-up, Semi-sub, Floaters
2. Deepwater Drilling: Introduction - History & Geology,
Floating Drilling Rigs and chronological Advancements,
Basic Floating Rig equipment, Rig Automation
3. Dynamic Positioning: Types and Basic operations of a DP
system, Major components of the DP system , DP rig vs
moored rig , Types of thrusters used by DP vessels, Basic
layout of a power distribution system onboard a DP vessel
and associated protection systems, Power management
system. Watch Circles - Drive-off ; Drift-Off.
4. Open Water Operations: Remotely operated vehicles:
Wellhead components for open water operations,
Guidance systems; Guideline system; Guideline less
system; Mudmat, connector selection, Jetting structural
casing versus cementing in a drilled hole , Operational
Procedures, Special considerations , high currents,
shallow water , flows, drill with mud pump and dump
concept , Special cementing operations.
5. Riser Systems: Riser system Components, Buoyancy,
Riser Tensioners & Tensioning Criteria, Basic Riser
Analysis, Riser Operations, Emergency Disconnect, High
Current Operations.

6.

Subsea Wellheads: Overview of Wellhead Components,

Tool Description, Wellhead sizing.
7. BOP System: Wellhead & LMRP Connectors, RAM
preventers, Annular Preventers, Choke & Kill line valves,
LMRP, Landing & latching the BOP, Control System,
Back-up system, BOP Stack Testing, Diverter System.
8. Deepwater Casing & Cementation: Review of conductor
and surface casing design, Casing design process flow,
Casing seat Selection, Kick Tolerance, Burst, Collapse,
Tensile and bucking criteria & Calculations, Software
assisted Casing Design, Casing running, Casing
connections, Cementing Procedures , Casing and liner
cementing; squeeze cementing, Cementation Hardware.
9. Well Abandonment ; Abandonment Guidelines &
Regulations: Plug placement; balance plug calculations;
inflow test, Barrier placement.
PEE 18105

DEEP SEA PRODUCTION

COURSE CONTENT:
1.
2.
3.
4.

5.
6.
7.

Concept of deep sea development: Direct tie back and

FPSO based development.
Hydrate, Wax, Scale and Asphaltene equilibrium curves
and the effect of low temperature. Analysis of well bore
and pipeline heat transfer processes.
Concept of cool down time and its application for the
development concept.
Basic multiphase flow concepts, Flow patterns, hold up
and pressure drop in multiphase flow lines. Slugging
phenomena Concepts of transient vs hydrodynamic
slugging .Design of the receiving facility- Slug catcher vis
a vis Separators.
Outlines of thermodynamic inhibitors (MEG and
Methanol) and basic calculation methods for hydrate
formation prevention.
Introduction to LDHIs and their chemistry for hydrate
prevention.
Field techniques used for the dissociation of the hydrate
plugs in pipelines.

Section-B
Fundaments of fluid flow through pipes-Calculation of
pressure drop for Newtonian & non-Newtonian fluids,
incompressible & compressible fluids and two-phase
flow, Calculation of Economic pipe diameter, insulation
thickness, equivalent length, Slurry transport and
pipelines Engineering flow diagram, nomenclature and
equipment elevation.
2. Piping layout, line pressure drop, piping analysis, stress
analysis of curved pipelines, yard piping, Piping codes,
standards and specifications-ASME, ASTM, API Piping
components-pipes, pipe ends, pipe fittings, end fittings,
flanged joints, valves, valve codes and standards, valve
classification, valve components, bolts, gaskets
(fasteners and sealing elements)Piping materialsselection, cost and installation Design of heat exchanger
piping, Thermosyphonre boiler piping, Pressure relief
piping Steam tracing design, Thermowell design,
Expansion loops and expansion joints Design of pipeline
network-Pinch
analysis
Pipeline
operation
and
maintenance-friction reduction, cleaning, coating, wear,
leak detection, water hammer.
1.

PEC 52101

WELL INTERVENTION &

COURSE CONTENT :
1. Work-over operations. Work over fluids. Scraping, well
circulation, Water and gas Shut-off, Squeeze cementing.
Handling water and gas coning.
2. Production packers, Packers calculation, Well activation.
Repair of wells, Paraffin and scale removal. Planning and
evaluation of workover jobs. Corrosion, Bacteria & Scale
control.
3. Well treatment; acidizing
oil & gas wells. Hydroperforation. Hydraulic fracturing. Stimulation designing,
Proppants and their placement. Thermal stimulation
techniques. Down-hole heaters. Horizontal well related
development on the subject.
4. Sand-control, Screens, Gravel packs.

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COURSE NO.
PEC 18301

COURSE NAME
PETROLEUM RESERVOIR
MODELING AND SIMULATION
(Sessional theory paper)

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Introduction & Overview: Organization, Design, Testing,
Forecasting, Special processes, Economics, Credibility,
decision making, Performance Monitoring, beneficial
application, Planning a simulation study, Study
Approach, Model design, Programming, History
Matching, Predicting & Analyzing results, reporting.
2. Modeling Concepts: The concept of Gridblocks &
Timesteps, Representation of wells, Mobility Weighting,
Numerical Dispersion, Grid Orientation effects, Explicit &
Implicit functions, Treatment of Vertical saturation &
Pressure distributions, Well functions, History Matching,
Well Management, Solution methods.
3. Designing the reservoir model, Checklist for model
design, Selecting the number of dimensions, Tank
models, 1D, 2D (Areal, cross-sectional, radial),
Multilayer, 3D, Simplification of complex problems,
Pseudo-relative permeability & Capillary pressure
functions, VE pseudo functions, Windowed models,
Naturally fractured reservoirs, Representation of
reservoir fluids, Representation of reservoir rock, Well
models.
4. Selecting reservoir rock and fluid properties data: Data
for model construction, Sensitivity of results to data
accuracy, Porosity & Permeability: Sources of data,
developing
reservoir
description,
rock
property
distribution, Thickness and depth, Capillary pressure and
relative permeability: Selection and assignment of data
Fluid properties, Establishing Initial pressure and
saturation distribution.

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5.
6.

7.
8.

9.

10.

Selecting Grid & Time-step sizes: Selection of gridblock

size example grids, Selection of time-steps, Numerical
dispersion, Grid orientation, Cost considerations.
Selecting the Numerical solution method.: Terminology,
Formulating the equations, Material Balance & pressure
equations, Formulating options, Numerical Dispersion,
Choosing the formulation option, Matrix Equations,
Solution methods, Selecting the Equation-solving
technique.
Well Management: Designing & Controlling Production
Parameters.
History Matching: Validity of the Reservoir Model,
Strategy & Plans, Adjustment of parameters, Pressures,
Pressure gradients, GOR-WOR behavior Automatic
History Matching.
Forecasting Future Performance: Planning prediction
cases, Preparation of input data, smooth transition from
history to predictions, Review & Analysis of predicted
performance, Evaluating & Monitoring predicted
performance.
Simulating Special Processes: Compositional Simulation,
Miscible displacement, Chemical & polymer flooding,
Steam simulation and steam drive, In-Situ combustion,
Special Data requirements.
PEE 18107

OFFSHORE STRUCTURES

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Offshore field developments, Analysis of offshore
structures, Offshore platforms & their stability,
Buoyant force calculation, Bracing & framing patterns
in offshore structures, Welding of offshore structures,
layouts of jacketed offshore platforms.
2. Analyses of Sea environment: Wind, waves and
current forces.- Characteristics, analysis and force

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3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

evaluation, Sea soil & sea bed, Offshore piles and

their foundation.
Tubular/ rectangular joints: Types, design,
protection and failures.
Corrosion in offshore structures and it's protection,
Buckling & bending in offshore structures and in
offshore pipe lines, Risk factors and risk analysis.
Offshore mobile rigs: Types, load and stress
analysis, Fatigue calculation and safety factors,
Marine risers and tensioners.
Fixed platform design: Steel templates & concrete
tower type platforms - construction, fabrication and
installation.
Structural analyses: Stress analysis & calculation,
Skewed and finite plates; Fillets and grooves design,
Offshore-static and dynamic structural analysis.

COURSE NO.
PEE52109

COURSE NAME
L T P
FLUID FLOW THROUGH
3 1 0
POROUS MEDIA
COURSE CONTENT:
1. The Porous Medium: The Physical Medium,
Relevant Physical Phenomena, Pore Scale vs.
Continuum Scale, Fluid and Porous Matrix Properties
2. Mathematical Models of Porous Media: Network
Models, Statistical Descriptors, Fractal Models,
Effective Medium, Mixture Theories, Double Porosity
Models
3. Balance Principles: Mass, Momentum and Energy
Conservation, Equations of Motion
4. Single Phase Flow in a Porous Medium: Darcy's
law
5. Constitutive Theory :
6. Boundary Value Problems: Well-Posed Problems,
Common Boundary Conditions, Common Solution
Procedures
7. Immiscible Multiphase Flow : Surface Chemistry,
Thermodynamics of Interface, Interfacial Tension,
Capillary Pressure, Simultaneous Flow of Two Fluids
8. Surface Phenomena : Adsorption, Wetting, Thin
Films, Transport through Membranes
9. Miscible Displacements and Dispersion

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COURSE NO.
PEC51103

COURSE NAME
ADVANCED WELL
COMPLETION PRACTICES

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Basics of Reservoir Completion: Inflow Performance,
Open Hole Completion Techniques, Perforating, Hydraulic
Fracturing, Acid Fracturing and Completion.
2. Sand Control: Rock Strength and Sand control
Prediction,Mitigating sand production without screens,
Formation grain size distribution, Sand control screens,
Standalone screens, Open hole Gravel Packs, Cased
hole gravel packs and frac packs, Expandable screens,
Chemical Consolidation, Choosing the
appropriate
method of sand control.
3. Life of Well Operations: Types and methods of
Intervening, Impact on Completion Design.
4. Tubing well performance, heat transfer & sizing,
Hydrocarbon Behavior, Multiphase flow & tubing
performance, flow predictions, Temperature prediction
and Control, Packer fluids, Production well sizing,
Injection Well sizing.
5. Material Selection: Metals, Downhole Corrosion,
Metallurgy Selection, Corrosion Inhibition, Seals, Control
Lines and encapsulation, Coatings and liners
6. Tubing Stress Analysis: Purpose, tubular Manufacture
and specifications, Stress, Strain and Grades, Axial
Loads, Burst , Collapse, Triaxial Analysis, Safety and
design Factors, Load Cases, Tubing Connections,
Packers, Completion Equipment, Use of Software for
tubing stress analysis.
7. Completion Equipment: Well Head and tubing hanger:
Vertical and horizontal trees; Platform and land Christmas
trees; subsea Christmas tree. Subsurface safety Valves,
Packers, Expansion devices and anchor latches, Landing
nipples, locks and sleeves, Mandrels and gauges,
Capillary lines and cable clamps, Loss control and
reservoir isolation valves, Crossovers, Flow couplings,
Modules, Integrating equipment into the design process.
8. Installing the Completion: Installation Affects Completion
Design, Wellbore Clean-out and mud displacement,
Completion fluids and filtration, Safely running the

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completion, Pre-job preparation; rig layout; running

tubing; running control lines, Well clean-up and flow
initiation, Procedures, Handover and post-completion
Reporting,
9. Specialist
Completion:
Deepwater
Completions:
Deepwater environments; Production chemistry and well
performance; stress analysis; Operational Considerations.
HPHT Completions, Completions with downhole flow
control, Multilateral Completions, Dual Completions,
Multipurpose Completions, Underbalanced completions,
Coiled tubing and insert completions, Completions for
Heavy oil and steam injection, Completions for Coal Bed
Methane
COURSE NO.

COURSE NAME

PEE 51101

OIL AND GAS FIELD

DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING

L T P
3

1 0

AND

COURSE CONTENT:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

The Field Life Cycle: Gaining Access, Exploration Phase,

Appraisal Phase, Development Phase, Production Phase,
Decommissioning.
Petroleum Agreements & Bidding: Invitations to bid,
Motivations and form of bid, Block Award, Fiscal System,
Farm-in & Farm-out, Unitisation and Equity determination.
Exploration: Hydrocarbon Accumulations, Exploration
methods & techniques.
Drilling Engineering Brief overview: Well Planning, Rig
types & Rig Selection, Drilling systems & Equipment, Site
Preparation (Onshore & Offshore), Costs & Contracts
Safety & The Environment (Brief overview)
Reservoir Description: Data Gathering, Data Interpretation
Field Appraisal: Importance of Appraisal, Identifying and
quantifying sources of Uncertainty, Cost benefit
calculations for Appraisal.
Reservoir Dynamic Behaviour: Fluid Flow studies, PVT
data, Drive Mechanisms. Gas Reservoirs: Difference
between oil and gas field development, Gas sales
profiles; Influence of Contracts; movement of GWC during
production, Pressure response, Fluid displacement in the

9.

10.
11.

12.
13.
14.
15.

Reservoir, Estimation of Reserves, Reservoir Simulation,

Estimating the Recovery Factor, Estimating the
Production Profile.
Well Dynamic Behaviour: Estimating the number of
Development Wells, Fluid flow near the wellbore,
Horizontal Wells, Production Testing & Bottom Hole
Pressure
Testing,
Tubing
Performance,
Well
Completions, Intelligent Wells, Artificial Lift.
Project & Contract Management: Phasing & Organisation,
Planning & Control, Cost Estimation & Budgets, Types of
Contracts.
Petroleum Economics: Basic principles of Development
Economics, Project Cash flow, Revenue & expenditure
items, CAPEX-OPEX, Host Government take, Capital
Allowances, Economic Indicators, Project Screening,
Sensitivity Analysis,
Risk Analysis: Definition of Risk and Risk Matrix,
Managing the Producing Field: Subsurface, surface
facilities, Internal & External factors.
Managing Decline: Infill Drilling, Work over Activity,
Enhanced Oil Recovery, Extended Reach Development
Decommissioning:
Legislation,
Decommissioning
Methods

COURSE NO.
PEE51102

COURSE NAME
MULTILATERAL AND
HORIZONTAL WELL
TECHNOLOGY

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT :
Introduction & objectives of horizontal wells, ERD, Laterals
etc. . Geological and reservoir aspects, & development of oil
& gas field using horizontal wells. Drilling & completion of
horizontal wells. Reservoir engineering concepts of horizontal
wells. Well logging methods in horizontal wells. Well test
analysis of horizontal wells. Well performance & productivity
of horizontal Wells. Water & Gas coning in horizontal wells.
Application of horizontal wells in gas reservoirs & in recovery
of heavy oils, Introduction to Multistage Fracturing.

COURSE NO.
PEE 51103

COURSE NAME
WELL SERVICING

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
WELL COMPLETION:
Design of Perforators: Bullet, hydraulic perforators, shaped
charge perforators and mechanical cutters;
Perforating process; Perforation Guns and firing head.
Perforating/ well activation mechanism: Underbalanced and
overbalanced perforations.
Pressure control equipment (Well Head Lubricator Assembly);
Type, size and orientation of perforation holes;
Optimum Perforation Practices; Down-hole EquipmentPackers their types, Tubing, Flow couplings, expansion
joints, Sliding Sleeves / Side Pocket Mandrels, Blast Joints,
Landing Nipples, Slickline Operations, Smart / Intelligent
Wells.
Well Sickness, diagnosis and mitigation: Type of well
sickness, Symptoms of sick wells, Testing of sick wells,
Identification and Diagnosis of Well Problems, Planning of
Workover Jobs; Minor & Major (Capital Repair) jobs; Water &
Gas Shut-off jobs; Squeeze Cementing; Water and Gas
Coning; Sand Control & its Techniques; Fishing operation,
Coil Tubing Unit, Snubbing unit.
Well Stimulation Techniques: Acidizing of O & G Wells;
Hydraulic Fracturing; Acid fracturing, Heat treatment, Downhole Heaters. In-situ Combustion.
COURSE NO.
PEE 51104

COURSE NAME
INTEGRATED RESERVOIR
MANAGEMENT

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1.
2.

Introduction: Scope and Objectives

Reservoir management concepts: Definition and
history, fundamentals of reservoir management, synergy
and team; integration of geosciences and engineering,
integration of exploration and development technology

3.
4.
5.
6.

7.
8.

Reservoir management process: Setting goals,

developing plans and economics, surveillance and
monitoring, evaluation
Data acquisition, analysis and management:
Classification of data, acquisition, analysis and
application, validation, storing and retrieval
Reservoir model: Role of reservoir model in reservoir
management, integration of G & G and reservoir model
Reservoir performance analysis and prediction:
Naturally producing mechanism, reserves and role of
various forecasting tools- volumetric method, MBE,
Decline curve and mathematical simulation
Reservoir Management economics: evaluation, risk
and uncertainties
Reservoir management plans: strategy for newly
developed field (Green) and Secondary and EOR
operated field, strategy for Green and Brown
Field.

COURSE NO.
PEE 51105

COURSE NAME
DRILLING SYSTEM DESIGN

L T P
3 1 0

COURSE CONTENT:
1. Drilling rig selection and design.
2. Casing string and drill string Design: Conventional
and conditional Design, Deep well strings, Design
practices for high inclined wells, Horizontal wells and
Slanted wells. Liner Design and Setting, String loading,
Buckling and well head load calculations.
3. Mud Hydraulics Design: Rheology of drilling fluids and
compatibility to bore hole conditions, Hydraulic horse
power and Rig horse power calculations. Jet impact
force, Hydraulics design in High inclines wells. Bit
Hydraulics, Bottom drive hydraulics design.
4. Precise Directional Control: Directional data Analysis,
Calculations for well coordinates Well path deflection
tools, tool orientation,& correction.
5. Down Hole Motors: Positive displacement motors,
Turbodrills, Rotary Steering Motors, Geosteering tools,
Performance calculation and selection of of Bottom drive
units.

6. Measurements While Drilling: MWD, LWD, SWD

system,
Data
Telemetry
and
data
interpretation.
7. Special Methods of Drilling: Aerated drilling, Electrical
Drilling Rigs, Top drive drilling, Re-entry drilling, Jet
Drilling, Drilling in High pressure and variable pressure
regime, ERD, Multilaterals, Slim hole, coil tubing drilling.
8. Computer Application in Drilling.

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