Savitribai Phule University Pune Structure and Syllabus of Be (Petroleum Engineering) (COURSE - 2012) W.E.F. 2015-2016
Savitribai Phule University Pune Structure and Syllabus of Be (Petroleum Engineering) (COURSE - 2012) W.E.F. 2015-2016
Savitribai Phule University Pune Structure and Syllabus of Be (Petroleum Engineering) (COURSE - 2012) W.E.F. 2015-2016
Elective I Elective II
a. Reservoir Simulation a. Well Completion and Services
b. Mud Engineering b. Non-Conventional Hydrocarbon Resources
c. Database Management in Petroleum Industry c. HSE in Petroleum Industry
d. Flow Assurance d. Natural Gas Engineering
Objectives:
Course Outcomes
1. Understand and apply geological and geophysical methods for the evaluation of
subsurface formations.
2. Apply knowledge of seismic data acquisition, processing and procedure for
interpretation
3. Apply pattern recognition for interpretation of seismic data for the understanding of
stratigraphy and seismic facies analysis
4. Develop awareness of principles of basin analysis in the recognition of petroleum
system
5. Understand and apply basic statistical principles in the development of geological
model
6. Calculate the hydrocarbon resources and uncertainties associated with different
parameters.
Geophysical Exploration Techniques – Theory and working principles, Data acquisition, Data
processing and Interpretation of Gravity and Magnetic Methods.
Theory and working principles, Data acquisition, Data processing and Interpretation of
Electrical, and Radioactivity methods. Geochemical Methods and Data Analysis.
Term Work:
Every student should carry out minimum eight experiments from the following list and
submit the journal, which will form the term work.
List of Practicals:
Reference Books:
Objectives:
Course Outcomes
Introduction to logging: Open hole, Cased hole. Logging practice and equipment. The
logging environment, empirical relationships between different zones and fluids.
Nuclear Radioactive and Sonic Logging: Principles: Brief descriptions and applications.
Application of drilling time data.
Cement bond evaluation logs such as Temperature, CBL- VDL, Other miscellaneous logging
techniques such as Caliper, Temperature, Perforation, Depth, rate etc.
Detection of overpressure.
Coring and core analysis objectives, Core handling, well site procedures, and preservation
methods
Sidewall coring and wireline fluid sampling. Special core analysis sample selection and
statistical data analysis
Core-log correlation.
Mud Logging Principles, Detection and evaluation of oil and gas shows. Salient features of
logging in deviated wells. Logging in oil muds, Logging programs. MWD, LWD
Oral
Every student should carry out minimum eight experiments from the following list and
submit the journal, which will form the term work.
List of Practicals:
1) Asquith George & Krygowski Daniel, 2004, Basic Well Log Analysis. USA.
AAPG,
2) Whitaker A., 1985 “Formation Evaluation” IHRDC.
3) Lynch E. J., 1976, “Formation Evaluation”, EBD Edition.
4) Rider, M. H., “The Geological Interpretation of Well Logs” John Wiley
Publishing Company
5) Log Interpretation, Vol. I to IV and Document VIII; Schlumberger, 1979.
6) John H. Doveton, 2014, Principles of Mathematical Petrophysics, Oxford
University Press, 273 pp.
7) Stefan M. Luthi, 2001, Geological Well Logs: Their Use in Reservoir Modelling,
Springer, 381 pp.
412383 WELL ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
Teaching Scheme: Examination Scheme:
Objectives:
Course Outcomes:
1. Understand basic components of drilling engineering for well planning and design
2. Design the well using different parameters
3. Understand well control methods and signatures of well in stability
4. Know and apply codes for well design
5. Understand rig hydraulics
6. Apply rheological concepts for cement jobs
Objective, Input data, Drilling programme preparation, Type of well, Prospect, GTO, Casing
policy and design – Pore pressure, Fracture gradient prediction, Direct indirect method,
Casing seat / depth selection, Casing design criteria, Burst, Tension, Collapse, Bi-axial
loading etc combination string.
Definitions, Reasons, Reservoir aspect, types, Well planning, Design of optimum well bore
trajectory, Planning kick off, Deflection tools, Whipstock, Akop, Rss, Bending forces on
casing, Torque-drag, Torquosity calculations and Measurements, Survey tools, Survey
methods, MWD, Gyroscope, orientation of deflection tool, BHA design, anti-collision.
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary well control operational procedures, well control methods well
control kill sheet, kick pressure analysis, Special conditions and problems, BOP control unit,
Accumulator calculations, BOP stack testing’s, Snubbing, Stripping.
Unit-IV: Drill String Design (8)
API classification, Design criteria MOP, Various loading conditions, Fatigue bending of pipe,
Critical rotary speed, Drill string vibrations, Tangent point, Drill colour tangent length, Bit
side force with respect to directional drilling aspect.
Optimization of bit hydraulics, Nozzle size calculation using graphical methods, Bingham
plastic – Laminar, Turbulent flow annular hydraulics, Drilling fluid-Case studies and
recommendations.
Drilling economics and costing, Drilling economics, Cost analysis and predictions AFE
calculations.
Cement rheology, case studies, field problems related to lost circulations squeeze jobs, Linear
cementation.
Oral
Every student should carry out minimum seven exercises from the following list of
practical’s and submit a report of each experiment in the form of journal. This will form the
basis of term work assessment. Analysis may be carried out using available software
wherever possible.
List of experiments:
Reference Books:
Course Objectives
Course Outcomes:
Buried pipeline heat transfer, Temperature prediction along the pipeline in steady state and
transient modes; Thermal management strategy like external coating systems, direct heating,
pipe in pipe, etc; Insulation performance
Characterization, Formation mechanism, prediction and models for deposition and stability
for wax (Paraffins), Asphaltenes and Gas Hydrates
Unit – V Organic Deposits Removal Methods (6)
Heating in Wellbore and Piping; Cold flow methods; Chemical inhibitors for waxes,
asphaltenes and hydrates; Dehydration of Natural Gas; Special Materials and Coatings.
Term-Work
Every student will carry out minimum eight exercises from the following list and submit the
journal, which will form the term work.
Reference Books
1. Bai, Y and Bai, Q. (2005). Subsea Pipelines and Risers. I Edition. Elsevier
2. Danesh, Ali. (1998). PVT and Phase Behaviour of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids. I Edition,
Elsevier
3. Frenier, W. W., Zainuddin, M., and Venkatesan, R. (2010). Organic Deposits in Oil and
Gas Production. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
4. Katz, Donald. (1959). Handbook of Natural Gas Engineering. I Edition. McGraw Hill
Higher Education.
5. Yen, T.F and Chilingarian, G.V. (2000). Asphaltenes and Asphalts, 2 from Developments
in Petroleum Science. Volume 40 B, Elsevier
6. Dendy Sloan, Carolyn Ann Koh, Amadeu K. Sum, Norman D. McMullen, George
Shoup, Adam L. Ballard, and Thierry Palermo (Editors), 2011, Natural Gas Hydrates in
Flow Assurance, Gulf Professional Publishing, 213 pp.
Elective II 412385 WELL COMPLETION AND SERVICES
Course Objectives
Course Outcomes
1. Recognise the concept of well completion and workover job for a wellbore.
2. Demonstrate well completion, well services and equipments to improve production
performance of a wellbore.
3. Acquaint with types of well completion.
4. Recognise and apply application of techniques to solve well productivity related
problems.
5. Understand and apply problems related to well.
Well control and barriers. The role of completion Engineer. Data gathering. Designing for life
of well. Drilling, production and reservoir aspects of well completion. Skin damage. PI and
IPR. Factors influencing completion design. Completion procedure. Types of well
completions. Advantages and disadvantages. Completion tools and equipments in surface
and subsurface installations.
Well completion fluids. Well activation, circulation and swabbing. Perforation. Types,
geometry and size. Underbalanced and overbalanced perforating. Procedure. Well control
during Completion. Wire line operations tools. Use of slick line, e-line and Coiled tubing unit
in well completion job. Well completion in fracturing.
Material selection and tubing stress analysis in well completion. Well completion for
horizontal and multilateral wells, injection wells and well completion in artificially lifting
wells. Completion techniques for sand control. Screen types and design considerations.
HPHT well completions. Completion for Unconventional hydrocarbon resources.
Introduction to offshore and subsea well completion operations.
Unit – IV : Well Servicing (8)
Introduction to general well servicing and related operations. Operations on live wells. Well
problem identification. Reasons for decline in well productivity. Problem well analysis.
Types and method of well intervening. Impact of well operations on completion design.
Workover planning.
Productive formation testing and bottom hole sampling. Operations to solve formation
damage related problems and well services for mechanical problems of a wellbore. Removal
of scale, hydrate, paraffin and sand during workover. Operations on killed wells. Squeeze
cementation. Water and gas shut off jobs. Liquid unloading in gas wells. Fishing tools and
jobs during production.
Special cases. Typical well services and applications for horizontal and multilateral wells.
Introduction to offshore and subsea well services and challenges. Problems and services for
Unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs and wells. Workover and completion rigs. Workover
systems. Rig selection. Workover economics. Case studies on typical well completion jobs.
Reference Books
1. Wan Renpu, 2011, Advanced Well Completion Engineering, Third Edition, Elsevier
2. Thomas O. Allen and Alan P. Roberts, 1989, Production Operations: Well
Completions, Workover, and Stimulation, OGCI, Tulsa, Volume 1 and 2,
3. Dennis Perrin, Michel Caron and Georges Gaillot, 1999, Well Completion and
Servicing: Oil and Gas Field Development Techniques, Technip, 340 pp.
4. Schlumberger, 2001, Completion Primer, 129 pp.
5. Jonathan Bellarby, 2009, Well Completion Design, Developments In Petroleum
Science, Volume 56, Elsevier, 711 pp.
6. Heriot- Watt University- Production Technology. Volume I and II
412386 PROJECT STAGE I
Objectives:
The project work aims developing problem solving skills by integrating their knowledge
using systematic methodology for an investigations related to broad areas of discipline
specific curriculum.
Course Outcomes
The project work shall be carried out in a group up to maximum of four students or even at an
individual level.
The students shall work on some problem related to Petroleum Industry. The project topic
shall be selected either by the students and approved by the faculty member ready to work as
project guide or assigned by the department. The project work may be carried out as in
house project or industry sponsored project. Industry sponsored projects shall be monitored
and controlled by the faculty member of the department jointly with the supervisor from the
industry.
The project work shall be inclusive of updated literature survey, some investigation work,
computer simulation, design work and experimental work. No innovative idea shall be
considered for the project.
The project work shall be divided in to two parts spread over two terms of final year of
engineering. Project stage I shall be inclusive of problem identification and relevant updated
literature survey and methodology to evolve solution for the same.
The students shall submit printed copy of project stage I and present the same in effectively.
Assessment shall be based on quality and originality of work submitted and presented.
412387 PETROLEUM PRODUCTION ENGINEERING III
Objectives:
To study separation and treatment of produced oil and associated surface facilities.
To study offshore production technology.
To understand well investigation techniques and remediation of well production
problems.
Course Outcomes
Unit 1: Two Phase and Three Phase Separators & storage: (8)
Two phase oil and gas separation equipment, types, construction detail, working principle,
internal sizing, theory of separation and detail design of separator. Three phase separators,
types, construction detail, working principle, vessel internal and control equipment. Theory
and sizing of three phase separator. LACT unit.
Surface facilities for water injection and maintenance of injection water quality. Filters,
Vacuum towers. Review of fluid flow equations and pressure drop in piping
Theory of emulsion and demulsifies, treating system, equipment, sizing and heat calculations.
Electronic coalescesers. Skimmer tanks, skimmer sizing equations and produced water treating
system.
Crude stabilization unit. Introduction to environmental problems during separation (ETP) and
solutions. GGS and CPF overall set-up, process flow sheets. Storage of crude oil. Types of tanks,
Evaporation loss, safety systems. Introduction to safety during processing of oil and gas at onshore &
offshore.
Unit 3: Oil field corrosion and corrosion treatment: (8)
Wireline operations and Procedures: Objectives, Surface equipment, Tool string and service
tools, tubing conditioning tools, subsurface equipment. Basic procedures and safety
requirements.
Production logging: Logging devices,. Pressure and Temperature logging, radioactive tracer
logging, spinner-flow meter logging. Introductory interpretation of logs.
Inflow and outflow restrictions. Well Production problems: mechanical failure, critical wells with
casing pressures, recompletions, plug and abandonment, workover economics.
Formation Damage: occurrence, significance of formation damage, basic cause, damage mechanisms,
particle plugging within the matrix, formation clay effects, fluid viscosity effects, diagnosis of
formation damage.
Scale deposition, causes, prediction of scaling tendency, scale removal and prevention methods.
Paraffin and Asphaltenes, chemistry, deposition mechanism, removal methods and prevention.
Sand control theory and mechanism, effect of well completion and production practices, methods,
gravel pack design considerations, inside casing gravel pack problems and techniques, open hole
gravel pack techniques, screens for sand control; plastic consolidation, processes, techniques.
Every student should carry out minimum eight exercises from the following list of practicals
along with minimum two drawing sheets on full empirical size and submit a report of each
experiment in the form journal. This will form the basis for term work assessment. Analysis
of data should be carried out using programming / excel based spreadsheet on computer
wherever applicable.
List of Practicals:
1. Study of liquid and gas separation process and design of two-phase separators.
2. Three phase separation process and three phase separator design.
3. Water treating equipment - skimmer tank design.
4. Determination of injection water quality – salinity, turbidity, oxygen content.
5. Pressure loss evaluation for two phase flow in pipe line and optimization of line size.
6. A detailed exercise on pipeline design and optimization.
7. Analysis of well problem by inflow and outflow characteristics.
8. To study flow assurance related problems and remedial treatment to solve it.
9. Study of multiphase flow regimes with their characteristics.
Reference Books:
1. Arnold K. and Stewart M., “Surface Production Operations”, Vol. I and II, Gulf
Publishing Company, 1986.
2. Mian, M.A., “Petroleum Engineering Hand Book for Practicing Engineers” Vol. I and
II, Pennwell Publications, 1992.
3. Galambhor and Guo, “Petroleum Production Engineering a Computer Assisted
Approach”,
4. Construction of Offshore and Marine Structures - Ben C. Gerwick, Jr.
5. An Introduction to Offshore Engineering - Angus Mather.
6. Wireline operations and procedures – Book 5 of vocational training series – American
Petroleum Institute.
7. Production logging – Theoretical and interpretive Elements by A.D.Hill.
412388 IMPROVED / ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY
Objectives:
To understand the nature of reservoirs and strategy for increasing reservoir efficiency.
To be able to design an enhanced oil recovery technique.
To be able to predict the future performance of a reservoir.
To develop a dynamic reservoir model.
Course Outcomes
1. Develop recovery expectations and choose appropriate methods for improving oil
recovery
2. Determine reasons and causes for less than theoretically possible recovery
3. Understand mechanisms responsible for recovery improvement in various EOR
methods
4. Identify important variables that control recovery improvement in various EOR
methods
5. Select EOR methods using screening criteria
6. Plan and implement EOR processes employing the proper empirical, analytical, and
simulation tools
7. Forecast rate-time and recovery-time behavior under various EOR methods and
analyze reservoir performance
Miscible processes; gas injection and production, ternary diagrams; P-T diagrams;
mechanisms of displacement of oil; water injection and fingering; CO2 displacement;
minimum miscibility pressure; case studies.
Microbial EOR; factors impacting MEOR; types of microbes; growth of microbes; conducive
conditions for MEOR; field visit; cost to benefit analysis of MEOR vs. other EOR
techniques; case studies.
Introduction to thermal EOR methods; cyclic steam injection; continuous steam injection; in-
situ combustion; reaction kinetics; SAGD; steam properties; heat losses; efficiency of thermal
methods; introduction to EOR in reservoir simulation, performance evaluation; case studies.
Term Work
Every student should carry out minimum 6 experiments from the following list and submit
the journal, which will form the term work.
Experiments
Reference Books:
1) Larry W. Lake, Russell Johns, Bill Rossen & Gary Pope, 2014, Fundamentals of
Enhanced Oil Recovery, SPE, 496 pp
2) Don W Green and Willhite G P, 1998, Enhanced Oil Recovery, SPE International,
553 pp.
3) Sorbie K H, 1991, Polymer-Improved Oil Recovery, Springer, 371 pp.
4) James Sheng, 2013, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Field Studies, Gulf Professional
Publishing, USA, 683 pp.
5) James J. Sheng, 2011, Modern Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Theory and
Practice, Gulf Professional Publishing, USA, 632 pp.
412389 B PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT
Objectives:
Course Outcomes
Matrix acidizing, Acid rock interaction, sandstone and carbonate acidizing design
Need for a Data FRAC, basics of Data FRAC process, use of results from DataFRAC
process, basic of fracturing equipment and operations, fracturing fluids, fracturing
proppants, models used for hydraulic fracturing, fracturing treatment design, post-job
analysis, basics of fractured well-test analysis
Unit IV: Flow Optimization (8)
Choke valves: the function of production choke valves; empirical vs. Mechanistic
models; critical and subcritical flow; the use of choke valves to handle back- pressure
effects along the production system.
Practical:
Reference Books
Objectives:
Course Outcomes
Decline Curve Analysis, Types and utility in production forecast, Reserves to Production
Ratio, Statistical analysis, Hubert curves.
Reserves auditing, standard practices for reporting of reserves. SEC/ SPE/ WPC norms.
Unit II: Oil and Gas Prices: International Market and Geopolitics (8)
Crude oil characteristics, Marketing and trading of crude oil, Crude oil pricing mechanism
and oil price elasticity, Inflation and effects on oil pricing. Factors controlling oil and gas
pricing. Oil differential and influence on price of oil.
E and P Business in world and India, Historical development, Role of OPEC and
non OPEC countries.
Time value of money, types of costs, Economic Yardsticks: Return on Investment, Pay
out Period, Net Present Value, Discounted Cash How, DCFROR,
Decision Analysis, Preference Theory, Real Option Theory, simple examples of decision
tree.
Reference Books:
Objectives:
The project work aims developing problem solving skills by integrating their knowledge
using systematic methodology for an investigations related to broad areas of discipline
specific curriculum.
Course Outcomes
The project work shall be carried out in a group up to maximum of four students or even at an
individual level.
The students shall work on some problem related to Petroleum Industry. The project topic
shall be selected either by the students and approved by the faculty member ready to work as
project guide or assigned by the department. The project work may be carried out as in
house project or industry sponsored project. Industry sponsored projects shall be monitored
and controlled by the faculty member of the department jointly with the supervisor from the
industry.
The project work shall be inclusive of updated literature survey, some investigation work,
computer simulation, design work and experimental work. No innovative idea shall be
considered for the project.
The project work shall be divided in to two parts spread over two terms of final year of
engineering. Project stage I shall be inclusive of problem identification and relevant updated
literature survey and methodology to evolve solution for the same.
The students shall submit printed copy of final project certified by the supervisor/
guide/mentor and present the same in effectively.
Assessment shall be based on quality and originality of work submitted and presented.
Approximate format of the report for the final project to be submitted at the end of final year
(term II) is given below. The actual contents of the project report may be decided in
consultation with the project guide.
Project report should be 60 to 70 pages. The report must be hard bound. Following shall be
the format for the report.
i. Title Sheet
ii. Certificate
iii. Acknowledgement
iv. Abstract
v. List of Figures
vi. List of Photographs/ Plates
vii. List of Tables
viii. Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction, problem identified, objectives, scope of work,
methodology and brief summary of chapters
Chapter Two: Literature Survey/ Theory
Chapter Three: Design/ Experimentation/ Actual work carried out for the
same.
Chapter Four: Result and Analysis of data
Chapter Five: Discussion
Chapter Six: Summary and Conclusions
References , should be written as per SPE format