2281 Engineering Co-Op Program (Crosslisted with AME, CH E, C E, C S, ECE, ENGR, E PHY, E S, G E, I E 2281). Prerequisite: student participation in the program. The Co-Op program provides student placement in jobs outside the University, but in a position related to the student's major. On completion of a semester work period, the student submits a brief written report. One hour of credit (elective) granted for each work period, with a maximum credit of six hours. (F, Sp, Su)

3021 Technical Communications. Prerequisite: 2012, Engineering 1112, English 1213, and junior standing. Reading for technical understanding; planning and writing technical reports; active listening; preparing and delivering oral technical presentations. (F)

3113 Production Engineering (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 3113). Prerequisite: 3123, Engineering 3223. Single and two-phase flow through pipes, gas lift, sucker rod pumping, submersible pumps, fluid separation, gas dehydration, pipeline system design, corrosion control. (Sp)

3123 Petroleum Reservoir Fluids. Prerequisite: 3213 and Engineering 2213. Properties of petroleum behavior of gases, phase behavior of liquids, qualitative and quantitative phase behavior of hydrocarbon systems, reservoir fluid characteristics. Application of these concepts to the prediction of gas and gas-condensate reservoir behavior. (F)

3153 Petrophysics. Prerequisite: 3123, Engineering 2313; corequisite, Engineering 3223. Porosity, structure, fluid content permeability and flow of fluids in reservoir rocks, and properties responding to well logs. Laboratory (F)

3213 Reservoir Rock Properties. Prerequisite: 2012, Geology 1114; corequisite: 3221. Fundamental course establishing primary petrophysical concepts, properties and their measurement. Covers rock types, distribution, composition and structure, porosity, permeability, resistivity, wettability, water saturation, elastic moduli and includes effects of pressure and temperature on rock properties. (Sp)

3221 Rock Properties Laboratory. Prerequisite: Geology 1114; corequisite: 3213. Laboratory course aimed at exposing the student to the measurement and analysis of reservoir properties such as porosity, permeability, fluid saturation, grain size, elastic moduli and pore throat sizes. The course will stress safety concerns appropriate for all laboratory procedures, error analyses and report writing. (Sp)

3303 Drilling Engineering (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 3303). Prerequisite: 3123, Engineering 2153, 3223. History of drilling, methods and equipment, well kicks and blowouts, drilling fluids, pressure losses in circulating systems, penetration rate, rotary drilling techniques, formation damage, drilling costs. (Sp)

3313 Drilling and Completions I. Prerequisite: 3213, Engineering 3223, and Geology 1114. Drilling operations, drilling costs and economics, drilling fluids, pressure losses in circulating systems, rotary drilling bits and penetration rate, rotary drilling techniques, pore and fracture gradients. (F)

3413 Subsurface Production Engineering. Prerequisite: 3123, 3313. Tubing and packer design; hydraulic fracturing and acidizing; oil and gas well performance; vertical lift and choke performance; systems analysis; production operations. (Sp)

3513 Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals. Prerequisite: 3123, 3213, and Mathematics 3113. Fundamentals of evaluation of oil and gas reservoirs. Reservoir volumetrics; material balance; Darcy's law and equation of continuity; diffusivity equation; streamlines; well models; introduction to well testing; decline curve analysis; natural water influx. (Sp)

3813 Formation Evaluation with Well Logs. Prerequisite: 3123, 3213, and Geology 4113. Basic formation evaluation concepts, borehole environment, principles of resistivity, radiation, thermal and elastic wave measurements and measuring tools, applications to formation evaluation using commercial software package. (Sp)

3960 Honors Reading. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Consists of topics designated by the instructor in keeping with the student's major program. Covers materials not usually presented in regular coursework. (F, Sp)

3970 Honors Seminar. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. The projects covered will vary. Deals with concepts not usually presented in regular coursework.

3980 Honors Research. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Provides an opportunity for the gifted honors candidate to work on a special project in the student's field. (F, Sp)

G4033 Oil, Gas and Environmental Law. Prerequisite: senior standing. Review and analysis of legal principles and leading cases related to oil and gas exploration, production and marketing in the areas of land titles, leases, operating agreements, contracts, acquisitions, gas marketing, environmental regulation, pollution, and litigation. (F)

4113 Oil Field Development. Prerequisite: senior standing, permission. (For nonengineering majors only). Properties of petroleum fluids and reservoir rocks; geophysical environment and exploration methods; drilling and completion methods; well testing; producing mechanisms; evaluation methods. (F)

G4233 Subsurface Engineering and Tunneling. Prerequisite: senior standing in engineering or permission. Engineering properties of earth materials, theories of rock failure, tunneling, mining and excavation procedures; nature of geologic hazards; geothermal, oil shale, oil mining, earthquake, rock bolting, permafrost engineering, etc. (F)

4313 Well Completions and Stimulation. Prerequisite: 3303. Well completion selection, casing design, cementing, perforating, hydraulic fracturing, acidizing and chemical stimulation, sand control, well testing. (F)

4323 Drilling and Completions II. Prerequisite: 3313 and 3413. Wellbore configuration, well planning, casing design, direction control, drilling program preparation, offshore operations, cost control and AFE, post-drilling review, and economics. (F)

4331 Drilling and Production Engineering Laboratory. Prerequisite: 3021, 3413, 4323; corequisite: 4423. Properties of drilling and completion fluids; well control; oil and gas well testing; production operations; evaluation of artificial lift systems; gas measurement. (Sp)

G4413 Oil Field Management and Evaluation. Prerequisite: 4453. Application of reservoir engineering principles and petroleum economics to the evaluation of oil and gas properties; interpretations of well data; oil property management. (Sp)

4423 Surface Production Engineering. Prerequisite: 4323. Artificial lift design; sucker rod pumping, electric submersible pumping, plunger lift, and gas lift; design of surface production equipment; oil and gas separation; oil treating; gas dehydration; single and two-phase flow through pipes, fluid measurement; pipeline system design. (Sp)

†G4453 Oil Reservoir Engineering. Prerequisite: 3123, 3153 and Engineering 3723. Darcy's Law and its applications; well inflow equations for stabilized flow conditions; oil well testing; gas well testing; material balance equations; predicting reservoir performance; natural water inflow; immiscible displacement. (F)

†G4462 Reservoir Mechanics Laboratory. Prerequisite: 4453 or enrollment in 4453. Hydrocarbon phase behavior, saturation pressure, mercury injection method for determining capillary pressures; secondary recovery by gas flooding; gas-oil relative permeability; waterflood studies of plug samples at reservoir overburden pressure; laminar flow studies; enhanced oil recovery, surfactant flooding, polymer flooding; in situ combustion. Laboratory (F)

4521 Reservoir Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. Prerequisite: 3021, 3513; corequisite: 4533. Laboratory experiences in hydrocarbon phase behavior, saturation pressure, real fluid properties, relative permeability, secondary recovery by water flooding and gas displacement, volumetric reserve estimation, statistical analyses of core data, two-dimensional flow, enhanced oil recovery using surfactants and polymers. (F)

4533 Applied Reservoir Engineering. Prerequisite: 3513, and Engineering 3723. Advanced reservoir engineering concepts required for effective production of oil and gas. Reservoir characterization; reservoir heterogeneity and anisotropy; recovery mechanisms; Leverett J-functions; upscaling; flow simulation; history matching and forecasting; uncertainty and risk. (F)

4543 Improved Recovery Techniques. Prerequisite: 3413, 4323, and 4533. New wellbore and reservoir techniques for improved recovery. Feasibility analysis; diagnostic techniques; single well operations; infill drilling; horizontal wells and multilaterals; waterflooding; enhanced oil recovery. (Sp)

4553 Integrated Reservoir Management. Prerequisite: 4323, 4533, 4713, and Geophysics 3423. Application of petroleum engineering and geoscience principles to the design of the reservoir management plan. The management environment; integrated reservoir description; performance prediction; developing the reservoir management plan; economics. (Sp)

†G4602 Natural Gas Engineering Laboratory. Prerequisite: 3113, 3123. Determination of specific gravity and deviation factor of gases; chemical analysis of gas mixtures, determination of gas permeability; testing and calibration of orifice meters, positive displacement meters and regulators; pressure loss measurement along pipes; bottom hole pressure calculations; gas well testing; gas reserves estimation. Laboratory (Sp)

4713 Petroleum Project Evaluation. Prerequisite: 3413, 3513, and 3813. Application of petroleum engineering principles and economics to the evaluation of oil and gas projects; evaluation principles, time value of money concepts, and investment measures; cost estimating, price and production forecasting; risk and uncertainty, project selection, and capital budgeting. (F)

4990 Special Studies. 1 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: senior standing. Special research on current or special problems. (F, Sp, Su)

G5133 Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 5133). Prerequisite: Engineering 3223 or equivalent. Characteristics of stress in fluids, the role of Newtonian fluid mechanics, extension of Newtonian analysis to Bingham plastics; fluids without yield stress, time dependent non-Newtonian fluids, laminar and turbulent flow, boundary layers in non-Newtonian fluids. (Sp)

G5143 Fluid Flow in Porous Media (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 5143). Prerequisite: 4513, graduate standing. Physical concepts involved in the flow of fluids in porous media; treatment of Darcy's Law in a mathematical sense; the concept of relative permeability applied also in a mathematical sense. (F)

G5243 Introduction to Rock Mechanics (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 5243). Prerequisite: senior standing in engineering or permission. Engineering properties of rock; rock testing techniques; in situ methods; mathematical approach to stress-strain analysis; discontinuities in rock; applications for underground openings; rock slopes; foundations and drilling. (Sp)

G5353 Advanced Drilling. Prerequisite: 3213, Engineering 3723, Geology 3113, permission. Cost control, hole problems, planning a well, drilling; muds, drilling fluid solids removal, pressure losses, lifting capacity of drilling fluids, surge and swab pressures, pore pressure and fracture gradients, pressure control, well control equipment, blowouts, deviation in boreholes, rotary drilling bits.

G5423 Advanced Stimulation. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission. Theory and application of continuum mechanics concepts to hydraulic fracturing, acidizing, acid fracturing and other stimulation processes. (Irreg.)

G5433 Horizontal Well Technology. Prerequisite: engineering degree or equivalent. Horizontal well technology including: horizontal drilling, horizontal well completions and stimulation, pumping and lift systems, well testing, horizontal wells in waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery, costs, economics, regulations, tax incentives.

G5533 Petroleum Reservoir Development (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 5533). Prerequisite: 4223, 4513, Engineering 3723, Geology 3113 or permission. Petroleum reservoir development and extension. Simulation methods for evaluating a petroleum reservoir, schemes for oil field development. Engineering application of logging and geological, fluid and well-testing data. Student-oriented reservoir simulation projects. (Sp)

G5543 Waterflooding. Prerequisite: senior standing, 4511, 4523. Evaluating and operating secondary recovery projects; fundamental consideration of petroleum engineering and reservoir behavior applied to secondary recovery of oil. (F)

G5553 Well Testing Analysis. Prerequisite: 4513 or graduate standing. Diffusivity equation; exponential integral solution; principle of superposition; drawdown testing, skin effects, wellbore storage, type curve matching, reservoir limit test; buildup testing, bounded reservoirs, average reservoir pressure; drill stem testing; interference testing; pulse testing; reservoir heterogeneities; anisotropy, stratification, sealing faults. (F)

G5563 Mathematical Simulation Models. Prerequisite: graduate standing, permission. Principles of simulating engineering systems by partial differential equation systems; considers the use of engineering principles in formulating mathematical simulation models and analytic techniques for solving the resulting mathematical models. (Sp)

G5603 Introduction to Natural Gas Engineering and Management. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Global natural gas supply and demand, international gas trade and infrastructure, gas policy, regulation, safety and environmental issues, natural gas resource base: conventional and unconventional, gas exploration, drilling and production, gas processing, storage and pipeline, gas trading and marketing, gas utilization, LNG, chemicals. (F)

G5613 Natural Gas Engineering. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Review of properties of natural gases and condensate systems; gas flow in porous media; gas reservoir engineering; gas field development; gas condensate reservoirs; natural gas transportation and storage. (Alt. Sp)

G5623 Natural Gas Processing. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Gas conditioning; processing of gas for its liquids; design of adsorption and absorption facilities; fractionation design. (Alt. Sp)

G5633 Application of System Dynamics in Natural Gas Management. Prerequisite: graduate standing. The limits of classical rationality and decision making, mental model and system thinking, cognitive mapping and hexagon modeling process. Causal loop diagramming, system thinking and system dynamics, strategic planning and scenario management, business simulation tools-Powerism and Ithing, applications in natural gas business process. (Irreg.)

G5812 Research in Special Petroleum Engineering Problems. (Sp, Su)

G5822 Research in Special Petroleum Engineering Problems. Prerequisite: 5812. (F)

G5971 Seminar in Petroleum Engineering. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Current petroleum literature, lectures, and reports; emphasis upon reservoir behavior and conservation. (F, Sp)

G5980 Research for Master's Thesis. Variable enrollment, two to nine hours; maximum credit applicable toward degree, four hours. (F, Sp, Su)

G5990 Special Studies. 1 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing in petroleum engineering. May be repeated with change of topic; maximum credit twelve hours. Supervised individual study or specialized research in petroleum engineering. (F, Sp, Su)

G6153 Transport Phenomena in Porous Media (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 6153). Prerequisite: 5143 or equivalent. Fundamental theory of mass, momentum and energy transport in porous media. Emphasis placed upon enhanced oil recovery processes, in situ energy extraction, and other processes relevant to energy production. (Irreg.)

G6253 Advanced Petrophysics (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 6253). Prerequisite: 4513, 4522, graduate standing or permission. Techniques of sampling petroleum reservoirs with emphasis upon the rock and fluid properties. (Irreg.)

G6263 Advanced Rock Mechanics I (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 6263). Prerequisite: 5243. In-situ stress determinations, effects of stress and strain gradients, time-dependent effects, Griffith's theory, crack phenomena, fracture toughness of rocks, poroelasticity concepts.

G6273 Advanced Rock Mechanics II (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 6273). Prerequisite: 6263. Stereographic projections, properties of discontinuities, fluid flow in fractures, stability and design of rock slopes (two- and three-dimensional).

G6443 Petroleum Production Systems (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 6443). Prerequisite: graduate standing, permission. Principles of the development and operation of petroleum production systems. Considers the combined behavior of the reservoirs, the surface equipment, the pipeline system and the storage facilities. Optimization of these systems for various production schedules using queuing theory, linear programming and dynamic programming. (Irreg.)

G6573 Advanced Reservoir Engineering (Cross-listed with Geological Engineering 6573). Prerequisite: 4513, 4523 and graduate standing. Optimization of material balance equations; saturation calculations, with and without counterflow; dynamics of water drive reservoirs; accelerated blowdown of strong water drive gas reservoirs; conformal mapping of oil and gas fields; the subsidiary equation; tracer methods; streamlines; miscible processes; dispersion models and optimum solvent slug size. (Irreg.)

G6583 Enhanced Oil Recovery (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 6583). Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission. New principles of recovery of oil and gas fields including: polymer, surfactants, miscible recovery processes, inert gas injection, emulsions, steam, in situ and wet combustion techniques. (Sp)

G6612 Drilling Fluids (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 6612). Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Theory and practical application of drilling fluids based upon the theory of colloidal chemistry and the technology of fine particles. (Irreg.)

G6743 Advanced Evaluation of Petroleum Properties (Crosslisted with Geological Engineering 6743). Prerequisite: 4513, 4723, graduate standing. Continuation of 4413. More extensive work on evaluation of petroleum and natural gas properties. Actual fields and leases used. (Irreg.)

G6980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation. (F, Sp, Su)