Course Introduction

• The basic petroleum engineering course gives introduction to Petroleum Engineering discipline, which includes geology eservoir, production, and drilling engineering as well as related topics.  Basic Petroleum Engineering Practices will set the foundation for technical professionals with regards to technology and its engineering applications

Course Objectives

• Basic petroleum geology
• Reservoir fluid and rock properties
• Fundamentals of reservoir fluid flow
• Oil and gas reservoir classification, definition, delineation, and development
• Unconventional resources
• Fundamentals of drilling, well completion, and production operations
• Basics of casing design and primary cementing
• Primary and enhanced recovery mechanisms

Course Schedule

Day-1

Introduction to petroleum geolgogy

• Safety
• Petroleum geology
• Exploration geology
• Exploration technology
• Production operations
• Recovery methods

Day-2 

• Introduction to reservoir
• Reservoir fluid properties
• Reservoir drives
• Reservoir properties
• Unconventional reservoir
• Reservoir rocks properties
• Carbonate reservoir
• Classic reservoir
• Surface processing

Day-3 

Introduction to drilling operations

• Drilling engineering
• Drilling operations
• Casing and cementation
• Directional Drilling
• Casing while drilling
• Well completion, stimulation, and workover
• Mud engineering
• formation damage

Day-4

• Introduction formation evaluation  and completion
• Formation evaluation:

1. Mud logging
2. Wireline logging
3. MWD/LWD
4. Core operations
5. Cased hole logging

• well completion
• open hole completion
• cased hole completion
• Well testing

Day-5 

Introduction to production operations

• Production operations
• National production
• Artificial lift production
• Surface production facilities