Petroleum Production

Tubing and packer design. Hydraulic fracturing and acidizing. Oil and gas well performance. Vertical lift and choke performance. Systems analysis. Production operations. Prerequisite: PEN 340. petroleum engineering environment in which the student is exposed to different aspects of petroleum engineering practice and equipment: design, construction, testing, maintenance, etc. Prerequisite: Department approval. thermodynamics and its applications to the behavior of reservoir fluids, with emphasis on phase behavior of multi-component mixtures. Prerequisite: PEN 310. Environmental review of new energy projects. Pollution prevention methodology and techniques. Separation and recycle streams. Process modification, integration, analysis and control. Risk assessment. Prerequisite: Department approval.