Course Overview
This course deals with some of the fundamental concepts of petroleum engineering. It is intended to give the student an understanding on the theoretical meaning of some of the chemical and physical properties of petroleum and develop the physical meaning of each of these properties and the inter-relationships in particular, the reservoir fluids.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Describe the composition of the chemical compounds (viz. hydrocarbons) which constitute hydrocarbon fluids.
- Describe the phase behaviour of these hydrocarbons occurring in a producing petroleum reservoir.
- Calculate compressibility factor for both sweet and sour natural gas.
- Define and calculate some of the more important properties of reservoir fluids.
- Perform flash calculations on hydrocarbon fluids.
- Perform dew-point and bubble-point calculations on hydrocarbon fluids.
- Volumetric calculations of oil and gas reservoirs.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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