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Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum Engineering

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Overview Of Petroleum Engineering

The Department of Petroleum Engineering (DPE) was established in 1996 / 1997 as a department of Petroleum Engineering and Chemical Engineering when CEP was founded. However, in 1999 / 2000, the Department was divided into two parts so as to make DPE independent.
Since the establishment of DPE, 16 batches of 765 students graduated. Currently, the 17th batch which includes 214 students will graduate.

Heads of the Department

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Name

Nationality

Duration

From

To

1

Osama Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Aal

Sudanese

1996

1997

2

 Mohamed Abdul-Qader Al-Saffar

Iraqi

1997

1999

3

 Essam Kamel Saleh

Iraqi

1999

2001

4

Abdullah Ahmed Baradi

Yemeni

2001

2004

5

Mohamed Mustafa Suleiman

Egyptian

2004

2010

6

 Salem Saleh Bamomen

Yemeni

2010

2012

7

Mazen Ahmed Moherey

Yemeni

2012

2014

8

Amer Bader Bin Murdhah

Yemeni

2014

2016

9

Salem Mubarak Bin Qadeem

Yemeni

2016

until now

Vision

To be a pioneering locally and regionally in providing outstanding petroleum engineering education, scientific researches and community service.

Mission

To provide high quality petroleum engineering education and conduct research , and provide society service.

Objectives

The educational objectives of the Petroleum Engineering program are to graduate engineers who, within a few years of graduation, who will:

  1. Obtain positions in the upstream oil and gas, such as drilling engineer, production engineer, reservoir engineer and show proficiency in these positions
  2. Continue their life-long learning through postgraduate studies and/or participate in continuous professional development to meet the challenges of rapidly emerging technologies and contribute to the production of knowledge.
  3. Serve the society by participation in professional activities that impact health, safety and environment through ethical behavior, sustainable development and modern knowledge.
  4. Analyze petroleum engineering problems by using technical knowledge and skills and develop solutions and communicate these to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.
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Faculty’s Programs

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Bachelor Program
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Description of Courses :

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Study Plan

Petroleum  Engineering Curriculum
Year FIRST SEMESTER Hours SECOND SEMESTER Hours
FIRST YEAR  No Course No Course Title Th T P Cr  No Course No Course Title Th T P Cr
1 ARAB 111 Arabic Language 1 2 0 0 2 1 ARAB 121 Arabic Language 2 2 0 0 2
2 ENG 111 English Language 1 2 0 0 2 2 ENG 121 English Language 2 2 0 0 2
3 ISLAM 111 Islamic Culture 1 2 0 0 2 3 ISLAM 121 Islamic Culture 2 2 0 0 2
4 CSC 111 Computer Skills 1 0 2 2 4 MATH 121 Integral Calculus 2 2 0 3
5 MATH 111 Differential Calculus 2 2 0 3 5 PHYS 121 General Physics 2 2 0 2 3
6 PHYS 111 General Physics 1 2 0 2 3 6 COE121 Computer Programming 2 0 2 3
7 CHEM 111 General Chemistry* 2 0 2 3 7 PET 121 Advanced Chemistry 2 0 2 3
Total Credit Hours 17 Total Credit Hours 18
SECOND YEAR 1 MATH 211 Vectors and Matrices 2 2 0 3 1 COM 221 Communication Skills 2 0 0 2
2 PET 211 Technical English 2 0 0 2 2 ENG 221 Technical Writing 2 0 0 2
3 PET 212 Introduction to Petroleum  Engineering 1 2 2 0 3 3 MATH 221 Differential Equation 2 2 0 3
4 PET 213 General Geology 1 2 0 2 3 4 PET 221 Introduction to Petroleum  Engineering2 2 2 0 3
5 PET214 Statics & Dynamics 2 2 0 3 5 PET 222 General Geology 2 2 0 2 3
6 PET 215 Engineering Thermodynamics 2 2 0 3 6 PET 223 Reservoir  Rock Properties 2 0 2 3
Total Credit Hours 17 Total Credit Hours 16

THIRD YEAR

 

 1 MATH 311 Engineering Probability and Statistics 2 2 0 3 1 MATH 321 Numerical Methods 2 2 0 3
2 PET 311 Strength of Material 2 2 0 3 2 PET 321 Fluid Mechanics 2 0 2 3
3 PET 312 Petroleum Geology 2 2 0 3 3 PET 322 Formation Evaluation 2 2 0 3
4 PET 313 Well Logging 2 2 0 3 4 PET 323 Geophysics 2 2 0 3
5 PET 314 Reservoir  Fluids Properties 2 2 0 3 5 PET 324 Drilling Engineering2 2 2 0 3
 6 PET 315 Drilling Engineering 1 2 2 2 3 6 PET 325 Reservoir Engineering 1 2 2 0 3
Total Credit Hours 18 Total Credit Hours 18

FOURTH YEAR

 

 1 SRM 411 Scientific Research Methodology 2 0 0 2 1 PET 421 Professional Ethics 2 0 0 2
2 PET 411 Well Completion 2 2 0 3 2 PET 422 Storage and Transportation 2 2 0 3
3 PET 412 Production Engineering 1 2 2 0 3 3 PET 423 Production  Engineering 2 2 2 0 3
4 PET 413 Reservoir Engineering  2 2 2 0 3 4 PET 424 Well Test 2 2 0 3
5 PET 414 Computer Applications 2 2 0 3 5 PET 425 Reservoir Simulation 2 0 2 3
6 PET xxx Elective Course  1 2 2 0 3 6 PET xxx Elective Course  2 2 2 0 3
7 PET 427 Field Training 0 0 90 0
Total Credit Hours 17 Total Credit Hours 17

FIFTH YEAR

 

 1 PET 511 Natural Gas  Engineering 2 2 0 3 1 PET 521 Enhanced Oil Recovery 2 2 0 3
2 PET 512 Petroleum Economics 2 2 0 3 2 PET 522 Health, Safety & Environment 2 0 0 2
3 PET 513 Graduation Project 1 0 0 6 3 3 PET 524 Graduation Project 2 0 0 6 3
4 PET xxx Elective  Course 3 2 2 0 3 4 PET xxx Elective  Course 3 2 2 0 3
Total Credit Hours 12 Total Credit Hours 11

Cr: Credit T: Tutorial P: Practical Th: Theory

Courses Description

PET 211 Introduction to Petroleum  Engineering 1 2-2-3
This course provides students with the fundamental aspects of petroleum engineering. Topics include origin of petroleum and generation, petroleum exploration methods, Reservoir rock and fluid properties, methods of oil extraction

 

PET 212             General Geology I 2-2-3
This course provides students with an introductory of the fundamentals of physical geology. Topics include Introduction to Geology, minerals, intrusive igneous rocks, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, earth’s interior, volcanism, plate tectonics, and earthquakes. Through this course student well be do laboratory experiments which focus on identifying rocks and minerals in hand specimen.

 

PET 213             Statics & Dynamics 2-2-3
This course provides the students with an introduction to the basic equation and idealizations of mechanics in static and dynamics. Topics include: Introduction of mechanics, Force vectors, addition of a system of coplanar forces, equilibrium of particle, force system resultant, equilibrium of a rigid body, Friction, Principles of dynamics. This course has also a tutorial component where the students are applied the theoretical part on some examples.

 

PET 214 Engineering Thermodynamics 2-2-3
System and control volume concepts. Properties of a pure substance.  Work and heat. The first law of thermodynamics as applied to a system and a control volume, internal energy, enthalpy. The reversible and irreversible processes, heat capacity. Volumetric properties of pure fluid. The ideal gas. The second law of thermodynamics

 

PET 221 Introduction to Petroleum  Engineering II 2-2-3
The course provides the student with a brief introduction to modern drilling, formation evaluation, production and processing operations.

 

PET 222             General Geology II 2-2-3
This course provides students with principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy. Topics include Introduction to sedimentology and stratigraphy, origin and transport of sedimentary materials, physical properties of sedimentary rocks, sedimentary structures, depositional environments, Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy units, and dating. Through this course student well be  focus on constructing and interpreting geologic maps and cross sections and One field trip at student expense is requisite.

 

PET 223 Reservoir Rock Properties 2-2-3
This course deals mainly with theories and laboratory measurements of the rock. Course includes rock porosity, rock permeability, compressibility, saturation, electrical properties, capillary properties of reservoir rocks, relative permeability properties. This course also includes a session of laboratory class.

 

PET 311 Strength of Material 2-2-3
This course provides the students with a principles of strength of materials that Topics include introduction of mechanical properties and type of loading, simple stress and strain, bars with cross sections varying in steps and varying load, thermal stresses  and Strain, shearing stresses, twist in circular cross section beams and shearing force and bending moment

 

PET 312             Petroleum Geology 2-2-3

This course refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for hydrocarbons.

Topics includes: Origin of petroleum ,hydrocarbon Generation ,occurrences of crude Petroleum ,characteristics of Reservoir rock, crude oil migration, petroleum Traps ,Sedimentary basin, geology of Natural Gas ,petroliferous provinces of Yemen.

 

PET 313             Well Logging 2-2-3
This Course provides students with comprehensive study of principles and applications of well logging in open whole and cased hole oil and gas fields in order to evaluate formations and hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs. Covered topics include:  introduction to well logging, Petrophysics, borehole logging environment, resistivity logs, spontaneous potential log, natural gamma ray, density logs, neutron log, sonic log andformation evaluation in clastic and shaly sandstone formations.

 

PET 314 Reservoir  Fluids Properties 2-2-3
This course deals mainly with theories and measurements of the fluid properties of petroleum reservoir. topics include properties of natural gases, phase behavior, types of reservoir fluid systems, properties of black oils, gas-liquid equilibria, ideal & non-ideal solutions,  flash calculations, properties of reservoir waters. This course also includes a session of laboratory tests on reservoir fluids.

 

PET 315             Drilling Engineering I 2-2-3
This course provides the students with an extended introduction to the drilling operations. Topics covered include drilling fluid characteristics, clay chemistry, mud rheology, drilling hydraulics and surge and swab pressures. The course is accompanied by a laboratory session which covers drilling fluids formulation and testing.

 

PET 321 Fluid Mechanics 2-2-3
This course provides the students with the of fluid mechanics and the behavior of fluids at rest and under various flow conditions. Topics include: Introduction of fluid mechanics, pressure measurement, Fluid static, Introduction to fluids in motion, introduction to transportation of fluid and metering of fluid. This course has also a practical component where the students are expected to perform certain experiments and join in laboratory demonstrations.

 

PET 322 Formation Evaluation 2-2-3
This course provides students with comprehensive study of the process of interpreting a combination of measurements taken inside a wellbore to evaluate the characteristics of subsurface formations and quantify oil and gas hydrocarbon in the resevoirs. Covered topics include: well logging reviews, routine formation evaluation techniques, over-plot interpretation techniques, multiple log interpretation techniques, cross-plot interpretation techniques, shaly-sand interpretation techniques, gas-sand interpretation techniques, calibration and data quality control, mud logging, cased-hole asset tools, nuclear magnetic resonance logging and measurements while drilling.

 

PET 323 Geophysics 2-2-3
This course provides student with basics geophysical methods of exploration in oil and gas fields. It includes: introduction of geophysical exploration methods and theoretical principles of gravity and  magnetic methods, instrumentation, instrumentation and reduction of gravity and magnetic surveying data, separation and. interpretation of  the Gravity and magnetic results, principles of electrical surveying, seismic surveying, seismic reflection surveying. The course also includes mini project related to geophysical methods.

 

PET 324             Drilling Engineering II 2-2-3
This course provides the students with an extended introduction to the drilling operations. Topics covered include drilling fluid characteristics, clay chemistry, mud rheology, drilling hydraulics and surge and swab pressures. The course is accompanied by a laboratory session which covers drilling fluids formulation and testing.

 

PET 325 Reservoir Engineering I 2-2-3
This course provides the students with fundamentals of reservoir fluid flow and drive mechanisms of oil reservoirs and the basic methods for estimating the oil reserves. Topics include fundamentals of reservoir fluid flow, steady state, unsteady state and pseudosteady state single-phase flow equations through porous media, principle of superposition, under-Saturated oil reservoirs, basic concepts of primary recovery, basic derivation of the general material balance equation, and the material balance equation as an equation of a straight line.

 

PET 411 Well Completion 2-2-3
The student is introduced to subsurface operations needed to prepare the well for production after being drilled and cased. Parts covered include:-well completion designs based upon reservoir, mechanical and economic considerations, the production system, comprising bottom-hole, tubing, choke and surface facilities, subsurface production control, completion and work-over fluids, perforation, remedial cementing, sand control, and well stimulation operations.

 

PET 412 Production Engineering I 2-2-3
This course offers a basic knowledge of petroleum production systems, inflow and out flow performance relationships, flow of single and multiphase fluid flow in vertical pipes, chock/bean performance, flow-line performance, nodal analysis and production optimization.

 

PET 413 Reservoir Engineering II 2-2-3
The course provides students with the classifications and drive mechanisms of oil reservoirs and the basic methods for estimating the oil reserves. Topics include introduction of water influx, water influx models, saturated oil reservoirs, predicting oil reservoir performance, coning in vertical and horizontal wells, and decline-curve analysis.

 

PET 414 Computer Applications 2-2-3
This course provides students with principles of the basics of computer science and its applications in petroleum engineering practices including geophysical, well logging, geological, drilling engineering problem, reservoir engineering and production engineering aspects. This course also includes a session of laboratory  student will be use a Matlab program in a computer Lab.

 

PET 421 Professional Ethics 2-0-2
This course deals mainly with Ethical theories and tools Course includes: basic ethical theories such as consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, but also more modern theories such as discourse ethics, feminist ethics as well as theories about justice and equal opportunities. Decision-making models and frameworks within engineering ethics.
Case Study: Analysis of examples of situations which engineers may encounter in their professional life with the help of the studied ethical theory. Interview with professionally active engineers on ethical issues they have encountered during their career.

 

PET 422 Storage and Transportation 2-2-3
The course focuses on principles of flowing oil and gas in pipes and design and operation of the oil and gas pipes and tanks. It include introduction and basic concepts of oil and gas separation, fundamentals of flow in pipes, flow in pipes types, gathering and separation of oil and gas, pipeline transportation of oil, pipeline transportation of natural gas, oil tanks, gas tanks, corrosion in pipes and tanks and control and safety systems.

 

PET 423 Production Engineering II 2-2-3
This course provides student with the main instruments through artificial lifting, acidification and hydraulic fracturing. The course addresses the following topics: Sucker rod pump, Electrical submersible pump, Hydraulic piston pump, Jet pump, Gas lift, Hydraulics fracturing, Acidizing fracture.

 

PET 424 Well Test 2-2-3
This course deals mainly with theory and practice of pressure transient testing. Topics include introduction and basic concepts of well test, pressure drawdown test analysis, pressure buildup test analysis, injection well testing, well test analysis by use of type curve matching, other well tests, gas well testing, design and implementation of well test.

 

PET 425 Reservoir Simulation 2-2-3
This course provides students with principles of reservoir simulation. Topics include introduction to formulation of fluid flow equations, finite difference formulations of explicit and implicit techniques, applications of finite difference techniques, stability of finite difference techniques and applications using a simulator. Through this course student will be use black oil simulator (Eclipse) and Matlab programs for reservoir simulation data.

 

PET 427 Field Training 0-90-0
 A continuous period of 90 working hours of field training spent in a related organization, provides the student with an opportunity to explore career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom in a work setting. The training also helps students gain a clearer sense of what they still need to learn and provides an opportunity to build professional networks. On completion of the training, the student is required to submit a formal written report to the department. Also, students should conduct a technical presentation in present of the selected committee. The students are required to perform field training during summer holidays after fourth year under supervision of signed faculty member and field supervisor.

 

 

 

PET 511 Natural Gas Engineering 2-2-3
This course provides the students with the principles of natural gas and their practical application to determine gas reserves and predicting future production. Topics include dry gas reservoirs. Wet gas reservoirs. Gas condensate reservoirs. Analysis of decline curves. Gas well performance. Natural gas hydrates. Gas flow measurement and processing. Liquefied Natural Gas.

 

PET 512 Petroleum Economics 2-2-3

The course provides students with the standards and practices of economic evaluation in the petroleum industry and brief review of the principles of economic evaluation. Topics include alternative reservoir depletion schemes utilizing decline curve analysis, economic decision tools, typical decision making situations,

gas economics, risk and uncertainty and decline balance depreciation. While teaching this course students will be presented in the form of small project groups on topics related to economic evaluation studies of oil and gas projects.

 

PET 513 Graduation Project I 0-6-3
This course means to practice project management, technical writing, and technical presentation and other soft skills.Students work in groups of four students under faculty supervision to complete the project. In this part, the student is take lectures parallel with Faculty supervisor describes problem and available data and formulates plan of execution and obtains supervisor’s approval. The end of the course student will deliver oral presentation and written reports.

 

PET 521             Enhanced Oil Recovery 2-2-3
This Course provides students with principles of basic theoretical and design aspects of water flooding processes. Topics include introduction to stages of recovery, fundamentals of rock and fluid interaction, flow of immiscible fluids, prediction of linear immiscible displacement, areal sweep efficiency, flood patterns, miscible gas displacement methods, chemical flooding methods and thermal oil recovery methods

 

PET 522 Health, Safety & Environment 2-0-2
This course provides student with the basics of security safety and environment and contains the following main topics: Principles of security and safety, primary principles in fir, fire extension and equipment, risk of crude oil filtering electric risks in oil industry it also deals with personal prevention and first aid, as well as introduction to control over the oil industry and the effects to some petroleum operations on the environment, the teaching of this course will present student in the form of miniature project groups for security and safety topics in the oil industry

 

PET 524 Graduation Project II 0-6-3
This course is the second part of a sequence of two courses that constitute the BSc graduation project. The graduation project enables the students to plan and implement their work using engineering skills that have been learned during their prescribed educational program. In this part, the student is expected to follow up what has been performed in Project-I under the supervision of one of the faculty members. The course covers arranging for data collection, design, environment, economic and analyzes results in a particular area of concentration. The student will have weekly group meetings to discuss their progress and any problems being encountered. At the end of the semester required from the team of project write final report and make an oral presentation with the presence of faculty members as referees.