School of Engineering and Technology, (SET)
 
CE71.63 : Workflow in Oil and Gas Operations  3(3-0)
 
Course objectives:

This course aims to give a better understanding of the practical side of the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) operations to the students. The course will be a combination of lectures, seminars and field visits to oil and gas companies in the SE Asian countries in order to witness the actual operations. The lectures will consist of different sessions, each of which will take between 2 to 4 weeks, covering petroleum geology and geophysics (G&G), petrophysics, drilling, reservoir management and production technology. The teaching of the course is largely carried out by the invited industrial experts from major companies.
 
Learning Outcomes:

Practical works of petroleum geology and geophysics. Seismic stratigraphy. Petrophysics and well logging. Petroleum reservoir management. Petroleum drilling operation. Petroleum production technology.  Project works.
 
Pre-requisite(s):

None
 
Course Outline:
I.            Overview of the Petroleum Industry. Subsurface exploration  
1.          Overview
2.          Introduction on the oil and gas industry upstream sector
3.          Oil and gas fields in the SE Asia
4.          Introduction on E&P operations: petroleum G&G, well logging and formation evaluation; oil field development and managment

II.         Practical Petroleum Geology                                            
1.          Elements of petroleum geology
2.          Risk management and decision making. POS
3.          Reserve estimation, volumetric calculation
4.          Others

III.       Petroleum Seismic Exploration                                         
1.          Data Acquisition: 2D and 3D seismic; safety and QC
2.          Data Processing
3.          Data Interpretation
4.          Other topics

IV.      Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation                            
1.          Petrophysics zigsaw
2.          Main petrophysical properties of a reservoir
3.          Introduction on well logging techniques and interpretation
4.          Project work of formation evaluation

V.         Introduction on Petroleum Drilling Operations                               
1.          Drilling equipment and methods
2.          Logging and coring
3.          Casing design, cementation, drilling fluid, well completion
4.          Well cost and drilling program

VI.      PracticalPetroleum Reservoir Management                                              
1.          Reserve estimation
2.          Well survey and management. Well simulation
3.          Gas well application
4.          Field development planning
5.          Field visit to a petroleum exploration and production company (e.g., PTT)

VII.    Introduction to Petroleum Production Technology             
1.          Inflow/Outflow Performance, artificial Lifting
2.          Perforation/ stimulation, surface operations and operation problems
3.          Field visit

VIII.    Syndicate exercise:
           Group projects for each module or the whole course will be given so that students can integrate their learning to propose an outline of Oil and Gas Field Development Planning based on the given information. Both report and presentation are required.
 
 
Learning Resources:

Textbook:
Lecture notes and handouts provided by the instrcutors
BradleyH.B. (1992), Petroleum Engineering Handbook3rd Edition, 1,856 p., , SPE, Richardson, TX, U. S. A.
Jahn F., Mark Cook and Mark Graham (2008), Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, 2nd Edition, ISBN 0444532366, 444 p., Elsevier.
 
Reference Books:
Dawe R. A (2000), Modern petroleum technology, Vol. 1, Upstream, 6th Ed., Chichester, Eng. : Wiley, 2 v., TN864 M64 2000
Gray F. (1995), Petroleum production in nontechnical language, 2nd, 288p., Pennwell Publishing Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, TN870 G732 1995.
Link P. K. (1987), Basic petroleum geology, 425p., OGCI Publications, Oil and Gas Consultants International Inc., Tulsa. TN870.5 L49 1987.
Lucas A. G. (2000), Modern petroleum technology, Vol. 2, Downstream, 6th Ed., Chichester, Eng. : Wiley, 2 v., TN864 M64 2000
Tiab D. and Erle C. Donaldson (2004), Petrophysics: theory and practice of measuring reservoir rock and fluid transport properties. Imprint New York: Elsevier Science, 889p., ISBN: 9780750677110.
 
Journals and Magazines:
Geophysics, Geophsical Prospecting, Environmental geology, Energy Sources, Online AAPG Journal,
 
Petromin(www.safan.com), Asian Oil and Gas (www.oilonline.com), Oil and Gas Journal, OPEC Bulletin.
 
 
 
Evaluation Scheme:
The final grade will be computed by summing the grads of each session, for which the weight distribution is as follows:

Assingmen/Project Work: 50%
 
Exams: 50%.
 
Instructor(s):
SECTION NAME
A Dr. Sopon Pongwapee , Dr. Doan Huy Hien , Mr. Chaiyaphruk Chaiyasart