FIELD DEVELOPMENT AND PLANT DESIGN

Course content
The course is teaching a selection of topics and petroleum engineering skills
needed for the planning, development and operation of oil and gas fields and to
understand, model and analyze their production performance. Topics typically
covered in the course (with varying degrees of detail) are: life cycle of a
hydrocarbon field, field development workflow, probabilistic reserve estimation,
project economic evaluation, offshore field architectures and production systems,
reservoir depletion and field performance, production scheduling, flow assurance,
flow design of boosting, field processing facilities, export product control and
integrated asset modeling. The course will focus on developing digital
competences and will include some aspects on energy efficiency, and skill transfer
for the energy transition.

The course is teaching the methodology and the petroleum engineering skills
needed to plan the life cycle and oil fields from discovery, through the
assessment phase, the project and development phases, the field operations
period and the abandonment phase. It addresses topics as reserve and recovery
estimation, reservoir depletion, production scheduling, number of wells and
well placement, planning of production gathering and testing systems, designing
well construction, well and production systems performance, field processing
facilities and export product control.
Learning outcome
Ingress: The students should understand the petroleum engineering aspects of
planning, developing and operating oil and gas fields.

Knowledge: At the end of the term, students should understand the process of
planning and developing offshore oil and gas fields and some petroleum
engineering aspects that govern the operation of such fields. Students should be
able to describe the lifecycle of oil and gas fields from discovery through the
assessment phase, the development phase, field operations and abandonment.
Students should be able to describe the most common offshore field
architectures. Students should be able to describe, understand and explain the
functionality of the main components of a production system. Students should
understand the risks, uncertainties and economic factors involved in the
development and operation of oil and gas fields. The students should understand
the depletion performance of a production system, the fundamentals of flow
equilibrium calculations and the flow performance of networks. Students should
understand and recognize the decision variables, objectives and constraints
involved in field planning.
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