BEng (Hons) Petroleum Engineering

Course: Introduction To Petroleum Engineering Instructor Dr. Tarek Darwich

Introduction to Petroleum Engineering

Course Outlines:
What is Petroleum Engineering? The Life Cycle of Oil and Gas projects, Origin, formation and accumulation of Petroleum, Oil & Gas Exploration, Appraisal of Oil & Gas Discoveries, Development of Oil & Gas Discoveries, Producing Oil & Gas Fields, Transportation of Oil & Gas, The Petroleum Industry & the Environment, Petroleum Economics.
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Field Life Cycle

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The Production System

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The Production System

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Pressure Losses in a Production System

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Flow Regimes in Vertical Wells

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Types of Artificial Lift Systems

Sucker Rod Pumps Electrical Submersible Pumps Gas-Lift Hydraulic Pumps Progressive Cavity Pumps

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Sucker Rod Pumps

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Electrical Submersible Pumps

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Offshore Production System

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Major Elements of Offshore Production System

Wells (subsea or platform wells) Well Platforms Feeder subsea pipelines Processing platforms or FPSO Export pipelines for oil and gas Tankers for evacuation of oil

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Offshore production System

A typical oil production platform is self-sufficient in Energy and water needs; housing electric generators, water desalinators, and all the equipment necessary to process the produced fluids. Elements in the surface production system includes wellhead, production manifold, production separator, gas compressors, water injection pumps, oil export pumps and metering system. All production facilities are designed to have minimum environmental impacts. The size and composition of the crew of an offshore installations will vary greatly from platform to platform Because of the cost intensive nature of operating an offshore platform, it is important to maximise productivity by ensuring work continues 24 hours a day.

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Floating Production and Storage Systems

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FPSO & Subsea Wells

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Unmanned Platforms
Small wellhead platforms consisting of well bay, helipad and emergency shelter. They are designed to operate remotely under normal conditions. They are only visited occasionally for routine maintenance and well work.

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Offshore wells
Production Wells: Naturally flowing or on artificial lift (mainly gas lift or ESP) Injection wells: injection wells gas and/or water

Wells may be Dry Tree wells (wellhead on a platform) or Wet Tree wells (Subsea wells)
Normally there is one vertical well from a platform. Other wells are directional, horizontal and/or multi-lateral wells.

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Naturally Flowing and gas-Lifted wells

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Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP) Wells

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Deviated Wells

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Horizontal Wells

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Multi-lateral Wells

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Oil and Gas Processing

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Oil and Gas Processing

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Crude Oil Evacuation by SBM and a Tanker

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Field Development
Oil and gas projects develop from initial Prospect status into committed investment.

Field Development demands adaptable, quick-thinking, multi-skilled engineers and scientist supported by the most advanced tools and methodologies.
Field Development covers a wide range of options from single well with early production facilities to a complex multi-well, multi-facility development and from small sub-sea tiebacks to large scale deep water development. Key skills for total field development are:
Subsurface including geology, geophysics, petrophysics and reservoir engineering. Well design and production technology Flow assurance and production chemistry Subsea and pipeline design Facilities and structure design Environmental impact Technical safety and risk management Cost estimation and scheduling

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Field Production

(Examples from the UK)

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Field Production

(Examples from the UK)

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