| CODE | GSC5207 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Drilling and Production Engineering | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Geosciences | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Drilling Engineering - Well program design; - Site surveys, site preparation, drill pad, mud pit, conductor pipe, mobilization & rig-up; - Rigs, jackups and semisubmersibles: rig components, drilling string, drilling bits; - Mud Engineering: functions, types, properties; - Drilling Procedure: straight, directional, multilateral, and extended reach drilling; - Well Completions and Oil well Casing: fracture gradient, functions, types, properties, specification and casing design, well completion practices, open hole-, perforated-, sand exclusion-, permanent-, multiple zone-, and drainhole completions, wellhead, lifting; - Cementing: functions, classes, types, properties; - Hole problems: pipe sticking, lost circulation; - Waste, waste management; - Abandonment. Production Engineering - Performance of Productive Formation: productivity index, inflow performance relationships, gas well productivity, generalised pressure functions; - Flow of Fluids in Pipes: general energy equation, static bottom hole pressure, friction factor; - Gas Lift: continuous gas lift, gas lift valves, compression requirement; - Processing: separation and treatment of well fluids, conventional stage separation, gas-liquid mixtures, water-oil mixtures; - Processing of Gas Condensates and Natural Gases: absorption and stripping, hydrate formation and prevention, dehydration and sweetening of natural gases; - Hydrocarbon Transportation and Storage: pipelines, multiphase flow, pumps and compressors. Study-unit Aims: The study-unit aims to provide the student the knowledge and understanding of planning wells, drilling, completion, testing, well treatment, and field development. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to understand the: - Principles of drilling procedures and equipment; - Design of a well program; - Preparation of site and other work leading to drilling; - Principles of well completion and testing; - Drilling and production waste management; - Function of production facilities; - Principles of field management including well simulation and export. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Design a well drilling program including casing and mud programs for a variety of well prognoses; - Design the completion and testing of a well; - Formulate a field development and management program. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - S Devereux (1998 ) Well Planning and Drilling Manual, PennWell Books. - SPE (1986) Applied Drilling Engineering, Society of Petroleum Engineers, London. - S Devereux (2012 ) Drilling Technology in Nontechnical Language, PennWell Books. - JP Nquyen, B B Balvet (1996) Drilling: Oil and Gas Field Development Techniques, Technip. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualifications: Honours degree, 2nd upper or above, in Science, Engineering or a related discipline Pre-requisite Study-units: GSC5200, GSC5202 Co-requisite Study-unit: GSC5203 |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | John Bisset Albert Caruana (Co-ord.) |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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