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Cullen College of Engineering

Note: Nonengineering majors may not register for engineering courses except with the written permission of the dean.

Courses: Engineering (ENGI)

6111: Petroleum Engineering Graduate Seminar
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Weekly seminar for candidates for the degree, Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering.

6121: Graduate Bioengineering Seminar
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Weekly seminars; may be repeated for credit.

6298:6398:6498:6598: Research
Cr. 2-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

6302: Reservoir Engineering II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361 and 5362 or consent of instructor. Capillary pressures and vertical distribution of gas, oil, and water saturations, relative permeability and fractional flow relationships, Buckley-Leverett equation and linear displacement efficiency of gas and water drives; effect of well patterns, mobility ratio, and reservoir heterogeneity on areal and vertical sweep efficiency performance of black oil reservoirs.

6304: Evaluation of Petroleum-Bearing Formations I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361 and 5362 or consent of instructor. Characterization of formations by geologic and petrographic examination; by analysis of fluid contents of cores; and by a suite of well-logging tests and their combined interpretation.

6306: Oil Field Facilities Design and Operation
Cr. 3. (3-4). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5368, and 5370 or consent of instructor. Design and operating principles of gas and water surface separation and ratio testing equipment, water supply and water disposal systems, gas dehydration and purification systems, gas compression, corrosion control and clathrate prevention.

6308: Well Diagnostic Methods and Remedial Measures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5368, and 5370 or consent of instructor. Methods of diagnosis of causes of well performance decline, well workover, justification and methods, clean-out, gravel-packing, stimulation by solvent washes, acid treating, hydraulic fracturing, squeeze cementing and recompletion of production wells, antibacterial treatments, acid treatment, and fracturing of injection wells.

6310: Petroleum Production Economics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5362, and 6302 or consent of instructor. Estimation of initial reservoir contents and forecasts of production versus time of crude oil and natural gas by primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery methods, evaluation of costs and risks versus expected rewards by alternative recovery methods, measures of profitability by discounting and cash flow calculations, effects of taxation and external financing.

6312: Evaluation of Petroleum-Bearing Formations II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5362, 6304, or consent of instructor. Advanced well-log interpretation and logging tool theory. A continuation of ENGI 6304: Evaluation of Petroleum-Bearing Formations.

6314: Pressure Transient Testing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5362 and 6302. Theory and application of pressure transient testing of oil and gas wells for determination of reservoir properties and near-well damage or stimulation.

6316: Well Drilling and Completion II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5368 and graduate standing in petroleum engineering. Principles and procedures for cost-effective casing design; materials, design, and procedures for cementing; optimization of bits, weight, and R.P.M. for minimum cost for drilling, directional drilling.

6318: Oil Field Facilities Design II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5370, and 6306. Design theory and practice for facilities for unusual situations as may be required of practicing engineers; adaptations for offshore and other hostile environments.

6320: Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5362, and 6302 or consent of instructor. Review of waterflood calculation methods, extension to polymer flooding, caustic flooding, and carbonated water flooding. Hydrocarbon miscible flooding and CO flooding, estimation of recovery.

6322: Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5362, and 6302 or consent of instructor. Effect of dimensionless ratios of reservoir forces on trapping and displacement of waterflood residual oil by chemical slugs, design of slug and drive fluids for varying reservoir characteristics. Design and estimation of performance of steam soak, steam drive, and in-situ combustion recovery processes.

6324: Reservoir Simulation I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5362, 6302, or consent of instructor. Survey of reservoir simulation methods, stream tube simulator, finite-difference, finite-element, and collocation methods. Theory of finite-difference simulators; formulation of equations and resulting matrices, alternative solution methods.

6326: Reservoir Simulation II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 6324 or consent of instructor. Application of reservoir simulators to demonstrate effects of reservoir characteristics on oil recovery by a variety of processes. Simplified representation of complex reservoir structures by use of cross sections and areal models with pseudo-functions.

6327: Thermal Recovery Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5362 and ENGI 6302, or consent of instructor. Principles of thermally enhanced recovery of oil; hot-water or steam-soak injection; in-situ combustion.

6330: Petroleum Production Economics II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 6302 and 6310. Evaluation of petroleum reserves from standpoints of lending agencies and taxing agencies; effects of future scenarios of oil companies, government agencies, and financial institutions on economic evaluations.

6360: Biorheology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor. Mechanics of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, physics of blood flows and other biological fluids, physical properties, skin, muscle, tendon, and bones. Experimental methods in biorheology.

6361: Circulatory Flow Dynamics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MECE 3463 and ENGI 6360. Mechanics and fluid mechanics of circulatory system. Mathematical modeling and experimental methods in circulatory dynamics.

6362-6363: Methods of Applied Mathematics
Cr. 3 per course (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing. The theory and application of mathematical methods for partial differential equations arising in analytical engineering models.

6368: Well Drilling and Completion I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or science. Drilling rig design and operation, drilling programs, drill string and bit design, drilling mud composition, properties and functions, casing design and cementing, methods of well completion.

6370: Systems Engineering: Introduction to Systems Modeling & Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 4375 or consent of instructor. Dynamic system modeling; linear discrete- and continuous-line state models and their analysis; controllability, observability, stability; state and output feedback, observers and state estimators.

6371: Systems Engineering: Systems Optimization and Computational Methods
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 6370. Formulation of systems optimization problems; linear and nonlinear programming methods and their application to static and dynamic system optimization; computational algorithms for discrete-time optimal control and estimation problems.

6372: Petroleum Production Operations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or science. Subsurface and surface facilities for producing oil and gas, gas-oil and water-oil separation and measuring systems, gathering systems, gas processing facilities, injection systems for gas or water.

6388: Petroleum Engineering Project
Cr. 3 per semester. (0-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 5361, 5362, 5368, and 5370 or consent of the project advisor. May be repeated once for credit.

6397: Selected Topics in Petroleum Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). May be repeated for credit.

7397: Selected Topics
Cr. 3. (3-0). May be repeated for credit.