Course Details

Course Information Package

Course Unit TitleOIL AND GAS UPSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES
Course Unit CodeASOG400
Course Unit Details
Number of ECTS credits allocated5
Learning Outcomes of the course unitBy the end of the course, the students should be able to:
  1. Know about Oil & Gas onshore and offshore drilling operations and methods
  2. Understand Reservoir engineering and Enhanced Oil recovery (EOR) methods
  3. Know about Oil & Gas onshore and offshore extraction
  4. Understand Offshore processing and pipelining
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
PrerequisitesNONECo-requisitesNONE
Recommended optional program componentsHavard Devold, “Oil & Gas Production Handbook”
Course Contents1.  Oil & Gas Offshore and Onshore Drilling
 - Drilling preparations
 - Oil & Gas Rings
 - Drilling methods (conventional and new)
2.  Reservoir Engineering
 - Reservoir mapping
 - Reserves estimation
 - Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
 - Water-flooding / gas injection to maximize hydrocarbon recovery
 - Cost effective reservoir depletion schemes
3.  Oil & Gas extraction
 - Process Overview
 - Onshore Facilities
 - Offshore Facilities
 - Main Process Sections (Wellheads, Manifolds, Oil/Gas/Water Separation, Gas Compression)
 - Metering, Storage and Export
4.  Oil & Gas Offshore Processing
 - Platform Oil Processing
 - Platform Gas Processing
 - Oil & Gas Offshore Pipelining
Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
  • “Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing”, Arthur Hidnay, Taylor & Francis, 2007
References
  • Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language” by Martin S. Raymond, PennWell Corp., October 2005
  • BP Statistical review of world energy” June 2013
Planned learning activities and teaching methodsThe taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of lectures and video presentations, conducted with the help of computer. Lecture notes and presentations will be available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks.
Lectures will be supplemented by homework assignments and readings. 
Assessment methods and criteria
Assignments25%
Midterm Exam25%
Final Exam50%
Language of instructionEnglish
Work placement(s)NO

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