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2016-2017 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

How to Read Catalog Course Descriptions

Texas Tech offers nearly 5,000 courses as part of its curriculum. These courses are listed alphabetically by subject prefix within each college and departmental section of this catalog. The courses appear in numerical order, moving from beginning freshman or developmental level courses to graduate, research, and professional courses.

Not all courses listed in this catalog are offered every year. An online class schedule published before each registration period indicates courses that will be available during the upcoming term or semester and when each class will meet. The class schedule can be found at (www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/class_schedule/index.php). The university reserves the right to cancel any scheduled course or withdraw any program from the list of offerings when the best interests of the institution require such action.

Courses are designated by a subject prefix and number along with a descriptive title. Learn more  about interpreting the course descriptions found throughout the catalog.
 

Petroleum Engineering (Graduate Courses)
  

  • PETR 5000 - Studies in Advanced Petroleum Engineering Topics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: PETR majors only. Study of topics of current interest under the guidance of instructional faculty. May be repeated for credit on different topics or areas of interest.
  

  • PETR 5121 - Graduate Seminar

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Discussions of petroleum engineering research and special industry problems. Required each semester for all graduate students. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • PETR 5301 - Teaching Experience in Petroleum Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: PETR majors only, department approval. On-the-job training in teaching petroleum topics. Students prepare and present lectures, grade problem sets, and prepare laboratory experiments. Students and instructor evaluate performance.
  

  • PETR 5302 - Petroleum Environmental Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. A unified treatment of all aspects of petroleum environmental well planning processes, pollution prevention and safety, management practices and self-assessment process, environmental oil and gas law.
  

  • PETR 5303 - Advanced Drilling Techniques

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: PETR majors only, department approval. A unified treatment of all aspects of well planning and the optimization of oil and gas drilling processes.
  

  • PETR 5304 - Advanced Well Log Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Prerequisite: PETR majors only, department approval. Methods of analyzing various types of well logs to obtain quantitative hydrocarbon reservoir parameters.
  

  • PETR 5305 - Advanced Formation Evaluation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Must have graduate standing in petroleum engineering. Application of both conventional and new formation evaluation tools and techniques to non-vertical wells, unconventional reservoirs, and legacy log files.
  

  • PETR 5306 - Advanced Artificial Lift Methods

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Study of the design and analysis of current mechanisms for lifting oil from the reservoir to surface facilities including optimization theory.
  

  • PETR 5307 - Enhanced Oil Recovery

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: PETR majors only, department approval. Fundamental relations governing the displacement of oil in petroleum reservoirs and methods for predicting oil recovery by miscible and immiscible displacement.
  

  • PETR 5308 - Pressure Transient Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Theory of transient fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs and applications of methods to interpret transient pressure behavior.
  

  • PETR 5309 - Hydrocarbon Reservoir Simulation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. The development of unsteady state fluid flow equations for hydrocarbon reservoirs and the application of finite difference methods to obtain solutions to the equations.
  

  • PETR 5310 - Advanced Simulation Techniques

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Treatment of advanced concepts of reservoir simulation for multidimensional, multiphase flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs.
  

  • PETR 5311 - Thermal Oil Recovery

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Study of the recovery of oil by thermal methods, including steam injection and in situ combustion.
  

  • PETR 5312 - Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Study of 1D, 2D, 3D, one-, two-, and three-phase simulation modeling of carbon dioxide and thermal recovery applications.
  

  • PETR 5313 - Numerical Applications in Petroleum Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Least squares, solving first and second order partial differential equations; backward, central, forward difference solutions, matrix, Gaussian, Adams, Rung-Kutta solutions.
  

  • PETR 5314 - Nodal Analysis and Well Optimization

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Inflow performance relationships, well design, theory of the reservoir flow, flow restrictions, completion effects, multiphase phase flow, and use of computer programs for complex solutions.
  

  • PETR 5315 - Horizontal Well Technology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Topics include why horizontal, incremental cost, historical prospective, drilling change, completion modification, production difference, reservoir aspects, pressure transient, and analysis adjustment.
  

  • PETR 5316 - Advanced Production Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Advanced study of production operations, well deliverability, inflow performance, gas lift design, production system analysis and optimization, downhole equipment and surface facilities design.
  

  • PETR 5317 - Well Completion and Stimulation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Casing string plan; Tubing String plan. Inflow-tubing-and Flowline performance Relationships. Skin calculations for gravel pack, perforation completion, and formation damage. Nodal analysis of well flow. Acid stimulationûmatrix, wormhole, cavity and fractured. Borehole extension by hydraulic fracturing, abrasive/jet perforation with CT-unit, fish-bone type multilateral drain holes.
  

  • PETR 5318 - Gas Production Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Design of processing, transportation, distribution, and flow measurement systems; gas storage reservoirs, flow in porous media, tubing, and pipelines; phase behavior of gas condensates; and coal bed methane.
  

  • PETR 5319 - Multiphase Fluid Flow in Pipes

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Introduction to CFD software (simulator), OLGATM. Multi-phase flow vertical, inclined, horizontal conduits. Transient multiphase pipeline flow analysis. Comparison of CFD-steady-state flow and Empirical correlations for vertical and horizontal flows. Multiphase flow metering. Slug flow analysis in pipeline. Concept of flow assurance.
  

  • PETR 5320 - Advanced Reservoir Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Recovery prediction, tensor permeabilities, multiphase flow, drainage equations, flow potential, streamline-streamtube methods, injectivity, displacements in layered reservoirs, and line source solutions.
  

  • PETR 5322 - Computational Phase Behavior

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Advanced PVT and EOS characterization, tuning EOS by regression, gas condensate reservoirs, use of laboratory experiments and correlation to obtain PVT data, psuedoization and use of PVT programs.
  

  • PETR 5323 - Advanced Phase Behavior

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Thermodynamics of equilibria, volumetric phase behavior, Gibbs and Helmholtz energy, chemical potential, phase diagram, modeling paraffins, asphaltenes, hydrates and mineral deposition, use of PVT software.
  

  • PETR 5324 - Geostatistics for Reservoir Engineers

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Flow in porous media, reservoir characterization, geostatistics, estimation, simulation, case studies, quantifying uncertainties, geological simulation, data integration, grid block properties, and geostatistics software.
  

  • PETR 5325 - Water Flooding Techniques

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Frontal advanced theory for multiphase flow, immiscible flow, capillary cross flow, psuedofunctions, streamlines, measures of heterogeneity, field case studies, pattern flooding, and use of black oil reservoir simulators.
  

  • PETR 5328 - Advanced Property Evaluation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Statistical evaluation of hydrocarbon producing properties, risk analysis, economic analysis of production forecasts and reserve estimation, and cash flow analysis.
  

  • PETR 5329 - Advanced Core Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Rock properties relating to production of oil and gas, multiphase fluid flow, micro- and macro-interaction of fluids and reservoir rocks, Archie parameters and well logs, modeling saturations with permeability.
  

  • PETR 5331 - Drilling Simulation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: PE majors only. Corequisite: PETR 5121 . Well control techniques and methods used to control kicks during operation. (Design Course) (PETR 4321 )
  

  • PETR 5380 - Drilling Engineering Methods

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Drilling equipment, components, description, operation; drilling fluids; hydraulic calculations; casing design; hole problem; cost control, penetration rate, well planning; pressure control; directional drilling; bit; cement. (Leveling program course)
  

  • PETR 5381 - Production Engineering Methods

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Artificial lift, inflow performance relationships, well design and application of stimulation practices, processing equipment, separator problems, emulsions, treating, and transmission systems. (Leveling program course)
  

  • PETR 5382 - Well Logging Fundamentals

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Use of open-hole logs, survey of induction and lateralog suites to determine reserves. (Leveling program course)
  

  • PETR 5383 - Reservoir Engineering Fundamentals

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department approval. Reservoir performance predictions, computation of in place gas, condensate and oil reservoirs, applications of ME for reservoir mechanisms, decline curves, EOR methods, fluid flow in porous media. (Leveling program course)
  

  • PETR 5384 - Fluid Properties

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Reservoir fluids; fluid sampling; phase behavior; hydrocarbon gas-liquid fractions; z-factors; equations of state; flash and differentional calculations; formation volume factors for gas, oil, and water. (Leveling program course)
  

  • PETR 5385 - Rock Properties

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Reservoir rock properties, sampling, core analysis, rock/fluids interaction, concepts of porosity, permeability, saturations, capillary, pressure and compressibility for gas-oil production. (Leveling program course)
  

  • PETR 6000 - Master’s Thesis

    V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • PETR 6001 - Master’s Report

    V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • PETR 6331 - Proposal/Project Communication

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. Guide to research, technical report, project planning, problem definition, grant proposals, thinking, talking, and writing in research, writing technical journal, review articles, and technical presentations.
  

  • PETR 7000 - Research

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • PETR 8000 - Doctor’s Dissertation

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours