Petroleum Engineering Courses

PNG 405 Rock and Fluid Properties (3 credits)
Reservoir rock properties, rock and fluid properties (interaction between rock and fluids), flow behavior in reservoir, and fluid properties.

PNG 406 Rock and Fluid Laboratory (1 credit)
Systematic study of oil reservoir rocks and fluids; their interrelation applied to petroleum engineering.

PNG 410 Applied Reservoir Engineering (3 credits)
Analysis and prediction of reservoir performance by use of material balance and steady and nonsteady state flow equations.

PNG 420 Applied Reservoir Analysis (2 credits)
Water influx theory. Application of principles of reservoir analysis to the determination of reservoir behavior and education.

PNG 440W Formation Evaluation (3 credits)
Study of those methods used to evaluate the engineering properties of oil and gas bearing reservoir formations.

PNG 502 Unsteady Flow in Porous Media (3 credits)
The formulation and analytical solution of the transient fluid flow in porous media.

PNG 511 Numerical Solution of the Partial Differential Equations of Flow in Porous Media (3 credits)
Differencing schemes for the partial differential equations of single-phase flow; application to flow of gas and mixing in porous media.

PNG 512 Numerical Reservoir Simulation (3 credits)
Mathematical analysis of complex reservoir behavior and combination drives; numerical methods for the solution of behavior equations; recent developments.

PNG 515 Advanced Oil Recovery Techniques (3 credits)
Advanced oil recovery techniques including water flooding, in-situ combustion, steam injection, hot-water injection, and miscible-phase displacement.