Experimental Investigation of Interfacial Tension Measurement and Oil Recovery by Carbonated Water Injection : A Case Study Using Core Samples from an Iranian Carbonate Oil Reservoir

The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Marvdasht Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, 73711-13119, Iran, for the provision of the laboratory facilities necessary for completing this work.Peer reviewedPostprin

A STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PETROLEUM ENGINEERING SPECIALIZATION CURRICULUM OFFERED BY THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY PETRONAS

Tertiary education in Malaysia has become a subject of great importance and concern to both its people and the government. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, or UTP, which is wholly owned by the national oil and gas corporation PETRONAS, is one such tertiary institution <hat has emerged in response to the growing demand for higher education in the country. Under the mechanical and chemical engineering programs of UTP, undergraduate students are offered a petroleum specialization stream, for those interested in the study of petroleum or inclined to pursue a career in the oil and gas industry, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest sectors of the Malaysian economy. The motivation for offering petroleum education at UTP and the effectiveness of UTP's petroleum program and courses are the principal areas of concern of this paper. A discourse will first be presented on the progress of Malaysia's tertiary education leading to the founding of UTP, on the university's education system and its overall undergraduate engineering programme. Then, the following three aspects to the rationale for having a petroleum specialization elective at UTP are deliberated. The first aspect concerns UTP's main motivation for offering education on petroleum engineering- why petroleum engineering is taught at UTP, considering it is not a conventional field of study at the undergraduate level. The second relates to the advantages and effectiveness of offering petroleum education as a specialized stream under the mechanical engineering program', as opposed to conferring a full petroleum engineering degree. The third aspect of the issue of UTP's petroleum education discussed in this paper is the apportioning of the study of petroleum under mechanical and chemical engineering programs. The effectiveness of UTP's petroleum curriculum, in preparing its mechanical engineering graduates for the oil and gas industry, is investigated. For this, the * The scope of discussion of this paper centers on the mechanical engineering program's petroleum specialization stream. Thus, when a specific program evaluation is presented, the petroleum elective stream under chemical or civil engineering will not be discussed in this paper. MOGE Project 2002 MohJ Taib, Page 6 of 59 educational process flow within the mechanical engineering program is examined to determine the program's strength and weaknesses in preparing its students for the finalyear petroleum specialization courses. The suitability ofUTP's petroleum elective courses are also discussed, along the lines of adequacy to impart maximum benefit to students who will be embarking on a career in the petroleum industry. Due to their relevancy, monologues on the Malaysian oil and gas industry and the significance of petroleum education for the local industry are presented, to reflect on the industry's current and future requirements for skills and knowledge of its workforce. For comparison and for assessing the appropriateness of UTP' s petroleum program, this paper briefly discusses similar programs offered by other universities. In the final evaluation, issues of quality assessment and academic accreditation are delved into, capped up by a review of the strengths of UTP' s petroleum program and some recommendations for improving the program's courses

Effective Assessment Plan Leading to Strong Reform of Petroleum Engineering Graduate Program

The Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University has made a lot of significant actions of improvement to its graduate program that was motivated by a systematic SACSCOC assessment plan. This paper shows how the SACSCOC assessment plan aided in making continuous actions of improvement and as a conclusion of these actions, how the current graduate curriculum plan was improved. This paper highlights the details of the graduate department assessment plan, such as how graduate program objectives are assessed, what assessment tools are used, when data are gathered and evaluated, and when actions of improvement are made. This paper will also detail how the analysis of data was utilized in making actions of continuous improvement. At the end of the paper examples of the significant actions of improvement made based on the department assessment and evaluation plan are presented.Cockrell School of Engineerin

Petroleum Extraction Engineering

In this chapter, the information about rotary drilling rig components, their purpose and principles of operation is presented through the in-depth analysis of hoisting, rotating and circulating equipment. Detailed classification of drilling fluids and its content is followed by the thorough investigation of the phenomenon of drilling fluid losses. The effects of drilling mud additives and loss circulation materials on rheology and the rate of penetration of drilling mud are supported by the studies of comparing the rate of penetration of drilling mud with various loss circulation materials. Finally, the fluid capability to form filter cake on the borehole walls is presented through the physical simulation of flow

User Guided Design: Building Confidence in Engineering Data Publication

Advances in imaging technology have generated large volumetric datasets in the field of petroleum engineering. To address the need to share this data, a multidisciplinary team developed the Digital Rocks Portal. This paper describes the protocol for conducting the user experience study, analyzing the results, and the methods to improve the researcher’s experience and enhance the quality of the data publications.Paper was presented at SciDataCon 2016 in Denver, ColoradoTexas Advanced Computing Center (TACC

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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand

The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment opportunities, which resulted in the department losing over half of its staff to industry. At the same time, the supply of local students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time threatened the department’s future, and resulted in the need for a new focus to return the department to stability.A number of new initiatives were introduced, which included: bringing industry into the decision-making processes; introducing a new two-year Masters program to assist high quality migrant students obtain Australian permanent residency; increasing the advertising of petroleum engineering as a career option to schools and industry; linking with UNSW, UWA and Adelaide universities to establish a joint Masters program; introducing a new Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering; changing the block form of teaching to a semester-based form; and having the Commonwealth recognise the new Masters program for Commonwealth funding of Australian students as a priority pathway to a career as a petroleum engineer while the Bachelors program gathered momentum. This paper maps the positive changes made during 2008/9, which led to a 100% increase in student numbers, a 50% increase in staff to stabilise teaching, a 400% increase in active PhD students, and industry projects to deliver an increasing stream of high quality, industry-ready, graduate petroleum engineers over the next 10–20 years into the current ageing population where the average age of a petroleum engineer is 51