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Faculty of Engineering

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Modules for Graduate Certificate in Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences

* SkillsFuture credit (available for Singapore Citizens, subject to approval) ^ SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) subsidy available for eligible Singapore Citizens and Singapore PR (More information can be found on Application & Programme Fee Page)

1. OT5400 Engineering Fundamentals for Petroleum Engineering

2. OT5401A General and Sedimentary Geology

3. OT5401B Petroleum Geology

4. OT5402A^ Seismic Acquisition

5. OT5402B^ Seismic Processing and Imaging

6. OT5403A Petrophysics for Petroleum Engineering

7. OT5403B Downhole Measurements for Petroleum Engineering

8. OT5405A Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery

9. OT5405B Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods and Application

10. OT5406A Petroleum Production Engineering

11. OT5406B Petroleum Production Engineering - Wellbore

Note: Non-students of Graduate Certificate Programme in Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences should preferably have relevant engineering degree or relevant work experience

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OT5400 Engineering Fundamentals for Petroleum Engineering Instructors:

Prof (Practice) Lau Hon Chung

Dr Elita Li Yunyue

Pre-requisite

For students of Graduate Certificate in Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences: Nil

For non-students: B.Eng. (Civil Engineering) degree, other relevant engineering degrees, or equivalent.

Module Description This module focuses on preparing students in upstream oil and gas, core and service industries, especially in reservoir engineering or other cross-disciplines. It also focuses on the mathematical and engineering fundamentals. Knowledge of this topic will assist students to pursue a career in reservoir engineering. Topics

1. Vectors and tensors 2. Partial differential equations 3. Finite difference methods 4. Engineering basics:

Conservation of mass

Conservation of momentum

Conservation of energy 5. Thermodynamics basics:

1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics 6. Basic fluid mechanics

Navier Stokes equation

Continuity equation 7. Basic digital signal processing

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OT5401A General and Sedimentary Geology Instructor:

To be confirmed

Pre-requisite



Module Description Geoscience is integral to the petroleum industry and understanding the principles and applications of petroleum system geoscience is important for Petroleum Engineers. This module introduces the fundamental principles of geology. Its discourse shall focus on applied aspects of Geoscience to cater to the needs of the upstream petroleum industry. Participants will have an understanding of the planet Earth & its crustal deformation and geological evolution over time, of rocks (sedimentary in particular), principles of stratigraphy and their application to reconstruct the geological history of a region, and of depositional processes and environments and the evolution of sedimentary basins. Topics

1. Rocks & Minerals

Rock cycle, Rock types & Properties

Sandstone, Shale and Carbonates 2. Principles of Geology

Evolution of Earth

Structural Geology

Principles of Stratigraphy 3. Sedimentary Geology

Sedimentary Basins & Distribution

Sedimentary Processes

Sedimentary Environment & Facies 4. Origin & Accumulation of Petroleum

Origin of Oil

Kerogen & the Oil kitchen

Migration & accumulation

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OT5401B Petroleum Geology Instructor:

To be confirmed Pre-requisite



Module Description This module introduces the applications of geology for petroleum exploration. This shall address the applied aspects of geoscience used for the upstream petroleum industry. Participants will have an understanding of the origin of petroleum and its occurrence and the essential components of a petroleum system. They will learn about the stages & life cycle of petroleum exploration, about petroleum exploration methods and resulting geological deductions, as well as the characteristics of reservoir rocks and how geology influences reserves estimation. Topics

1. Petroleum Exploration

Exploration lifecycle

Petroleum System and Components

Surface exploration methods

Geological interpretation of Seismic and Logs

Exploration Risk Assessment 2. Reservoir Rocks & Properties

Porosity, permeability & Saturation

Sandstone Reservoirs

Carbonate Reservoirs 3. Reserves and Uncertainty

Geology and Uncertainty

Deterministic Methods

Probabilistic Methods 4. Petroleum in South East Asia

History of Oil in South East Asia

Basins, Petroleum Systems and plays

Unconventional Petroleum

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OT5402A Seismic Acquisition Instructor:

Dr Elita Li Yunyue

Pre-requisite



Module Description This module introduces the basics of seismic surveys for petroleum reservoirs, from the physics to the acquisition and processing of seismic data. Both land and marine acquisition will be covered. Participants will have an understanding of the principles behind modern seismic surveys, the desired source and receiver characteristics and the practical constraints, the noise and signal components for different acquisitions, as well as the different ways for denoising and signal enhancement. Topics

1. Introduction

What is seismic exploration

Why do we do it

The exploration cycle

What can we get out of seismic surveys

Survey preparation

Survey design and implementation 2. Seismic Acquisition: Land

Sources i. Dynamite (surface and buried) ii. Vibrators iii. Shear Vibrators iv. Weight drop

Receivers i. Geophones ii. 3C geophone

Survey geometry i. Lines ii. 2D arrays iii. Random individual geophones




3. Seismic Acquisition: Marine

Sources i. Air guns ii. Marine vibrators iii. Others (water gun, dynamite)

Receivers i. Towed hydrophone cables ii. Ocean bottom cables iii. Vertical cables iv. Nodes (Ocean bottom seismometers)

Survey geometry i. Conventional towed arrays ii. Wide aperture arrays

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OT5402B Seismic Processing and Imaging Instructor:

Dr Elita Li Yunyue

Pre-requisite



Module Description Seismic processing and imaging is the corner stone for the oil and gas exploration and production. This module introduces the basics of seismic processing techniques. Traditional and modern methods of seismic imaging will be covered. Methods to build seismic velocity models are introduced. Topics

1. Introduction

a. What is seismic exploration b. Why do we do it c. The exploration cycle d. What can we get out of seismic surveys e. Survey preparation f. Survey design and implementation

2. Seismic Processing:

a. Preprocessing i. QC ii. Noise reduction iii. Sorting iv. Filtering v. Stacking

vi. Deconvolution b. CMP

i. Stacking and fold ii. Ray paths iii. Velocity analysis iv. NMO correction v. Binning

vi. Dip




c. Imaging

i. Time Migration ii. Depth Migration iii. Post-stack migration iv. Pre-stack migration

d. Imaging methods i. One way wave equation ii. Phase screen iii. Kirchhoff iv. FK domain v. Finite Difference

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OT5403A Petrophysics for Petroleum Engineering Instructor:

Prof (Practice) Arthur Cheng Chuen Hon

Pre-requisite



Module Description This module introduces the commonly used downhole measurements of petroleum reservoirs. The module will cover electrical, acoustic, nuclear, NMR, and seismic measurements. The module will cover the physics, hardware, data processing and interpretation of each kind of measurement. Both wireline and Logging While Drilling measurements will be discussed. Topics

1. Fundamentals of downhole measurements

Types of downhole measurements

Wireline

Logging while Drilling

Open hole versus Cased hole 2. Basic measurements: the triple combo and the quad combo

Gamma ray

Neutron porosity, density porosity

Spontaneous potential

Resistivity

Acoustic

Basic interpretation 3. Advanced measurements:

Spectral Gamma

Formation Microscanners

Array Resistivity measurements

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance tool

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OT5403B Downhole Measurements for Petroleum Engineering Instructor:

Prof (Practice) Arthur Cheng Chuen Hon

Pre-requisite



Module Description Together with OT5403A Petrophysics for Petroleum Engineering, this module introduces the commonly used downhole measurements of petroleum reservoirs. The module will cover electrical, acoustic, nuclear, NMR, and seismic measurements. The module will cover the physics, hardware, data processing and interpretation of each kind of measurement. Both wireline and Logging While Drilling measurements will be discussed. Participants will have an understanding of the physics of current downhole measurements, their use and limitations. This will help the students prepare for a career in the design and engineering of new measurement methods and tools. Topics

1. Borehole Seismic measurements:

Checkshots

Zero-offset and offset VSP

3D VSP

Microseismic monitoring

Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) 2. Logging while Drilling:

Special considerations for LWD measurements

LWD acoustics: the effect of the tool on the measurements

Seismic While Drilling 3. Applications to Unconventional Reservoirs

What makes a reservoir unconventional?

Attributes for unconventional reservoirs: mineralogy versus volumetrics

Anisotropy

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OT5405A Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery Instructor:


Pre-requisite



Module Description This module will cover the basics of enhanced oil recovery including two phase flow in porous media, relative permeability, capillary pressure, Buckley-Leverett equation, displacement and sweep efficiency, mobility control, capillary desaturation curves. It will introduce the student to EOR which is becoming increasingly important for hydrocarbon recovery in both green and brown fields. Knowledge of this subject will enable the student to have meaningful communication with reservoir engineers and production technologists involved in EOR. Topics

1. Introduction to EOR Processes 2. Displacement of Fluids in a Reservoir 3. Overview of rock/fluid interactions and properties 4. Mobility Control Processes

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OT5405B Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods and Application Instructor:


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Module Description Topics to be covered include polymer flood, micellar-polymer flood, ASP, miscible and immiscible carbon dioxide flood, thermal recovery, SAGD and advanced topics such as low-salinity waterflood and nano-enabled EOR. Participants will learn the fundamentals of thermal, chemical and miscible enhanced recovery methods and appreciate the technical challenges in their field implementation. Topics

1. Chemical EOR 2. Thermal EOR 3. CO2 EOR 4. Novel EOR methods

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OT5406A Petroleum Production Engineering Instructor:


Pre-requisite



Module Description This module will cover basic concepts of Petroleum Production Systems including inflow-outflow, skin concept, production from undersaturated oil reservoirs two-phase reservoirs and natural gas reservoirs. Participants will learn the basics of different petroleum production systems, well performance design, evaluation and optimization. Students will also get an insight into the latest trends in production engineering technologies. Topics

1. The Role of Petroleum Production Engineering 2. Production from Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs 3. Production from two-phase reservoirs 4. Production from natural gas reservoirs

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OT5406B Petroleum Production Engineering - Wellbore Instructor:


Pre-requisite



Module Description This module will cover basic concepts in well completion, sand control, well testing, artificial lift and stimulation. Participants will become knowledgeable about the design and installation of oil and gas wells including different completion methods, sand control methods, well testing, types of artificial lift and stimulation methods. Topics

1. Types of well completion 2. Sand control methods 3. Well test design 4. Artificial lift methods 5. Matrix acidizing 6. Hydraulic fracturing

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