Area: | Department of Petroleum Engineering |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
Syllabus: | Well completion design, well flow performance concepts, tubing design and selection, well intervention and workover techniques, completion fluids, perforating, completion equipment, production logging, artificial lift, sand stabilisation and exclusion, production optimisation, well flow performance evaluation, stimulation, new technology, surface production facilities and operation. For tuition pattern details and contact hours, please contact the Department of Petroleum Engineering. |
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Unit Outcomes: | A student who completes this unit will be familiar with the basic technology of well completion, stimulation techniques, well performance and production enhancement. A student who completes this unit in addition to Drilling Engineering, Formation Evaluation and Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering can practise as a production technologist. Production technology is a specific discipline in the upstream petroleum industry. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
Unit References: | Economides M.J., Walters L.T. and Dunn-Norman S. (1988) Petroleum Well Construction. New York. John Wiley and Sons. |
Unit Texts: | No prescribed texts. Course Notes. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Exams 80%, Tutorials/Projects 20%. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 39900 Other Engineering and Related Technologies (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Informational | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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