Area: | Department of Petroleum Engineering |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 40.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 20 Hours 4 Weekly |
Tutorial: | 1 x 20 Hours 4 Weekly |
Prerequisite(s): | 308068 (v.1) Drilling Engineering Fundamentals 603
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308069 (v.1) Advanced Drilling Practices 604
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Syllabus: | Production logging, well diagnosis, sand exclusion and sand management, matrix acidising and acid fracturing, hydraulic fracturing, other chemical treatments, coiled tubing, snubbing, workover planning, intervention operations, intervention well control,workover economics and risk. |
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Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit students will have the ability to stimulate production through workovers, acidisation and fracturing. |
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: | Smith, D.K.,(1993), Well Plunging and Abandonment, PenWell Publishing Company. Kalyayan, L., (2000), Production Enhancement with Acid Stimulation, PenWell Corporation. Recent Advances in Hydraulic Fracturing, (2001) Vol 12, SPE, Monograph. |
Unit Texts: | Course Notes. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Final Exam 70%, Tutorials/Projects 30%. This is a Grade/Mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 10700 Earth Sciences (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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