Area: | Department of Petroleum Engineering |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 10.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 20 Hours 4 Weekly |
Tutorial: | 1 x 20 Hours 4 Weekly |
Syllabus: | 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, water and gas control, stimulation, new technology, surface production facilities and operation. |
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Unit Outcomes: | On completion of this unit students will have-Become familiar with the technology of well completion, stimulation techniques, inflow performance assessment 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. |
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. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Exams 80%, Tutorial Partcipation/Project 20%.This is by Grade/Mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 30100 Manufacturing Engineering and Technology (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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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Short Period 8 | Y | | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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