308077 (v.1) Petroleum Well Engineering Dissertation 691

Area:	Department of Petroleum Engineering
Credits:	50.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Seminar:	1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This project could involve some or all of the processes involved in the design project plus specific drilling, work over and completion-problem situations, identification and solution. The students will use the latest state-of-the-art techniques in drilling bit selection and real-time monitoring, horizontal and multilateral well drilling, completion and work over, stimulation and sand control techniques, borehole stability problems, drilling into over-pressured reservoirs and formations containing natural gas hydrates, among others. Any of these topics, preferably based on industry requirements, could be selected for this individual project. A dissertation will need to be submitted and a presentation made to the examiners at the conclusion of the project.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	010700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Trimester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External