301734 (v.3) Drilling Engineering 603

Area:	Department of Petroleum Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	40.0
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.
Lecture:	1 x 20 Hours 4 Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 20 Hours 4 Weekly
Syllabus:	Role of drilling in petroleum development; drilling rig selection; pore pressure determination; drill string selection and design; drilling fluids and bits; drilling mud hydraulics and lifting capacity; aspects of well control; vertical, deviated, horizontal and multilateral wells; pressure losses; surge and swab pressure; rock mechanics in wellbore construction; wellbore stability; corrosion control; cementing and cement bond evaluation; casing and tubular design and selection; and riser design for deepwater.
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:	030100 Manufacturing Engineering and Technology (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
2008	Bentley Campus	Study Period 4	Y
2008	Bentley Campus	Study Period 6	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