Petroleum Engineering I

Type of study	BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	541-3022/02
Abbreviation	TUH
Course title	Petroleum Engineering I
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator	RNDr. Vladimír Opletal, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.World oil and gas reserves, their characteristics, classification and methods of calculating reserves. Distribution of deposits in the world.
2.Oil and gas - strategic raw materials in the world economy.
3.Use of oil and gas. Energy, chemical industry, other industries.
4.Investments in oil and gas exploration, operating costs of production. Financial models. Provisions as an accounting category.
5.Legal, tax and contractual issues of exploration, extraction, distribution and trading of gas and oil.
6.Properties of geohydrodynamical systems, regimes of oil and gas deposits.
7.Methods of oil and gas exploration. Strategic decision making in the exploration.
8.Extraction of oil and gas I. Production wells, their drilling, completion, operation and disposal.
9.Extraction of oil and gas II. Production equipment. Submersible pumps, collection centers, pipelines.
10.Modern secondary and tertiary methods (EOR).
11.Shale gas and oil sands, exploration and exploitation.
12.Exploration and production risks and ways of their management.
13.Environmental aspects of oil and gas extraction, CO2 and CH4 emissions.

E-learning

There is no e-learning as a part of the lessons.

Literature

BRET-ROUZAUT, NADINE, FAVENNEC, JEAN-PIERRE: Oil and Gas Exploration and Production - Reserves, Costs, Contracts (3rd Edition Revised and Updated). Editions Technip, 2011.
ROBERTSON, JOHN O. CHILINGAR, GEORGE V.: Environmental Aspects of Oil and Gas Production. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
YU, WEI SEPEHRNOORI, KAMY: Shale Gas and Tight Oil Reservoir Simulation. Elsevier, 2018.
GACI, SAID HACHAY, OLGA: Oil and Gas Exploration - Methods and Application. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.

Advised literature

LYONS, WILLIAM C. PLISGA, GARY J. LORENZ, MICHAEL D.: Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering (3rd Edition). Elsevier, 2016.
SPEIGHT, JAMES G.: Deep Shale Oil and Gas. Elsevier, 2017.
DAKE, L.P.: Practice of Reservoir Engineering (Revised Edition). Elsevier, 2001.
TEMIZEL, CENK TUNA, TAYFUN OSKAY, MEHMET MELIH SAPUTELLI, LUIGI A.: Formulas and Calculations for Petroleum Engineering. Elsevier, 2019.

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