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Fluid and Gas Reservoir Engineering and Drilling Technologies

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Course Unit Code541-0021/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KUN109doc. Ing. Antonín Kunz, Ph.D.
KLE028doc. Ing. Martin Klempa, Ph.D.
Summary
Study of this subject is directed at these fundamental thematic spheres of action – methods for the determination of basic physical characteristics of reservoir rocks, liquids and gases, primer of technics and technology used by liquid and gas production, flow intensification, secondary and tertiary production methods, collecting, transport and treatment of hydrocarbons, underground well repairs, methane output using surface coal-seam degassing, effect of a production activity upon an environment.
The part „Drilling technologies“ is intent expecially on these thematic spheres of action – the basic kinds of boreholes drilled in underground conditions, methods of their realisation and the purposes of their utilization. Drilling technics and technological processes utilized during drilling boreholes in underground – main function blocks (units) of drilling machines, geological exploratory and operative technical boreholes, safety boreholes drilled in underground – degassing, dewatering, geotechnical boreholes, large – diameter drilling in underground, new technologies and technical means used by drilling underground boreholes, drilling using down – the – hole hammers, new trends in drilling technologies.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The main goal of this subject is to teach the students to outline and describe individual technologies and technical means used in oil and gas production and drilling boreholes carried out both in the surface (oil and gas wells, hydrogeological boreholes, boreholes drilled for purposes of engineering geology, construction building etc.) and, first of all, in the underground mining conditions (both in collieries and ore mines too). The students must be able to explain principles of these technologies and by use of practical tutorials illustrate and discriminate fields of their utilization. They will learn how to utilize and apply their theoretical knowledge gained in the field of exploitation and drilling works and make a practice of this konwledge during their computation tutorials and practical visits in department of drilling. Within the frame of tutorials they must be able to judge the importance of scheduled tasks, to analyse them and find suitable solutions presented in the form of elaborates. Last, but not least, they have to learn how to judge the importance of information which they gathered in the course of study, to conclude and compare this information and to choose this one, which is most important for their next professional advancement.
Course Contents
1. Drilling rigs – main types and functional units of drilling rigs
2. Basics of drilling techniques - drillability of rocks, types of drilling bits, drilling and casing string, drilling modes
3. Data sets recovered from the borehole
4. Drilling in quarry conditions – purposes of borehole types, methods of drilling, boreholes used at the quarries
5. Core drilling and non-core drilling on the earth surface and in the mine conditions – drilling rig designs, drilling tools, borehole cementation, drilling rigs
6. Modern drilling methods, DTH drilling hammers, their design and practical use in the quarry and mine conditions
7. Hydrocarbons resources of Czech republic overview, worlds main petroleum and gas provinces
8. Petroleum and oil deposits regime
9. Issues involved in rational production wells completion
10. Preparation of production wells for oil and gas extraction, methods of reservoirs and wells exploration
11. Fluids reserves computation methods
12. Methods of recovering hydrocarbons
13. Mechanized recovery techniques
14. Intensification of the flow towards the production well techniques
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Lyons, W.; Carter, T.; Lapeyrouse, N.: Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production and Workover. Elsevier, USA, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-85617-929-4
Suk, M.; Ďurica, D.; et al.: Hluboké vrty v Čechách a na Moravě a jejich geologické výsledky. Gabriel, Praha 1991. ISBN 80-900332-8-8
Zeman, V.; Pinka, J.; Klempa, M.; Struna, J.: Technika a technologie vrtných prací – I. díl Technika pro provádění vrtných prací. Marionetti Press, Ostrava 2014. ISBN: 978-80-905737-0-3.
Zeman, V.; Pinka, J.; Klempa, M.; Struna, J.: Technika a technologie vrtných prací – II. díl Základy technologie vrtných prací. Marionetti Press, Ostrava 2014. ISBN: 978-80-905737-0-3.

Recommended Reading:
Gabolde, G.; Nguyen, J.-P.: Drilling Data Handbook. Editions TECHNIP, Paris, France, 2014. ISBN: 978-2-7108-0971-5
Bednaříková, J.; Thon, A.: Naftový průmysl na území Československa. Hodonín, 1984.
Čižmář, Z.: 90 let tradice Moravské naftové doly.Moravské naftové doly, Hodonín, 2004.
Ďurica, D.; Holý, M.; Suk, M.: Člověk jako geologický činitel. Moravské zemské muzeum, Brno, 2008. ISBN: 978-80-7028-331-8

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 18