606. EOR Methods-Thermal. (3-0). Credit 3.
Fundamentals of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods and applications of thermal recovery methods.
Prerequisites:  PETE 323; approval of graduate advisor.

* 608. Well Logging Methods. (3-0). Credit 3.
Well logging methods for determining nature and fluid content of formations penetrated by drilling. Development of computer models for log analysis.
Prerequisite:  Approval of graduate advisor.

* 609. Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes. (3-0). Credit 3.
Fundamentals and theory of enhanced oil recovery; polymer flooding, surfactant flooding, miscible gas flooding and steam flooding; application of fractional flow theory; strategies and displacement performance calculations.
Prerequisites: PETE 323; approval of graduate advisor.

610. Numerical Simulation of Heat and Fluid Flow in Porous Media. (3-0). Credit 3.
Various schemes available for the numerical simulation of heat and fluid flow in porous media. Application to hot water and steam flooding of heavy oil reservoirs and to various geothermal problems.
Prerequisites: PETE 604; approval of instructor or graduate advisor.

* 611. Application of Petroleum Reservoir Simulation. (3-0). Credit 3.
Use of simulators to solve reservoir engineering problems too complex for classical analytical techniques. Prerequisites:  PETE 400 and 401; approval of graduate advisor.

* 613. Natural Gas Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. 
Flow of natural gas in reservoirs and in well bores and gathering systems; deliverability testing; production fore-casting and decline curves; flow measurement and compressor sizing.
Prerequisites:  PETE 323 and 324; approval of graduate advisor.

* 616. Engineering Near-Critical Reservoirs. (3-0). Credit 3.
Identification of reservoir fluid type; calculation of original gas in place, original oil in place, re-serves and future performance of retrograde gas and volatile oil reservoirs.
Prerequisite:  PETE 323, 400, 401; approval of graduate advisor.

* 617. Petroleum Reservoir Management. (3-0). Credit 3.
The principles of reservoir management and application to specific reservoirs based on case studies presented in the petroleum literature.
Prerequisites:  Approval of graduate advisor.

618. Modern Petroleum Production. (3-0). Credit 3.
An advanced treatment of modern petroleum production engineering encompassing well deliverability from vertical, horizontal and multilateral/multibranch wells; diagnosis of well performance includes elements of well testing and production logging; in this course the function of the production engineer is envisioned in the context of well design, stimulation and artificial lift.
Prerequisite: Approval of graduate advisor.

* 620. Fluid Flow in Petroleum Reservoirs. (3-0). Credit 3.
Analysis of fluid flow in bounded and unbounded reservoirs, wellbore storage, phase redistribution, finite and in-finite conductivity fractures; dual-porosity systems.
Prerequisites:  PETE 323; approval of graduate advisor.

621. Petroleum Development Strategy. (2-3). Credit 3.
Applications of the variables, models and decision criteria used in modern petroleum development. The case approach will be used to study major projects such as offshore development and assisted recovery. Both commercial and student-prepared computer software will be used during the lab sessions to practice methods.
Prerequisites:  PETE 403; approval of graduate advisor.

* 622. Exploration and Production Evaluation. (2-3). Credit 3. 
Selected topics in oil industry economic evaluation including offshore bidding, project ranking and selection, capital budgeting, long-term oil and gas field development projects and incremental analysis for assisted recovery and acceleration.
Prerequisites:  PETE 403; approval of graduate advisor.

* 623. Waterflooding. (3-0). Credit 3.
Design, surveillance and project management of water floods in reservoirs.
Prerequisites: PETE 323; approval of graduate advisor.

624. Rock Mechanic Aspects of Petroleum Reservoir Response. (3-0). Credit 3.
Reservoir rocks and their physical behavior; porous media and fracture flow models; influence of rock deformability, stress, fluid pressure and temperature.
Prerequisites: PETE 604; approval of graduate advisor.

* 625. Well Control. (3-0). Credit 3. 
Theory of pressure control in drilling operations and during well kicks; abnormal pressure detection and fracture gradient determination; casing setting depth selection and advanced casing design; theory supplemented on well control simulators.
Prerequisites:  PETE 411; approval of graduate advisor.

626. Offshore Drilling. (3-0). Credit 3. 
Offshore drilling from fixed and floating drilling structures; directional drilling including horizontal drilling; theory of deviation monitoring and control.
Prerequisites:  PETE 411; approval of graduate advisor.

628. Horizontal Drilling. (3-0). Credit 3. 
Changing a wellbore from vertical to horizontal; long- and short-radius horizontal wells; bottom hole assemblies for achieving and maintaining control of inclination and direction; drilling fluids; torque and drag calculations; trans-port of drilled solids.
Prerequisites:  PETE 411; approval of graduate advisor.

629. Advanced Hydraulic Fracturing. (3-0). Credit 3.  
Physical principles and engineering methods involved in hydraulic fracturing; an advanced treatise integrating the necessary fundamentals from elasticity theory, fracture mechanics and fluid mechanics to understand designs, optimization and evaluate hydraulic fracturing treatments including special topics such as high permeability fractur-ing and deviated well fracturing.
Prerequisite: Approval of graduate advisor.

* 630. Geostatistics. (3-0). Credit 3.  
Introductory and advanced concepts in geostatistics for petroleum reservoir characterization by integrating static (cores/logs/seismic traces) and dynamic (flow/transport) data; variograms and spatial correlations; regionalized variables; intrinsic random functions; kriging/cokriging; conditional simulation; non-Gaussian approaches.
Prerequisites:  Introductory course in statistics or PETE 322; approval of graduate advisor.

632. Physical and Engineering Properties of Rock. (3-3). Credits 4.
Physical and engineering properties of rock and rock masses including strength, deformation, fluid flow, thermal and electrical properties as a function of the subsurface temperature, in-situ stress, pore fluid pressure, and chemical environment; relationship of rock properties to logging, sitting and design of wells and structures in rock.
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor of graduate advisor.

633. Data Integration for Petroleum Reservoirs. (3-0). Credit 3.
Introduction and application of techniques that can be used to incorporate dynamic reservoir behavior into stochastic reservoir characterizations; dynamic data in the form of pressure transient tests, tracer tests, multiphase production histories or interpreted 4-D seismic information.
Prerequisites: PETE 620 and STAT 601; approval of instructor or graduate advisor.

634. Petroleum Reservoir Modeling and Data Analysis. (3-0). Credit 3.
Introduction methods for modeling and integration of reservoir data required to apply these methods; emphasizes the integration of geological information into these models.

* 648. Pressure Transient Testing. (3-0). Credit 3.
Diffusivity equation and solutions for slightly compressible liquids; dimensionless variables; type curves; applications of solutions to buildup, drawdown, multi-rate, interference, pulse and deliverability tests; extensions to multiphase flow; analysis of hydraulically fractured wells.
Prerequisites:  PETE 324 and 620; approval of graduate advisor.

* 661. Drilling Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
Introduction to drilling systems: wellbore hydraulics; identification and solution of drilling problems; well cementing; drilling of directional and horizontal wells; wellbore surveying abnormal pore pressure, fracture gradients, well control; offshore drilling, underbalanced drilling.

* 662. Production Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
Development of fundamental skills for the design and evaluation of well completions, monitoring and management of the producing well, selection and design of article lift methods, modeling and design of surface facilities.

* 663. Formation Evaluation and the Analysis of Reservoir Performance. (3-0). Credit 3.
Current methodologies used in geological description/analysis, formation evaluation (the analysis/interpretation of well log data), and the analysis of well performance data (the design/analysis/interpretation of well test and production data); specifically, the assessment of field performance data and the optimization of hydrocarbon recovery by analysis/interpretation/integration of geologic, well log, and well performance data. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor or graduate classification.

* 664. Petroleum Project Evaluation and Management. (3-0). Credit 3.
Introduction to oil industry economics, including reserves estimation and classification, building and using reservoir models, developing and using reservoir management processes, managing new and mature fields, and investment ranking and selections.

* 665. Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
Reservoir description techniques using petrophysical and fluid properties; engineering methods to determine fluids in place, identify production-drive mechanisms, and forecast reservoir performance; implementation of pressure-maintenance schemes and secondary recovery. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor or graduate classification.

666. Conservation Theory and Applications in Petroleum Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
Includes formulation, modeling, and interpretation of drilling fluid systems, production systems, tracer testing, hydraulic fracturing, EOR/water flooding, polymer flooding, compositional simulation, thermal recovery, and coal-bed methane production; Mathematics as the symbolic/numeric computing platform.

681. Seminar. Credit 1 each semester. 
Study and presentation of papers on recent developments in petroleum technology.
Prerequisite:  Approval of graduate advisor.

685. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 12 each semester.
Offered to enable students to undertake and complete limited investigations not within their thesis research and not covered in established curricula.
Prerequisites: Graduate classification; approval of instructor or graduate advisor.

689. Special Topics in. Credit 1 to 4. 
Special topics in an identified area of petroleum engineering. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor or graduate advisor.

689A. Well Completion and Stimulation. (3-0). Credit 3. The design and evaluation of well completions, including placement of casing, liners, and well tubing; perforating; gravel packing; sand control; acidizing fundamentals, design and evaluation of acidization tratments; hydraulic fracturing fluid loss, conceptul models, design and implementation evaluation; performance of horizontal wells; surface facilities.

689B. Well Drilling. (3-0). Credit 3. The design and evaluation of well drilling systems; identifications and solution of drilling problems; wellbore hydraulics; casing design; well cementing; drilling of directional and horizontal wells; wellbore surveying.

689C. Project Risk Management. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross listed as CVEN 644.

Assessment and management of project risks are becoming increasingly recognized as important areas of research and practice. Development of an understanding of the sources and causes of uncertainty and risk in projects (related to cost, schedule, and performance) is essential to the successful management of large, complex projects of all descriptions. This course deals with objective analysis of uncertainty as well as perceptions of risk, and the effects of uncertainty on organizational structure and decision-making in projects.

691. Research. Credit 1 or more each semester.
Advanced work on some special problem within field of petroleum engineering. Thesis course. Prerequisite:  Approval of committee or graduate advisor.

* 692. Professional Study. Credit 1 to 12.
Approved professional study or project. May be taken more than once but not to exceed 6 hours of credit towards a degree.
Prerequisite: Approval of graduate advisor.