BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Engineering & Technology

MODULE: Petroleum & Natural Gas Production

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 42 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

This program introduces the concepts of engineering design, reservoir and drilling as applied to petroleum and natural gas projects. It provides the identification, formulation, and solution of problems in reservoir engineering and petroleum and natural gas extraction. This program prepares students to assume responsibility in technical and managerial areas within the oil and gas industry.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Petroleum Industry

Oil & Gas Properties

Academic Supervisor: Luis Fontanet Sallan

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Petroleum Industry

This course about the petroleum industry is organized into four broad sectors: exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas; transport; refining; and marketing and distribution.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Oil & Gas Properties

This course examines oil and gas properties, their physical and chemical characteristics and behavior, and their interrelation.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Petroleum & Gas Production

This course presents fluid transfer operations of the earth; production of petroleum, natural gas, and water; and storage of natural gas. It explores the current problems related to technological and economic aspects of the petroleum industry and engineering.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Natural & Synthetic Fossil Fuels

This course studies the reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas. It deals with petroleum processing and refining; coal, oil shale, and tar sand; gasification and liquefaction of coal. It explores methods used to evaluate the natural and synthetic properties of oil and gas.

Instructor: Ranvir Aggarwal

Reservoir Engineering

This course deals with the analysis and prediction of reservoir performance by use of material balance and steady and nonsteady state flow equations. It shows the application of principles of reservoir analysis to the determination of reservoir behavior.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Well Evaluation & Completions

This course studies the mathematical basis for pressure analysis, theory and practice of pressure testing techniques. It explores methods used to complete cased wells, perforating the casing, and stimulation methods, hydraulic fracturing and acidizing.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Environmental Risks

This course examines and compares different types of environmental risks and hazards from natural disasters (tornados, earthquakes and meteorite impacts) to acute and chronic health effects caused by exposure to radiation and toxic substances. It emphasizes the principles controlling the hazardous phenomena and develops methods for making reasoned assessments of the threats impact to health and wealth.

Instructor: Vicente Enrique Martín Olmos

Petroleum Refinery

This course presents the modern, integrated petroleum refinery. Each oil refining process is explained, covering operating description and conditions, catalyst selection, product yields, and the relationship between process parameters, unit performance and product output and properties.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Process Improvement Management

This course focuses on technical and teaming skills necessary to be an advocate for quality in a process. Topics include: understanding quality, the improvement cycle, quality tools, eliminating complexity from work, and implementing quality in processes, activities and organizations. It also covers statistical process control and methods employed in the assurance of product conformance to quality specifications. It provides an analytical approach to solving problems in quality engineering process design and costs.

Instructor: Earle Taylor

Petroleum & Gas Extraction

This course presents the design and implementation of the systems used in the extraction of oil and gas. It considers the numerical simulation of petroleum reservoir processes by the use of models; scaling criteria and network flow.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Drilling Optimization

This course explores the procedures for optimizing fluid properties, hydraulics, bit weight and selection. Balanced drilling conditions are stressed. Design of continuous and intermittent gas lift systems; multiphase flow and inflow well performance. Design and analysis of oil-field drilling operations and equipment. Well-control procedures. Measurement of drilling fluid properties.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Oil Recovery Techniques

This course examines advanced oil recovery techniques including water flooding, in-situ combustion, steam injection, hot-water injection, and miscible-phase displacement. It also studies the formulation and analytical solution of the problems of steady state fluid flow and the transient fluid flow in porous media.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering

This course explores petroleum engineering project design, including reservoir and drilling, and the identification, formulation, and solution of advanced problems in reservoir engineering, e.g., cross-flow problems, dual porosity problems, etc. It also evaluates surface production processes, fluid separation, storage, measurement, treating, custody transfer, transmission, disposal, corrosion, and other operations.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

Petroleum Industry Management

This course strikes a balance between the technical, environmental, economic and social aspects of managing the different sectors in the petroleum industry. It provides a road map for managing any type of project related to the oil and gas production and market.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet sallan

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.