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Graduate Courses Offered602. Well Stimulation. (3-0). Credit 3. Design and analysis of well stimulation methods,including acidizing and hydraulic fracturing; causes and solutions to low well productivity.Prerequisite: Approval of graduate advisor.油井改造措施设计和分析油井改造方法，包括酸化和水力压裂；低产井的原因和解决办法。603. Advanced Reservoir Engineering I. (3-0). Credit 3. Petroleum reservoir simulation basics including solution techniques for explicit problems. Prerequisite: Approval of graduate advisor.高等油藏工程明确问题的解决方案604. Advanced Reservoir Engineering II. (3-0). Credit 3. Advanced petroleum reservoir simulation with generalized methods of solution for implicit problems. Prerequisites: PETE 603; approval of graduate advisor.605. Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids. (3-0). Credit 3. Pressure, volume,temperature, composition relationships of petroleum reservoir fluids. Prerequisite: Approval ofgraduate advisor.油藏流体的相特性油藏流体的压力，体积，温度，组分关系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.EOR（提高采收率）热采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.测井方法609. Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes. (3-0). Credit 3. Fundamentals and theory of enhancedoil 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.提高采收率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.孔隙介质中流体流动和热特性的数值模拟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.油藏模拟的应用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.天然气工程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.79617. Petroleum Reservoir Management. (3-0). Credit 3. The principles of reservoirmanagement and application to specific reservoirs based on case studies presented in the petroleum literature. Prerequisites: Approval of graduate advisor.油藏管理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.现代采油工程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.渗流力学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. 石油发展策略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.开发与生产评价623. Waterflooding. (3-0). Credit 3. Design, surveillance and project management of waterfloods in reservoirs. Prerequisites: PETE 323; approval of graduate advisor.水淹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.油藏反应方面的岩石力学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.井控626. Offshore Drilling. (3-0). Credit 3. Offshore drilling from fixed and floating drilling structures; directional drilling including horizontal drilling; theory of deviation monitoring andcontrol. Prerequisites: PETE 411; approval of graduate advisor.海上钻井628. Horizontal Drilling. (3-0). Credit 3. Changing a wellbore from vertical to horizontal; longand short-radius horizontal wells; bottom hole assemblies for achieving and maintaining control 80of inclination and direction; drilling fluids; torque and drag calculations; trans-port of drilled solids. Prerequisites: PETE 411; approval of graduate advisor.水平钻井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.高等水力压裂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.地质统计学631. Petroleum Reservoir Description. (3-0). Credit 3. Engineering and geological evaluation techniques to define the extent and internal character of a petroleum reservoir; estimate depositional environment(s) during the formation of the sedimentary section and resulting effects on reservoir character. Prerequisites: PETE 324 and 620; approval of graduate advisor.油藏描述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.岩石力学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. 油藏数据整合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.油藏模型和数据分析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.压力瞬态测试661. Drilling Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduction to drilling systems: wellbore hydraulics; identification and solution of drilling problems; well cementing; drilling of directional and81horizontal wells; wellbore surveying abnormal pore pressure, fracture gradients, well control; offshore drilling, underbalanced drilling.钻井工程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.采油工程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.地层评价和油藏动态分析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.石油工程评价和管理665. Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Reservoir description techniques using petro physical 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.油藏工程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, EO