Petroleum Formation and Evaluation detailed syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (PE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the PE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Petroleum Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to PE Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of petroleum formation and evaluation is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
Petrophysical measurements to sub-surface engineering.
Unit II
Indirect Methods: SP and resistivity logs, radioactive logs, acoustic logs (principles, types of tools, limitation and applications). Evaluation of CBL/ VDL, USIT, SFT, RFT.
Unit III
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Unit IV
Special Type of Logging Tools: Casing inspection tools (principles, application and limitation), Formation micro scanner (FMS), DSI, NMR logging principles. Logging in high- angle wells.
Unit V
Log Interpretation and Analysis Techniques. Standard log interpretation methods, Cross-plotting methods: neutron-density, sonic-density and sonic-neutron etc.clean sand interpretation Concepts of invasion – RXO, Tornado charts, Shaly sand interpretation.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course students are expected to
- Apply different logging methods for the evaluation of subsurface formations
- Apply principles of mud logging in the recognition of oil and gas show
- Apply principles of physics in the recognition and calculation of different parameters of formations
- Apply quick look interpretation methods in the evaluation of hydrocarbon recognition
- Interpret broad depositional environment from log signatures.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Serra.O ‘Fundamentals of Well log Interpretation’ Volume1. Elsevier Science Publisher, New York, 1988, ISBN 04441327.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Petroleum Engineering 5th Sem, visit PE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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