Graduate Courses Fall 2011

University of Calgary - Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering

Late Afternoon and Evening Course Offerings - Fall Session2011

Revised:  August 5, 2011

 

ENPE 507 – WELL LOGGING AND FORMATION EVALUATION

L01          TR           17:00-18:30            MS 319    `               M. Lloyd

Wireline well logging; log interpretation: lithology, porosity, near wellbore fluid saturations; mechanical, electrical, acoustic, nuclear response tools; relationship to geology & geophysics, reservoir, production, & drilling engineering; reservoir management

 

ENPE 509 – WELL TESTING                                                  J. Kenny

L01          TR           17:00-18:30            ENC 123                

Basic theory and current techniques for well testing. Drawdown and Build up. Single-rate and multi-rate. Derivative analysis. Fractured wells, fractured reservoirs and other flow models. Advanced decline curve analysis. Computer aided analysis and hands on experience in the computer laboratory.

 

ENPE 523 – INTRODUCTION TO RESERVOIR ENGINEERING       J. Chen

L01          MW          1830-2000                               KNB 126                

Description and estimation of rock and fluid properties; reserve estimation using volumetric and material balance methods in gas, gas-condensate and oil reservoirs; discussion of different reservoir drive mechanisms; aquifer models; Darcy’s law and single-phase flow through porous media; introduction to well testing, solution of radial diffusivity equation corresponding to infinite-acting and pseudo-steady state flow, of slightly compressible fluids and real gases.     

 

ENCH 601 .01 RESEARCH SEMINAR

S01          TR           12:30-13:30            ENE 328                  J.Chen                   

Reports on studies of the literature or of current research.  Required of all full-time M.Sc. and Ph.D. graduate students in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering.

 

ENCH 607 NATURAL GAS PROCESSING

L01          T              19:00-22:00            EEEL 210                                N. Nassar

Physical and chemical properties of natural gas; phase behaviour; vapour-liquid equilibrium; water-hydrocarbon systems; flow of gas and gas-liquid mixtures; mass transfer operations to separate gas mixtures; heat transfer in gas processing; chemical kinetic aspects, engineering principles for natural gas production.  

 

ENCH 613 ADVANCED TOPICS IN MASS TRANSFER

L01          TR           15:30-16:45            ENC 033                 N. MAHINPEY

Fundamentals of mass transfer in multi-phase systems. Basic theories of diffusion as well as mass transfer with simultaneous heat transfer and chemical reaction will be examined with regards to their applications to practical systems. The emphasis will be on developing mathematical models for industrially relevant systems involving mass transfer in multiphase systems.

 

ENCH 617 Model & Identification on Adv Control

L01          W             17:00-20:00            ENC 033                 M. Foley/E. Goberdhansingh

 

ENCH 619.47 Phase Behaviour Oil & Gas Sys

L01          R             18:30-21:30            ENC 033                 M. Dong

 

ENCH 621 RESERVOIR SIMULATION I

L01          T              19:00-22:00            SB 146                    J. Chen

Enhanced recovery modeling (generalized black-oil, compositional & miscible), well treatment, grid orientation, new developments in gridding, thermal models, naturally fractured reservoirs and induced fractures, adaptation of models to vector & parallel machines, and practical aspects of conducting simulation studies. 

Prerequisite or Co requisite:  Petroleum Engineering 523 or equivalent

 

ENCH 629  SECONDARY AND TERTIARY RECOVERY

L01          F              14:00-17:00            ENC 123                 B. Maini

Displacement processes for recovery additional hydrocarbons; waterflooding, gas flooding, solvent flooding and chemical flooding; techniques for predicting the performance of these processes.

 

ENCH 639 APPLIED NUMERICAL METHODS ENGG

L01          W             13:30-16:30            ENC 033                 J. Chen

Numerical solution of systems of linear and non-linear algebraic equations, eigenvalue problems; numerical solution of systems of ordinary and partial differential equations; interpolation, extrapolation, and curve fitting; introduction to finite element and spectral methods.  Prerequisite: ENGG407 or equivalent and use of programming language.

 

ENCH 649 NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS

L01          M             18:30-21:30            ENE 328                  R. Aguilera

Relationship between geology, log interpretation, well testing, and primary-secondary recovery of naturally fractured reservoirs. 

 

ENCH 659 ADVANCED CELL & TISSUE ENGG

L01          TR                     14:00-15:30        ENC 127           T. Rinker

ENCH 703 ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING

Intended for MSc/PhD students.  MEng students may be able to register with Instructor’s Permission.

L01          TR           17:00-18:30                  SA 147              J. Azaiez

Linear algebra; ordinary differential equations:  linear, non-linear; series solutions; special exact solutions; applications; partial differential equations:  geometric interpretation; characteristic curves; separation of variables; the Sturm-Liouville problem and Fourier series; eigenfunction expansion; Fourier, Laplace and Hankel transforms; self similarity; Green’s function; applications.