PETROLEUM ENGINEERING PROJECT TOPICS

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background of the Study The need for resource-rich Nigeria to assume control of the exploration, exploitation and production activities in the oil and gas sector and to harness the potentials of this most strategic industry in…

GAS LIFT OPTIMIZATION OF OIL PRODUCING WELLS USING PROPER NODAL ANALYSIS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study. Before a well can produce oil or gas, a borehole is drilled from the surface to the oil and gas pool…

THE LOCATIONAL IMPACT OF PETROL STATIONS IN UVWIE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION   1.1  Background to study The technological initiative of man towards the development of automobile and the discovery of petroleum triggered the building of petrol service…

ABSTRACT Fluid flow in a petroleum reservoir is a very complex phenomenon and it is impossible to develop analytical solutions for practical issues due to the complex behaviour of multi-phase flow. Reservoir simulation study the behaviour of fluid flow and…

NATURAL FLOW AND TUBING STRING DESIGN FOR A WATER DRIVE RESERVOIR CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Fluids are stored in the reservoir and must be produced to the surface facilities in order to be measured, treated and finally…

A REVIEW OF APPLICATION OF PRESSURE DERIVATIVE CONCEPT TO MULTIRATE TESTS ABSTRACT Pressure build-up data in low permeability reservoirs take too long and are usually of poor quality. A pressure buildup test is perhaps the most widely performed transient test.…

A REVIEW OF THE RHEOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF POWER LAW DRILLING FLUIDS ON CUTTINGS TRANSPORTATION IN NON-VERTICAL BOREHOLES ABSTRACT Cuttings transportation during in non-vertical boreholes is necessary for oil and gas wells. Adequate cuttings removal from a well in drilling is…

AN APPROACH TO WELL PLACEMENT AND PRODUCTION IN A GREEN FIELD ABSTRACT Reservoir development planning and well placement significantly affect hydrocarbon recovery. Therefore, strategic well placement and development techniques are essential to minimize the risk of unproductive drilling and also…

AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL TO PREDICT AND CONTROL OILFIELD EMULSION TIGHTNESS: A NOVEL APPROACH   ABSTRACT Formation of water-in-oil emulsions are among the major challenges encountered by production and surface facilities engineers during the recovery of crude oil, especially in a…

ANALYSIS OF VOID FRACTION PHASE DISTRIBUTION OF GAS-LIQUID FLOW IN A HORIZONTAL PIPE USING WIRE MESH SENSOR DATA ABSTRACT The scope of this work was to make detailed analysis of phase distribution in a horizontal pipe. This detailed analysis has…

APPLICATION OF MINIMUM CURVATURE METHOD TO WELLPATH CALCULATIONS ABSTRACT A major drawback of directional and horizontal well drilling is the numerous complex computations required to be done while planning a well. These computations are very stressful and time consuming especially…

A-THREE DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATOR FOR EXPANSION-DRIVE RESERVOIRS ABSTRACT Every simulation study is a unique process, starting from the geological model and reservoir description to the final analysis of recovery factor optimizations. In petroleum engineering area, numerical reservoir simulators are often…

BUILDING AND RANKING OF GEOSTATISTICAL PETROLEUM RESERVOIR MODELS ABSTRACT Techniques in Geostatistics are increasingly being used to generate reservoir models and quantify uncertainty in reservoir properties. This is achieved through the construction of multiple realizations to capture the physically significant…

NATURAL FLOW AND ARTIFICIAL LIFT FOR A SOLUTION GAS DRIVE RESERVOIR ABSTRACT Solution gas drive reservoirs are characterized by rapid and continuous decline of reservoir pressure. This rapid and continuous decline of reservoir pressure causes direct decline of reservoir performance…

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RESERVES DETERMINATION TECHNIQUES IN OVERPRESSURED GAS RESERVOIRS   ABSTRACT Conventional methods used in determining initial gas-in-place and reserves for a dry gas reservoir entails the use of P/z vs cumulative production data. In a normally pressured gas…

COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES ABSTRACT Hydrocarbon production in the petroleum industry is often constrained by reservoir heterogeneity, deliverability and capacity of surface facilities, also optimization technique in the petroleum industry requires execution of several iterative runs by…

DETAILED ANALYSIS OF PRESSURE DROP IN A LARGE DIAMETER VERTICAL PIPE ABSTRACT With the ever increasing need to optimize production, the accurate understanding of the mechanics of multi-phase flow and its effect on the pressure drop along the oil-well flow…

DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SOLIDS CONTROL ABSTRACT Computer software is used extensively to increase productivity and reduce man’s hours of labour. This work presents the development of a solids control software (SOLCON) which is designed for real time…

DEVELOPMENT OF A GAS CONDENSATE RESERVOIR ABSTRACT Gas condensate reservoirs are single phase at the initial condition. It changes to multiphase when the reservoir conditions are located between the critical point and the cricondentherm of the reservoir in the phase…

DEVELOPMENT OF BREAKTHROUGH TIME CORRELATIONS FOR CONING IN BOTTOM WATER SUPPORTED RESERVOIRS ABSTRACT This research work mainly investigates the development and the behavior of cones (both water and gas cones) in oil reservoirs supported by strong aquifer, and from which…