Petroleum production systems, oil and natural gas properties, inflow and outflow performance relationships for single and two-phase flows, Nodal Analysis for optimum well production rate, pressure drop for single and two-phase flows, artificial lift methods and applications
Production from unsaturated, two-phase, and natural gas reservoirs, formation damages, wellbore flow performance, well deliverability, forecast of well production, artificial lift methods and applications, pipe flow assurance and other flow assurance issues
Fractured well flow, faulting regimes, 2D stress resolution, stress measurement technique, fracture gradient, fracture mechanics, hydraulic fracture propagation path, matrix acidizing, acid fracturing treatment
Basic structural geology, stress gradients, 2D and 3D stress resolution, rock failures, laboratory classes on basic rock and geomechanical tests, induced seismicity
Poroelasticity, Storage Capacity, Caprock Integrity, Wellbore Integrity
Instruct design projects for incoming freshmen students
Topics included Reservoir porosity, Capillary effects in porous media, and Strength of Rock
Basic structural geology, stress gradient, Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion, 3D stress resolution, rock failure analysis, wellbore stability, induced seismicity, hydraulic fracturing, in-situ stress measurements, and caprock integrity