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Humanities/Social Science Elective

Course Code :
HUM HY
Level :
Undergraduate
Course Hours :
2.00 Hours
Department :
Department of Petroleum Engineering

Instructor information :

Area of Study :

The Main Goals of this course are to familiarize students with the unique aspects of unconventional gas and oil reservoirs, including their economic significance, geologic occurrences, controls on production, drilling and completion practices, reservoir management, and present activity.

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Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Humanities/Social Science Elective

Intro. to interdisciplinary environmental study in the social sciences and humanities. Topics include: differing interpretations of “nature” and “environment”; contrasting understandings of relationships between humans and their environments; key concepts in environmental studies such as “sustainable development” and “the precautionary principle”; different conceptions of, and objections to, environmentalism. These ideas and debates will be explored in the context of important current environmental controversies.

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Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Humanities/Social Science Elective

Course outcomes:

a. Knowledge and Understanding:

1-	Describe unique geological characteristics of unconventional resources and their technical, economic, political, and environmental constraints.
2-	Illustrate the low-permeability sands and their drilling and completion methods.
3-	Describe the Coalbed Gases and their occurrences, resources, reservoir characteristics, drilling and completion methods.
4-	Describe the Heavy oil and their occurrences, resources, reservoir characteristics, drilling and completion methods.

b. Intellectual Skills:

1-	Apply principles of geo-mechanics to unconventional reservoirs.
2-	Identify maps and reservoir traps.
3-	Think in a creative way.

c. Professional and Practical Skills:

1-	Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to compute the characteristics of unconventional resources, Coalbed Gases, low permeability sands and heavy oils.

d. General and Transferable Skills:

1-	Collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
2-	Acquire entrepreneurial skills.
3-	Refer to relevant literature.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Humanities/Social Science Elective

Course topics and contents:

Topic	No. of hours	Lecture	Tutorial/Practical
Introduction to Unconventional Energy Resources	8	4	4
Low-permeability (Tight) Sands	8	4	4
Coalbed Gas	12	6	6
Shale Reservoirs (Gas and Oil)	12	6	6
Heavy Oil	12	6	6
Other Unconventional Energy Resources and Issues That May be Addressed	8	4	4

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Humanities/Social Science Elective

Teaching And Learning Methodologies:

Teaching and learning methods
Interactive Lecturing
Problem Solving
Experiential Learning

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Humanities/Social Science Elective

Course Assessment :

Methods of assessment	Relative weight %	Week No.	Assess What
Assignment	10.00
Final Exam	40.00
Mid- Exam I	25.00
Participation	10.00
Quiz	15.00

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Humanities/Social Science Elective

Books:

Book	Author	Publisher

Recommended books :

 Y. Zee Ma and Stephen A. Holditch: “Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Handbook Evaluation and Development” Gulf Professional Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016.  M. RAFIQUL ISLAM : “UNCONVENTIONAL GAS RESERVOIRS Evaluation, Appraisal and Development” Gulf Professional Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier, 2015.  Vivek Bakshi : “Shale Gas: A Practitioner's Guide to Shale Gas and Other Unconventional Resources” Globe Law And Business; 1 edition (December 1, 2012)  James Jacobs, and Stephen Testa : “Fracking: Environmental Protection and Development of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources,” 1st edition, McGraw- Hill Education; 1 edition (June 24, 2016).  Reza Rezaee : “Fundamentals of Gas Shale Reservoirs, “ 1st Edition, Wiley; 1 edition (July 27, 2015).  J Speight :“Shale Gas Production Processes,” 1st Edition, Gulf Professional Publishing, 24 Jun 2013.