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Well Performance and Production Systems

Course Code :
PE 405
Level :
Undergraduate
Course Hours :
3.00 Hours
Department :
Department of Petroleum Engineering

Instructor information :

Title:Teaching Assistant
Name: Akram Rabie Hamed Ragheb Tobar
Office hours:-Hours

Title:Lecturer
Name: Mohamed Ghareeb Moustafa Ahmed
Office hours:8-Hours

Area of Study :

 Understand flow type, flow regime and reservoir geometry  Understand the skin effect on well productivity  Understand the components of inflow and outflow performance  Describe the pressure versus depth relationship" Pressure Traverse Curves"

For further information :

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

Well Performance and Production Systems

Introduction to the producing wellbore system; inflow performance relationships, effect of formation damage on well flow, nodal systems analysis; perforating methods and their effect on inflow; stimulation treatments to enhance well performance. Introduction to well completions, diagnostics and well servicing. Overview of production systems.

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

Well Performance and Production Systems

Course outcomes:

a. Knowledge and Understanding:

1-	Define optimum flowing pressure and flowrate.
2-	Define pressure gradient for single and multiphase flow
3-	Recognize when and why need to artificial lift
4-	Understand choke performance for single phase flow.

b. Intellectual Skills:

1-	Evaluate the single and multiphase flow performance and know their models.
2-	Evaluate the choke performance and know its models.
3-	Identify introduction about artificial lift.
4-	Solve problems with limited data.

c. Professional and Practical Skills:

1-	Apply different models for IPR and VLP.
2-	Practice among models for single phase and multiphase flow.
3-	Investigate choke performance.

d. General and Transferable Skills:

1-	Work coherently and successfully as a part of a team in projects.
2-	Make a successful report clearly on well performance.
3-	Use internet in research on well performance.

For further information :

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

Well Performance and Production Systems

Course topics and contents:

Topic	No. of hours	Lecture	Tutorial/Practical
Introduction. Set the stage, Single Phase, Laminar and Newtonian Fluid	6	4	2
Inflow Performance Relationship, IPR	9	6	3
Multiphase Flow	15	9	6
Flow In Vertical Tubing	11	6	5
Gradient Or Pressure Traverse Curves	12	6	6
Choke Performance	10	6	4
Introduction to well Artificial lift	4	3	1
Overview of production systems.	8	5	3

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

Well Performance and Production Systems

Teaching And Learning Methodologies:

Teaching and learning methods
Interactive Lecturing
Discussion/ Problem Solving
Laboratory

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

Well Performance and Production Systems

Course Assessment :

Methods of assessment	Relative weight %	Week No.	Assess What
Assignment	15.00
Final Exam	40.00
Lab Exper.	10.00
Mid- Exam	25.00
Quizzes	10.00

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

Well Performance and Production Systems

Books:

Book	Author	Publisher

Recommended books :

Brown, Kermit E. and H. D. Beggs. Technology of Artificial lift Methods. Vol. 1 Tulsa, Oklahoma; PennWall Books, 1980 “Well performance Manual”, Dowell –Schlumberger, 1998. H. Dale Beggs, “Production Optimization Using Nodal Analysis”, OGCI Publications, ISBN: 0-930972-14-7"Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis", J. D. Irwin, Fourth edition, Macmillan, most recent edition.