Petroleum Engineering

About Petroleum Engineering

►Petroleum engineers design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from deposits below the Earth's surface. Petroleum engineers also find new ways to extract oil and gas from older wells.✦

►Petroleum engineering is a field of engineering concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Exploration and production are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. ✦

►Exploration, by earth scientists, and petroleum engineering are the oil and gas industry's two main subsurface disciplines, which focus on maximising economic recovery of hydrocarbons from subsurface reservoirs. ✦

►Petroleum geology and geophysics focus on provision of a static description of the hydrocarbon reservoir rock, while petroleum engineering focuses on estimation of the recoverable volume of this resource using a detailed understanding of the physical behavior of oil, water and gas within porous rock at very high pressure.✦

►The combined efforts of geologists and petroleum engineers throughout the life of a hydrocarbon accumulation determine the way in which a reservoir is developed and depleted, and usually they have the highest impact on field economics. ✦

►Petroleum engineering requires a good knowledge of many other related disciplines, such as geophysics, petroleum geology, formation evaluation (well logging), drilling, economics, reservoir simulation, reservoir engineering, well engineering, artificial lift systems, completions and petroleum production engineering.✦

【Topics Covered in this App are Listed Below】

⇢ Introduction to Crude Petroleum Oil

⇢ Introduction to Petroleum Products and Test Methods

⇢ Introduction to Processing Operations in a Petroleum Refinery

⇢ Introduction to Lubricating Oil and Grease

⇢ Petrochemicals

⇢ Introduction to Offsite Facilities, Power and Utilities

⇢ Introduction to Material and Energy Balances

⇢ Heat Exchangers and Pipe-Still Furnaces

⇢ Distillation and Stripping

⇢ Introduction to Extraction

⇢ Introduction to Reactor Calculations

⇢ Elements of Pipeline Transfer Facilities

⇢ Instrumentation and Control in a Refinery

⇢ Introduction to Miscellaneous

⇢ Introduction to Plant Management and Economics