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Well & Production Engineering Department

The Well & Production Engineering Department trains hands-on engineers who can take responsibility for everything from drilling to maximizing ultimate recovery in oil and gas operations. Through reservoir-stimulation simulation coursework, students master horizontal and multilateral well design and hydraulic fracturing techniques, design and compare chemical, thermal, and gas-injection enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) scenarios, and learn to forecast a well's long-term productivity through production-decline-curve analysis. Graduates can make independent field decisions spanning drilling design through production strategy.

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Field-based Curriculum · 15

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Drilling Engineering & Well Control
Drilling Engineering & Well Control
Drilling engineering and well control is taught as borehole pressure containment…
James Abercrombie
Well Completion Design, Sand Control & Intelligent Completions
Well Completion Design, Sand Control & Intelligent Completions
Well completion is taught as permanent-hardware engineering: students design pac…
Reuben C. Baker
Well Cementing Materials Engineering
Well Cementing Materials Engineering
Well cementing is taught as permanent-isolation materials engineering: students …
Isaac Charles Johnson
Hydraulic Fracturing & Unconventional (Shale/Tight) Reservoir Production
Hydraulic Fracturing & Unconventional (Shale/Tight) Reservoir Production
Hydraulic fracturing is taught as stimulation of low-permeability reservoirs: st…
Ian Sneddon
Artificial Lift Systems
Artificial Lift Systems
Artificial lift is taught as matching inflow performance to lift capability: stu…
Armais Arutunoff
Production Optimization & Nodal Systems Analysis
Production Optimization & Nodal Systems Analysis
Nodal systems analysis is taught as whole-system diagnosis: students connect pre…
Daniel Bernoulli
Wellbore Multiphase Flow & Hydraulics
Wellbore Multiphase Flow & Hydraulics
Wellbore multiphase flow is taught as regime-dependent pressure loss: students i…
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
Decline-Curve Analysis & Production Forecasting
Decline-Curve Analysis & Production Forecasting
Decline-curve analysis is taught as empirical forecasting: students apply Arps e…
Benjamin Gompertz
Well Testing, Pressure-Transient Analysis & Production Surveillance
Well Testing, Pressure-Transient Analysis & Production Surveillance
Well testing is taught as inversion of the flow equation: students estimate perm…
Henry J. Ramey Jr.
Waterflooding & Secondary Recovery Engineering
Waterflooding & Secondary Recovery Engineering
Waterflooding is taught as secondary-recovery pattern design: students master in…
Osborne Reynolds
Thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery: Oil Sands, SAGD & Steam-Based Heavy-Oil Production
Thermal Enhanced Oil Recovery: Oil Sands, SAGD & Steam-Based Heavy-Oil Production
Thermal EOR is taught as viscosity-reduction processes: students design SAGD ste…
Karl Clark
Gas-Injection Enhanced Oil Recovery Production Engineering
Gas-Injection Enhanced Oil Recovery Production Engineering
Gas-injection EOR is taught through miscibility thermodynamics: students determi…
Émile Clapeyron
Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Polymer & Surfactant Flooding
Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Polymer & Surfactant Flooding
Chemical EOR is taught as fluid-property modification: students design polymer m…
Agnes Pockels
Flow Assurance: Hydrates, Wax, Asphaltenes & Scale
Flow Assurance: Hydrates, Wax, Asphaltenes & Scale
Flow assurance is taught as preventing solid deposition: students predict hydrat…
Louis Paul Cailletet
Well Workover, Wireline & Intervention Engineering
Well Workover, Wireline & Intervention Engineering
Workover and intervention is taught as well-reentry engineering: students design…
Harry Cameron