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Department of Petroleum Engineering

MAJOR CATEGORIES

 GROUPS 1 -   GENERAL PETROLEUM ENGINEERING 

                                                                                                      YEAR             SEM 

1.         Introduction to petroleum Industry                                                         3                      1

2.         Basic Properties of Rock and Fluid                                                       3                      1

3.         Well Operations                                                                                   3                      2

4.         Offshore Operations                                                                             4                      1

5.         Seminar/Research Methodology in Pet. Engineering                               5                      1

6.         Petroleum Engineering Project                                                              5                      2

GROUP 2 - DRILLING AND COMPLETION 

1.         Petroleum Engineering Lab. I (Drilling Mud/Cement Lab.)                          3                     1

2.         Drilling Fluid Technology                                                                        3                     1

3.         Drilling Technology and Development I                                                     3                     2

4.         Drilling Technology and Development II                                                    4                     1

5.         Well Completion and Workover Operations                                              4                     1

GROUPS  3 - PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND FORMATION EVALUATION 

1.         Petroleum Engineering Lab. II (PVT/Core Analysis                                    3                      2

2.         Formation Evaluation                                                                             4                      1

3.         Foundation Geology                                                                               3                      1

4.         Petroleum Geology                                                                                3                      2

5.         Applied Geophysics in Petroleum Exploration                                          4                      1

GROUP  4 - PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

                                                                                                                        YEAR             SEM

1.         Subsurface Production operations                                                              3                      2

2.         Petroleum Engineering Lab. III                                                                   4                      1

3.         Natural Gas Engineering                                                                           3                      2

4.         Surface Production Operations                                                                  5                      1

5.         Natural Gas Processing                                                                            5                      1

6.         Petroleum Refinery Processes                                                                   2                      2

7.         Multiphase Flow in Pipes                                                                           5                      2

GROUP 5 - RESERVOIR ENGINEERING 

1.         Elements of Reservoir Engineering                                                              3                      2

2.         Well testing and Analysis                                                                           5                      1

3.         Enhanced Recovery Techniques                                                                  5                      1

4.         Element of Reservoir and Modelling                                                              5                      2

GROUP 6 - RELATED TECHNOLOGIES                                    

1.         Transport Phenomena                                                                                 3                      1

2.         Industrial Law and relations                                                                         4                      1

3.         Petroleum Economics and Property Valuation                                              5                      1

4.         Numerical/Computer Techniques in Petroleum Technology                            5                      1

5.         Nigerian Oil Mining law                                                                               5                      1

6.         Industrial Safety & Pollution and Control of Oil Gas                                       5                      2

 

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