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PET 431 E NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING
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Course Title :
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Reservoir Engineering I
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Course Title In Turkish :
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Doğal Gaz Mühendisliği
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Department :
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Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
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| Course Code :
PET 431E |
Course Hours : 3+0
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Course Credits : 3 |
| Course Type : Required |
Semester : 7 |
Prerequisites (If Any) :
None |
| Course Language :
English |
Instructor : Asst.
Prof. Dr. İ. Metin Mıhçakan |
| Course Web Page : |
http://atlas.cc.itu.edu.tr/~mihcakan/pet431e.html |
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
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A historical and current background on
the reserves, production, consumption, and storage of
natural gas in Turkey and the world are given. Occurrences,
and phase behavior of natural gases are reviewed. Natural
gas hydrates, design and metering of flow of gases in
pipes and wellbores are covered in detail. The methods
for gas reserve estimations and for the analysis of various
gas-well tests are provided.
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OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE
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The main objective is to furnish students
with the basic concepts, equations, and analysis methods
used for evaluation, production, transportation, and management
of natural gas resources. Other objectives are to 1) develop
students' ability in solving natural gas engineering problems
by analytical thinking and reasoning, while applying the
integrated knowledge of physics, mathematics, geo-sciences
and engineering sciences, 2) develop students' ability
in overcoming design and operational problems encountered
in natural gas production and transmission facilities,
3) guide students to work in teams and for discussing
and exploring the solutions to the natural gas engineering
problems by creative thinking.
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CONTENT
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History, occurrence, reserves, production,
and consumption of natural gas. Review of physical and
thermodynamic properties of natural gas and condensate
fluids. Determination and estimation of heating value
of natural gases. Water content of natural gas and properties
of natural gas hydrates. Calculations for flow and metering
of gases in pipelines and gas wells. Calculation of static
and flowing bottom-hole pressures of gas wells. Compression
of natural gas. Estimates of gas reserves or using p/z
curves. Deliverability and isochronal testing and analysis
of gas wells. Storage means of natural gas.
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