Rotary drilling practices, drilling hydraulics, optimization, well planning and control, drilling fluid technology, casing design, and cementing techniques.

Laboratory study of reservoir rock characteristics and fluid properties with emphasis on reservoir mechanics of fluid flow through porous media as related to the reservoir system.

Drilling, well planning and control, theory and practice. Drilling program design and technology and pore pressure, fracture gradients, drilling optimization, and well control considerations.

Oil and gas reservoirs and reservoir mechanics. Reservoir rock-fluid systems are analyzed, principles of reservoir behavior and control are studied. Theories of fluid flow through porous media presented and techniques of predicting reservoir performance outlined and studied.

Laboratory investigation of produced fluid treatment and separation problems. Engineering solutions to petroleum production problems.

Thesis Research and Thesis

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Classical and relativistic mechanics, heat, mechanical waves.

Continuation of algebra-based introductory physics, covering topics such as thermal physics, the kinetic theory of gases, thermodynamics, waves, electricity, and magnetism.