Petroleum Engineering roadmap

Reservoir, drilling and production engineering.

Start with Petroleum Foundations, follow the steps in order, then build a project, prepare for interviews and earn your certificate.

Foundations

  1. Petroleum Foundations — Where oil and gas come from. The petroleum system and value chain, oil and gas units, and the rocks, minerals and geological structures that form traps.
  2. Reservoir Characterisation — How much is there?. Porosity, permeability, saturation and PVT, volumetric reserves, SPE-PRMS classification and material balance.
  3. Drilling & Wells — Making a safe hole. Exploration drilling, in-situ stresses around wellbores, and drilling engineering with mud, casing and well control.

Core skills

  1. Production & Facilities — Reservoir to surface. Pipe flow, inflow and outflow performance, nodal analysis, artificial lift, and the pumps and compressors of surface facilities.
  2. Reservoir Management & EOR — Forecast and recover more. Radial flow, well testing, decline curves and simulation, then waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery.

Advanced

  1. Refining & Midstream — Crude to products. Distillation theory and columns, catalysis, refinery conversion units, pipelines, LNG and the energy transition.
  2. Process Safety — Preventing major accidents. HAZOP studies, explosion hazards and hazardous-materials handling in oil and gas operations.

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