PE GATE Syllabus : Petroleum Subjects

Petroleum Exploration: 
  • Classification and description of some common rocks with special reference to clastic and nonclastic reservoir rocks. 
  • Origin, migration and accumulation of Petroleum. 
  • Petroleum exploration methods. 

Oil and Gas Well Drilling Technology: 
  • Well planning. 
  • Drilling method. 
  • Drilling rigs Rig operating systems. 
  • Drilling fluids function and properties. 
  • Drilling fluid maintenance equipment. 
  • Oil & gas well cementing operations. 
  • Drill bit types and their applications. 
  • Drill string & Casing string 
    1. function, 
    2. operations, 
    3. selection & design. 
  • Drilling problems, their control & remedies. 
  • Directional drilling tools. 
  • Directional survey. 
  • Application of horizontal, multilateral, extended reach, slim wells. 

Reservoir Engineering: 
  • Petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks. 
  • Coring and core analysis. 
  • Reservoir fluid properties. 
  • Phase behavior of hydrocarbon system. 
  • Flow of fluids through porous media. 
  • Water and gas coning. 
  • Reservoir pressure measurements. 
  • Reservoir drives, drive mechanics and recovery factors. 
  • Reserve estimation & techniques. 

Petroleum Production Operations: 
  • Well equipments. 
  • Well completion techniques. 
  • Well production problems and mitigation. 
  • Well servicing & Workover operations. 
  • Workover & completion fluids. 
  • Formation damage. 
  • Well stimulation techniques. 
  • Artificial lift techniques. 
  • Field processing of oil & gas. 
  • Storage and transportation of petroleum and petroleum products. 
  • Metering and measurements oil & gas. 
  • Production system analysis & optimization. 
  • Production testing. 
  • Multiphase flow in tubing and flowlines. 
  • Nodal system analysis. 
  • Pressure vessels, storage tanks, shell and tube heat exchangers, pumps and compressors, LNG value chain.

Offshore Drilling and Production Practices: 
  • Offshore oil and gas operations & ocean environment. 
  • Offshore fixed platforms, Offshore mobile units, 
  • Station keeping methods like 
    1. mooring & 
    2. dynamic positioning system. 
  • Offshore drilling from 
    1. fixed platform, 
    2. jack-up, 
    3. ships and 
    4. semi submersibles. 
  • Use of conductors and risers. 
  • Offshore well completion. 
  • Deep water applications of subsea technology. 
  • Offshore production: 
    1. Oil processing platforms, 
    2. water injection platforms, 
    3. storage, 
    4. SPM and SBM transportation and utilities. 
  • Deep water drilling rig. 
  • Deep water production system. 
  • Emerging deep water technologies. 

Petroleum Formation Evaluation: 
  • Evaluation of petrophysical of sub-surface formations: 
  • Principles applications, advantages and disadvantages of 
      1. SP, 
      2. resistivity, 
      3.  radioactive, 
      4.  acoustic logs and types of tools used.
  •  Evaluation of 
      1. CBL/VDL, 
      2. USIT, 
      3. SFT, 
      4. RFT. 
  • Production logging tools, 
      1. principles, 
      2. limitations and 
      3. applications. 
  • Special type of logging tools. 
  • Casing inspection tools (principles, applications and limitations), 
  • Formations micro scanner (FMS), NMR logging principles. 
  • Standard log interpretation methods. 
  • Cross-plotting methods. 

Oil and Gas Well Testing: 
  • Diffusivity equation, derivation & solutions. 
  • Radius of investigation. 
  • Principle of superposition. 
  • Horner’s approximation.
  • Drill Stem Testing. 
  • Pressure Transient Tests: 
      1.  Drawdown and
      2.  build up-test analysis. 
  • Wellbore effects. 
  • Multilayer reservoirs. 
  • Injection well testing. 
  • Multiple well testing. 
      1. Interference testing, 
      2. Pulse testing, 
  • well-test analysis by use of type curves. 
  • Gas well testing. 

Health Safety and Environment in Petroleum Industry: 
  • Health hazards in Petroleum Industry: Toxicity, Physiological, Asphyxiation, respiratory and skin effect of petroleum hydrocarbons, sour gases. 
  • Safety System: 
  1. Manual & automatic shutdown system, 
  2. blow down systems. 
  • Gas detection system. 
  • Fire detection and suppression systems. 
  • Personal protection system & measures. 
  • HSE Policies. 
  • Disaster & crisis management in Petroleum Industry. 
  • Environment: 
  1. Environment concepts, 
  2. impact on eco-system, 
  3. air, water and soil. 
  • The impact of drilling & production operations on environment, Environmental transport of petroleum wastes. Offshore environmental studies. 
  • Offshore oil spill and oil spill control. 
  • Waste treatment methods. 

Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: 
  • Basic principles and mechanism of EOR, Screening of EOR process. 
  • Concept of 
      1. pattern flooding, 
      2. recovery efficiency, 
      3. permeability heterogeneity. 
  • Macroscopic and microscopic displacement efficiency. 
  • EOR methods: 
      1. Chemical flooding, 
      2. Miscible flooding, 
      3. Thermal recoveries (steam stimulation, hot water & steam flooding, in-situ combustion),
      4. Microbial EOR. 

Latest trends in Petroleum Engineering: 
  • Coal bed methane, 
  • shale gas, 
  • oil shale, 
  • gas hydrate, and 
  • heavy oil.

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