What to study in PE Production ?

1) Formation damage.

I concluded all things, which i merged during my GATE preparation in this link in easy language. (Formation damage.)

2) Well stimulation techniques. 

Basics of well stimulations.

Mainly two techniques, Hydraulic Fracturing and Acidization.

Hydraulic fracturing:

Basics

Process 

Proppants

Additives of fluid

Mini frac test

Leak off test

Acidization:

Matrix acidization : Basics , Acid used, Acid additives.

Acid fracturing, Difference between all 3 types of acid jobs.

Selection Criteria for Well stimulaton,

Difference between workover and well stimulation.

Numericals:

 Acid volume required during Matrix Acidization. 

Rock stress strain relations, poision ratio.(No correlations).

    

2) Artificial lift techniques. 

This is vast topic which includes Sucker rod pumping, Gas lift, Electrical submersible pumping, Hydraulic pump, plunger lift etc.

You will have PPTs from college. Start from there. I entirely depends on my college notes for theory portion of Artificial lift techniques.

For Numericals, You can have Buon Guo. (Sucker rod load calculations (MPRL, PPRL, Torque etc..)

SRP:

All parts

Types of pumping units, nomenclature.

Sub surface pump types.

Dyna cards.

Load calculations

Gas lifts

Gas lift valves, types.

Type of gas lifts

Unloading mechanisms

Surface facilities requirements

Numerical: Gas lift valve opening closing pressure, spread of valves, tubing factor etc.

ESP

Basic parts

Depth of esp installation, Head and number of stages calculation.

Esp problem solution cards. (Volt vs time graphs)

Hydraulic pumping.

Jet pumping (Venturi principle)

Plunger lift.

3) Field processing of oil & Field processing gas.

i) Separators: from Sanjay Kumar book. if you don't want to go and read theory for that, i have made online notes on it in this link. You can see it from here. (Separators from, Sanjay Kumar).

Separation mechanism.

Separator Comparisons. 

Numericals on Stage Separation, Particle size for separation process, slenderness ratio, effective length of separator, length and height design for separators.

ii) X mas tree. (Follow link: X mas tree)

About chokes. Choke equations.

iii) Heater Treaters (Follow link: Heater Treaters)

iv) Desalter

V) Oil and gas storage tanks

Vi) Basic gas treatments and its catalyst.

4) Shell and tube heat exchangers

Numericals : from Previous year GATE questions from other branches. (LMTD, heat laws, etc..)

5) Well Equipments 

(Packers, Flow control devices, safety valves)

Landing nipples, wireline entry guide, tubing.

6) Production system analysis & optimization.     Nodal system analysis. 

7) Multiphase flow in tubing (vertical)

And multiphase flow in flow-lines (Horizontal)

8) Flow measurements

Venturi meter, positive displacement metres, rotary metres, variable area metre

9) Pumps and compressors.

Positive displacement pumps

Centrifugal pumps

Difference between pump and compressors

Types of compressions (polytropic, isentropic, adiabatic)

Compressor types

Numericals.

NPSH, power, Working cycle, clearance volume, swept volume, sweep efficiency and, total efficiency etc...

Three types of compressions (equations)/(polytropic, isentropic, adiabatic)

  

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