Petroleum Engineering

The objective of this course is to provide the candidates the Detail knowledge and skills in Petroleum Engineering discipline to facilitate faster learning curves while on the job.

With the recent media focuses on production and supply scenarios and political turmoil in many oil producing nations, the engineer engaged in consultation to the petroleum industry should have a basic background on the petroleum exploration, production, supply/demand, and logistics.

The simplest version of finding crude oil (exploration) transferring crude oil to refineries (production & refining) and finally ending up in our autos (downstream marketing) will be focused on this course.

Learning Objective

At the conclusion of this course, the student will

• From a basic understanding of the exploration, production, and refining of crude oil and petrol-chemicals;
• Be familiar with the complex and logistical hurdles that must be solved to supply petroleum products to the public;
• See data on World and US petroleum supply-demand and future estimates of crude oil reserves;
• Have petroleum industry internet links available for future research and understanding;
• Understand basic supply/demand for petroleum products and the outlook for maintaining world demand;
• Learn about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR); and
• Have a better understanding of the engineering requirements and other regulatory provisions for downstream petroleum marketers.