Natural Gas Engineering

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1  :  Introduction, Gas Production: Upstream, Reservoir- Well Completion
Week 2  :  Properties of Natural Gas: Phase Behavior
Week 3  :  Well inflow performance relationship (IPR), Skin factor, Productivity Index, Gas well testing
Week 4  :  Wellbore Performance: TPR Curve, Single Phase & Multi Phase flow, Choke Performance: CPR Curve,
                 Sonic and Subsonic Flow, Well Deliverability: Nodal Analysis
Week 5  :  Natural Gas Production: Downstream, Surface Facilities, Principle of Separator, Design of Separator: Vertical,
                 Horizontal; Two Phase Separation, Three Phase Separation
Week 6  :  Natural Gas Processing: Dehydration of Natural Gas, Design of Dehydration, Sweeting Processes,
                 Compressor design and energy calculation
Week 7  :  Transportation and Measurement, Pipeline Design
Week 8  :  Flow through pipeline, issues and solutions, Unconventional Production of Natural Gas: Shale Gas, Gas Hydrates,
                 Coal bed Methane, Oil Shale, Pyrolysis of Carbonaceous Materials etc..