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Petroleum Engineering (PTE)
- http://chems.usc.edu/admission/petroleum_engineering.htm
- D class assignments for undergraduates available in HED316; phone (213) 740-0322.
- To be enrolled in an off-campus course, you MUST also be enrolled in the Distance Education Network (DEN). For more information, call 740-4488 or go to den.usc.edu. DEN courses are indicated by a location of OFF CAMPUS.
Properties of porous rocks; capillarity effect, single-phase and multiphase fluid flow through porous media; diffusion and dispersion, miscible displacement heat transfer. Lecture, 3 hours. Not available for credit to Petroleum Engineering majors.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following school(s): Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32200D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Wednesday | 36 of 76 | Jincai Chang | OHE136 | PDF (421384 KB) |   |
| 32202D | 014 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Wednesday | 4 of 20 | Jincai Chang | DEN@Viterbi | PDF (421384 KB) | |
Concepts of petroleum geology, interpretation of downhole surveys and measurements including well logs, MWD, mud logs and samples
- Corequisite: PTE 464
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32204D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-1:40pm | Tuesday | 42 of 76 | Donald Hill | OHE136 | PDF (322116 KB) |  |
| 32206D | 014 | Lecture | 11:00-1:40pm | Tuesday | 3 of 25 | Donald Hill | DEN@Viterbi | |
Properties of porous rocks; capillarity effect, single-phase and multiphase fluid flow through porous media; diffusion and dispersion, miscible displacement, heat transfer. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours.
- Prerequisite: 1 from (CHEM 105A or CHEM 115A) and (MATH 245 and PHYS 151)
- Note: Register for lecture and lab
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32208D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:40pm | Wednesday | 30 of 36 | Kristian Jessen | VKC201 |  | |
| 32210R | 001 | Lab | 3:30-5:50pm | Monday | 11 of 12 | Kristian Jessen | PCE313 | | |
| 32288R | 001 | Lab | 3:30-5:50pm | Tuesday | 7 of 12 | Kristian Jessen | PCE313 | | |
| 32290R | 001 | Lab | 3:30-5:50pm | Thursday | 12 of 12 | Kristian Jessen | PCE313 | |
Theory and practice in drilling technology; mechanical properties of reservoir rocks; well completion; acidizing and fracturing, oilproduction gechnology. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours
- Prerequisite: PTE 464
- Note: Register for lecture and lab
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32212D | 001 | Lecture | 5:30-8:00pm | Tuesday | 24 of 30 | Bradford Pierce | GFS222 | Word (96768 KB) | |
| 32214R | 001 | Lab | 8:10-9:10pm | Tuesday | 24 of 30 | Bradford Pierce | PCE313 | |
Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior
| Section | Session | Units | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32216D | 001 | 2.0-8.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 15 | OFFICE | |
Introduction to mathematical and computational methods in characterizing, modeling, and describing the subsurface flow and transport phenomena. Recommended preparation: Familiarity with basic calculus, differential equation, and MATLAB programming. Open only to Engineering students.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following school(s): Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32205D | 048 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Tuesday | 53 of 56 | Jincai Chang | OHE100D | PDF (355737 KB) | |
| 32207D | 034 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Tuesday | 2 of 20 | Jincai Chang | DEN@Viterbi | PDF () | |
Geology of unconventional resources, exploration, development, laboratory testing, drilling, formation evaluation, design and monitoring of hydraulic fracturing, forecasting, technology of oil sand and environmental issues. Recommended preparation: PTE 507, Graduate standing in Petroleum Engineering
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32220D | 048 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Monday | 32 of 76 | Iraj Ershaghi | OHE136 | PDF (209548 KB) | |
| 32222D | 034 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Monday | 0 of 15 | Iraj Ershaghi | DEN@Viterbi | PDF (209548 KB) | |
Volumetric reservoir performance; reservoirs under water influx and gas cap expansion; coning; gravity drainage; estimation of reserves and ultimate recovery. Prerequisite: 402L.
- Prerequisite: PTE 464
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32276D | 048 | Lecture | 6:40-9:20pm | Thursday | 58 of 100 | Jincai Chang | OHE122 | PDF (444242 KB) | |
| 32278D | 034 | Lecture | 6:40-9:20pm | Thursday | 6 of 20 | Jincai Chang | DEN@Viterbi | PDF (444242 KB) | |
Infrastructure Security, Resilience and Management of Digital Oil Fields, Process Control Networks in exploration and production, refining and chemical plants, Asset Integrity principles, case histories. Open only to graduate students.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32292D | 048 | Lecture | 12:30-3:10pm | Wednesday | 15 of 76 | Donald Paul | OHE136 | PDF (373545 KB) | |
| 32294D | 034 | Lecture | 12:30-3:10pm | Wednesday | 0 of 15 | Donald Paul | DEN@Viterbi | |
Classification; porosity development; source rocks; wettability; capillary pressure curves; compressibility; surface areas; relative permeabilities; various petrophysical properties; formation evaluation; overpressures; thin section analysis.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student, Master Student
- Restriction: Registration open to the following school(s): Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32282D | 048 | Lecture | 12:30-3:10pm | Monday | 26 of 76 | George Chilingar | OHE136 | | |
| 32284D | 034 | Lecture | 12:30-3:10pm | Monday | 2 of 15 | George Chilingar | DEN@Viterbi | |
Use of geostatistical methods for exploration and development of mineral and petroleum resources, application of semivariogram, kriging, cokriging, nonlinear and parametric estimation and conditional stimulation. Graduate standing. Recommended preparation: knowledge of statistics.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32201D | 048 | Lecture | 9:00-11:40am | Friday | Canceled | Behnam Jafarpour | | ||
| 32203D | 034 | Lecture | 9:00-11:40am | Friday | Canceled | Behnam Jafarpour | |
Optimization algorithms for oilfield development, including well control optimization, well placement, open-loop and closed-loop model predictive control, and robust optimization. Prerequisite: PTE 500. Recommended preparation: Familiarity with linear algebra, vector calculus, general reservoir engineering and MATLAB programming language. Open only to Engineering graduate students.
- Prerequisite: PTE 500
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student
- Restriction: Registration open to the following school(s): Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32298D | 048 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Tuesday | Canceled | Behnam Jafarpour | | ||
| 32299D | 034 | Lecture | 9:00-11:40am | Friday | Canceled | Behnam Jafarpour | |
Principles of single and multiphase flow through porous media; mechanisms of immiscible and miscible displacement; momentum, heat and mass transport in porous media.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32268D | 048 | Lecture | 6:40-9:20pm | Wednesday | 51 of 95 | Victor Ziegler | OHE122 | PDF (124633 KB) | |
| 32270D | 034 | Lecture | 6:40-9:20pm | Wednesday | 2 of 18 | Victor Ziegler | DEN@Viterbi | PDF (124633 KB) | |
Review of soft computing methods such as neuralnetworks, fuzzy logic, problematic reasoning in reservoir characterization, dynamic reservoir modeling, oilfield data integration and analysis of uncertainty in prediction. Limited to students with graduate standing. Recommended preparation: prerequisites for non-majors
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32272D | 048 | Lecture | 11:00-1:40pm | Thursday | 18 of 50 | Fred Aminzadeh | OHE136 | | |
| 32274D | 034 | Lecture | 11:00-1:40pm | Thursday | 1 of 20 | Fred Aminzadeh | DEN@Viterbi | |
Research leading to the Master's Degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32246D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 16 of 30 | Iraj Ershaghi | OFFICE | |
Credit on acceptance of Thesis.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32248D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 15 | OFFICE | |
Credit on acceptance of Thesis.
- Prerequisite: PTE 594A
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32249D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 15 | Iraj Ershaghi | OFFICE | |
Course content will be selected each semester to reflect current trends and developments in the field of Petroleum Engineering.
| Section | Session | Units | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formation Damage In Petroleum Reservoirs | ||||||||||
| 32291D | 034 | 3.0 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Tuesday | Canceled | | |||
| Formation Damage in Petroleum Reservoirs | ||||||||||
| 32293D | 048 | 3.0 | Lecture | 3:30-6:10pm | Tuesday | Canceled | | |||
| Petroleum Geochemistry | ||||||||||
| 32296D | 048 | 3.0 | Lecture | 11:00-1:40pm | Monday | 8 of 20 | Hossein Alimi | OHE100C | | |
| Petroleum Geochemistry | ||||||||||
| 32297D | 048 | 3.0 | Lecture | 11:00-1:40pm | Monday | Canceled | | |||
| Petroleum Geochemistry | ||||||||||
| 32263D | 034 | 3.0 | Lecture | 11:00-1:40pm | Monday | 1 of 20 | Hossein Alimi | DEN@Viterbi | Word (310978 KB) | |
Laboratory study of specific problems for candidates for the degree Engineer in Petroleum Engineering. Graded CR/NC.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32254D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 15 | OFFICE | |
Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32256D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 12 of 15 | Iraj Ershaghi | OFFICE | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32228D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 15 | Iraj Ershaghi | OFFICE | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.
- Prerequisite: PTE 794A
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32229D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 15 | Iraj Ershaghi | OFFICE | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.
- Prerequisite: PTE 794B
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32262D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 2 of 15 | Iraj Ershaghi | OFFICE | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.
- Prerequisite: PTE 794C
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32264D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 0 of 15 | Iraj Ershaghi | OFFICE | |
Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.
- Prerequisite: PTE 794D
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32266D | 048 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 15 | Iraj Ershaghi | OFFICE | |