Master degree program
Petroleum Engineering (Un. of Lorraine)

Petroleum Engineering (Un. of Lorraine)

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Engineering Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. identify, formulate and solve complex oil and gas problems in the field of production and processing of oil and gas raw materials;
2. to solve the problems of oil and gas production by integrating different types of data used in the oil and gas industry;
3. independently analyze existing theories, methods in oil and gas engineering and work on practical and theoretical issues in this field;
4. use modern production technologies, manage, develop and implement processes in oil and gas production;
5. use methods, skills and modern tools necessary for engineering practice and applied research in the field of oil and gas engineering;
6. to develop a feasibility study of innovative solutions in professional activities;
7. develop projects for drilling and operation of wells, oil and gas production from various types of reservoirs;
8. demonstrate leadership and persuasion skills, and function and interact effectively in technical and non-technical communication, including foreign language environments
9. design and develop new innovative processes and equipment for oil and gas production and transportation of oil and gas
10. analyze possible innovative risks in the implementation of new technologies, equipment
11. to improve methods of operation and technology service of the equipment
12. compare the decisions taken to improve the efficiency of the process of extracting oil from reservoirs

Program passport

Speciality Name
Petroleum Engineering (Un. of Lorraine)
Speciality Code
7M07202
Faculty
Chemistry and Chemical Technology

disciplines

Drilling equipment
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description -

Exploitation of oil and gas fields on the shelf
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying and mastering the theory and practice of development and operation of oil and gas fields in relation to the offshore fields.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to compare and generalize modern scientific discoveries, taken in their historical dynamics and considered in a historically changing sociocultural context. The training course forms an understanding of the development of science and the structure of scientific knowledge, the role of science in the development of society. The discipline is aimed at studying: the history and philosophy of science, the methodology of natural science, sociological, humanitarian and technical knowledge.

Innovative methods for enhanced oil recovery
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying: innovative thermal methods of enhanced oil recovery; innovative physical and chemical bases for enhanced oil recovery; improvement of well productivity.

Investigation of oil and gas wells and reservoirs
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline – the formation of systematic knowledge about the laws of underground flows in oil and gas reservoirs, methods of research, methods of processing results, creating mathematical models for design, research, forecasting of technological indicators, regulation and analysis of field development. The discipline forms the fundamental knowledge and skills to study the methods of well research, methods of processing their results, equipment used in well research.

Monitoring and control of the drilling process
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying the basic physical concepts used in the control of the drilling process in a well, determining zones with abnormally high formation pressure, means of controlling gas, oil and water manifestations, wellhead and blowout control equipment to control drilling processes in wells and eliminate their consequences.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to apply practical skills in the organization and planning of scientific research. The discipline studies: forms and methods of planning, organization and design of scientific articles and dissertations; forms of summarizing the results of scientific research in presentations, speeches, projects, articles.

Pedagogy of higher education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to explain the fundamental concepts of management psychology, to identify the prerequisites for the theoretical and practical application of aspects of the management sphere in the process of professional development. The training course forms an understanding of modern ideas about the psychology of managing group phenomena and processes. Discipline is aimed at studying the basic principles of management psychology, personality in management interactions, management of personal behavior.

Technique and technology of underground well workover
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying the main technological processes of underground workover of wells: tripping operations (SPO); tools used in open source software; repair and insulation works; well abandonment works; well recovery; well repair quality control; safety precautions during repair work in the well.

Technology of drilling oil- and gas figurative layers
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description -

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Computer modeling in the development of oil and gas fields
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at: studying the basic principles of computer modeling of the development and exploitation of oil and gas fields; obtaining an idea of the hydrodynamic processes occurring in formations of oil and gas fields in the process of their development and operation; Modeling principles are necessary to visualize the results.

Designing the development of oil and gas fields by horizontal well systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms a methodological and scientific basis for designing the development of oil and gas fields by horizontal well systems. The discipline is aimed at substantiating the construction system and carrying out calculations of hydrocarbon production from wells by horizontal well systems and their economic feasibility.

Development of oil reservoirs at a late stage
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the methodological foundations for mastering the methods of influencing oil and gas formations at the later stage of operation, taking into account the consequences of man-made impacts on the formation.The discipline is aimed at studying the development systems of oil and gas fields at the latest stage of operation, the improved methods of revision of the primary GIS and GDIS information base are given in order to thin out the determination of initial balance and recoverable reserves, building maps for various purposes and using them in the development of current GTM.

Economics of energy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline: During the study of course, students should be competent in: - formation of knowledge about the laws of the industry, - study of methods to assess the effectiveness of the use of resources; - formation of practical skills in the formulation and development of economic problems. During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: 1. Macro economy 2. Micro economy linked to the life of the field, the investments, the contracts... 3. Economy of EOR 4. Economic evaluation - theory 5. Economic evaluation - calculation of examples of field development 6. Environmental constraints and especially the costs linked to the water and CO2 management, the chain of Capture / transport / storage of CO2

Hydrodynamic of EOR
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline: During the study of course, students should be competent in: - description of the physical processes in the reservoir by an adequate hydrodynamic, thermodynamic and chemical model for various techniques of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) as injection of miscible gases, polymers, surfactants, microbes, heat. - to know how to calculate the parameters of various scenarios of reservoir exploitation by using grapho-analytical methods based on diagrams of fractional flow and phase diagrams - to learn the art of analyzing of the complicated coupled physical processes without using computer modelling. During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: 1. Waterflooding of oil reservoirs. Bases of the two-phase flow theory in porous media; Buckley-Leverett theory and shock waves; Waterflooding in the gravity field. 2. Theory of miscible gas-condensate recovery. Binary mixtures, ideal mixing; Effective model of binary miscible displacement, structures of shocks, diagrammatic technique; Analysis of the gas-condensate displacement by dry gas. 3. Theory of miscible CO2 injection in oil reservoirs. Laws of gas dissolution in multicomponent systems and tertiary diagrams; Effective mlodel of ternary displacement, classification of shocks; Regimes of dispalcement and methode efficiency 4. Theory of chemical and thermal EOR. Model of heat transport; Model of two-pahse chemical transport with adsorption; Analogy with miscible displacement; Technological schelmes of thermal/chemiocal EOR for heavy oils and bitumes

Lean technologies in petroleum engineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying: the essence of the philosophy of "lean production"; lean production; basic tools of lean manufacturing; the essence of the concept of "Kaizen"; eliminate production losses in the best way based on available resources and constraints; determine the feasibility of introducing lean manufacturing as a result of choosing the order of work to support technological processes; developing the ability to determine the range of tasks.

Management of oil fields by the "Smart field" system
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying an integrated approach to the consideration of issues in the field of managing the processes of prospecting, exploration, drilling, development, operation, collection, preparation and transportation of well products operating in real time, using automation of technological processes.

Modern oil and gas transportation and storage systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a system of competencies for the design of storage and transportation of oil and gas. Discipline forms the engineering and technical basis for the design of the tank farm, pumping stations tank farm, the selection of basic technological equipment for the transport and storage of oil and gas.

Natural drive mechanisms of production
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline: During the study of course, students should be competent in: - To know to calculate and analyse the complete system of material balance equations and technological regimes of wells, in order to forecast and optimize the reservoir parameters. - For primary and secondary gas-oil recovery, to know to formulate the material balance equations, for various drive mechanisms (gas drive, water drive, gas solution drive, gas-condensate drive,…), both for conventional and unconventional reservoirs (shale gas, coalbed methane, hydrate gas) During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: 1. Dynamics of reservoirs with single phase fluids. Natural drive in a gas reservoir; Compaction drive in an oil reservoir; Material balance. 2. Short analysis of processes in muiltiphase cases. Influence of the aquifer and processes in the flooded zone; Solution gas liberation and dynamics; Formation of a gas cap and its influence of production 3. General material balance model of water drive. Derivation of the model and its qualitative analysis; balance model for combined drives; reserves estimation; estimation of the ultimate recovery; optimisation of the production rate. 4. Solution drive: material balance and model of gas liberation. Compositional and black-oil models for a liquid with dissolved gas; Solution gas drive in an oil reservoir: Musket model for gas liberation; GOR behaviour and regims of solution drive; CO2 storage in an aquifer: model of dissolution; Gas cap drive; Gas-condensate reservoirs

New technical means and technologies of oil and gas production
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form scientific and technical thinking and the ability to develop and implement modern technologies for the production and treatment of oil and gas, the operation of new machines and equipment that implement these technologies in the fields. The discipline forms the scientific and engineering basis for the skills of construction and operation of wells, collection and preparation for transportation of oil and gas in the fields, energy and material resources and promising areas of development of the industry.

Numerical simulation of the recovery techniques
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline: During the study of course, students should be competent in: - to understand the principles of phase behavior to distinguish the general properties and behavior of black oil, volatile oil, gas condensate and dry gas reservoir fluids. - to study how to use the commercial software E300 to model the dynamic behavior for all types of reservoirs and degrees of complexity - structure, geology, fluid compositions During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: Principles of Eclipse “black-oil” on the example of radial flow model with critical coning rate (principles of modelling, basic keywords, visualisation of results). Modelling of fluids with complex composition, using the cubic equation of state for mixtures and pressure-dependent K-values. Studying the PVTi module of ECLIPSE to simulate laboratory experiments for oil and gas samples, make the theoretical predictions on any observations during lab experiment, and to test the accuracy of fluid model. Compositional modelling of solvent injection process: optimisation of the different regimes. Thermal ECLIPSE: modelling of heavy oil production using the SAGD technology. Oil production with combustion methods (applying of thermal and chemical reaction options). Gas-condensate production modelling with basic technologies: simple depletion or dry gas reinjection (cycling) on the examples of the real gas-condensate mixtures.

Oil/gas reservoirs & storages
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline: During the study of course, students should be competent in: - understanding of flow behavior and knowing the recovery mechanisms in fractured reservoirs; - to know various techniques of storage, physico-chemical, micro-biological and thermal phenomena in a storage, their impact on gas composition and behaviour, and the elementary methods of calculating the parameters (pressure, temperature, free gas saturation, gas composition) and optimal regimes During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: Flow in heterogeneous and fractured reservoirs. Double porosity model. Analysis of static and dynamic data. Underground gas storage technologies; Efficiency of natural gas storage, Simulation of a gas storage. Underground storage of hydrogen and underground storage of LNG (liquefied natural gas) Offshore gas fields; uncertainty of production

Selection and justification of oil and gas field development system
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the skills of choosing the system of development of hydrocarbon deposits and geological and field justification of technological solutions. The discipline forms the methodological and scientific basis for the hydrodynamic calculations of the variants of the system of development and selection of the optimal variant on the basis of comparison of the dynamics of technological and economic indicators of development.

Techniques and mechanisms of enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline: During the study of course, students should be competent in: - to understand and apply special core analyses including capillary pressure, pore size distribution, wettability, surface tension, viscous forces and relative permeability, - to know the basic principles of the different EOR techniques that can be used to improve oil recovery from a reservoir. During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: - the physical processes focusing on oil trapping during a multiphase flow in porous media. - the different physical causes of trapping and the ways to reduce it. - the different EOR methods that can be used in the fields (miscible, chemical, thermal and unconventional).

Technology of Natural Gas Production
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - to master the theoretical foundations of natural gas production technology, to study the physical properties of gas condensate in the collection and preparation of oil and gas. The discipline forms a methodological basis for the study of the processes of development of gas and gas condensate fields, methods of collection and preparation of oil and gas for transportation, methods of increasing oil recovery of reservoirs and wells, as well as the impact of reservoir zones on the bottom.

The theoretical basis for the field development
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the skills of design of oil and gas fields, forecasting, complex analysis, control and management of the process of field development. The discipline forms the methodological basis for mastering the methods of influence on oil and gas reservoirs, analysis of criteria for the formation of development objects, as well as regulation of the process of development of oil and gas fields.

Thermodynamics of reservoirs and phase transitions
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline: During the study of course, students should be competent in: - understanding of the phase diagrams of pure components and of binary systems. Be able to choose a thermodynamic model - calculate the properties of a pure component (including phase equilibrium) using an equation of state, application to different processes in reservoir engineering During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: Vapor-liquid equilibrium of a pure component. Phase diagrams of a pure component. Equations of state to describe a pure component (virial, Van der Waals, SRK, Peng-Robinson). Vapor-liquid equilibrium, liquid-liquid equilibrium and vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium for multi-component systems. Description of the 4 types of low pressure liquid-vapor phase diagrams. Description of the 5 types of liquid-liquid phase diagrams. Description of the four types of phase diagrams containing a 3-phase line. Temperature and pressure influence on the phase diagrams. The different types of critical locus. Classification of the phase diagrams.

Transportation of Oil, Gas, Gas Condensate and Refined Products
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the core competencies aimed at the selection and operation of oil, gas and oil products transportation systems. The discipline forms a methodological basis for the design and construction of transportation systems of hydrocarbons and storage tanks of oil, gas and petroleum products, to select methods and methods of preparation of petroleum products for collection and transport.

Unconventional Energy Sources
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of discipline: During the study of course, students should be competent in: - to know the alternative energy sources than oil and recoverable ones. Understand the principles of geothermal energy production, - to know geological bases of uranium ores, various techniques of leaching, useful and detrimental chemical reactions in a uranium ore, the calculation of pressure and concentrations, as well as the recovery factor, on the basis of numerical and analytical modelling During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: 1. In-situ leaching for uranium ores: geology, uranium ore genesis, lithology; uranium mining, techniques of in-situ leaching of uranium; geological modelling 2. Geothermy: principle of heat extraction, various types of geothermal energy, modelling 3. Shale gas and Tight gas reservoirs: geology and geochemistry of shale gas and TGR, principles of recovery 4. Hydrogen and fuel cell: Principles of fuel cell operation and applications

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years