Courses to be offered by the Institute

Name of the Course and duration:
1. Certificate in Energy Business (CEB) - ½ Year
2. Post Graduate Diploma in Petroleum Exploration & Production (PGDPEP)- 1 Year
3. M.Sc. in Petroleum Exploration & Production (MPEP) - 2 Years

I.  1 year diploma course  further can be extended to M.Sc. (MPE) by completing further duration of 2 years. Extension of will depend on the availability of seats. After completion of M.Sc., Ph. D can be taken up under professional guide of the Institute.

II. Short courses, seminar, workshop on latest development in science, technology and national/international policy change under prominent resource

personal will continue to be conducted by experts in relevant field.

III. Courses will be under Gauhati University

IV. Eligibility: i) PGDPEP/(MPEP)-M.Sc.(in Geology, Geophysics, Chemistry, Physics)   or B.E./B.Tech (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Civil, Electronics, Petroleum and Computer Science)/DPE (Diploma in Petroleum Exploration) with 60% aggregate. ii) Certificate Course: B.Sc. with 60% ( in Geology, Geophysics, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Life Sciences and other environmental related courses) or

Diploma Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Civil, Electronics, Petroleum and Computer Science).

V. Theoretical classes will be held at Guwahati and NEIST Jorhat, whereas laboratory and field training will be held at RRL Jorhat and in actual fields.

VI. Placement: 100% job assurance to those people showing excellent performance in field training.

VII. Fee Structures: 

1) Admission fee: Rs. 20,000.00

2) Course fee: 1.9 lacs per annum

(Education loan facility is available)

Our short certificate course contains the following fundamental programs.

A) Upstream Petroleum Sector

• Survey

• Geology

• Exploration

• Drilling

• Production

• Development

• Transportation

B) Downstream Petroleum Sector

• Refinery

• Petrochemical

• LPG

• LNG

• CNG

• Gas Cracker

• Gas based Power Plant

Certificate in Energy Business (CEB) (Duration 6 Months)

      (To be continued after 6 months)

Course contents

Unit (I)
A General Introduction (Two weeks duration)

1.0 Introduction of Petroleum including natural gas-their chemical composition, physical properties, a brief survey of oil and gas reserves.

1.1 Geology of petroleum: Basic concept of rock and their evaluation, reservoir rock, cap rock, reservoir traps and sedimentary basin. Methods of estimation of hydrocarbons reserves. Calculation of recovery factor by latest techniques. Latest advancement in reserve estimation techniques. Reservoir simulation with advanced models.

1.2 Fundamental of 3D Seismic survey design-2D Seismic data Acquisition and 3DAcquisition Geometries. Advanced topics on 3D Acquisition Geometries

1.3 Reservoir engineering consideration of different reservoir parameters for exploration, development and exploitation of petroleum.

1.4 Drilling of oil & gas wells- different methods, different types of drilling rigs (onshore/offshore) and drilling equipments, drilling fluid composition, properties and types, well completion methods, subsurface conditions, rock failure mechanisms.

1.5 Petroleum production-different production installations and equipments, different production operations in onshore and offshore, primary & enhanced oil recovery methods, artificial lift, surface processing of oil, gas and water. Well testing operations.

1.6 Characteristics and specifications of different petroleum products, Petroleum product tests and their significance

Unit (II)
Geology and Geophysics (G&G) (Two week duration)

2.0 Geology of Petroleum-a brief concept, Geologic Time Scale, Principles of Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Basins- Definition, classification, geologic concept, tectonics in sedimentation,
plate tectonics and its importance.

2.1 Sedimentary rocks, source rocks, reservoir rocks, and cap rocks.
Origin, migration and accumulation of petroleum, exploration of hydrocarbons by different methods,

2.2 Well log techniques-Advancements of well data like Resistivity, Sonics, Porosity, and Lithology. Advances in dielectric tools and their applications, corrosion analysis & well bore seismic. Interpretation methods for fractures, coal bed methane and in fresh shaly sand.

2.3 Maintenance training in S.F.T. - Basic tool Hydraulic Operating Principles, Tool Assembly/Diassembly Procedures, Pre & post job maintenance.

Unit (III)
Reservoir Study (Three weeks duration)

3.0 Advances in reservoir management- Reserves Estimation, bottom hole studies including build up, Horner's plot, pressure-transient analysis and interference tests, management approach in well and reservoir monitoring, recent advances in reservoir management-such as 4D seismic.

3.1 Improved oil recovery and productivity: Factors affecting the oil recovery, flood patterns and coverage, material balance equation, unsteady state flow thrust method, Buckley Leverett approach for Immiscible fluid displacement, Craig's method of performance prediction, Borisov's method for water calculations, Estimation of recovery factors by Stiles and Dykstra Parson methods, water flood in carbonate reservoir, Gas injection field applications,

3.2 Estimation of effective pay; Volumetric methods- reservoir boundaries, isopach maps. Evaluation and averaging of effective pay, evaluation and averaging of porosity, permeability and water saturation. Material balance method- Schilthvis equation of material balances for different cases, estimation by material balance equation. Decline curve analysis method.

3.3 Driving mechanism: Depletion drive, gas cap drive, water drive, combination drive, gravity drainage. Oil and gas recovery under different driving mechanisms and recovery factors/Recovery Efficiency.

3.4 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Techniques- General concept of EOR, types of flooding (viz. polymer, surfactants, Alkali surfactant polymer etc.), gas injection process, Thermal techniques- cyclic steam injection, steam drive, in-situ combustion, oil recovery by nuclear explosion. Oil recovery with surfactants- interfacial tension, emulsification and demulsification in oil recovery. Material requirements of EOR, modern techniques of EOR.

Unit (IV)
Drilling Operation (Three weeks duration)

4.1 The oil well; Percussive or cable tool drilling. Hydraulic rotary drilling rig, type of rigs, rig equipment. Drill string, drill string components and design, stretch of drill pipe, critical rotary speeds, drill pipe maintenance. Casing lines, wire lines, line configurations, etc. Various system involved in an oil rig, rig power system, hoisting system, circulating system, rotary system, well control system, well monitoring system. Special marine equipment, drilling cost analysis, drilling cost prediction.

4.2 Drill Bits: various types of bit types- drag bits, PDC bits, rolling bits; standard classification of bits; failure mechanism of drag bits; bit selection and evaluation; factors affecting penetration rate.

4.3 Casing; Functions and types of casing strings, liners, casing accessories. Casing pipe specifications, strength properties. Casing design burst and collapse pressures, buoyancy considerations, shock loads, bending forces, and safety factors. Graphical and analytical methods of casing design.

4.4 Cementing; Functions and properties of oil well cement. Composition of oil well cement, types and classes of oil well cement, additives required contamination of cement. Cement slurries, cement calculations, testing of properties. Cementing equipment, mechanics of cementing, primary and secondary cementing, stage cementing. Problems in cementing, compressive strength of cement; cement bond log, variable density log, cement evaluation tool (CET).

4.5 Quality, safety, health and environment. Different type of well kick, threatened blowout, proactive action, equipment testing, documentation, blowout control.

4.6 Reentry drilling, drain-hole drilling, horizontal drilling, extended reach, deviation drilling, multilateral drilling

Unit (V)
Production Operation (I) (Three weeks duration)

5.0 Completing a well and bringing it into production; well activation, swabbing, substitution of lighter fluids for heavier fluids, inflow stimulation by compressed gas or air, completion of water injection wells.

5.1 Well head equipment & flow control devices; Casing hangers, heads, tubing hangers, Christmas tree, chokes/beans, well head heaters, etc.

5.2 Subsurface production equipment; Tubing, production packers, bridge plugs, tubing anchors, standing valves, screen & slotted liners, bottom hole chokes, etc. Safety valves: types and operation.

5.3 Performance of productive formations; Radial flow of fluids, drawdown and productivity index, specific productivity index. Inflow performance relationship (IPR), importance of IPR, shape of IPR and effect of drawdown on gas-oil ratio (GOR) - single zone of constant permeability and stratified formations. Productivity index history and GOR history, effect of drawdown on water/oil ratio, water cut history.

5.4 Flowing well performance; Determination of inflow performance, vertical lift performance- flow regimes in vertical two phase flow, pressure distribution curves, stable and unstable flowing conditions, bean performance, effect of bean changes. Production optimisation by NODAL analysis.

5.5 Well stimulation; Well acidising treatment, hydraulic formation fracturing, thermal stimulation, surfactant treatment, high energy gas stimulation (HEGS), propellant stimulation etc.

5.6 Artificial lift system: Concept of artificial lift, various modes of lift, Multiphase flow and IPR generation, Sucker Rod Pumps, Gas lift- complications of gas lift well operation and complication control, increasing gas lift efficiency, optimisation of gas lift performances, ESR, jet pumps, troubleshooting, analysis of pumping unit operation from dynamometer cards. Electrical submersible pumping, hydraulic pumping, etc.

5.7 Work over and well servicing operation, through tubing work over, coil tubing operation, down hole tools, bottom hole recording, wire line operation, fishing operation, cost consciousness, preventing, formation, damage, conclusive testing, emerging technology induction. .

Unit (VI)
Production Operation (II) (Two week duration)

6.0 Transportation of oil and gas. Design and operation of pipelines

6.1 Gas processing; Two-phase separators, test separators, different separator types, stage separators. Dehydrators, gas compressors, prime movers, gas sweetening process, sulphur recovery from gas, condensate separation.

6.2 Liquid processing; Oil-water emulsions, free-water knockout. Treating emulsions- gravity separation, heating separation, chemical treating- vertical treaters and horizontal treaters, electrostatic separation- electrostatic treaters, safety precautions with treaters.

6.3 Surface handling of gas, oil and water; Underground storage of natural gas, liquid storage tanks, liquid pumps, vapour recovery from storage tanks, equipment associated with liquid storage tanks, final water treatment, salt water disposal.

Unit (VII)
Gas well drilling, completion, production and reservoir
Management.

7.0 Gas potential and gas well design, big bore well design for economic and early recovery, gas well testing, protection formation damage, full bore production with positive impact on reservoir,

Unit (VIII)
Chemistry of Petroleum (One week duration)

8.0 Evaluation of crude oil - physical and chemical properties of crude oil and its fractions and the methods of their determination. Chemistry of conversion processes such as alkylation, reforming, hydrocracking, dehydrogenation, solvent refining, etc., and their mechanisms.Theory of solvent extraction. Catalysis in petroleum refining. Combustion of petroleum products. Conventional petroleum products and their specifications and characteristics. Petroleum product tests and their significance. Different types of laboratory distillations - ASTM, EFV, TBP, and their interconversion.

Unit (IX)
Financing and budgeting in oil industries


PG Diploma in Petroleum Exploration (PGDPE) (Duration 1 Year)

Course contents:

Unit (I)

General Introduction of Petroleum & Natural gas (Two weeks duration)

1.0 A brief introduction to petroleum-its source, availability, physical and chemical properties.

1.1 Introduction of petroleum Industries-its growth and development. Estimation of Oil and Gas reserves, Crude oil and product evaluation methods, characteristics and specifications of different petroleum products, petroleum product tests and their significance.

1.2 Natural gas-its chemical composition, physical properties, availability and importance in this generation. A brief introduction to LNG, CNG, LPG, PNG (with their physical and chemical properties), gas cracker and gas based power plants.

1.3 Separation of gas fractions and manufactures of LNG, CNG, LPG and PNG.

1.4 Drilling of oil & gas wells- different methods, different types of drilling rigs (onshore/offshore) and drilling equipments, drilling fluid composition, properties and types, well completion methods, subsurface conditions, rock failure mechanisms.

1.5 Petroleum production-different production installations and equipments, different production operations in onshore and offshore, primary & enhanced oil recovery methods, artificial lift, surface processing of oil, gas and water. Well testing operations.

Unit (II)
Geology & Geophysics (G&G) (Two weeks duration)

2.0 Geology of petroleum; Concept of source rock, reservoir rock, cap rock, traps and sedimentary basin. Tectonics in sedimentation, plate tectonics and its importance. Origin, migration and accumulation of petroleum. Formation of oil & gas pools. Textures and structures of sedimentary rocks, Principles of Stratigraphy,


2.1 Well log techniques and Interpretation: Bore hole survey and various logging data to solve various exploration and production problems. The logs such as Resistivity, sonics porosity, lithology and their advancement for thin bed analysis corrosion analysis, stacking of tools and various advancement in acquisition and interpretation log data.

2.2 Exploration of petroleum- different methods

2.3 Drilling of oil & gas wells- different methods, drilling fluid composition, properties and

types, well completion methods, subsurface conditions, rock failure mechanisms. Measurement while drilling (MWD), logging while drilling, seismic while drilling, VSP, will include in the course

2.4 Crude oil and product evaluation methods, characteristics and specifications of different petroleum products, petroleum product tests and their significance.

2.5 Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Exploration: Geology of coal, evaluation of basin and prospect identification, prospect generation, drilling and completion of CBM wells, stimulation technology, testing and production operation.

2.6 Exploration concepts in clastic reservoir.

2.7 Fundamentals of 3D seismic survey design.

Unit (III)
Engineering

A) Reservoir Study (Two weeks duration)

3.0 Classification of petroleum reservoirs. Primary & Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques.

3.1 Reservoir water- composition, solubility of gas, compressibility, formation volume factor,
specific gravity. Viscosity- viscosity of reservoir fluids (oil, gas & water), effect of temperature & pressure.

3.2 Gas reservoir; The perfect gas law, non ideal or real gases, specific gravity of gases,
reservoir gas volume factor, densities and gradients, gas solubility.

3.3 Reservoir fluid characteristics; Solubility & expansion- hydrocarbon formation volume
factor, solubility, two-phase formation volume factor, specific gravity.

3.4 Advances in Reservoir Management with Case studies from Indian onshore /offshore fields

3.5 Improved oil recovery by gas Injection and thermal methods.

B) Production Engineering (Three weeks duration)

3.6 Recovery of petroleum: Enhanced oil recovery, hydrostatic pressure of liquid columns, types of fluid flow. Improved Oil Recovery, various IOR techniques and their selection criteria.

3.7 Production system: Solution for Deepwater Development- Field development options and selection criteria, floating production system


(floating production storage and offloading system, Tension Leg Platforms, Floating, Storage and offloading Vessels), Emerging deepwater technologies; Solution for marginal field development- Status of Deep water and ultra deepwater fields, Offshore Field development options and screening analysis, Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) and Floating Production and Offloading systems ( FPSO).

3.8 Natural flow of fluids; Production Logging Tools and PLT survey and interpretation of data. Rate control of flowing wells, gas coning, water coning, flowing well operations, well survey for optimum production, fluid flow measurements, two phase flow.

3.9 Well head equipment & flow control devices; Casing hangers, heads, tubing hangers, Christmas tree, chokes/beans, well head heaters, etc.

3.10 Subsurface production equipment; Tubing, production packers, bridge plugs, tubing anchors, standing valves, screen & slotted liners, bottom hole chokes, etc. Safety valves: types and operation.

3.11 Artificial lift system- Introduction to artificial lift, various modes of lift Gas lift - continuous lift, intermittent lift. Gas lift valve mechanics, properties of natural gas, complications of gas lift well operation and complication control, increasing gas lift efficiency, optimisation of gas lift performances. Plunger lift and chamber lift. Mechanical pumping- sucker rod pumping- surface and subsurface equipment, operation of sucker rod pumping, analysis of pumping unit operation from dynamometer cards. Electrical submersible pumping, hydraulic pumping, etc.

3.12 Pipeline maintenance- Construction ,maintenance and repairing of pipelines, corrosion of pipeline and its control, transportation problems in pipelines, Recent technological development of pipelines.

3.13 Management of oil field installations-Operational Management (Offshore), Safety management, Contract management and documentation management

3.14 Quality, safety, health and environment. Different type of well kick, threatened blowout,
proactive action, equipment testing, documentation, blowout control.

3.15 Reentry drilling, drain-hole drilling, horizontal drilling, extended reach, deviation
drilling, multilateral drilling

3.16 Work over and well servicing operation, through tubing work over, coil tubing operation,
down hole tools, bottom hole recording, wire line operation, fishing operation, cost
consciousness, preventing, formation, damage, conclusive testing, emerging technology induction. .

Unit (IV)
Exploration & Development of Oil & Gas Fields (Two weeks duration)

4.0. Methods of petroleum exploration- geological, geophysical, geochemical
and remote sensing, drilling of exploratory well.

4.1 Sequence of operations to be carried out during petroleum exploration under different conditions. Well spacing and drilling priority and Development of multi horizon fields.

4.2 Formulation of rational development programme under different reservoir conditions; Development of oil and gas fields. Stages of development, integration of data for field development.

4.3 Principles of development- aims, methods, and stages of development. Geological and engineering considerations required for development of hydrocarbon fields.

Unit (V)
Chemistry in Petroleum (Three weeks duration)

5.0 Theory of solvent extraction, Catalysis in petroleum refining, Combustion of petroleum products, Petroleum product tests and their significance, alkylation, reforming, hydrocracking, dehydrogenation, solvent refining, etc., and their mechanisms. Physical and chemical properties of crude oil and its fractions and the methods of their determination.

5.1 Different types of laboratory distillations - ASTM, EFV, TBP, and their interconversion.

5.2 Petrochemicals- Crude oil and natural gas as raw materials, Petrochemical feedstocks from biomass resources, Separation processes for manufacture of petrochemical feedstock. Sulphonation- Basic reactions in the sulphonation of hydrocarbons, sulphonating agents. Some properties of the surface-active agents and their use.

5.3 Halogenation of hydrocarbons- Main halogenated hydrocarbons used in chemical industry, Thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrocarbon halogenation, chlorination processes of low molecular weight paraffins, olefins and aromatics, Production of fluorocarbon derivatives, their properties and uses

5.4 Polymerization: The type and structure of the macromolecular products, physical and mechanical properties of high molecular mass compounds. Chain polymerisation, its mechanism and kinetics, methods of polymerisation and polycondensation, some more important commercial polymer products, their properties, manufacture and use.

5.5 Role of Chemicals used in exploiting hydrocarbon refinery- Drilling, Operational areas, Oil well stimulation, Enhanced oil recovery, water injection, polymer flooding Water-shut off etc., corrosion mitigation, value addition products.

Unit (VI)

A) Transport phenomena (One week duration)

6.0 Various distillation processes, Systems of equilibrium (liquid-liquid, liquid-vapour), binary and multi-component systems. Design of distillation columns for multi-component and complex systems.

B) Petroleum Industry Vs Environment (One week duration)

6.1 Environmental issues considered during exploration, production, transportation, refining and marketing of petroleum. Treatment of produced oil field water, ground water and refinery waste water. Pollution by hydrocarbon processing industries and their control. Hazardous waste laws and regulations for the petroleum refining industry.

Unit (VII)

Financing and budgeting in oil industries


M. Sc. (Petroleum Exploration)-(Duration 2 Years)

Course contents:

Unit (I):
A General Introduction

1.0 A general concept of petroleum industries in India and their recent development.

1.1 Crude oil and natural gas-their origin, physical and chemical properties, different nature and types of crude oil and gas. Utilization of natural gas, natural gas as profitable fuel.

1.2 Geology of petroleum: Textures and structures of Sedimentary rocks, source rocks, reservoir rocks, capping mechanism, Origin, migration and accumulation of petroleum, Exploration of petroleum- different methods, various recovery techniques.

1.3 Drilling: A general concept, different types of drilling rigs and equipments, onshore and offshore drilling, drilling fluid composition, well completion methods, subsurface conditions, rock failure mechanisms, casing cementation.

1.4 Production: Introduction to production technology, different production installations and equipments, different production operations in onshore and offshore, primary & enhanced oil recovery methods, artificial lift, surface processing of oil, gas and water.

1.5 Crude oil and product evaluation methods, characteristics and specifications of different petroleum products, petroleum product tests and their significance

1.6 Principles of crude oil refining, Secondary refining processes- sweetening, cat-cracking, reforming, etc, Separation of gas fractions and manufacture of LPG.

1.7 Reservoir engineering consideration of different reservoir parameters for exploration, development and exploitation of petroleum.


Unit (II)
Geology and Geophysics (G&G)

2.0 Geology of Petroleum: Geologic Time Scale, Principles of Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Basins-Definition, classification, geologic concept, tectonics in sedimentation, plate tectonics and its importance. An introduction to deltas, basin settings for preservation and propagation of deltas, classification of deltas, delta and hydrocarbon habitats and modeling and reconstruction including recent advances.

2.1 Estimation of oil & gas reserves: Classification of petroleum reservoirs, basic properties of rocks and their evaluation, absolute and effective porosity, reservoir fluid properties and their evaluation, methods of estimation of hydrocarbon reserves, Permeability concept- absolute, effective, relative, horizontal and vertical permeability, calculation of recovery factors based on latest techniques. Reservoir simulation with advanced models.

2.2 Classification of Reservoir on the basis of phase behaviour diagrams: Critical state, cricondentherm, cricondenbar, bubble point and dew point. Phase behaviour: ideal system, binary and multi component system. Equilibrium constituent and its application. Reservoir fluid characteristics; Solubility & expansion- hydrocarbon formation volume factor, solubility, two-phase formation volume factor, specific gravity.

2.3 Reservoir water- composition, solubility of gas, compressibility, formation volume factor, specific gravity. Viscosity- viscosity of reservoir fluids (oil, gas & water), effect of temperature & pressure. Gas reservoir; specific gravity of gases, reservoir gas volume factor, densities and

gradients, gas solubility.

2.4 Estimation of effective pay; Volumetric methods- reservoir boundaries, isopach maps. Evaluation and averaging of effective pay, evaluation and averaging of porosity, permeability and water saturation. Material balance method- Schilthvis equation of material balance for different cases, estimation by material balance equation. Decline curve analysis method.

2.5 Driving mechanism: Depletion drive, gas cap drive, water drive, combination drive, gravity drainage. Oil and gas recovery under different driving mechanisms and recovery factors/Recovery Efficiency.

Unit (III)

Production Operation

3.0 Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) techniques: General concept of IOR, IOR screening criteria for gas injection and thermal methods, secondary recovery by water injection and immiscible gas injection, gas re-injection in conjunction with water flood, water flooding- pattern flooding, steam flooding, In situ Combustion, Huff and puff Technology and their advancement, Case studies with their analysis, infill drilling, treatment of injection waters for secondary recovery, oil recovery efficiency, future prospects.

3.1 Gas and liquid processing: Two-phase separators, test separators, different separator types, stage separators. Dehydrators, gas compressors, prime movers, gas sweetening process, sulphur recovery from gas, condensate separation.
Liquid processing: Oil-water emulsions, free-water knockout. Treating emulsions- gravity separation, heating separation, chemical treating- vertical treaters and horizontal treaters, electrostatic separation- electrostatic treaters, safety precautions with treaters.

3.2 Evaluation of reservoir by modern petrochemical techniques: Core preservation, core handling and sample preparation, porosity permeability and calcimetery, core analysis by new and innovated techniques, Reservoir Rock description by computed tomography, CT scan and its other application, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Autopore microporosimetry on reservoir rock sample,

3.3 Data Integration for Reserves and Simulation: Petrophysical objectives, Data Hierarchy and calibration logic, Basic log analysis and core -log Integration, Effective and total porosity, complex lithologies and gas zone. Rwa's and Sw100 zones-their derivation and uses, Sw: Improving the inputs Which really matter: Rt, Rw, m, n, core Sw, Capillary pressures, Facies and Wettability, define, explained AND put to good use, Calibrating Sw. Shaly Sand- Define and explained, using Resistivity with log independent Sw, FMI and NMR. Using Waxman Smiths Qv, m*, n* with or without core. Fluid contacts and capillary pressure: using MDT/RCI/RDT's effectively. Distinguishing the mobile phase. The reservoir master equation, Permeability and Netpay.

3.4 Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques: Basic concept of EOR, EOR screening criteria, Types of flooding (polymer, surfactant, alkali surfactant polymer etc.), gas injection process, recent techniques for EOR. Thermal techniques- cyclic steam injection, steam drive, in-situ combustion, oil recovery by nuclear explosion. Oil recovery with surfactants- interfacial tension, emulsification and demulsification in oil recovery. Material requirements of EOR.

Unit (IV)
Drilling Operation

4.1 The oil well; Percussive or cable tool drilling. Hydraulic rotary drilling rig, type of rigs, rig equipment. Drill string, drill string components and design, stretch of drill pipe, critical rotary speeds, drill pipe maintenance. Casing lines, wire lines, line configurations, etc. Various systems involved in an oil rig, rig power system, hoisting system, circulating system, rotary system, well control system, well monitoring system. Special marine equipment, drilling cost analysis, drilling cost prediction.

Unit (IV)
Gas well drilling, completion, production and reservoir Management.

4.0 Gas potential and gas well design, big bore well design for economic and early recovery, gas well testing, protection formation damage, full bore production with positive impact on reservoir,

Unit (V) Well completion and work over operation

5.0 Well completion: Types, equipments (surface and down hole), special and duel completion, completion fluids, study of corrosion, packer and tubing stretch system, elastomers, Safety equipments for sub surface, equipments for high temperature wells, liquefaction of sick wells,

5.1 Work over operation- Types, work over rigs (1st and 2nd generation) and equipments, work over fluids, fishing tools and techniques, wire line operation and tools, well control and well stimulation, use of liquid nitrogen, Effluent disposal, rig less work over, safety practices, new technological trends and development.

Unit (VI)
Chemistry in Petroleum (Two weeks duration)

6.0 Theory of solvent extraction, Catalysis in petroleum refining, Combustion of petroleum products, Petroleum product tests and their significance, alkylation, reforming, hydrocracking, dehydrogenation, solvent refining, etc., and their mechanisms. Physical and chemical properties of crude oil and its fractions and the methods of their determination.

6.1 Different types of laboratory distillations - ASTM, EFV, TBP, and their interconversion.

6.2 Petrochemicals- Crude oil and natural gas as raw materials, Petrochemical feedstocks from

biomass resources, Separation processes for manufacture of petrochemical feedstock. Sulphonation- Basic reactions in the sulphonation of hydrocarbons, sulphonating agents. Some properties of the surface-active agents and their use.

6.3 Halogenation of hydrocarbons- Main halogenated hydrocarbons used in chemical industry, Thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrocarbon halogenation, chlorination processes of low molecular weight paraffins, olefins and aromatics, Production of fluocarbon derivatives, their properties and uses

6.4 Polymerization: The type and structure of the macromolecular products, physical and mechanical properties of high molecular mass compounds. Chain polymerisation, its mechanism and kinetics, methods of polymerisation and polycondensation, some more important commercial polymer products, their properties, manufacture and use.

6.5 Role of Chemicals used in exploiting hydrocarbon refinery- Drilling, Operational areas, Oil well stimulation, Enhanced oil recovery, water injection, polymer flooding Water-shut off etc., corrosion mitigation, value addition products.

Unit (VII)
8.0 Financing and budgeting in oil industries.