USC Catalogue 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]
Petroleum Engineering – Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
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Return to: USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Hedco Building 316
(213) 740-0322
FAX: (213) 740-0324
Email: chemspte@vsoe.usc.edu
chems.usc.edu
Chair: Andrea Hodge, PhD
Associate Chair, Graduate Program: Noah Malmstadt, PhD
Director: Iraj Ershaghi, PhD, PE
Faculty
Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair in Engineering and Chester F. Dolley Chair in Petroleum Engineering: Yannis C. Yortsos, PhD
Omar B. Milligan Chair in Petroleum Engineering: Iraj Ershaghi, PhD, PE
William M. Keck Professor of Energy Resources: Donald M. Paul, PhD
Associate Professors: Behnam Jafarpour, PhD; Kristian Jessen, PhD
Assistant Professor: Birendra Jha, PhD
Research Professor: Fred Aminzadeh, PhD
Associate Professor of Practice: Jincai Chang, PhD
Adjunct Research Professor: Dongxiao Zhang, PhD
Adjunct Professor: Faruk Civan, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professors: Davood Khairkhah, PhD; Andrei Popa, PhD
Lecturers: Robello Samuel, PhD; Donald Gautier, PhD; Martin Karrenbach, PhD; Bradford Pierce, MS; Ke-Thia Yao, PhD
Joint Appointments: Edward Crandall, PhD, MD (Medicine); P. Daniel Dapkus, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Stacey Finley, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Martin Gundersen, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Qiang Huang, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering); Jerry S.H. Lee, PhD (Medicine); Grace Lu, PhD (Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering); Brent Merlot, PhD (Chemistry); Aiichiro Nakano, PhD (Computer Science, Physics, Biomedical Engineering); George Olah, PhD (Chemistry); Charles G. Sammis, PhD (Geological Sciences); Raymond Stevens, PhD (Biological Sciences and Chemistry); Armand R. Tanguay Jr., PhD (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering); Mark E. Thompson, PhD (Chemistry); Han Wan, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Arieh Warshel, PhD (Chemistry); Chongwu Zhou, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Emeritus Professors: George Chillingar,PhD; Elmer L. Dougherty, PhD; Murray Gershenzon, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Peter Will, PhD (Astronautical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Petroleum Engineering Honor Society: Pi Epsilon Tau
Degree Requirements
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
Emphasis in Petroleum Engineering
See the listing under Chemical Engineering .
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Emphasis in Petroleum Engineering
See the listing under Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering .
Engineer in Petroleum Engineering
Requirements for the Engineer degree in petroleum engineering are the same as set forth in the general requirements. See general requirements for graduate degrees.
Minor
Master’s Degree
Graduate Certificate
Dual Degree
Doctoral Degree
Petroleum Engineering
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PTE 202x Energy and Society Units: 4
Terms Offered: Irregular
Study of the impact of the development, production, and global distribution of energy on societal, political, and economic behavior. Not available for major credit to engineering majors.
Prerequisite: pass Math Skill Level.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 390 Special Problems Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 411 Introduction to Transport Processes in Porous Media Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
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.
Prerequisite: (CHEM 105aLg or CHEM 115aLg ) and (CE 309 and MATH 245 and PHYS 151Lg )
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 412x Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Properties of reservoir fluids, volumetric and material balances for gas and oil reservoirs; reservoir modeling concepts.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 461 Formation Data Sensing with Well Logs Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Measurement theory and petroleum/geothermal applications of electrical, radioactive, acoustic, and production logging tools. Estimation of rock porosity, water saturation, permeability, shale content, gas flow rate.
Recommended Preparation: Mechanics of materials, fundamentals of physics on the level of PHYS 152L and PHYS 408b
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as CHE 461, AME 461 -
PTE 462 Economic, Risk and Formation Productivity Analysis Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Principle of economic evaluation, risk analysis, reserves estimation, decline curves, energy prices, and well transients for flow prediction.
Prerequisite: PTE 461 .
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as CHE-462, ME-462, AME-462 -
PTE 463L Introduction to Transport Processes in Porous Media Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Fundamentals of flow and transport in porous materials including: Properties of porous rocks, capillarity effect, single- and multiphase flow, diffusion and dispersion in miscible displacements.
Prerequisite: MATH 245 and PHYS 151Lg and (CHEM 105aLg or CHEM 115aLg )
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as CHE 463, AME 463 -
PTE 464L Modeling and Simulation of Subsurface Flow Systems Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Properties of reservoir fluids, volumetric and material balances for gas and oil reservoirs; reservoir modeling concepts.
Prerequisite: PTE 463L
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as CHE 464, AME 464 -
PTE 465L Drilling Technology and Subsurface Methods Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Theory and practice in drilling technology; mechanical properties of reservoir rocks; well completion; acidizing and fracturing, oil production technology.
Prerequisite: PTE 464 .
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as AME-465, CHE-465 -
PTE 466 Petroleum Geology Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sm
Introductory topics of physical and historical geology will be focused on the components that relate to the formation of oil and gas accumulations.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 490x Directed Research Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Max Units: 12.0
Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 499 Special Topics Units: 2, 3, 4
Max Units: 8.0
Course content to be selected each semester from recent developments in petroleum engineering and related fields.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 500 Computational Reservoir Modeling Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
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.
Registration Restriction: Open only to Engineering students.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 502 Advanced Reservoir Characterization Units: 3
Terms Offered: Irregular
Sources of data for reservoir characterization; cross-disciplinary integration; geologic models; sequence stratigraphic, lithologic, well test and geophysical models; 4-D seismic; compartmentalized and fractured reservoirs; error and risk analysis.
Prerequisite: PTE 411 , PTE 461 .
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 503 Technology of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources Development Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
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.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 504 Geophysics for Petroleum Engineers Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sm
Geosciences concepts and technologies with applications in petroleum engineering: 2D-3D-4D seismic, borehole geophysics, passive seismic, controlled source electromagnetics, geophysical and geological modeling and inversion.
Recommended Preparation: familiarity with Matlab.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 505 Inverse Modeling for Dynamic Data Integration Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Introduction to fundamentals of deterministic and stochastic inverse modeling, integration of dynamic data into predictive reservoir models, reservoir parameterization, derivation of adjoint models.
Recommended Preparation: PTE 508 , basic knowledge of calculus, linear algebra and probability/statistics.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 506 Geothermal Reservoirs Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Geothermal reservoirs, heat and mass flow in fracture network, enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), exploration methods, exploitation of hydrothermal and EGS fields, stimulation, forecasting, power generation.
Recommended Preparation: familiarity with Matlab.
Registration Restriction: Open only to Engineering and Geological Sciences students.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 507 Engineering and Economic Evaluation of Subsurface Reservoirs Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Studies, data and methods for estimating size of underground fluid deposits for predicting physical and economic behavior of designed flow schemes, and for quantifying uncertainty.
Prerequisite: PTE 464 .
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 508 Numerical Simulation of Subsurface Flow and Transport Processes Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Formulation and solution of the equations describing the underground flow of fluids through porous media. Includes mass (contaminant) transport in single and multiphase flow.
Recommended Preparation: PTE 507 .
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 509 High-Resolution Simulations of Porous Media Flows Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
High-order finite difference, finite volume and spectral methods to simulate contaminant transport, CO2 sequestration and viscous fingering problems in high resolution using Matlab/Python.
Recommended Preparation: Concepts covered in MATH 225 and MATH 245. Introductory knowledge of MATLAB or Python programming language
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 511 Advanced Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids Units: 3
Terms Offered: Irregular
From classical thermodynamics to engineering application; equations of state based calculations; PVT experiments; reservoir fluid characterization; PT-flash calculations and stability analysis; compositional grading; transport properties.
Recommended Preparation: CHE 330 , MATH 226 .
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 512 Gas Injection Processes — Analytical Solutions and Analysis Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Gas injection and enhanced oil/gas recovery; conservation equations; flow and phase behavior; displacement efficiency; dispersion; method of characteristics; development of multicontact miscibility in multicomponent systems.
Recommended Preparation: CHE 330 , MATH 226 and MATH 245 (or similar).
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 514 Drilling Engineering Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Graduate level course on drilling engineering with an emphasis on field design and applications. Topics covered include well planning; rock mechanics; rotary drilling processes; drilling rig components; drill string and bottom hole assemblies; well hydraulics and drilling muds; casing design and cementing; directional drilling; offshore drilling and drilling economics.
Registration Restriction: Open only to Engineering graduate students
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 515 Natural Gas Engineering Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Characterization, development and prediction of natural gas reservoirs, including natural gas surface production equipment and systems, forecasting natural gas well and reservoir performance and current LNG developments
Prerequisite: PTE 411 and PTE 412x
Recommended Preparation: Good handle of Excel, running VBA apps, programming macros and Matlab programming; concurrent enrollment in a computer programming class would be helpful
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 517 Testing of Wells and Aquifers Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Principles of well testing; down hole device; Aquifer tests; slug tests; DST; pressure transient modeling in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems; parameter estimation; computer aided techniques.
Prerequisite: PTE 464 .
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 519 Integrated Physical and Cyber Security for Oil and Gas Operations Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
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.
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 520 Mathematical Methods for Deep Learning Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
(Enroll in MASC 520 )
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PTE 531 Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sm
Enhanced recovery from conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources including: Water, surfactant and polymer processes, miscible gas and WAG displacements, and thermal recovery processes.
Prerequisite: PTE 500 and PTE 582
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 542 Carbonate Rocks Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Classification; porosity development; source rocks; wettability; capillary pressure curves; compressibility; surface areas; relative permeabilities; various petrophysical properties; formation evaluation; overpressures; thin section analysis.
Recommended Preparation: Basic familiarity with linear algebra and general reservoir engineering
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate Engineering students
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 545 Corrosion Control in Petroleum Production Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Types of corrosion encountered in petroleum production; methods for practical control including use of inhibitors, coatings, and cathodic protection.
Prerequisite: CHEM 430 or CHEM 430a
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students in Engineering
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 555 Well Completion, Stimulation, and Damage Control Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sm
This course reviews current practices related to well completion methods, wellbore stimulation, and damage control. Formation damage prevention and stimulation methods are emphasized.
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 572L Applied Geostatistical Modeling for Subsurface Characterization Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Introduction to conventional and modern geostatistical estimation and simulation techniques, combining theory with hands-on computer application of geostatistical methods in modeling the spatial phenomena.
Recommended Preparation: Basic knowledge and familiarity with general calculus, linear algebra, and probability
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 574 Optimization Methods for Subsurface Energy Resources Development Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
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.
Registration Restriction: Open only to Engineering graduate students.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 578 Advanced Production Engineering Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Principles of onshore and offshore oil well & gas well production; design of artificial lift systems and surface operations; field problems of enhanced oil recovery operations.
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students in the School of Engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 581 Environmental Technology in the Petroleum Industry Units: 3
Terms Offered: Irregular
This course examines engineering and scientific principles necessary for understanding, assessing, and remediating environmental problems in the petroleum industry including drilling, production, transportation and refining operations. Graduate standing.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 582 Fluid Flow and Transport Processes in Porous Media Units: 3, 2 years
Terms Offered: Fa
Principles of single and multiphase flow through porous media; mechanisms of immiscible and miscible displacement; momentum, heat and mass transport in porous media.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 586 Intelligent and Collaborative Oilfield Systems Characterization and Management Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Review of soft computing methods such as neural networks, 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.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 587 Smart Completions, Oilfield Sensors and Sensor Technology Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Intelligent Wellbore completion, technology of subsurface and surface sensors, deployment and data acquisition, telemonitoring and feedback, reliability of sensors, data transmission, systems networks.
Recommended Preparation: prerequisites for non-majors.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 588 Smart Oilfield Data Mining Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Methods for oilfield data mining, data preparation mining images, prediction and knowledge discovery, subset selection, pattern recognition. Limited to students with graduate standing.
Recommended Preparation: prerequisites for non-majors.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 589 Advanced Oilfield Operations with Remote Immersive Visualization and Control Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sp
Immersive subsurface and surface environments, web based monitoring and feedback, visualizing risk, unattended operation. Limited to students with graduate standing.
Recommended Preparation: prerequisites for non-majors.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 590 Directed Research Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
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PTE 591 Petroleum Geochemistry Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Application of chemical principles to the study of the origin, migration, accumulation, and alteration of petroleum.
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 592 Geomechanics for Energy and Environment Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Physical, mathematical and simulation aspects of coupled flow and geomechanics in petroleum/geothermal reservoirs. Coupled flow-geomechanics simulator development using finite element and finite volume methods.
Recommended Preparation: Familiarity with concepts covered in PTE 500 , PTE 508 , AME 535a , AME 404 , AME 507 , CE 529a
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 594 Formation Damage in Petroleum Reservoirs Units: 3
Terms Offered: Fa
Overview of background and techniques required for understanding, assessing, and mitigating formation damage in petroleum and subsurface reservoirs.
Recommended Preparation: Reservoir engineering, thermodynamics, petroleum reservoir fluids, fluid mechanics, Excel worksheets
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 594a Master’s Thesis Units: 2
For the master’s degree. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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PTE 594b Master’s Thesis Units: 2
For the master’s degree. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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PTE 594z Master’s Thesis Units: 0
For the master’s degree. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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PTE 599 Special Topics Units: 2, 3, 4
Max Units: 9.0
Course content will be selected each semester to reflect current trends and developments in the field of petroleum engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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PTE 611 Stochastic Modeling and Simulation Units: 3
(Enroll in CE 611 )
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PTE 690 Directed Research Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
Max Units: 8.0
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Laboratory study of specific problems for candidates for the degree engineer in petroleum engineering.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
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PTE 790 Research Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
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PTE 794a Doctoral Dissertation Units: 2
Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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PTE 794b Doctoral Dissertation Units: 2
Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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PTE 794c Doctoral Dissertation Units: 2
Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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PTE 794d Doctoral Dissertation Units: 2
Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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PTE 794z Doctoral Dissertation Units: 0
Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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