Engenharia de Petróleos

This curricular unit has as main objective to provide advanced training in Petroleum Engineering, related to the exploration and production of hydrocarbons, which can be oil or natural gas. This discipline involves the study and analysis of geology, geophysics and engineering data to predict the maximum recovery of hydrocarbons present in hydrocarbon reservoirs, as well as the respective production rates in oil extraction fields. Petroleum engineering topics include oil well completion and drilling engineering, oil production and optimization engineering, reservoir management engineering, and sustainable development of oil fields. At the end of this course unit the student will have acquired knowledge, skills and competences that allow him/her to:

- Understand in a basic way the equipment and systems of oil engineering, how they work, their relative advantages and disadvantages that help in the choice between alternatives for a specific set of conditions, and a better understanding of terminology so that those with a general knowledge can interact more effectively with experts in each of the different subspecialties.

- Understand the fundamental concepts of reservoir engineering as well as the properties of rocks and fluids.

- Be able to model and simulate in a simple way the behaviour of an oil reservoir based on the acquisition and interpretation of data that describe the properties of rocks and fluids of the reservoir and gas;

- Be able to dimension in a simple way the basic units of oil and gas processing.

- Be able to perform reserve estimation and project economics calculations.