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Post by csdude07 on Mar 30, 2009 19:31:12 GMT -5
Petroleum Engineering student @ UT. Almost done w year 2. what exactly does petroleum engineering entail? Well, with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering you will most likely end up doing 3 main things. Drilling Engineer - you are responsible for the drilling process. This means working with geologists to locate the pay zone, estimating the costs of drilling, getting lease to drill, getting all the equipment to get down there, and being on charge throughout the entire drilling process. So ur in charge of choosing the drill bit u want based on the type of rock ur going thru, and ur also gonna have to choose what kinda mud ur drilling with. Mud lubricates the drill bit, keeps it cool, and it is continuously pumped and recycled to remove all the cuttings that ur drill produces by goin thru thousands of feet of solid rock. Production Engineer - after you reach the pay zone(s) you run tubing and casing, seal off any parts u wont be producing, and begin to analyze how to produce all the oil. These guys run well logs to test a bunch of things like water saturation, resistivity, and a whole bunch more to make sure they got the right spot for perforations. Perforating = shooting guns. You shoot holes into the casing to create holes so that the oil and gas can flow into the well. Besides this downhole stuff, they select all the equipment for the separation of oil, gas, water, and whatever else may come up. Reservoir Engineer - what i wanna do - These guys work on getting as much as possible out of the well. Oil doesn't just sit underground in big pools waiting to be sucked up. It's not like Spindletop nowadays, where the stuff shoots out into the skies and floods streets. Nowadays these guys have to employ several different drive mechanisms to get the oil and gas out, which is in the pore space of rocks. These mechanisms include CO2 flooding, water flooding, SAGD(steam assisted gravity drainage, like in Canada), fire flooding(where u light part of the oil on fire...extremely risky, but if u get it right, the heat from fire reduces the viscosity of the oil and allows it to flow easier), and a lot more. For all of this u have to plan out what kind of rock ur going into and what kind of properties it has(water saturation, porosity, permeability, etc.). So lots of geology and fluid mechanics is necessary here. Those are the 3 main types, but u can also do things like Exploration, where u locate potential oil. Geologists usually do this though. People who get an M.S. or Ph.D. usually do research or teach. And as you might imagine, all this gets really fun when ur doing it offshore in 7000 ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico, or in Canada, where the oil is like tar with viscosity ~ 10,000 centipoise. |
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Post by csdude07 on Mar 30, 2009 19:31:44 GMT -5
Petroleum Engineering student @ UT. Almost done w year 2. Texas? Tennessee? Toledo? My bad. The University of Texas at Austin. |
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Post by donatello2424 on Mar 30, 2009 20:03:46 GMT -5
Student. Major: Social Studies Ed. emphasis on Political Science at UGA
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Post by shaunkol on Mar 30, 2009 20:05:11 GMT -5
i guess there is a strong University of Texas presence here.
i graduated from there in May 2007. work for Deloitte in New York City now. 2nd yr.
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Post by csdude07 on Mar 30, 2009 20:09:31 GMT -5
i guess there is a strong University of Texas presence here. i graduated from there in May 2007. work for Deloitte in New York City now. 2nd yr. Nice. |
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Post by AllHailManiac on Mar 30, 2009 20:59:58 GMT -5
I'm a sophomore at Washington and Jefferson College. Private liberal arts school.
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Post by martinez on Mar 30, 2009 21:02:25 GMT -5
Import Coordinator Manager.
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Post by DB on Mar 30, 2009 21:34:11 GMT -5
Sophomore at Fairfield University. Film Major.
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Post by jusstaddwatrr on Mar 31, 2009 0:35:54 GMT -5
what exactly does petroleum engineering entail? Well, with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering you will most likely end up doing 3 main things. Drilling Engineer - you are responsible for the drilling process. This means working with geologists to locate the pay zone, estimating the costs of drilling, getting lease to drill, getting all the equipment to get down there, and being on charge throughout the entire drilling process. So ur in charge of choosing the drill bit u want based on the type of rock ur going thru, and ur also gonna have to choose what kinda mud ur drilling with. Mud lubricates the drill bit, keeps it cool, and it is continuously pumped and recycled to remove all the cuttings that ur drill produces by goin thru thousands of feet of solid rock. Production Engineer - after you reach the pay zone(s) you run tubing and casing, seal off any parts u wont be producing, and begin to analyze how to produce all the oil. These guys run well logs to test a bunch of things like water saturation, resistivity, and a whole bunch more to make sure they got the right spot for perforations. Perforating = shooting guns. You shoot holes into the casing to create holes so that the oil and gas can flow into the well. Besides this downhole stuff, they select all the equipment for the separation of oil, gas, water, and whatever else may come up. Reservoir Engineer - what i wanna do - These guys work on getting as much as possible out of the well. Oil doesn't just sit underground in big pools waiting to be sucked up. It's not like Spindletop nowadays, where the stuff shoots out into the skies and floods streets. Nowadays these guys have to employ several different drive mechanisms to get the oil and gas out, which is in the pore space of rocks. These mechanisms include CO2 flooding, water flooding, SAGD(steam assisted gravity drainage, like in Canada), fire flooding(where u light part of the oil on fire...extremely risky, but if u get it right, the heat from fire reduces the viscosity of the oil and allows it to flow easier), and a lot more. For all of this u have to plan out what kind of rock ur going into and what kind of properties it has(water saturation, porosity, permeability, etc.). So lots of geology and fluid mechanics is necessary here. Those are the 3 main types, but u can also do things like Exploration, where u locate potential oil. Geologists usually do this though. People who get an M.S. or Ph.D. usually do research or teach. And as you might imagine, all this gets really fun when ur doing it offshore in 7000 ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico, or in Canada, where the oil is like tar with viscosity ~ 10,000 centipoise. ah wow. sounds interesting. i'm just doing simple civil engineering lol. |
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Post by idle on Mar 31, 2009 6:12:24 GMT -5
so me chipper don are all in atlanta/athens
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Post by csdude07 on Mar 31, 2009 7:51:49 GMT -5
Well, with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering you will most likely end up doing 3 main things. Drilling Engineer - you are responsible for the drilling process. This means working with geologists to locate the pay zone, estimating the costs of drilling, getting lease to drill, getting all the equipment to get down there, and being on charge throughout the entire drilling process. So ur in charge of choosing the drill bit u want based on the type of rock ur going thru, and ur also gonna have to choose what kinda mud ur drilling with. Mud lubricates the drill bit, keeps it cool, and it is continuously pumped and recycled to remove all the cuttings that ur drill produces by goin thru thousands of feet of solid rock. Production Engineer - after you reach the pay zone(s) you run tubing and casing, seal off any parts u wont be producing, and begin to analyze how to produce all the oil. These guys run well logs to test a bunch of things like water saturation, resistivity, and a whole bunch more to make sure they got the right spot for perforations. Perforating = shooting guns. You shoot holes into the casing to create holes so that the oil and gas can flow into the well. Besides this downhole stuff, they select all the equipment for the separation of oil, gas, water, and whatever else may come up. Reservoir Engineer - what i wanna do - These guys work on getting as much as possible out of the well. Oil doesn't just sit underground in big pools waiting to be sucked up. It's not like Spindletop nowadays, where the stuff shoots out into the skies and floods streets. Nowadays these guys have to employ several different drive mechanisms to get the oil and gas out, which is in the pore space of rocks. These mechanisms include CO2 flooding, water flooding, SAGD(steam assisted gravity drainage, like in Canada), fire flooding(where u light part of the oil on fire...extremely risky, but if u get it right, the heat from fire reduces the viscosity of the oil and allows it to flow easier), and a lot more. For all of this u have to plan out what kind of rock ur going into and what kind of properties it has(water saturation, porosity, permeability, etc.). So lots of geology and fluid mechanics is necessary here. Those are the 3 main types, but u can also do things like Exploration, where u locate potential oil. Geologists usually do this though. People who get an M.S. or Ph.D. usually do research or teach. And as you might imagine, all this gets really fun when ur doing it offshore in 7000 ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico, or in Canada, where the oil is like tar with viscosity ~ 10,000 centipoise. ah wow. sounds interesting. i'm just doing simple civil engineering lol. My girlfriend is Civil Engineer too. |
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Post by gp on Mar 31, 2009 10:22:04 GMT -5
Public Relations rep for this company here in Southern California. I graduated with my B.A. in Communications last May.
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Post by ib4 on Mar 31, 2009 13:29:05 GMT -5
4th year Indstrial and Systems Engineering major at RU. The last couple of weeks have been kicking my ass.
that's right i said 4th year...
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Post by cliff "woo" harris on Apr 1, 2009 18:57:58 GMT -5
4th year Indstrial and Systems Engineering major at RU. The last couple of weeks have been kicking my ass. that's right i said 4th year... no wonder you only have 186 posts.  |
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Post by csdude07 on Apr 2, 2009 9:37:02 GMT -5
4th year Indstrial and Systems Engineering major at RU. The last couple of weeks have been kicking my ass. that's right i said 4th year... no wonder you only have 186 posts. |
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