NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING
- Course
- PNGE401 - NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING
- Department
- Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - English - Master
- Course Type
- Scientific Preparation
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 0
- ECTS
- 6
- T+P+L
- 0 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ertan AKÜN
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
Natural Gas Engineering , although similar in many respects to petroleum-related technologies, differs a lot at the same time. The understanding of gas-bearing strata, related exploration drilling, dangers related with the nature of gas itself-explosion, burning, high underground pressures and methods of coping with such dangers. Introduction to the natural gas occurences, utilization and reserves in the world; Water content, heating value, and hydrates of natural gases. Flow and metering of gases in pipes and wellbores. Natural gas compression, reserve estimates, and storage. Geological and geophysical data of the basin, interpretations of these data and taking the ever-important decision to commence exploration are all of ultimate importance in natural gas engineering. Possible topics to be covered are as follows: Phase Relations in Reservoir Engineering; Phase relations as applied to condensate and retrograde condensate reservoirs and to other problems in petroleum production; enhanced gas recovery, gas pipeline transportation, natural gas processing and liquefaction; equilibrium thermodynamics and its relevance to phase behavior predictions and phase equilibrium data description; phase behavior principles to natural gas condensate systems.
NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Natural Gas Engineering |
| Week 2 | Introduction to Natural Gas Engineering |
| Week 3 | Natural Gas generation, migration and accumulation |
| Week 4 | Natural Gas generation, migration and accumulation |
| Week 5 | Geological structure associated with Hydrocarbons |
| Week 6 | Natural Gas types and composition, Natural Gas reservoir and its extraction |
| Week 7 | Gas processing, storage, transportation and distribution |
| Week 8 | Midterm Exams |
| Week 9 | Midterm Exams |
| Week 10 | Properties of Natural Gas, Gas value chain, Conventional & Unconventional Gas |
| Week 11 | Estimation of Original Gas In-Place, (OGIP) and drive mechanism, Reserves and its types |
| Week 12 | Natural gas processing (Sweetening, Dehydration and NGL fractionation) |
| Week 13 | Natural gas processing (Sweetening, Dehydration and NGL fractionation) |
| Week 14 | Calculations (Ideal gas law, gas compressibility etc.) |
| Week 15 | Calculations (Ideal gas law, gas compressibility etc.) and Revision |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Handbook of Natural Gas Engineering by McGraw-Hill
- 02 Gas Well Testing by Amanat Chaudhry
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