Undergraduate Catalog in Petroleum Engineering
Program Educational Objectives
The PE Program prepares students with knowledge and skills so that they can go to work immediately after graduation or continue their higher academic qualifications. We expect our graduates, after a certain time (from 3 to 5 years), can achieve the program educational objectives as follows. Graduates of the Petroleum Engineering program will:
- Be practical, employable and qualified production engineers, who are capable of designing, executing, producing, researching, innovation and management in specialized field.
- Continue their professional development and become professional managers for enterprises of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, multinational companies, and/or become scientists for research institutes and universities.
- Keep their education up to date through self-instruction and other training to meet the challenges of the competitive, modern and dynamic workplace.
Student Outcomes
The student outcomes of our Petroleum Engineering Program are the same as those required by ABET for any engineering program to receive accreditation. The Petroleum Engineering graduates will have:
- an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
- an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.\
- an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
- an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.
- an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
- an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.
- an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
Catalog Description
- 1. MAT11301 – Calculus 1
Credit(s): 3 (Math and Basic Science); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course covers the following topics: theory and application of the differential calculus of polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions. Graphical, numerical and analytical solutions to applied problems involving derivatives. Introduction to the integral.
Prerequisites:None
- 2. MAT11302 – Calculus 2
Credit(s): 3 (Math and Basic Science); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course covers the following topics: definite and indefinite integrals of functions of a single variable. Improper integrals. Infinite series. Introduction to differential equations. Emphasis on applications of calculus and problem-solving using technology in addition to symbolic methods.
Prerequisites: Calculus 1
- 3. MAT12203 – Calculus 3
Credit(s): 2 (Math and Basic Science); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course covers the following topics: vector geometry, algebra and calculus. Partial and directional derivatives. Double and triple integrals. Vector fields. Line and surface integrals. Theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss.
Prerequisites: Calculus 1, 2
- 4. MAT12305 – Differential Equations
Credit(s): 3 (Math and Basic Science); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course covers the following topics: First, second, and higher order equations. Systems of differential equations. Analytic methods of solution. Applications to science and engineering.
Prerequisites: MAT11301
- 5. PET13308 - Petroleum Engineering Numerical Methods
Credit(s): 3 (Math and Basic Science); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Use of numerical methods in a variety of petroleum engineering problems; numerical differentiation and integration; root finding; numerical solution of differential equations; curve fitting and interpolation; computer applications; introduction to the principles of numerical simulation methods.
Prerequisites: MAT12305 - Differential Equations
- 6. CHE11301 - General Chemistry 1
Credit(s): 3 (Math and Basic Science); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course provides basic knowledge of chemistry with the content includes atomic structure, electromagnetic radiation, atomic spectroscopy, atomic structure according to quantum mechanics, atomic orbitals and energy levels; theories explaining about chemical binding (theory valence bond, hybridization theory); the molecular structures and shapes of the propulsion theory between electron pairs VSEPR and the molecular orbital theory MO; the state of substances.
Prerequisites: None
- 7. CHE11101LAB - General Chemistry Laboratory 1
Credit(s): 1
Contact hours: 3 (Lab: 1/week)
The General Chemistry Lab 1 in addition to helping students to review the knowledge learned in the theoretical module also helps students to classify tools, chemicals, equipment, skills and basic operations. The extent of the substances impact on the experimenters, the possible risks of incidents, from which to properly recognize and use personal protective equipment when working in the laboratory.
Prerequisites:None
- 8. PHY21201– General Physics 1
Credit(s): 2 (Math and Basic Sciences); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course is designed to meet the needs of student majoring in Petroleum Geology – Geophysics, Drilling and Production Technology, and Refinery and Petrochemical. It is introductory course in Newtonian mechanics with topics include: Vectors, motion in one dimension, motion in a plane, Newton's laws, work and energy, potential energy, momentum, Kinematics of rotational motion, dynamics of rotational motion, elasticity, and fluid mechanics
Prerequisites: Calculus 1
- 9. PHY21101LAB - General Physics Laboratory 1
Credit(s): 1 (Math and Basic Sciences); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lab: 3/week/group)
Through practical work students should be able to carry out experimental and investigative work in which they plan procedures, use precise and systematic ways of making measurements and observations, analyze and evaluate evidence and relate this to scientific knowledge and understanding. The syllabus is organized around the topics of General Physics 1 with 7 experiments. Each experiment has one laboratory manual with the typical structure: objects of the experiment, principles, carrying out the experiment and report form.
Prerequisites: None
- 10. PHY21202– General Physics 2
Credit(s): 2 (Math and Basic Sciences); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course is designed to meet the needs of student majoring in Petroleum Geology – Geophysics, Drilling and Production Technology, and Refinery and Petrochemical. It is an introduction to electricity and magnetism, light, geometrical and wave optics. Many concepts from General Physics 1 will be used in this course such as: position, velocity, acceleration, force, Newton’s laws of motion, work and energy. The course uses algebra, geometry and trigonometry, vectors and vector arithmetic, and some calculus. The course has lecture, homework and laboratory portions
Prerequisites: MAT11301, PHY21201
- 11. PHY21102LAB - General Physics Laboratory 2
Credit(s): 1 (Math and Basic Sciences); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lab: 3/week/group)
Through practical work students should be able to carry out experimental and investigative work in which they plan procedures, use precise and systematic ways of making measurements and observations, analyze and evaluate evidence and relate this to scientific knowledge and understanding. The syllabus is organized around the topics of General Physics 2 with 7 experiments. Each experiment has one laboratory manual with the typical structure: objects of the experiment, principles, carrying out the experiment and report form.
Prerequisites: PHY21101LAB
- 12. MEC32303– Theoretical mechanics
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Statics of particles and rigid bodies, equilibrium of rigid bodies, distributed forces, centroids, forces in beams and cables, friction, and moments of inertia
Kinematics and kinetics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies in plane motion. Forces and acceleration analysis using Newton's second law and energy and momentum methods
Prerequisites: MAT11301, PHY21201
- 13. GEO12302 – Physical Geology
Credit(s): 3 (Math and Basic Science); Required
Contact hours: 5 (Lecture: 3/week; Lab: 2/week)
Physical Geology provides a good overview of the discipline and its interlinked parts. It provides an introduction into the broad range of topics within the realm of geology. It describes many of the general principles with emphasis on both surface and internal processes of the earth. The course also provides the hands on experience dealing with many of the same topics as the lecture material. Students will work with real samples of minerals and rocks.
The topics covered in this course range over the broad vista of geology. It discusses individual minerals, the rocks made of these minerals, the conditions under which these rocks originate and are altered as part of mountain building processes, and the destruction of rocks during mechanical, chemical, and biological attack.
Prerequisites: None
- 14. GEO13311 - Petroleum Geology
Credit(s): 03 (Basic Sciences); Required
Contact hours: 4 ( Lecture: 3/week ; Discussion: 2/week)
This course will provide some concept involves the analysis of Conditions controlling primary production and accumulation of organic matter. Source rock formation and analysis. Conversion of organic material to petroleum. Primary and secondary migration of petroleum. Porosity and permeability in reservoir rocks. The role of depositional environment as a controlling factor for reservoir quality. Classification and formation of petroleum traps. Basin types and their petroleum potential. Volume estimates and probability of discovery of the prospects are calculated using industrial standard programs.
Prerequisites: Physical Geology (GEO12302), Structural Geology (GEO12406), Sedimentology (GEO12234)
- 15. ELE31201 – Foundations in Engineering 1 (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topics); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Lab: 1/week)
An introduction to computer-aided drafting. Emphasis is placed on drawing setup; creating and modifying geometry; adding text and dimensions, coordinate systems, and plot/print to scale. Technical drawing skills including freehand sketching, orthographic projection, dimensioning, sectional views, and other viewing conventions will be developed. Basic CAD commands, tools, multi-view drawing and dimensioning techniques.
Prerequisites:None
- 16. INC31301 –Foundations in Engineering 2 (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 5 (Lecture: 3/week, Lab: 2/week)
Computer programming for engineers, syntax, use of primitive types, control structures, vectors, strings, structs, classes, functions, file I/O, exceptions and other programming constructs, use of class libraries, practice in solving problems with computers, includes the execution of programs in C++ written by students
Prerequisites: ELE31201
- 17. MEC32301 - Thermodynamic
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topics); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course introduces the fundamental laws of thermodynamics (the first and second laws) and their application to engineering power cycles such as Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle, refrigeration cycle, Otto cycle, and Diesel cycle
Prerequisites: PHY21202
- 18. MEC32304– Strength of Materials (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 5 (Lecture: 3/week, Lab: 2/week)
The course covers the following topics; stress and strain concepts, axial load, statically indeterminate axially loaded members, thermal stress, torsion, angle of twist, statically indeterminate torque-loaded members, bending, eccentric axial loading of beams, transverse shear, shear flow in build-up members, combined loadings, stress and strain transformation, deflection of beams and shafts, statically indeterminate beams and shafts. Conduct experiments related to tension-compression and torsion testing and report results in a formal technical report
Prerequisites: PHY21201, MAT12203, MEC32303
- 19. PET12306 - Transport Processes in Petroleum Production Systems
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course covers basics and applications of fluid mechanics (statics; mass, energy, and momentum balances; laminar and turbulent flow, Reynolds number, Moody diagram; flow of non-Newtonian fluids; multi-phase flow; flow in porous media, non-Darcy flow), and of heat transfer (heat conduction, convection, heat exchangers). It also emphasizes analogies and similarities within mass, energy and momentum transport.
Prerequisites: MEC32301
- 20. ELE32202 – Electricity and Electronics (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Electrical circuits: elements, circuit laws, energy, network reduction, nodal analysis, techniques of circuit analysis, circuit response and steady state analysis; Basic circuits used in electronic systems, operational amplifiers, transistor amplifier; introduction to electrical machine.
Prerequisites: MAT11301, PHY21201
- 21. PET13310 – Geomechanics
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course will provide some issues using rock mechanics, Earth stress, Mechanical Earth model, Application of Geomechanics, Emerging technologies.
Prerequisites:None
- 22. ECO13301 –Petroleum Economics
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course consists of 16 chapters to provide students with basic knowledge of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and petroleum economics. Microeconomic issues include the basic laws and concepts of economics and the economy; market mechanism of action, supply and demand rule and market balance; consumer and producer decision-making models; models of market structures and the actions of the parties involved in such market structures. In the macroeconomics section, the module will discuss National Income Accounting; total supply and demand model; Macroeconomic stability: inflation and unemployment; aggregate supply and fiscal policy, financial systems, monetary, banking, and monetary policies of the government. The Petroleum Economics section will give an overview of the world oil and gas industry, the world oil and gas market; update information on laws related to the oil and gas industry; Basic oil and gas contracts; and Vietnam's oil and gas industry.
Prerequisites:None
- 23. PET14321– Petroleum Project Evaluation
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Economic analysis and investment decision methods in petroleum and mineral extraction industries; depletion, petroleum taxation regulations, and projects of the type found in the industry; mineral project evaluation case studies.
Prerequisites: PET13308, ECO13301
- 24. PET21201 – Introduction to Oil and Gas Industry
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/weeks, Discussion: 1)
Origin and accumulation of hydrocarbon fluids. Exploration for oil and gas. Basic concepts of hydrocarbon traps. Introduction to various Petroleum Engineering disciplines. Formulation of physical concepts into mathematical equations. Application of engineering methods to problem solving in Oil and Gas Industry.
Prerequisites: None
- 25. PET11105 – Career Orientation Field Trip
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topics); Required
Contact hours: 2 weeks
The purpose of this field training is to acquaint the student with the various petroleum industry disciplines structured for characterization and exploitation of oil and gas fields. Such disciplines may include core analysis and interpretation of well tests and well logs, geology and subsurface mapping, design of drilling and production facilities, the use of reservoir simulators for the design and prediction of reservoir performance, refinery process, petrochemical products, gas processing engineering.
Prerequisites: PET21201
- 26. PET12443– Petroleum Drilling systems (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 4 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 6 (Lecture: 4/week, Discussion: 2/week)
Introduction to petroleum drilling systems, including fundamental petroleum engineering concepts, quantities and unit systems, drilling rig components, drilling fluids, pressure loss calculations, casing, well cementing, and directional drilling, Drilling Practice on Drilling Methods; Makeup and break-out pipe; line up mud on DrillSim-5000 and report results in a formal technical report.
Prerequisites: MAT11302, PHY21202
- 27. PET12404 – Reservoir petrophysics (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 4 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 6 (Lecture: 4/week; Lab: 2/week)
Systematic theoretical and laboratory study of physical properties of petroleum reservoir rocks; lithology, porosity, elastic properties, strength, acoustic properties, electrical properties, relative and effective permeability, fluid saturations, capillary characteristics. Conduct experiments related to measure reservoir rock properties (porosity and permeability) and report results in a formal technical report.
Prerequisites: MAT12305, PHY21202
- 28. PET12107 – Summer Internship 1
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 weeks
The purpose of this summer Internship is to acquaint the student with the various petroleum industry disciplines structured for characterization and exploitation of oil and gas fields. Such disciplines may include core analysis and interpretation of pore pressure, wellbore stability, design of drilling. Students spend a period of four weeks on work training with an oil company operating in Vietnam. Each group presents a comprehensive report of his/her training activities and assignments upon completion of the training period.
Prerequisites: None
- 29. PET13309 – Reservoir Fluid
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Thermodynamic behavior of naturally occurring hydrocarbon mixtures; evaluation and correlation of physical properties of petroleum reservoir fluids including laboratory and empirical methods.
Prerequisites: PET12404, MEC32301
- 30. PET13411 – Petroleum Production systems (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 4 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 6 (Lecture: 4/week, Discussion: 2/week)
Introduction to production operations and oil field equipment including onshore and offshore production systems; wellbore inflow and outflow performance; sand control equipment; artificial lift equipment and design; stimulation; fluid separation and metering, safety systems. Conduct experiments related to operate petroleum production systems and ensure the production platform model operates properly.
Prerequisites: PET12306
- 31. PET13312 – Drilling Engineering
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Introduction to drilling through the study of equipment functions, drilling mud system and hydraulics; identification and solution of drilling problems; Geomechanics, Drilling bits, casing design; well cementing, directional drilling, offshore drilling.
Prerequisites: PET13411 – Petroleum Production systems (+ Lab)
- 32. PET 13313 – Formation Evaluation
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Introduction to well-log interpretation for formation evaluation of hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs; Basic rock physics principles; theory of tool operation; analysis of open hole logs and core measurements to estimate hydrocarbon reserves and petrophysical properties of the formation such as porosity, net pay thickness, water/hydrocarbon saturation, permeability, and saturation-dependent capillary pressure; formation evaluation of clay-free and shaly-sand formations as well as basic introduction to formation evaluation of organic-shale formations.
Prerequisites: PET13308, PET13309, PET12404, GEO13311.
- 33. PET13414 – Reservoir Engineering (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 4 (Engineering topic); Required
Class/Laboratory Schedule: 180-min (total) lecture and 60 min (total) lab per week
Determination of reserves; material balance methods; aquifer models; fractional flow and frontal advance; displacement, pattern, and vertical sweep efficiencies in waterfloods; enhanced oil recovery processes; design of optimal recovery processes; introduction and performance analysis of unconventional reservoirs. Conduct experiments related to measure relative permeability (core flooding systems), fluid Contact angle, and report results in a formal technical report
Prerequisites: PET13308, PET13309, PET12404, GEO13311.
- 34. PET13315- Well Testing
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Introduction to well testing, review of reservoir rock and fluid properties; derivation and solutions of the diffusivity equation, principle of superposition; different types of transient pressure analysis (radial flow semilog analysis, log-log type curve analysis, flow regimes and the diagnostic plot) used to determine well and reservoir parameters (skin factor, wellbore storage, permeability).
Prerequisites: PET13308 - Petroleum Engineering Numerical Methods; PET13309 - Reservoir Fluids; PET12404 - Reservoir Petrophysics; GEO13311 - Geology of Petroleum
- 35. PET13116 – Senior Project 1
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 1 (Discussion: 1/week)
In this course, students received topics in drilling engineering (either of Faculty members or industrial partner) and study the problems so that a plan for technical solution is developed such as: specification, design, implementation, evaluation, and testing with given realistic constraints. Students are working in groups so that their technical communication and team skills are enriched.
Prerequisites: PET12443, PET13312
- 36. PET13117 – Summer Internship 2
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 weeks
The purpose of this summer Internship is to acquaint the student with the various petroleum industry disciplines structured for characterization and exploitation of oil and gas fields. Such disciplines may include well completion, reservoir engineering, and production. Students spend a period of four weeks on work training with an oil company operating in Vietnam. Each group presents a comprehensive report of his/her training activities and assignments upon completion of the training period.
Prerequisites: None
- 37. PET14318 - Reservoir Simulation
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Introduces the concepts of reservoir modeling, and outlines the steps involved in a reservoir simulation study. Reviews rock properties, fluid properties and the mathematical description of fluid flow dynamics in porous media. The theoretical basis and practical fundamentals for numerical and analytical simulation of fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs are given. The partial differential equations governing modelling of single-phase and multi-phase fluid flow in porous media are derived. The numerical methods for solving the basic governing equations using finite difference methods are presented. Input data requirements and applications of simulation models for history matching and prediction of field performance will be discussed.
Prerequisites: PET13309 - Reservoir Fluids; PET13313 - Formation Evaluation; PET13414 - Reservoir Engineering; PET13315 - Well Testing
- 38. PET14319 – Integrated Reservoir Modeling
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Integrated reservoir modeling for senior students in petroleum engineering. Includes using geophysical, geological, petrophysical and engineering data with geostatistical methods to create reservoir descriptions for dynamic reservoir modeling (simulation). Provides an introduction to geostatistics including basic concepts in statistics and more advance concepts such as variogram modeling, kriging; and sequential Gaussian simulation. The class project combines several of these techniques to quantify uncertainty in a realistic dynamic reservoir simulation.
Prerequisites: None
- 39. PET14320– Production Engineering
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Fundamental production engineering design, evaluation and optimization of oil and gas producing well. Well deliverability, formation damage and skin analysis. Well completion selection. Technologies that improve oil and gas well performance, including artificial lift and well stimulation.
Prerequisites: PET13315, PET13411, PET13414, PET13313
- 40. PET14222 Enhanced Oil Recovery
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is oil recovery by the injection of materials not normally present in the reservoir. This definition covers all modes of oil recovery processes (drive, push-pull, and well treatments) and most oil recovery agents. Enhanced oil recovery technologies are also being used for in-situ extraction of organic pollutants from permeable media. In these applications, the extraction is referred to as cleanup or remediation, and the hydrocarbon as product.
Prerequisites: PET13414
- 41. PET14123 – Senior Project 2
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 1 (Discussion: 1/week)
In this course, students received topics in reservoir engineering or petroleum engineering (either of Faculty members or industrial partner) and study the problems so that a plan for technical solution is developed such as: specification, design, implementation, evaluation, and testing with given realistic constraints. Students are working in groups so that their technical communication and team skills are enriched.
Prerequisites: PET13414, PET13411
- 42. PET14224 – Graduation Internship
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 6 weeks
The purpose of this graduation internship is to acquaint the student with the various petroleum industry disciplines structured for characterization and exploitation of oil and gas fields. Such disciplines may include core analysis and interpretation of well tests and well logs, geology and subsurface mapping, design of drilling and production facilities, the use of reservoir simulators for the design and prediction of reservoir performance. Students spend a period of ten weeks on working training with oil and gas company in Vietnam. Each student presents a comprehensive report of his/her training activities and assignments upon completion of the training period.
Prerequisites: None
- 43. PET14825 – Graduation Thesis
Credit(s): 8 (Engineering topic); Required
Contact hours: 15 weeks
In this course, students received topics in petroleum engineering (either of Faculty members or industrial partner) and study the problems so that a plan for technical solution is developed such as: specification, design, implementation, evaluation, continuing the development, process, technical skills, team work and communication. It will end up with an Examination (Defense).
Prerequisites: PET13116, PET14123
- 44. MEC32205 – Hydraulic Equipments
Credit(s): 2 (Math and Basic Sciences); Elective
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course covers fundamental theory of pumps, compressors and fan using in petroleum industry. The course including topics: overview, classification and technical parameters, is placement pumps (volumetric efficiency, power, system design), centrifugal and axial pumps, high vacuum pump and fan.
Prerequisites:None
- 45. MEC33206–Measurement Engineering (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 02 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 5 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 2/week)
Measurement engineering: providing to student the basic principles of process control and measurement in oil and gas field. This subject provides the basic measuring principles, measuring methods and measuring devices for measuring basic parameters. Based on these principles, student can able to use the measurement devices, to analyze and process the measuring results for their future works
Prerequisites: ELE32202
- 46. GEO12235 – General Geophysics
Credit(s): 2 (Math and Basic Science); Elective
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week; Discussion: 2/week)
Introduce the scientific basis of exploration geophysical methods, including the physical, mathematical and geological basis of each method, on the basis of which the methods of survey, Being, transmitters, receivers with specific transceiver principles, application of each method
Prerequisites: PHY21201, PHY21202 MAT12203
- 47. PET12242 - Geostatistics
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/weeks, Discussion: 1)
Spatial correlations, use of optimal interpolation schemes (kriging), use of synthetic field generation. Use of geostatistics for the characterization of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Statistical methods and their accuracies are presented.
Prerequisites: None
- 48. GEO12234 - Sedimentology
Credit(s): 02 (Basic Sciences); Elective
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week; Discussion: 1/week)
An introduction to the processes responsible for production, transport, and deposition of sedimentary particles. Overview of sedimentary rocks, textures, structures and classifications. Emphasis on principles and applications.
Prerequisites: Physical Geology (GEO 12302), Mineralogy (GEO12303).
- 49. PET13226 – Drilling Fluids (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Lab: 1/week)
The course presents the concepts of drilling mud, mud properties, principle mud parameters, the chemical process of drilling mud. The method of hole cleaning and common mud systems. Drilling fluid systems in complex conditions. Circulation system and removal solid in drilling mud. How to read and understand the information on a drilling fluid report and how to handle practical situations. Experiment and interpret the results of mud properties in Lab.
Prerequisites: PET12443
- 50. PET13232 – Cement (+ Lab)
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
This course provides the knowledge and skills needed to design a cementing program. Conduct experiements related to measure cement properties and report results in a formal technical report
Prerequisites: None
- 51. PET13227– Well completion and Stimulation
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course provides design well completion system, well completion equipment, completion fluid, perforation technology, hydraulic fracturing, chemical stimulation, horizontal completion.
Prerequisites: PET12443, PET13411
- 52. PET13228 – Processing and transportation of oil and gas
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/weeks, Discussion: 1)
Methods of crude oil and gas transportation. Types of storage tanks and pressure vessels. Design and selection of storage tanks according to API standards. Maintenance of storage tanks.
Prerequisites: None
- 53. PET13229 – Drilling and Production facilities and operation
Credit(s): 2 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course is designed on simulation basis and participants will experience the use of life size simulators in drilling and production operations to get hands-on feel of the working environment.
Prerequisites: None
- 54. PET14330 – High performance drilling design and operational practices
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/weeks, Discussion: 1)
The purpose of this course is to prepare the student to be able to achieve differentiating drilling performance in the most complex wells. The physics-based practices taught represent the state of the art in high-performance drilling. This includes the underlying physics of each major type of performance limiter, real time operational practices, engineering redesign practices, and effective workflows for achieving the required change in engineering and operational practices.
Prerequisites: None
- 55. PET14331 – Solving common production engineering problems
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/weeks, Discussion: 1)
Application of petroleum engineering tools, methods, and techniques to solve real problems that petroleum engineers encounter in the course of producing individual wells. The course focuses primarily on problems associated with single-phase gas wells and uses Microsoft Excel to solve many of these problems.
Prerequisites: None
- 56. PET14333 – Energy and Sustainability
Credit(s): 3 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 4 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Description of the consumption and environmental impacts of fossil fuels, unconventional hydrocarbons and renewable energy resources; description of energy consumption and CO2 emissions in transportation and thermal power generation which use fossil fuels; discussion of approaches for storing renewables and nuclear waste; analysis of related public energy policies.
Prerequisites:None
- 57. PET14134 – Drilling technology in complicated conditions
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Estimating the naturally occurring pressure of subsurface formation fluids and the maximum well bore pressure that a given formation can withstand without fracture. Well control in abnormal pressure zones.
Prerequisites: None
- 58. PET14135 – Directional and extensional drilling
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Planning and calculating directional well trajectory. Survey calculation techniques, equipment and bottomhole assembly used in directional drilling operations, torque and drag problems in directional wells.
Prerequisites: None
- 59. PET14136 – Oil and gas production technology at Vietnam Continental Shelf
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Students will learn the 'ins and outs' of oil and gas exploration, drilling, completions, and production operations in Vietnam
Prerequisites: None
- 60. PET14137 – Oilfield projects development
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Successful petroleum operations need a blend of technology, business savvy, and people skills. If you have a firm grasp of exploration or production technology, boost its impact by applying project management techniques. Running a staged program that integrates reservoir modelling, production estimating, drilling, and facility design is challenging. The tools and techniques covered in this course will help you meet that challenge.
Prerequisites: None
- 61. PET14138 – Heavy oil production
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course offers an insight on evaluation, development, and commercialization aspects of heavy oil/in-situ oil sands resources. It takes an unbiased practical approach to both non-thermal and in-situ thermal production methods citing benefits and limitations. Participants are to be imparted knowledge on subsurface evaluation, laboratory characterization, production, transportation and refinery/upgrading topics of the heavy crudes.
Prerequisites: None
- 62. PET14139 – Natural gas production and Processing engineering
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/weeks, Discussion: 1)
Properties of natural gas. Flash calculations and types of gas reservoirs. Gas reservoir performance: well deliverability tests, pressure transient tests, and reserve estimates. Gas well performance: calculation of single phase and two-phase pressure losses, liquid holdup, and gas wells liquid loading. Gas compression and gas metering. Total system analysis of gas wells. Gas processing.
Prerequisites: None
- 63. PET14140 – Sand production and control
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
This course will identify the parameters that must be considered when selecting the sand control technique to be used. Examples, problems, and case histories will be examined to illustrate key points. Sand control failures will be used to illustrate the types of problems that can lead to early well failures. The course will also students how to perform quality control checks during the sand control application to help insure successful wells. Several new promising sand control technologies have been introduced in the last few years, such as expandable screens of several different types. The proper application of these new technologies will also be covered.
Prerequisites: None
- 64. PET14141 – Field decommissioning
Credit(s): 1 (Engineering topic); Elective
Contact hours: 2 (Lecture: 1/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Integration of basic knowledge of plugging and abandonment (P&A) causes and objectives, types, requirements, hazards, equipment and materials, operational procedures, and techniques.
Prerequisites:None
- 65. SOC02206 – Professional Skills for Engineers
Credit(s): 2 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
Occupational skills refer to skills that are not related to professional knowledge, including communication skills, teamwork skills, problem-solving skills, negotiating skills, etc. Occupational skills provide students with the system of knowledge, rules and practices to help students form the soft skills needed to help students promote social behavior, self-management, and leadership. Such skills direct students to build and maintain good social interactions and solve problems at work and in life.
Prerequisites:None
- 66. PSE13201 - Health, Safety and Environment
Credit(s): 2 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week; Discussion: 1/week)
Description of hazards in the workplace and hazards of flammable and combustible liquids; description of methods for preventing fire and explosion; calculation of noise levels and noise exposure; identification of major characteristics of US standards for process safety management and OHSAS 18001; distinguishment of accident causes, losses and accident causation models; description of hazard, cause, control and consequence measurements; recognition of necessary requirements and methods for risk assessment, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and environmental monitoring and simple application of risk assessment and EIA to hypothesis activities/projects; explanation of oil weathering processes and discussion of oil spill response approaches.
Prerequisites:None
- 67. ENG41000 - English preparation (120 hrs.*)
This is the first course of the English language training program at PetroVietnam University. It is intended for students whose current level of English proficiency is A1 (2). It primarily aims at preparing students with necessary skills and competence relevant to IELTS attributes..
- 68. ENG41301 –English 1
Credit(s): 3 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 6 (Lecture: 4/week, Discussion: 2/week)
This is the first course of the English language training program at PetroVietnam University. It is intended for students whose current level of English proficiency is A2 (1). It primarily aims at preparing students with necessary skills and competence relevant to IELTS attributes. This course adopts the learner-centered approach and learning-by-doing theories. Assessment is continuous, which allows for a comprehensive view of the extent to which students have met the course objectives and outcomes.
Prerequisites: None
- 69. ENG42302 –English 2
Credit(s): 3 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 6 (Lecture: 4/week, Discussion: 2/week)
This is the second course of the English language training program at PetroVietnam University. It is intended for students whose current level of English proficiency is A2 (2). It primarily aims at preparing students with necessary oral skills and competence relevant to IELTS attributes. This course adopts the learner-centered approach and learning-by-doing theories. Assessment is continuous, which allows for a comprehensive view of the extent to which students have met the course objectives and outcomes.
Prerequisites: ENG41301
- 70. ENG42303 –English 3
Credit(s): 3 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 6 (Lecture: 4/week, Discussion: 2/week)
This is the third course of the English language training program at PetroVietnam University. It is intended for students whose current level of English proficiency is B1.1. It primarily aims at preparing students with necessary oral skills and competence relevant to IELTS attributes. This course adopts the learner-centered approach and learning-by-doing theories. Assessment is continuous, which allows for a comprehensive view of the extent to which students have met the course objectives and outcomes.
Prerequisites: ENG42302
- 71. ENG43304–English 4
Credit(s): 3 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 6 (Lecture: 4/week, Discussion: 2/week)
This is the second course of the English language training program at PetroVietnam University. It is intended for students whose current level of English proficiency is B1 (2). It primarily aims at preparing students with necessary oral skills and competence relevant to IELTS attributes. This course adopts the learner-centered approach and learning-by-doing theories. Assessment is continuous, which allows for a comprehensive view of the extent to which students have met the course objectives and outcomes.
Prerequisites: ENG42303
- 72. SOC01204 - Ho Chi Minh's Ideology
Credit(s): 2 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The content of the course covers the basic issues of Ho Chi Minh's Ideology on the national issue and the national liberation revolution; the transition to socialism in Vietnam; Communist Party of Vietnam; great national and international solidarity; democracy and building a State of the people, by the people, for the people; culture, ethics and building new people.
Prerequisites: None
- 73. SOC01301 –Philosophy of Marxism and Leninism
Credit(s): 3 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 5 (Lecture: 3/week, Discussion: 2/week)
The subject consists of three main contents: studying the nature and the most general laws of movement and development of the world. From there, it will help build scientific worldview and dialectical methodology for cognitive and practical activities of learners; study the economic laws of society, especially the basic economic laws of the Capitalist mode of production; provide learners with regular problems in the process of socialist revolution.
Prerequisites: None
- 74. SOC01205 –History of Vietnamese communist party
Credit(s): 2 (General Education and Others); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
This subject aims to raise awareness and understanding of the Communist Party of Vietnam - which has led the Vietnamese revolution to victories and achievements of great historical significance in the development of the nation's history. Through studying and researching the Party's history to educate the Party and nation's ideals and traditions of revolutionary struggle, strengthen and cultivate faith in the Party's leadership, and be proud of the Party and the young generation. join the Party, participate in building a stronger and stronger Party, continue to carry out the Party's mission of leading to firmly defend the Fatherland and successfully build socialism in Vietnam.
Prerequisites: None
- 75. SOC01202 –Political economics of Marxism and Leninism
Credit(s): 2 (General Education and Others); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course content includes: objects, research methods and functions of Marxist-Leninist political economy; core content of Marxism-Leninism on goods, markets and the role of actors in the market economy; Surplus value in the market economy; Competition and monopoly in the market economy; the main issues of the socialist-oriented market economy and economic interest relations in Vietnam; Vietnam's industrialization, modernization and international economic integration.
Prerequisites: None
- 76. SOC01203 - Scientific socialism
Credit(s): 2 (General Education and Others); Required
Contact hours: 3 (Lecture: 2/week, Discussion: 1/week)
The course includes theoretical knowledge on scientific socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam; provide learners with: objects, purposes, requirements, learning methods, subject research; the process of formation and development of scientific socialism; historical mission of the working class; social, class, ethnic and religious issues during the transition to socialism; After completing the course, learners have the ability to have practical understanding and the ability to apply knowledge about socialism to consider and evaluate the country's socio-political issues related to socialism. society and the road to socialism in our country. Learners explain and have the right attitude towards the path to socialism in Vietnam.
Prerequisites: None
- 77. PED11101–Physical education 1
Credit(s): 1 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 2/week
The course content consists of two parts: theory and practice In theory: Equip students with basic knowledge of volleyball, how to organize a volleyball tournament to develop the ability to practice self-improvement. About practice: Equip the basic techniques in Volleyball.
Prerequisites: None
- 78. PED11102–Physical education 2
Credit(s): 1 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 2/week
The course content consists of two parts: theory and practice In theory: Equip students with basic knowledge of football, how to organize a football tournament to develop the ability to practice self-improvement. About practice: Equip the basic techniques in football.
Prerequisites: Non
- 79. PED12103–Physical education 3
Credit(s): 1 (Others); Required
Contact hours: 2/week
The course content consists of two parts: theory and practice In theory: Equip students with basic knowledge of athletics, how to organize a movement athletics tournament to develop the ability to practice self-improvement. About practice: Equipping basic techniques in athletics.
Prerequisites: None
- 80. MIE01101- Military Education (165 hrs)
Credit(s): 0 (Others); Required
The course content consists of two parts: theory and practice In theory: Equip students with basic knowledge of athletics, how to organize a movement athletics tournament to develop the ability to practice self-improvement. About practice: Equipping basic techniques in athletics.
Prerequisites: None
