Bachelor in Petroleum Engineering

University of Tripoli - Department of Petroleum Engineering

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Description

The Petroleum Engineering program is designed on the basis of a duration of study of ten semesters (five years) divided into two semesters (fall and spring) each extending over 16 weeks, during which the student studies general basic sciences (30 credits), humanities (10 credits), general and common engineering sciences (17 credits), in addition to achieving oil and gas engineering sciences (92 specialized units). In the final year, the student prepares a graduation project in which he studies one of the practical problems related to the oil industry.

Objectives

Forming research cadres that keep pace with development and progress in the field of petroleum engineering.

Work on graduating the efficient engineer and linking him with scientific and research institutions locally and internationally. 

Preparing human cadres and scientific competencies and forming a solid and in-depth scientific base in various subspecialties in the various fields of petroleum engineering.

Improving the capabilities of undergraduate and postgraduate oil students in the direction of analytical and creative thinking.Carrying out scientific and practical studies and research to solve technical problems facing the oil industry.

Outcomes

Ability to provide technical advice in the fields of drilling engineering, production, oil reservoirs and reservoir evaluation. Ability to provide technical advice in the field of water well drilling engineering and related problems. Contribute to specialized committees to discuss applied problems and study various projects related to oil industries, in addition to reviewing and evaluating studies implemented by international expertise houses. Providing laboratory analyzes and preparing technical reports on rock samples of oil reservoirs, drilling fluids and cement, layer corruption, evaluation of reservoir properties of rocks, as well as laboratory analyzes and studies on reservoir fluids under reservoir conditions and studies on the miscible displacement of reservoir fluids. Ability to carry out reservoir studies to simulate oil and gas reservoirs.

Certificate Rewarded

The graduate is awarded a bachelor's degree in the field of petroleum engineering

Entry Reuirements

The student wishing to join the bachelor's program in the department must study at least two semesters in the general stage, and his cumulative average is more than 50%, and the student must complete the following courses:

Physics 2

Mathematics 2

General Chemistry

Study Plan

The Bachelor in Petroleum Engineering prepares students to qualify for Bachelor in Petroleum Engineering. The student studies several subjects which have been carefully chosen in this major to cover its different aspects.

It comprises 10 Semesters of study, in which the student will study a total of 149 units, which include 57 units of general subjects, and 89 major units, 3 of elective units. In addition to a final project in the student's major.

Study plan for this program is shown below:

1st Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
GS115 Chemistry 03 General +

Measurements and SI units; chemical equations and stoichiometry; structures of atoms and periodic relationships, chemical compounds: The gaseous state; solutions-electrolytes and non-electrolytes; acids and bases; thermochemistry; chemical equilibrium; ionic equilibrium I and II; organic chemistry.

GE121 Engineering Mechanics 03 General +

Statics of particles; forces in plane and spree; statics of rigid bodies : Equivalent system of forces; equilibrium in two and three dimensions, work and energy, analysis of trusses, frames, and machines, free body diagram; kinematic; stability friction, centroids and center of gravity-lines, area and volumes. Moment of inertia of areas and masses.

GS111 Physics I 03 General +

GS101 Mathematics I 03 General +

GH141 Mathematics I 03 University requirement +

The main objective of this course (English I) is to encourage the leaners to acquire the English language skills they need to pursue their specialized courses in different Departments of the Faculty. In order to achieve this purpose, emphasis should be relied upon the formal grammar of the language, reading and writing activities in the classroom and listening comprehension and note-taking practice in the language laboratory. Undoubtedly, this can help the students to express themselves freely while dealing with technical terminology, vocabulary items and structures related to their subject areas. The overall program is a complimentary and prerequisite course for all Engineering Departments (Four hours per week). It covers the following:- Intensive Reading of different passages containing materials the students need to follow their departmental courses (vocabulary exercises, comprehension questions, contextual references, affixation, etc.). •Description of the laboratory experiments. Scientific vocabulary including the use of dictionary, punctuation, word-order, spelling, word- formation, etc. •The study of English verb tenses, active forms and passive constructions. The study of English nouns (kinds, functions, derivation) pronouns, adjectives, articles, adverbial phrases and so forth. •Summary writing.

GH150 Arabic I 02 University requirement +

Review of Arabic courses taken in high school, including construction of Arabic sentence, spelling and punctuation (Part one).

2nd Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
GS115L Chemistry Lab 01 General +

Some experiments related to GS115 course.

GS200 Computer Programming 03 General GS102 +

Program design using C, data types and operators. Control structures: If statement, If...else, While loops, Case statement. 1–D and 2-D Arrays, File I/O, Functions (Ready functions and User Defined Function), Engineering applications: Matrix Operations. Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Introduction to Mat lab Commands: Handling requests, Performing basic calculations and displaying results. Use of Mat lab in Matrix Operations: Matrix addition, Subtraction.

GS112 Physics II 03 General GS111 +

Electrostatics: changes and fields, the electric potential; electric current; the magnetic field, electric fields in matter. Photoelectric effect, Einstein’s explanation and quantum theory of the hydrogen atom. Radioactive decay law derivation.

GS102 Mathematics II 04 General GS101 +

· Integration: definite and indefinite integrals, and their applications (area under a curve, area bounded by two curves, solids of revolution (disc method)). · Transcendental functions: exponential, logarithm functions, the hyperbolic functions, hyperbolic inverse functions, and their derivatives and integrations · Techniques of integration: (change of variables to find integrations, integration by parts, integration by substations, integration using partial fraction, reduction formulas). · The complex numbers: (definition, properties, conjugates, absolute values, polar forms, and determining roots). · Functions of several variables: (partial derivatives, implicit differentiation, chain rule and its applications, total differentiation and its applications, total differentiation of derivatives of second and higher order, maxima and minima, and Lagrange multiplier method).

GH152 Technical Writing Report 01 University requirement GH142 +

Writing technical reports, Report preparation and presentation. Preparation of minutes of meetings. Translation of technical document.

GH151 Arabic Language II 01 University requirement GH150 +

Review of Arabic courses taken in high school, including construction of Arabic sentence, spelling and punctuation (Part two).Accustom the student to clear expressions of his ideas in pronunciation and writing and the good use of punctuation marks. Developing the student's literary taste so that he realizes the aesthetic aspects of speech styles, meanings and images. Identify the beauty of the Arabic language and literature, and that the student acquires the ability to study the branches of the Arabic language. Develop the student's spelling and writing ability and skill so that he can write correctly in all respects.

GH142 English II 03 University requirement GH141 +

This program (English II) aims at developing the students' scientific and vocational skills. It is specially designed to introduce the learners to the basic patterns of technical terminology at the introductory stage and thereafter deals with more advanced topics. Thus the students can go further and become creative by way of discussion and various original contributions to the materials. It also offers an opportunity for the learners to evolve their communicative competence and comprehend their departmental contents with a restricted period of time. However, this course tends to give instructions to the learners in a variety of subjects such as:- Intensive Reading of passages (texts) including materials to students' needs with comprehension questions, contextual references, vocabulary exercises and affixation and so forth. The study of scientific and technical vocabulary which involves the use of dictionary, spelling, picking up the meaning form the context, rules of affixation, etc. Description of the laboratory experiments. Revision and study of basic English verb tenses, active and passive voice in scientific technical English. The English noun phrases, relative clauses, deletion of relative relation in active and passive voice. The study of English pronouns, adjectives, adverbial phrases, etc. Summary Writing.

GE129 Workshop Technology 02 General +

Industrial safety; engineering materials and their mechanical and physical properties; classifications, ferrous and nonferrous metals, natural and synthetic materials; introduction to manufacturing processes: casting, welding, forging, rolling, extrusion; sheet metal working methods, metal machining.

GE127 Engineering Drawing 02 General +

Introduction; definitions, conventions. Instrument, dimensioning, some geometrical constructions; e.g., drawing of some polygons, parallel lines, line and arc tangents. Projection; theory, types of projection, one view projection, multi-view projection, first and third angle projection, applications, including missing line views. Sectional vie s; complete section, half section, pant section, removed sections, revolved section, and applications.

3rd Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
GS203 Mathematics III 03 General GS102 +

Linear Algebra. · Definition of matrices, Types of matrices, and their properties. · Operations on matrices and their properties. · Elementary row operations and reduced row form (Echelon form) · Systems of linear equations and their solutions using reduced matrix and matrix inverses. · Determinants, their properties, and a determinant formula for matrix inverse. · System of linear equations and their solutions using Cramer’s rule and using elementary transformations. · Eigenvalues and eigenvectors and the Hamilton Cayley theorem. · Introduction to fields (Real, complex), vectors, linearly dependent and independent vectors, basis, and dimension. Dot product, cross product, and their applications. · Calculus of vectors; functions of vectors and their derivatives, gradient, divergence and curl. The vector differential operator del.

GS206 Probability and Statistics 03 General GS101 +

Probability: concept of a random experiment and sample space; addition and multiplication laws of probability; conditional probability and independence, Bay’s theorem and its application. Random variables and their probability distribution; Binomial, Poisson, Normal, Gamma, Exponential, Uniform and Cauchy distributions and their properties. Basic statistical concepts: Statistical data, measures of central simple linear regression, regression coefficient and correlation coefficient, non-linear regression. Fitting of linear and non-linear regression to data. Multiple linear regression and multiple correlation coefficient.

GS215 General Geology 03 Compulsory +

Introduction to geology, definitions of geology and engineering geology; general outline of the structure of the earth; most abundant elements and minerals of the earth crust, Magma; rocks cycle, minerals, physical properties of minerals; classification of mineral on basis of chemical composition; rocks classification: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks; weathering, erosion and soil formations; introduction to simple geologic structures: fold, fault, joint and unconformity; deformation and failure behavior of rocks and factors controlling these behaviors.

PE240 Engineering Economy 03 Compulsory GS102 +

Fundamental aspects of an economic system in a society, this includes the fundamental problems of any economic system, the economic development and its limitation, role of the government; supply and demand, and the economic cycle of the price system; worth concepts normally used in engineering economics to provide a deep understanding of the different evaluation techniques necessary for the proper comparison and decision of the relative economic materials of investment alternatives

CHE211 Physical Chemistry 03 Compulsory +

Behavior of real and ideal gases; the first law of thermodynamics and its applications; the second law of thermodynamics; the third law of thermodynamics; electromotive force; thermodynamics of electrochemical cells; chemical kinetics; reaction rates including zeroth, first, second and third order reactions

GE222 Engineering Mechanics II 03 General +

Introduction to dynamics. Kinematics of particles; Kinematics of rigid bodies. Three-dimensional motion of a particle relative to a rotating frame (Coriolis acceleration). D’Alembert’s principle. Kinetic energy of a rigid body in plane motion. Kinetics of rigid bodies in three dimensions; motion of a gyroscope. Introduction to mechanical vibrations.

GE133 Properties of Materials 03 Compulsory +

Introduction to dynamics. Kinematics of particles; Kinematics of rigid bodies. Three-dimensional motion of a particle relative to a rotating frame (Coriolis acceleration). D’Alembert’s principle. Kinetic energy of a rigid body in plane motion. Kinetics of rigid bodies in three dimensions; motion of a gyroscope. Introduction to mechanical vibrations

GE129L Workshop Technology Lab 01 General GE129 +

Some experiments related to GE129 course prepared by specified department.

GS112L Physics Lab 01 General GS111 +

Experiments about sound, light, electricity, magnetism, heat and electro-chemical conversion.

4th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
GS204 Mathematics IV 03 General GS102 +

Ordinary differential equations · Basic definitions, first order and first degree differential equations (Separable Equations, Homogeneous and nearly homogeneous equations, Exact equations, Integrating factors, linear equations, Bernoulli equation, Riccati equation, brief discussion of existence and uniqueness of a solution, orthogonal trajectories). · Linear higher order differential equations: theoretical considerations, constant coefficient case, nonhomogeneous equation (variation of parameters method, undetermined coefficients method), and Euler’s differential equation. · Laplace transformations and its inverse, calculating Laplace transformation and its invers, using Laplace transformation on solving linear equations. · System of linear differential equations; solution of differential equations in series; gamma, beta function, Bessel function, modified Bessel function, Legendre polynomials; Spherical harmonics, hyper geometric functions.

EE280 .Fund. of Electrical Eng 03 Compulsory GS102 +

هـ ع 242 Structural Geology 03 Compulsory هـ ع 215 +

هـ كم 211 م 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 253 03 Compulsory هـ ع 215 هـ كم 211 +

5th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
هـ ع 201 03 Compulsory +

هـ كم 311 03 Compulsory +

هـ كم 331 03 Compulsory +

هـ كه 280 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 322 Oilfield Equipment 03 Compulsory +

This course will seek to introduce students to drilling and production equipment and their corrosion. In the first part, specific emphasis will be placed on the rotary rig and its components: the hoisting system, the rotating system, the circulating system, power requirements; casing; cementing; roller bits; fishing tools; and well controlling system. Second part covers the principle and components of production equipment: subsurface and surface equipment of natural flow; equipment of artificial flow; gathering systems; surface equipment of fluids separations; fluid separators; storage tanks; meters and meter proving; types of valves. The third part covers preliminary corrosion of the oilfield equipment: inspection, evaluation, measurement, control and prevention. Emphasizing on estimation of different design parameters of equipment such as: horsepower of rotary, slush pump and drawworks, mud circulation cycle time, drilling lines required length, oil and gas capacities of fluid separators and others.

هـ نف 315 03 Compulsory +

6th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
هـ نف 363 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 373 03 Compulsory +

هـ كم 301 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 312 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 353 03 Compulsory +

7th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
هـ نف 383 م 02 Compulsory +

هـ نف 402 م 02 Compulsory +

هـ نف 413 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 423 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 433 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 453 03 Compulsory +

8th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
هـ نف 473 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 484 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 474 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 463 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 443 03 Compulsory +

9th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
هـ نف 502 03 Elective +

هـ نف 510 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 511 03 Elective +

هـ نف 512 03 Elective +

هـ نف 516 03 Elective +

هـ نف 520 03 Compulsory +

هـ نف 523 03 Compulsory +

10th Semester

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
هـ نف 540 03 Compulsory +

Elective Subjects

Code Title Credits Course Type Prerequisite
03 not defined +