Shanshan Yao, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Petroleum Engineering Unconventional Resources Hydraulic Fracturing Reservoir Characterization Reservoir Engineering Pore-scale Processes in Porous Media Pneumatic Percussion Drilling Pumped Storage Hydropower Systems Teaching Professor

PET E 295 - Fundamental Reservoir Engineering

Rock properties (porosity, permeability): definition, measurement and models. Rock-fluid interaction (wettability, relative permeability, interfacial tension, capillary pressure): definition, measurement and models. Single and multiphase flow through porous media Darcy equation and diffusivity equation: Derivation and solution for different coordinates and boundary conditions. Prerequisite: PET E 275. PET E 295 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained in PET E 373.

PET E 364 - Drilling Engineering

Rotary drilling systems, elements of rock mechanics, properties and field testing procedures of drilling fluids, drilling fluids hydraulics, drill bit hydraulics and mechanics, well control, factors affecting rate of penetration, drill string mechanics, fundamentals of directional drilling. Prerequisites: CH E 312 or equivalent and CIV E 270.

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