Programme

Introduction to production systems. concepts ofprocess, indstrial plant, production system, industrial company. Classification of industrial plants and production systems. Make to stok and make to order production. main performance measures of industrial plants.

Introduction to decision making techniques (single and multiobjective, decisions in deterministic unacertainty and risk conditions). Linear programming method and application to optimal production mix definition.

Classification and quantification of industrial costs (fixed vs variable, investment vs operational, direct vs indirect, unit, average and marginal costs). Economic balance of a production system. Break even point, optimal production volume, make or buy decisions.

Design steps of an industrial facility. Technical and economic feasibility study (estimation of capital investment, operating cost and revenues), financial analysis, with emphasis on offshore oil and gas initiatives.
Profitability analysis of industial investments in both deterministic and probabilistic environment. Decision analysis about replacement and choice between alternative equipment.

Project management techniques: activities planning and representation (work breackdown structure, Gantt diagrams, graphs). PERT and CPM techniques for project control. Management of project costs. Anaysis of the phases of an oil and gas offshore project.

Aalysis of oil & gas offshore systems.
a) Types and characterization of hydrocarbons reservoirs. Estimation of reservoir size. Drive mechanisms and primary, secondary and tertiary recovery processes. Causes of reservoir productivity decline over time.
b) Physical characterization of reservoir fluids (phase diagrams, volume factors, density, viscosity, gas solubility in oil).
c) Technologies for wells drilling and hydrocarbon recovery (plants architectures and components, safety equipment, wells completion, characteristic curves of reservoir and tubing in stationary, transient and pseudotransient states, working point estimation, pressure losses for single and multi-phase flows, trubing sizing and nodal analysis procedure, gas lft suystems, forecast of reservoir productivity over time.
d) Offhsore oil and gas drilling and extraction infrastructures: types and classification (fixed and floating platforms, subsea systems) main components and selection criteria.

Core Documentation

Lecture notes provided by instructor and uploaded on Moodle web site.

Reference Bibliography

Jamal, J.A., Robello, G.S., Drilling Engineering, Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University. Stanko, M., Petroleum Production Systems Compendium, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, 2020. Jansen, J.D., Currie, P.K., Modeling and Optimisation of Oil and Gas Production Systems, Lecture Notes for Course TA4490 Production Optimisation, TU Delft, 2004. King, G., Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Lecture notes for course PNG 301, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State University, USA. Ahmed, T., Reservoir Engineering Handbook, Elsevier-Gulf Professional Publishing, 2019. Aird, P., Deepwater Drilling, Elsevier – Gulf Professional Publishing, 2019. Allain, O. et al., The Imperial College Lectures in Petroleum Engineering, Vol. 4, Drilling and Reservoir Appraisal, World Scientific, 2019. Amado, L., Reservoir Exploration and Appraisal, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2013. Archer, J.S., Wall, C.G., Petroleum Engineering. Principles and Practice, Graham & Trotman, 1986. Bai, Y., Bai, Q., Subsea Structural Engineering Handbook, Elsevier – Gulf Professional Publishing, 2010. Blunt, M.J., The Imperial College Lectures in Petroleum Engineering. Reservoir Engineering, World Scientific, 2017. Carlton J., Choo Y.S., Jukes, P., (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Maritime and offshore Engineering, Voll. 4-5, Wiley, 2018. Craft, B.C., Hawkins, M., Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2015. Dake, L.P., Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering, Elevier, 1978. Economides, M.J., Hill, A.D., Ehlig-Economides, C., Zhu, D., Petroleum Production Systems, Prentice Hall, 2013. Fang, H., Duan, M., Offshore Operation Facilities. Elsevier, 2014. Ganat, T.A.A.O., Technical Guidance for Petroleum Exploration and Production Plans, Springer, 2020. Guo, B., Lyons, W.C., Ghalambor, A., Petroleum Production Engineering, Elsevier – Gulf Professional Publishing, 2007. Jahn, F., Cook, M., Graham, M., Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2008. Jansen, J.D., Nodal Analysis of Oil and Gas Production Systems, 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers, USA. Laik, S., Offshore Petroleum Drilling and Production, CRC Press, 2018. Lake, L.W. (Ed.), Petroleum Engineering Handbook, 7 voll. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2006. Lyons, W., Working Guide to Petroleum and Natural Gas Production Engineering, Elsevier – Gulf Professional Publishing, 2010. Mitchell, R.F., Miska, S.Z., Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2011. Pedersen, K.S., Christensen, P.L., Shaikh, J.A., Phase behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids, CRC Press, 2015. Rose, P.R., Risk Analysis and Management of Petroleum Exploration Ventures, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2006. Samie, N.M., Practical Engineering Management of Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms, Elsevier – Gulf Professional Publishing, 2016.

Attendance

Attending classes is strongly suggested but is not compulsory. Lectures are in Italian.

Type of evaluation

Oral examination (usually three questions on topics covering the entire course program) which can be accompanied by numerical exercises.