CHE 514Fundamentals of Petroleum Production

Units: 0.50
Faculty: Engineering
Subject: Chemical Engineering

When it runs

Ran in 3 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Fundamentals of surface chemistry, capillary pressure, and wettability. Petrophysics, measurement, and interpretation of electrical, capillary, and flow properties of reservoir rock. Hydrostatic pressure regimes and estimation of oil and gas reserves. Darcy's law and modelling of steady-state and transient incompressible and compressible single-phase flow through porous media. Thermodynamics of petroleum fluids. Material balance for oil and gas reservoirs: subsurface withdrawal and primary production mechanisms. Oil well testing. Two-phase flow in oil reservoirs, relative permeability, Buckley-Leverett theory of linear water flooding and sweep efficiency. Introduction to enhanced oil recovery.

Prerequisites

Complete all of the following
- Students must be in level 3B or higher
- Enrolled in H-Chemical Engineering, H-Environmental Engineering, or H-Geological Engineering

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Fall 2026 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
Section	Class	Enrolled	Meets
LEC 001	4931	41 / 60	W 15:00–16:20 F 15:00–16:20

Reviewed on UW Flow

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Content is focused on well tests and is very technical. He spends a lot of time with derivations and the assignment problems are super weird a lot of the time. The slides are screenshots of the textbook and you can barely read them most of the time. I had to read the whole textbook to solve the case study because I was so lost from the lectures. If you expect to learn about oil in energy this course doesn't go into that either. In the end the content I learned from the textbook was kind of interesting. I'm a Mario defender but this course was just weird man. It's a good course to take if you are planning on going into oil but if you are just taking it because it sounds interesting be…

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Fall 2015

Dec 19, 2015 CHE 514 (Fundamentals of Petroleum Production) 7 points, 9 comments

u/Where_am-I: “I was wondering if anyone here has taken the course CHE 514 before. If so, what are your thoughts on it (in regards to workload and difficulty)? Any help would be appreciated.”