Emilio's Grad Project: Foundation Questions

Monday, May 11, 2009

Foundation Questions

I have thought of ten questions to help me to answer my essential question and these questions are:

What is a Petroleum Engineer and what do they do?
What are all of the steps to successfully drilling oil?
What equipment is needed?
How much does everything cost?
How is technology used in drilling oil?
How do they know which places are best to find it?
What problems do they face and how do they solve them?
Are Petroleum Engineers involved in every process of drilling or only some and how?

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List Of Key Terms For Petroleum Engineering

Cellar - A rectangular pit dug around the location of a dilling hole, which creates a work space for the workers and equipment.
Crude oil- an energy source that is a fossil fuel foung underground. It is in the state that hasn't been processed.
Drill bit- device attached to the end of the drill string that breaks apart the rock being drilled.
Drill Cuttings - Materials that are removed from the borehole when drilling a petroleum well. This can be sand, shale, granite, iron, lime, clay, chalk, and many other materials.
Drilling engineer- A petroleum engineer that manages the technical aspects of drilling exploratory, production and injection wells.
Drilling Rig- A machine that creates holes in the ground for drilling, which can be mounted on trucks or on land.
Extracting - To get oil out of the ground.
Geology- The study of rocks and minerals
Mineral Rights - the rights of ownership, conveyed by deed, of gas, oil, and other minerals beneath the surface of the earth. In the United States, mineral rights are the property of the surface owner.
Oil Field - the surface area overlying an oil reservoir or reservoirs. The term usually includes not only the surface area, but also the reservoir, the wells, and the production equipment.
Petroleum- Crude oil that occurs naturally in rocks.
Production - The phase of the petroleum industry that deals with bringing the fluids to the surface and separating them, and storing them.
Production engineer - A petroleum engineer that manages the interface between the reservoir and the well and select equipment that separates the produced fluids.
Refine - The process of removing impurities from oil.
Reservoir engineer - a branch of petroleum engineering, typically concerned with maximizing the economic recovery of hydrocarbons from the subsurface.

Did you know?

63 % of the oil that ends up into the sea is from natural oil seeps in the ocean floor. 33% of the oil in the sea comes from the people who use the oil. For example, when people spill oil by filling their gas tanks, the rain washes it to the sea.
One of the first successful oil wells drilled for the purpose of finding oil was in western Pennsylvania by Colonel Edwin Drake in 1859.
Oil wells can be drill 38,000 feet under ground.
Long ago the only way people got petroleum was by digging by hand or by small amounts of oil leaking out naturally.
The most productive oil wells in the United States was in Texas, with one well producing 800,000 barrels in 9 days. This whole field yielded more than 140 million barrels of oil.
There are 260 billion barrels of oil in reserves. The world consumes 85 million a day.
The United States consumes 20 million barrels of oil a day, but only produces 5 million barrels a day.

Emilio's Grad Project

Monday, May 11, 2009

Foundation Questions

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List Of Key Terms For Petroleum Engineering

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