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Course Name	Turkish	Kuyu Canlandırma
	English	Well Stimulation
Course Code	PET 436E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		İbrahim Metin Mıhçakan
Course Objectives		1. Introduce the types, occurrence mechanisms, and preventive techniques of damage at well and its vicinity; 2. Introduce the stimulation methods to eliminate the damage and increase flow at well and its vicinity and have student gain ability to choose the most appropriate stimulation method; 3. Furnish student with the ability of basic design of the stimulation methods; 4. Furnish student with the knowledge and awareness on the safety and environmental affects that might arise in the field applications of stimulation methods.
Course Description		Formation damage description and mechanisms. Wellbore skin types and their effects on flow. Well and formation stimulation methods. Acid types and reactions with rocks. Acidizing methods. Hydraulic fracturing, mechanism, methods, design and models. Fracturing fluids, additives, and proppants. Acid-fracturing. Fracturing and fracture efficiency. Safety and environmental affects.
Course Outcomes		1. Ability to decide on the necessary measures to be taken in order to lessen the formation damage at and in the vicinity of a well; 2. Ability to select and peform the basic design of the required stimulation method to increase the flow at and in the vicinity of a well; 3. Ability to determine the necessary measures to be taken in order to lessen the adverse affects of stimulation method to be applied at and in the vicinity of a well.
Pre-requisite(s)		KIM102E - General Chemistry II PET333E - Drilling Engineering PET417E - Flow Through Porous Media
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