Week One in-person classes run from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on each day. Field trips may have other schedules. Breaks are scheduled in the morning and afternoon, and a continental breakfast is available before class on each class day. On-line modules are completed at your own pace with full completion required by November 1, 2021.
Week One • In-person on Mines Campus
- Day 1 :: Course overview; PE basics and general industry overview
- Day 2 :: Rock and fluid properties
- Day 3 :: Geologic concepts
- Day 4 :: Geology field trip
- Day 5 :: Drilling
- Day 6 :: Engineering field trip
Online study • 18 3-hour modules
- Environmental Issues and Sustainability (1 module)
- Exploration concepts (1 module)
- Geomechanics (1 module)
- Logging (2 modules)
- Surface facilities (1 module)
- Completions (1 module)
- Stimulation (1 modul)
- Engineering economics and risk analysis (1 module)
- Nodal analysis (1 module)
- Artificial lift (1 module)
- Reservoir engineering (3 modules)
- Reservoir simulation (2 modules)
- Pressure transient analysis (1 module)
- Data analytics (1 module)