SUMMER PRACTICE PROGRAM, (PETE 300 and PETE 400)

A total of eight weeks of summer practice is obligatory to fulfill the requirements for the B.Sc. degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. The first four weeks are preferred to be in drilling operations after the second year. At the beginning of first half, on-site training program is recommended for meeting the milestones of drilling activities. The second half is for production and/or reservoir engineering after the third year of undergraduate education.The standards that the summer practice reports must conform are given below:

SUMMER PRACTICE REPORT FORMAT

Each student should submit a Summer Practice Report to the Departmental Summer Practice Committee by the due date announced by the Department. The standards that the summer practice reports must conform are as follows:

  1. The report should be in English and the use of a word processor (WORD etc.) is compulsory.

  2. Main headings are to be centered and written in bold capital letters. Sub-titles should be written in small letters and underlined or bold.

  3. Drawing should conform to acceptable engineering standards.

  4. Each report should contain the following sections.

  1. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Should have the corresponding page numbers.

  2. LIST OF TABLES: A list of tables with corresponding page numbers must be given.

  3. LIST OF FIGURES: A list of figures with corresponding page numbers must be given.

  4. ABSTRACT: The abstract should normally be within 200-300 words, containing: name of the company, objectives of activities carried by the company where the summer practice was done, methods to achieve the goals of the company, results and observations of the trainee.

  5. INTRODUCTION: The aim and the scope of the summer practice as well as description of the company should be presented briefly in this section. A short summary of theoretical background (if applicable) and literature survey about the activities carried out during summer practice can be given.

  6. ACTIVITIES AND OBSERVATIONS: In this section, a detailed description of everything that has been done and observed during summer practice should be given. State what you did and how you did it. The goal here is to describe the steps and procedures used to accomplish the stated objectives of your summer practice. Do not write long, detailed theoretical information and try to avoid anything that you didn’t study during your summer practice. The necessary data, tables and diagrams should be appropriately numbered and placed in appendices. Cite all tables in numerical order in the body of the report and number them with Arabic, not Roman, numerals. Table titles and column headings should be as concise as possible. Cite all figures in numerical order in the body of the report. Group figures at the end of the report following tables and number them with Arabic, not Roman, numerals, in order. Do not put boxes around your figures.

  7. CONCLUSION: Conclusions should not be confused with results and observations which are facts. Conclusions are the lessons learned from interpretation of the facts. Give possible practical use of your observations. How can they be applied to promote your objective of being a better petroleum engineer.

  8. REFERENCES: References in the main text should be cited numerically in the order of their use in the text. The following format should be applied while citing different sources:

             Reference to an article

  1. Raghavan, R., Cady, G.V. and Ramey, H.J.Jr.:"Well Test Analysis for the Vertically Fractured Wells1", J. Pet. Tech.., Aug. 1972, 1014-1020.

    Reference to a book

  2. Craft, B.C. and Hawkins, M.F.: Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Prentice-Hall Inc., New York, 1959.

    Reference to a paper presented at a meeting but not published

  3. Spanos, P.D. and Payne, M.L.:"Advances in Dynamic Bottomhole Assembly Modelling and Dynamic Response Determination", paper SPE 23905 presented at the 1992 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, New Orleans, Lousiana, Feb. 18-21.

    Reference to a company document, manual etc.

  4. Ruska High Pressure Viscometer Operating Manual, Ruska Instrument Coproration, Houston, Texas, 1970.

  1. APPENDICES: All related data, tables and drawing should be given in this section.