Unit 1 Petroleum Development Overview
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1.1 History
1.2 The Field Life Cycle
1.3 Oil and Gas Production Overview
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology I
Features of Scientific English
Exercises
Supplementary Reading --Main Process Sections
Unit 2 Properties of Reservoir
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2.1 Properties of Reservoir Rocks
2.2 Reservoir Pressure
2.3 Wettability and Capillary Pressure
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology II
Vocabulary for Scientific English
Exercises
Supplementary Reading --Reservoir Type
Unit 3 Well Drilling
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3.1 Overview
3.2 Rotary Rig Components
3.3 Drilling a Well
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology III
The Memory of Word and Word Building
Exercises
Supplementary Reading --Drilling Operation
Unit 4 Well Completion
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4.1 Casing
4.2 Cementing
4.3 Recommendations for a good cement job
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology IV
Common Prefix
Exercises
Supplementary Reading --Casing design
Unit 5 Reservoir Deliverability
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5.1 Flow Regimes
5.2 Inflow Performance Relationship
5.3 Construction of IPR Curves Using Test Points
5.4 Composite IPR of Stratified Reservoirs
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology V
Common Suffix
Exercises
Supplementary Reading--Forecast of Well Production
Unit 6 Oil and Gas Production
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6.1 Production System
6.2 Artificial Lift
6.3 Production Optimization
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology VI
The Usage of Numerals and Quantifiers
Exercises
Supplementary Reading -- Wellbore Performance
Unit 7 Production Decline
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7.1 Production Decline Analysis
7.2 Methods to Slow Down Decline
News Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology VII
Mathematic Expressions, Symbols and Punctuation
Exercises
Supplementary Reading --Well Problem
Unit 8 Improved Hydrocarbon Recovery
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8.1 Target
8.2 The Influence of Recovery Mechanism in Residual Oil
8.3 EOR Classification
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology
Translation Skills of Scientific English
Exercises
Supplementary Reading--Heavy Oil Recovery
Unit 9 Safety and The Environment
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9.1 Safety Awareness
9.2 Environment
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology IX
Introduction of scientific papers
Exercises
Supplementary Reading--Current Environmental Concerns
Unit 10 Managing Producting Field
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10.1 The Reservoir Performance Management
10.2 Well Performance Management
New Words and Phrases
Notes
Basic knowledge of English of science and technology X
Abstract and Keywords of Scientific Papers
Exercises
Supplementary Reading --Managing the Surface Facilities
Appendix
Major Oil Companies Around the World (50 Companies)
Science Citation Index Expanded-Engineering, Petroleum Journal List(Total 20 Jourmals)
References