Petroleum and Gas Engineering Facilities

The Petroleum and Gas Division has three well equipped laboratories for teaching and learning of the fundamentals of Petroleum and Gas Engineering. They are also used for postgraduate research and industrial consultancy work.

Petroleum and Gas Laboratory

• Drilling fluid characterisation equipment
• Vapour pressure (SetVap)
• Interfacial Tension (IFT) Measurement
• Gas chromatograph
• Boys non recording calorimeter
• Pressure gauge calibration (dead weight tester)
• Combustion gas analysis equipment
• Fusion Welding equipment
• Small domestic meter calibration rig
• Simmance Bell (relative density)
• Gas metering chamber

Spray Research Group Laboratory

The Spray Research Group (SRG) has an equipped laboratory for the analysis of sprays and fluid flow, with such equipment as:

• Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA)
• Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
• Malvern Mastersizer
• Pulse photonics
• High speed Cameras
• Hot Wire Anemometry
• Computational Fluid Dynamics

For the in-house manufacture of component parts the facility also has:

• 3-axis CNC Milling machine
• Lathe

Computer Simulation Laboratory

The Petroleum and Gas Division has a well equipped computer laboratory with the latest computational packages that are used in industry for the analysis of petroleum and gas scenarios:

• Schlumberger (Pipesim, OFM, Petrel, Eclipse)
• Petroleum Experts (IPM Suite)
• KAPPA (Ecrin v4.12.07, Emeraude v2.60.05)
• SMT KINGDOM (SMT Suite)
• STREAMsim Technologies (Studio SL, 3DSL, FloodOPT)
• NEOTEC SPT GROUP (OLGA WELLFLO, PIPEFLO, FORGAS DRILLBENCH)
• Senergy (INTERACTIVE PETROPHYSICS);
• Fekete (WELLTEST)
• Baker Hughes (MFRAC)