Petroleum engineering
By:William and Caden
What a Petroleum engineer could do.
They could make a computer simulation to predict the amount and flow of petroleum and natural gas through an oil field.Determine what type of drilling fluid will prevent drilling tool damage Create the designs drilling string piping that will carry drilling fluid into a well as efficiently as possible,or examine the quality of recovered oil and gas before separating the different components.
Anthony F. Lucas
Anthony F. Lucas was born on September 1855 in Split,Austria,the capital of the province of Dalmatia which is located in present day Croatia.He was a mining engineer ,often referred to as the father of petroleum engineering.His successful drilling of the famous Spindletop field near Beaumont,TX was one of the most important events in the history of petroluim industry.The Spindletop discovery in 1901 marked the beginning of the modern petroluim industry.It ushered in the development of the Texas Gulf Coast as a maker oil-producing area.Lucas's advanced knowledge of petroleum engineering principles was revealed when he revisited Spindletop in 1904 to find that 1200 wells had been drilled on 200 acres.Only 100 of these wells had been were still producing.Lucas then stated that a half dozen wells would have produced more than all those drills,and he charged that the reservoir had been damaged by indiscriminate drilling activities.