in detail description of previous gate papers of petroleum engineering and some assumptions for 2021, with a brief of future steps. reference textbooks

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Founder of Petroleum Universe
Organized by
Lords Institute Of Engineering and Technology
Khaja Muzzafar Uddin
Head of Petroleum Engineering Department

2. Outcomes?

3. Introduction
• Release of notifications
August
• Online Application
• Last Date of Application
14th Sep
30th Sep
• Online registration with late fee
• Last date of changing paper, category, city
7th Oct
13th Nov
• Admit Card release
• Exam Date
8th Jan’2021
5th,6th,7th,12th,13th,14th
• Release of Result and Rank Card22nd March’
2021

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Held during months of February
Gateway to a world of unlimited opportunities
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GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test Engineering)
B.E / B.Tech / B.Arch. degree holders
Post B.Sc. / Masters degree holders
Who are Eligible
Why GATE
M.Tech /M.E /M.S /Joint M.Tech + Ph.D. in IISc / IITs / NITs /
Universities / regional colleges
Job in central government companies
Must for faculty or research-oriented career
M.Tech salaries are higher compared to that of bachelors
Stipend of Rs.12,400/- every month for GATE qualified students

5. GATE 2016
Subject 1 marks questions 2 marks questions Total Marks
Aptitude 5 5 15
Mathematics 5 5 15
Petroleum Exploration 1 0 1
Oil and Gas well Drilling Technology 2 5 12
Reservoir Engineering 3 6 15
Petroleum Production Operation 2 8 18
Offshore Drilling and Production Practices 2 1 4
Petroleum Formation Evaluation 3 2 7
Oil and gas well Testing 1 2 5
Health safety and environment in petroleum
industry 2 0 2
Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques 2 1 4
Latest trends in Petroleum Engineering 2 0 2
Qualifying Marks General : 40
OBC : 36
SC/ST/PwD : 26.2
Highest Marks : 83

6. GATE 2018
Subject 1 marks questions 2 marks questions Total Marks
Aptitude 5 5 15
Mathematics 5 4 13
Petroleum Exploration 0 1 2
Oil and Gas well Drilling Technology 2 4 10
Reservoir Engineering 6 7 19
Petroleum Production Operation 1 7 15
Offshore Drilling and Production Practices 1 0 1
Petroleum Formation Evaluation 0 3 6
Oil and gas well Testing 0 4 8
Health safety and environment in petroleum industry 3 1 5
Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques 3 0 3
Latest trends in Petroleum Engineering 1 1 3
Qualifying Marks General : 39.8
OBC : 35.80
SC/ST/PwD : 26.5
Highest Marks : 76

7. GATE2017
Subject 1 marks questions 2 marks questions Total Marks
Aptitude 5 5 15
Mathematics 11 6 23
Petroleum Exploration 2 1 4
Oil and Gas well Drilling Technology 2 3 8
Reservoir Engineering 3 5 13
Petroleum Production Operation 2 6 14
Offshore Drilling and Production Practices 1 0 1
Petroleum Formation Evaluation 0 2 4
Oil and gas well Testing 0 2 4
Health safety and environment in petroleum
industry 1 2 5
Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques 1 2 5
Latest trends in Petroleum Engineering 2 2 6
Qualifying Marks General : 51.1
OBC : 45.9
SC/ST/PwD : 34
Highest Marks : 90

8. GATE2019
Subject 1 marks questions 2 marks questions Total Marks
Aptitude 5 5 15
Mathematics 6 4 14
Petroleum Exploration 1 1 3
Oil and Gas well Drilling Technology 2 4 10
Reservoir Engineering 5 7 19
Petroleum Production Operation 1 3 7
Offshore Drilling and Production Practices 3 1 5
Petroleum Formation Evaluation 3 3 9
Oil and gas well Testing 1 2 5
Health safety and environment in petroleum industry 1 0 1
Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques 1 5 11
Latest trends in Petroleum Engineering 1 0 1
Qualifying Marks General : 49.9
OBC : 44.9
SC/ST/PwD : 33.3
Highest Marks : 84.67

9. GATE 2020
Subject 1 marks questions 2 marks questions Total Marks
Aptitude 5 5 15
Mathematics 6 4 14
Petroleum Exploration 1 1 3
Oil and Gas well Drilling Technology 4 4 12
Reservoir Engineering 6 7 20
Petroleum Production Operation 2 6 14
Offshore Drilling and Production Practices 0 2 4
Petroleum Formation Evaluation 1 1 3
Oil and gas well Testing 3 3 9
Health safety and environment in petroleum industry 0 0 0
Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques 1 2 4
Latest trends in Petroleum Engineering 2 0 2
Qualifying Marks General : 39.8
OBC : 35.80
SC/ST/PwD : 26.5
Highest Marks : 76.67

10. Combinedand2021assumption
Subject 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Total Marks
Total
Marks
Total
Marks
Total
Marks
Total
Marks
Total
Marks
Aptitude 15 15 15 15 15 15
Mathematics 15 23 13 14 14 16
Petroleum Exploration 1 4 2 3 3 3
Oil and Gas well Drilling Technology 12 8 10 10 12 11
Reservoir Engineering 15 13 19 19 20 17
Petroleum Production Operation 18 14 15 7 14 14
Offshore Drilling and Production Practices 4 1 1 5 4 2
Petroleum Formation Evaluation 7 4 6 9 3 4
Oil and gas well Testing 5 4 8 5 9 8
Health safety and environment in petroleum
industry 2 5 5 1 0 2
Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques 4 5 3 11 4 6
Latest trends in Petroleum Engineering 2 6 3 1 2 2
Qualifying Marks General 40 51.1 39.8 49.9 39.8 38-41
OBC 36 45.9 35.8 44.9 35.8 35-37
SC/ST/PwD 26.2 34 26.5 33.3 26.5 26-28
Highest Marks 83 90 76 84.67 76.67 75-80

11. Marks by Major Subjects
Subject 2016 (2326)
2017
(1622)
2018
(1940)
2019
(2035)
2020
(1747)
2021
(1950)
Total Marks
Total
Marks
Total
Marks
Total
Marks
Total
Marks
Total
Marks
Aptitude 15 15 15 15 15 15
Mathematics 15 23 13 14 14 16
Oil and Gas well Drilling Technology 12 8 10 10 12 11
Reservoir Engineering 15 13 19 19 20 17
Petroleum Production Operation 18 14 15 7 14 14
Petroleum Formation Evaluation 7 4 6 9 3 4
Oil and gas well Testing 5 4 8 5 9 8
Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques 4 5 3 11 4 6
Marks covered 91 86 89 90 91 91
Qualifying Marks General 40 51.1 39.8 49.9 39.8 38-41
OBC 36 45.9 35.8 44.9 35.8 35-37
SC/ST/PwD 26.2 34 26.5 33.3 26.5 26-28
Highest Marks 83 90 76 84.67 76.67 75-80

12. Applied, Appeared and Qualified
Year Applied Appeared Qualified Percentage
2016 2774 2326 -- --
2017 1964 1622 362 22.31
2018 2122 1940 -- --
2019 2428 2035 -- --
2020 1985 1747 407 23.29

13. Reference Books?

14. Engineering Mathematics

15. Petroleum Exploration
Petroleum Geology,
Exploration, Drilling, and
Production by Norman
J.Hyne,Ph.D
Basin Analysis Principles
and Application to
Petroleum play Assessment

16. Description
• Classification and description of some common rocks with special reference to clastic and
nonclastic reservoir rocks.
• Origin, migration and accumulation of Petroleum.
• Petroleum exploration methods.

17. Oil and Gas Well Drilling Technology
Oil Well Drilling Engineering
Principles and Practice,
Hussain.Rabia
Heriot Watt
University
Directional
Drilling by T. A.
Inglis

18. Description
Theoretical Topics
• Well planning
• Drilling method.
• Drilling rigs
• Rig operating systems.
• Drilling fluids function and properties.
• Drill bit types and their applications.
• Drill string & Casing string function, operations,
selection & design.
• Directional drilling tools. Directional survey.
• Application of horizontal, multilateral, extended
reach, slim wells.
Numerical Topics
• Rig operating systems
• Drilling fluid maintenance equipment.
• Oil & gas well cementing operations
• Drilling problems, their control &
remedies.

19. ReservoirEngineering
Fundamentals of
Reservoir
Engineering,
L.P.Dake
Applied Petroleum
Reservoir
Engineering (3rd
Edition), B.C.Craft
and M.Hawkins
Reservoir
Engineering
Handbook, Tarek
Ahmed

20. Description
Theoretical Topics
• Petro physical properties of reservoir rocks.
• Coring and core analysis.
• Reservoir fluid properties.
• Phase behavior of hydrocarbon system.
• Flow of fluids through porous media
• Water and gas coning.
• Reservoir drives
• Drive mechanics
• Recovery factors.
Numerical Topics
• Petro physical properties of reservoir
rocks.
• Reservoir fluid properties.
• Flow of fluids through porous media
• Reservoir pressure measurements
• Drive mechanics
• Reserve estimation & techniques.

21. Production Engineering Textbook

22. Description
Theoretical Topics
• Well equipments. and Well completion
techniques.
• Well servicing & Work over operations.
• Work over & completion fluids.
• Storage and transportation of petroleum and
petroleum products.
• Production system analysis & optimization.
Production testing.
• Multiphase flow in tubing and flow-lines.
• Pressure vessels, storage tanks, shell and tube
heat exchangers, pumps and compressors,
• LNG value chain.
Numerical Topics
• Well stimulation techniques
• Well production problems and mitigation
• Formation damage.
• Artificial lift techniques
• Field processing of oil & gas.
• Storage and transportation of petroleum and
petroleum products
• Nodal system analysis.
• Metering and measurements oil & gas
• Pressure vessels, storage tanks, shell and tube
heat exchangers, pumps and compressors

23. Offshore Technology

24. Description
• Offshore oil and gas operations & ocean environment.
• Offshore fixed platforms, Offshore mobile units, Station keeping methods like mooring &
dynamic positioning system.
• Offshore drilling from fixed platform, jack-up, ships and semi submersibles.
• Use of conductors and risers.
• Offshore well completion.
• Deep water applications of subsea technology.
• Offshore production:
– Oil processing platforms
– water injection platforms
– storage,
– SPM and SBM transportation and utilities.
• Deep water drilling rig.
• Deep water production system.
• Emerging deep water technologies.

25. Petroleum Formation Evaluation
PetroPhysics
Dr. Paul
The Geological
Interpretation of Well
Log
Malcom Rider

26. Description
• Evaluation of petro physical of sub-surface
formations:
– Principles applications, advantages and
disadvantages of SP,
– Resistivity,
– Radioactive,
– Acoustic logs and
– Types of tools used.
• Evaluation of CBL/VDL, USIT, SFT, RFT.
• Production logging tools, principles, limitations
and applications.
• Special type of logging tools.
• Casing inspection tools (principles, applications
and limitations),
• Formations micro scanner (FMS),
• NMR logging principles.
• Standard log interpretation methods.
Cross-plotting methods.

27. Oil well Testing

28. Description
Theoretical Topics
• Diffusivity equation, derivation &
solutions.
• Principle of superposition. Wellbore
effects.
• Multilayer reservoirs.
• Injection well testing.
• Multiple well testing.
• Interference testing, Pulse testing, well-
test analysis by use of type curves.
• Gas well testing.
Numerical Topics
• Radius of investigation.
• Horner’s approximation. Drill Stem
Testing.
• Pressure Transient Tests: Drawdown and
build up-test analysis.

29. Health Safety and Environment

30. Description
• Health hazards in Petroleum Industry:
– Toxicity, Physiological,
– Asphyxiation,
– Respiratory and skin effect of petroleum
hydrocarbons,
– Sour gases.
• Safety System:
– Manual & automatic shutdown system,
– Blow down systems.
• Gas detection system.
• Fire detection and suppression systems.
• Personal protection system & measures.
• HSE Policies.
• Disaster & crisis management in Petroleum
Industry.
• Environment:
– Environment concepts,
– impact on eco-system,
– air, water and soil.
– The impact of drilling & production
operations on environment,
– Environmental transport of petroleum
wastes.
• Offshore environmental studies.
• Offshore oil spill and oil spill control.
• Waste treatment methods.

31. Enhanced Oil Recovery

32. Description
Theoretical Topics
• Basic principles and mechanism of EOR
• Screening of EOR process.
• Concept of pattern flooding,
• EOR methods:
– Chemical flooding
– Miscible flooding,
– Thermal recoveries
• Steam stimulation,
• Hot water & steam flooding,
• In-situ combustion),
• Microbial EOR
Numerical Topics
• Macroscopic and microscopic
displacement efficiency.
• Recovery efficiency, permeability
heterogeneity.

33. Latest Trends in Petroleum Engineering
• Coal bed methane
• Shale gas
• Oil shale
• Gas hydrate and
• Heavy oil.

34. Special GATE courses
Special GATE Courses
Petrogate
Academy
AIOTS

35. Colleges in India
• Delta Studies Institute, Andhra University
• MIT Pune
• Graphic Era University
• Dibrugarh University
• RGPIT
• University college of Engineering, JNTUK
• ISM Dhanbad
• UPES
• IIT Madras
• College of Engineering-Anna University-Guindy
• Aligarh Muslim University
• PDPU

36. Special Courses
• ISM Dhanbad: PhD through JRF
• IIT Madras: M.S Yearly twice

37. Government Companies
• ONGC
• IRS
• OIL
• HPCL
• IOCL
• Balmer Lawrie &Co.Limited
• BPCL
• Engineers India Limited
• Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL)
• Numaligarh Refinery Limited

38. ONGC Notifications for PE
Posts No. of Vacancies
UR OBC SC ST EWS Total
AEE
(Cementing
Petroleum )
1 0 0 0 0 1
AEE (Drilling
Petroleum )
3 2 1 1 1 8
AEE
(Production
Petroleum)
15 8 4 3 3 33
AEE
(Reservoir)
11 5 2 0 1 19
Total 61

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40. References
• GATE 2021 IIT Bombay
• AIOTS
• MHRD
• ONGC
• Syed Rahman (Ph.D Scholar, Texas A & M University)
• Syed Basharath (Sales Engineer S.K Oil Field)

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