GATE PE 2024 (Petroleum Engineering): Exam Date, Syllabus, Pattern, Paper Analysis, Cutoff

Subjects

Topics of GATE 2024 Syllabus

Reservoir Engineering

• Coring and core analysis. 
• Reservoir fluid properties
• Petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks
• Flow of fluids through porous media
• Water and gas coning
• Phase behavior of hydrocarbon system
• Drive mechanics and recovery factors
• Reservoir pressure measurements
• Reservoir drives
• Reserve estimation techniques

Petroleum Exploration

• Origin
• Petroleum exploration methods
• Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum
• Classification and description of some common rocks with special reference to clastic and nonclastic reservoir rocks

Offshore Drilling and Production Practices

• Offshore fixed platforms
• Offshore drilling from a fixed platform
• Use of conductors and risers
• Deep water applications of subsea technology
• Jack-up
• Offshore oil & ocean environment and gas operations
• Offshore mobile units
• Station-keeping methods like mooring & dynamic positioning system
• ships and semi-submersibles
• Offshore well completion

Offshore production:

• water injection platforms
• Oil processing platforms

Storage

• SPM and SBM transportation and utilities Deepwater drilling rig.
• Emerging deep water technologies
• Deepwater production system.

Oil and Gas Well Drilling Technology

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

Petroleum Production Operations

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

Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques

• Mechanism of EOR Screening of EOR process and Basic principles 
• Concept of pattern flooding
• recovery efficiency
• permeability heterogeneity
• Macroscopic and microscopic displacement efficiency

EOR methods:

• Chemical flooding
• Miscible flooding
• Thermal recoveries 
• in-situ combustion)
• Microbial EOR.

Petroleum Formation Evaluation

• Evaluation of petrophysical 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.
• A special type of logging tool.
• Casing inspection tools (principles
• applications and limitations)
• Formations micro scanner (FMS)
• NMR logging principles
• Standard log interpretation methods
• Cross-plotting methods

Health Safety and Environment in the Petroleum Industry

Health Hazards in the Petroleum Industry:

• Toxicity
• Physiological
• Asphyxiation
• respiratory and skin effects 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 ecosystem
• 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

Oil and Gas Well Testing

• Diffusivity equation
• derivation & solutions
• Radius of investigation
• Principle of superposition
• Horner’s approximation
• Drill Stem Testing
• Pressure Transient Tests:
• Drawdown and buildup-test analysis
• 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

Linear Algebra

• Matrix algebra
• Systems of linear equations
• Eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

Differential Equations

• First-order equations (linear and nonlinear)
• Higher order linear differential
• Equations with constant coefficients
• Cauchy’s and Euler’s equations
• Initial and boundary value
• Problems
• Laplace transforms
• Solutions of one-dimensional heat and wave equations and Laplace equation

Complex Variables

• Complex number
• the polar form of a complex number
• triangle inequality

Numerical Methods

• Integration by trapezoidal and Simpson’s rule
• Multi-step and Single methods for numerical solution of differential equations.
• Numerical solutions of non-linear & linear algebraic equations

Latest trends in Petroleum Engineering

• Coal bed methane
• shale gas
• oil shale
• gas hydrate
• and heavy oil.

Calculus

• Functions of a single variable
• Limit
• continuity and differentiability
• Taylor series
• Mean
• value theorems
• Evaluation of definite and improper integrals
• Partial derivatives
• Total derivative
• Maxima and minima
• Gradient
• Divergence and Curl
• Vector identities
• Directional derivatives
• Line
• Surface and Volume integrals
• Stokes
• Gauss and Green’s theorems.

Probability and Statistics

• Definitions of probability and sampling theorems
• Conditional probability
• Mean
• median
• mode and standard deviation
• Random variables
• Poisson
• Normal and Binomial
• distributions
• Linear regression analysis

Name of the Category

2021 Cutoff

General

51.40

OBC-NCL/ EWS

47.1

SC/ ST

34.9

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