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Natural Gas Engineering

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1243 min
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Team OGUpstream Oil & Gas Technical Professional
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Why enroll

Unlock the secrets of natural gas engineering and boost your career in the energy sector! Our comprehensive course covers exploration, production, and transportation techniques, equipping you with expertise in:

Well design and drilling

Reservoir engineering and optimization

Gas processing and transportation

Safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance

Economic evaluation and project management

Gain hands-on knowledge from industry experts and:

Enhance your skills in natural gas operations

Increase efficiency and productivity

Stay updated on best practices and technologies

Advance your career in petroleum engineering

Join our Natural Gas Engineering course today and fuel your success in the energy industry!

What enrolled engineers say

6 verified reviews
  • May 3, 2026

    The course laid out a workable path through a messy topic, which helped me map fundamentals without getting lost. The Chapter 4 pipeline pressure drop example using Darcy-Weisbach and a step-by-step calc stuck, especially the unit checks. I kept mapping it to infra in prod, thinking about constraints, safety margins, and obs, so it clicked faster; it's beginner-friendly but not dumbed down. Wasn't sold on the short k8s-style control analogy in the ops section, and I wished there was more on gas processing impacts for energyutilities, but I've already applied bits in a repo note for the team.

    Abraham I. Verified
  • May 3, 2026

    For a beginner course, the Chapter 3 pipeline sizing walk-through using the Weymouth equation stuck, the step where they sanity-check RPS vs linepack. As a TL in energyutilities, it's useful for onboarding—I've pointed juniors at it, but I wasn't sold on the coverage of ops/infra handoffs and wished there was more on safety before prod.

    Saurabh Kumar G. · Content Manager Verified
  • May 3, 2026

    The section headers pulled me in, and the content mostly delivered. Chapter 3’s pipeline hydraulics example, walking a pressure drop calc end to end, stuck; it clicked like budgeting RPS before a prod push, and the compressor station tradeoffs read like arch notes you’d leave on a PR. it's beginner-friendly without talking down, though I wasn't sold on how light the infra/obs tie-in was for energyutilities oilgas ops. I’ve already avoided a couple late CI-style scrambles that would've felt like debugging at 2am.

    Ebrahim X. Verified

Is this course for you?

You should take this if

  • You work in Oil & Gas Upstream or Energy & Utilities
  • You're a Chemical & Process / Onshore Pipeline Engineering professional
  • You prefer self-paced learning you can revisit

You should skip if

  • You need a different specialisation outside Chemical & Process
  • You need live interaction with an instructor

Course details

Develop a comprehensive understanding of natural gas engineering, from exploration to production and transportation. This course covers the fundamentals, technologies, and best practices for optimizing natural gas operations.


Source:
NPTEL IIT Guwahati
Dr. Pankaj Tiwari, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Course suitable for

Key topics covered

- Understand natural gas geology and exploration techniques

- Design and optimize natural gas wells and reservoirs

- Learn production processing and transportation methods

- Apply safety and environmental regulations

- Analyze economic and operational aspects of natural gas projects

Course content

The course is readily available, allowing learners to start and complete it at their own pace.

23 lectures20 hr 43 min
  1. Natural Gas Engineering
    5 min
  2. Introduction to Natural Gas - I
    60 min
  3. Introduction to Natural Gas - II
    47 min
  4. Introduction to Natural Gas - III
    39 min
  5. Properties of Natural Gas-I
    47 min
  6. Properties of Reservoir
    52 min
  7. Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)-I
    62 min
  8. Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)-II
    57 min
  9. Gas Well Testing
    69 min
  10. Wellbore Performance Relationship (WPR)
    83 min
  11. Choke Performance Relationship (CPR)
    60 min
  12. Nodal Analysis
    43 min
  13. Natural Gas Separation - I
    62 min
  14. Dehydration of Natural Gas
    68 min
  15. Sweeting of Natural Gas
    39 min
  16. Compressor Design
    63 min
  17. Measurement of Natural Gas
    58 min
  18. Transportation of Natural Gas - I
    67 min
  19. Transportation of Natural Gas - II
    66 min
  20. Unconventional production of Natural Gas
    48 min
  21. Review: Concluding Remarks
    22 min
  22. Properties of Natural Gas-II
    50 min
  23. Natural Gas Separation - II
    76 min

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What learners say about this course

sarath Selvaraj
sarath Selvaraj Offshore Construction Engineer
May 3, 2026

This course nudged how I think about legacy choices, kind of like refactoring old arch without breaking prod. It frames sand control as tradeoffs instead of rules, which clicked for me coming from software and infra, especially when you’re juggling constraints that look a lot like CI gates and RPS limits. The micro-detail that stuck was the screen sizing example in the “Gravel Pack vs Frac Pack” section, where they walk through median grain size and then show how one assumption cascades into cost and ops risk—felt like reading a PR where one default sneaks into prod. I wasn’t sold on every analogy to modern completions; the k8s-style modularity pitch was mostly helpful but a bit hand-wavy in spots. Still, the beginner pacing worked, and the oilgas context mapped cleanly to how we think about legacy systems in energyutilities. I’ve already got a note to tweak some of our internal logic after this, mostly around how we document assumptions before they fossilize in the repo.

Saurabh Kumar Gupta
Saurabh Kumar Gupta Content Manager
May 3, 2026

For a beginner course, the Chapter 3 pipeline sizing walk-through using the Weymouth equation stuck, the step where they sanity-check RPS vs linepack. As a TL in energyutilities, it's useful for onboarding—I've pointed juniors at it, but I wasn't sold on the coverage of ops/infra handoffs and wished there was more on safety before prod.

Savio Vogt
Savio Vogt
May 3, 2026

Module 4 on compressor sizing dragged a bit and repeated formulas I’d already seen. After that, it reads like field notes from someone who’s been through a few turnarounds. The section on dehydration stuck with me, especially the worked example comparing TEG vs molecular sieves and the callout on hydrate risk during cold starts. As a TeamLead, I care about team lift and cost, and this helps juniors reason about arch tradeoffs without overspending on infra. I’ve already pointed a new hire to the chapter on gathering systems and pressure drop; the RPS-style thinking maps well to ops. it’s nudged how I frame system-level troubleshooting during handoffs, with better obs questions before jumping to fixes.

sarath Selvaraj
sarath Selvaraj Offshore Construction Engineer
May 3, 2026

The gas lift vs ESP decision tree in Chapter 3 stuck; it's clear, but wasn't sold on skipping nodal analysis math.

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Questions and Answers

A: Liquid carryover can still occur because PSV actuation doesn't restore level control or protect internals, upstream liquid backup happens because the failed valve blocks normal outflow without isolating inflow, upstream slugging is credible because flooded inlet devices lose separation efficiency, and overpressure is what the PSV is specifically sized to prevent by relieving vapor space pressure.

A: Alarms aren't credited because API 520 doesn't assign risk reduction factors to them, operator response isn't assumed instantaneous due to human variability, blocked outlet applies to any operating mode not just start-up, and administrative or human actions aren't accepted as safeguards when defining worst-case relief loads.

A: Ten kg/s is low because laminar and liquid assumptions underpredict gas blowdown, fifty kg/s still ignores choked flow behavior at high pressure ratios, five thousand kg/s reflects a different diameter and service class, and a few hundred kg/s aligns with sonic flow through a large-bore opening at 60 bar.

A: Vane packs struggle with sub-10 micron droplets at low density ratios, gravity settling alone won't capture fine mist in gas service, cyclonic inlets act upstream and don't replace final polishing, and a mesh pad selected on K-value addresses droplet capture with known efficiency limits.