MSc Petroleum Engineering - Heriot-Watt University
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MSc Petroleum Engineering Since its establishment in 1975, the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering (IGE - formerly the Institute of Petroleum Engineering IPE) at Heriot-Watt University has delivered its internationally renowned Petroleum Engineering MSc programme, providing thousands of graduates with the knowledge and skills to tackle the oil and gas industry’s most challenging problems across the globe. The programme offers an interdisciplinary approach to exploration and extraction of petroleum resources. Petroleum Engineering is central to safe, efficient and sustainable development of oil and gas assets to meet global energy and resource demands. The programme encompasses a wide range of applied petroleum engineering fundamentals, leading to development of a technically well prepared graduate with a sound knowledge of the industry - through eight taught courses and two projects. During the Field Development Project, students work together on real field data, considering the technical, economic and environmental aspects involved. For the Individual Research Project, students select a specialist topic, for example related to geosciences, enhanced oil recovery, production chemistry or advanced drilling and completions, offered both by the Institute and by the industry. The extensive alumni network supports the programme by offering professional talks, workshops and recruitment events, further highlighting the relevance of this education to and strong link with the oil and gas industry. The large student population is a multi-cultural mix of numerate science and engineering graduates, some from industry, some straight from their first degrees, coming from well over 100 countries. This blend provides the opportunity to discuss, reflect and consider more than just the academic side of learning, thus promoting a range of transferable skills. We aspire to meet the world’s most challenging energy and resource requirements.
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MScPetroleumEngineering
Since its establishment in 1975, the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering (IGE - formerly the Institute of Petroleum Engineering IPE) at Heriot-Watt University has delivered its internationally renowned Petroleum Engineering MSc programme, providing thousands of graduates with the knowledge and skills to tackle the oil and gas industry’s most challenging problems across the globe. The programme offers an interdisciplinary approach to exploration and extraction of petroleum resources.
Petroleum Engineering is central to safe, efficient and sustainable development of oil and gas assets to meet global energy and resource demands.
The programme encompasses a wide range of applied petroleum engineering fundamentals, leading to development of a technically well prepared graduate with a sound knowledge of the industry - through eight taught courses and two projects.
During the Field Development Project, students work together on real field data, considering the technical, economic and environmental aspects involved. For the Individual Research Project, students select a specialist topic, for
example related to geosciences, enhanced oil recovery, production chemistry or advanced drilling and completions, offered both by the Institute and by the industry.
The extensive alumni network supports the programme by offering professional talks, workshops and recruitment events, further highlighting the relevance of this education to and strong link with the oil and gas industry. The large student population is a multi-cultural mix of numerate science and engineering
graduates, some from industry, some straight from their first degrees, coming from well over 100 countries. This blend provides the opportunity to discuss, reflect and consider more than just the academic side of learning, thus promoting a range of transferable skills.
We aspire to meet the world’smost challenging energy andresource requirements.
Contact Admissions and Programme LeadMahmoud [email protected]/pg-petroleum
Institute of GeoEnergyEngineering Heriot-WattUniversity Edinburgh EH14 4ASScotland, UK
Petrophysical analysis of wireline log data, different tools and their uses, interpretation of logs and reservoir zonation
Fundamental concepts and techniques used in drilling engineering, design requirements of well planning and construction, optimise the design of a drilling program
Introduction to geoscience in order to understand the terminology used by geoscientists, to use geoscience data to calculate the volume of hydrocarbons in the subsurface
Economic concepts involved in project evaluation; asset value, risk management, making informed decisions and screening & ranking of projects
Well completions and servicing; artificial lift; perforating; formation damage; reservoir stimulation; sand control; surface facilities
Behaviour of reservoir rocks, fluid properties, reserve estimation, fluid flow through porous rocks and drive mechanisms
Fundamentals and applications of pressure versus time and pressure versus depth for improved reservoir description and management
Predicting reservoir dynamic behaviour: theoretical, numerical and practical flow simulation for history matching and forecasting
Integration of all taught elements of the programme in determining a development strategy or plan based on real field data
Independent research project on a topic (related to petroleum engineering) of the students choice
The programme is offered at Edinburgh, Dubai and Malaysia campuses, at our approved learning partner centres, and through the flexible study mode of Heriot-Watt Online.
Programme Content
Formation Evaluation
Drilling Engineering
Geoscience for Petroleum Engineering
Petroleum Economics
Production Technology
Well Test Analysis
Reservoir Simulation
Field Development Project
Individual Project
Reservoir Engineering
