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    MSc: 1 year full-time, 2 – 5 years distance learning

Course Description

The MSc in Petroleum Engineering is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills to tackle the oil and gas industry’s most challenging problems. Upon graduating students will be able to understand, frame and solve the most complex of upstream problems in today’s petroleum industry.

The Petroleum Engineering degree is delivered by the Institute of Petroleum Engineering, a world-leading Institute committed to delivering research and training programmes that meet the needs of the international petroleum industry. Students have been attending the Institute of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University to study for the MSc programme in Petroleum Engineering since 1975.

Entry Requirements

Entrants to the programme will normally have a good Honours degree (minimum 2:2 or UK equivalent) in engineering or a relevant science discipline such as geology, physics, chemistry or mathematics, from a British or overseas University.

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Fees

https://www.hw.ac.uk/students/money/tuition-fees.htm

Student Destinations

Graduates of our Petroleum Engineering programme are much sought after by oil operating and oilfield service companies both in the UK and worldwide. Graduates go on to work for major global oil and gas operating companies, service companies as well as smaller consultancies in petroleum engineering. The programme also provides an excellent springboard for graduates wishing to pursue a career in research.

Module Details

Students on the Petroleum Engineering MSc undertake eight taught courses and two research projects.

Reservoir engineering
Petroleum geoscience
Drilling engineering
Formation evaluation
Reservoir simulation
Petroleum economics
Production Technology
Well test analysis
Project

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