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Degree Programs
What Are the Requirements for a Master Degree Earned Through This Program?
The mission of the Master degree program in the Harold Vance
Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University is to prepare
high-quality, well-rounded petroleum engineers to enter managerial positions in
the industry. To that end, we require that all students in our Master of
Engineering program complete coursework in each of the industry’s core topics.
M.Eng
The M.Eng. program requires coursework in drilling,
production, and reservoir engineering as means of providing depth and breadth in
these skills. The M.Eng. is a working degree, one that complements the petroleum
engineer's work requirements. However, it also provides challenges that yield a
significant growth in technical skills.
The complete degree will be no different than one earned on campus and requires a minimum of 36 hours of study. Additional hours
may be added at the discretion of the student and/or the advisory committee.
Students in the distance program often take advantage of an option to take all
of these hours in petroleum engineering, although they are invited and
encouraged to supplement these with other courses as well.
These degree requirements are supplemental to the Texas A&M University
Graduate Catalog. Additionally, when graduating the degree will not say
anything about distance learning. It will be equivalent in every way to
the degree earned on campus.
What steps
must be fulfilled to complete the Master degree?
Required Courses
PETE 603 Advanced Reservoir Engineering
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PETE 661 Drilling Engineering
PETE 662 Production Engineering
PETE 663 Formation Evaluations and Analysis of Reservoir Performance
PETE 664 Petroleum Project Evaluation and Management
PETE 665 Petroleum Reservoir Engineering
PETE 692 Professional Study (Project)
Additional Courses (one or two courses outside
of the department suggested)
PETE 608 Well Logging Methods
PETE 611 Applications of Petroleum Reservoir Simulation
PETE 617 Petroleum Reservoir Management
PETE 630 Geostatistics
PETE 689 Special Topics in Geosciences Applications for Petroleum Engineering
PETE 602 Well Stimulation
PETE 605 Phase Behavior of Petroleum Fluids
PETE 609 Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes
PETE 616 Engineering Near-Critical Reservoirs
PETE 618 Modern Petroleum Production
PETE 620 Fluid Flow in Petroleum Reservoirs
PETE 648 Pressure-Transient Testing
PETE 685 Technical Writing
CHEN/PETE 689 Process Safety
CVEN 644/PETE 689 Project Risk Management
STAT 601 Statistics
TOTAL -- 36 hours or 12 courses
Problems/Professional Study
Each student in the master of engineering degree plan must submit a final report
on a technical topic that has been approved by the student's advisory committee.
The report generally addresses an engineering problem the student has
encountered in his or her professional environment.
MS
Available through close cooperation with a faculty advisor. Please
contact Maria Barrufet (maria.barrufet@pe.tamu.edu
)for more information.
What steps
must be fulfilled to complete the Master degree?
PhD
Available through close cooperation with a faculty advisor (research
must be done in residence). Please contact
Maria Barrufet (maria.barrufet@pe.tamu.edu
)for more information.
What steps
must be fulfilled to complete the doctoral degree?
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