Petroleum
For over 75 years, the º£½ÇÉçÇø has offered the only accredited BSc Petroleum Engineering degree program in Canada. Petroleum engineers specialize in exploring and developing oil and gas fields while also applying their skills to diverse subsurface engineering projects in the ever-evolving energy sector.
Our program has consistently achieved top global rankings, highlighting its excellence and garnering international recognition. Graduates from our program are involved in the exploration and development of subsurface energy resources, including oil and gas extraction, carbon and hydrogen storage, underground fluid disposal, and geothermal energy. They apply geology, physics, chemistry, and engineering sciences principles to design processes involving fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, geomechanics, and chemistry in subsurface formations. We are proud to offer a program that provides students with a solid foundation in petroleum engineering and prepares them for successful careers in the energy sector.
Careers
Our graduates pursue careers in a variety of fields, including:
- Academia and education
- Consulting and project management
- Drilling engineering
- Energy transition and sustainability
- Finance
- Midstream and pipeline engineering
- Petrophysics and geoscience
- Production engineering
- Research and development
- Reservoir engineering
- Upstream exploration and production
Areas of specialization
Our program offers specialized training in the following areas:
- Carbon capture, utilization, and storage
- Computational fluid mechanics in porous media
- Drilling and completions engineering
- Enhanced recovery methods
- Gas hydrates
- Geothermal engineering
- Hydrogen storage
- Petroleum rock mechanics
- Phase behaviour modeling
- Production engineering
- Reservoir simulation
- Sand control
- Subsurface data analytics
- Unconventional reservoir engineering
Program Administration
The petroleum engineering program is led by two co-directors, and .
Petroleum Industry Advisory Committee
The Petroleum Industry Advisory Committee (PIAC) is a group of engineering, business and community leaders who advise the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in setting and pursuing strategic priorities for the º£½ÇÉçÇø's School of Petroleum Engineering. The PIAC provides recommendations that support high-quality education, experiential learning and collaborative research with industry partners. The PIAC is led by the chair of the committee, Dean Terrien.
- Andrew Bennett
- Huazhou (Andy) Li
- Chayan Chakrabarty
- Darcy Spacy
- Fred Yurkiw
- Greg Caldwell
- Hassan Dehghanpour
- Helen Chang
- Juliana Leung
- Marty Proctor
- Matt Bloom
- Melanie Nahayosski
- Mike Mackow
- Dean Terrien
- Nicole Tetrault
- Robert Logan
- Terran Jesse
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