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Tessiside Uni
Tessiside Uni
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2022/23 entry 2022/23 entry
Fee for UK applicants Fee for UK applicants
£6,695 a year £745 for each 20 credits
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Professional accreditation
Our MSc Petroleum Engineering is accredited by the Energy Institute, under licence from the Engineering
Council. This means that it meets the requirements for further learning for Chartered Engineer (CEng) under
the provisions of UK-SPEC.
By completing this professionally accredited MSc you could benefit from an easier route to professional membership or chartered status,
and it can help improve your job prospects and enhance your career. Some companies show preference for graduates who have a
professionally accredited qualification, and the earning potential of chartered petroleum engineers can exceed £100,000 a year.
This course is also accredited by the Energy Institute on behalf of the Engineering Council as meeting the requirements for further
learning for registration as a Chartered Engineer. Candidates must hold a CEng accredited BEng/BSc (Hons) undergraduate first degree
to comply with full CEng registration requirements.
Course overview
The programme of lectures and project work, encompasses a wide range of petroleum and geoenergy fundamentals, which play an
important part in the modern petroleum, CCUS and hydrogen industry. Project work provides an opportunity for ideas and methods,
assimilated through lectures and tutorials, to be applied to real field evaluation and development design problems. The course is applied
in nature and has been designed so that on completion, you are technically well prepared for a career in industry.
Course details
For an MSc award you must successfully complete 120 credits of taught modules and a 60-credit master's research project.
You select your master’s research projects from titles suggested by either industry or our academic staff, but you may also, with your
supervisor’s agreement, suggest your own titles.
Course structure
Core modules
Engineering Research Project
You investigate an area of engineering and work independently to a level recognised to be at the forefront of the discipline. The topic can
be in the form of a research project or a design project. Key skills in research and in knowledge application and creation will be developed
through keynote lectures and self-managed independent study. You are required to demonstrate the capacity for a comprehensive and
objective analysis, and for developing innovative and constructive proposals for the solution to the project topic.
This module will be delivered through a combination of lectures and tutorial sessions.
Petroleum Chemistry
The module provides you with an understanding of crude oil fractions and components enabling you to study the phase behaviour of
reservoir fluids as a function of temperature and pressure. We use different equations of state to analyse the
pressure-volume-temperature correlations. You explore how constructing compositional fluid models, using an industry-standard
reservoir simulator, enables you to investigate reservoir fluid properties and behaviour. You also discuss oil field corrosion and scaling
mechanisms as well as monitoring and inhibition methods. This module is delivered through lectures, tutorials, and IT laboratory
sessions. You are assessed by an in-course assessment (30%) and exam (70%).
This module presents a number of core and specialist areas appropriate for effective management of QHSE in a successful oil and gas
related organisation. Critical components of Safety Management (including a QHSE plan, process safety, hazard identification, safety
auditing and managing risk) form a comprehensive part of the core study underpinning the total Safety Management System (SMS).
Where appropriate, actual industry examples are used as case studies to enhance the students’ learning and to demonstrate the
mechanisms used, and impact of, legal and administrative compliance. Further, the relevance of occupational health and safety and
also sustainability in safety are discussed in terms of best industry practice.
The importance of implementing a Total Quality Management (TQM) system and the impact on the industry/organisation will be
emphasised to students. Environmental drives and current issues, including an Environmental Impact Assessment will complete this part
of the programme content.
Our MSc Petroleum Engineering is supported by excellent laboratory and engineering machine workshop facilities including fluid flow
measurement, computer modelling laboratories, other laboratories and workshops, an excellent library and computing facilities. We have
invested around £150,000 in laboratory equipment particularly within core analysis and enhanced oil recovery, carbon capture and
storage and underground hydrogen storage.
Schlumberger, Oilfield UK plc has donated a software package that helps advance your research. For upstream processes, Teesside
University has access to educational software packages like Petrel, Eclipse, CMG, PIPESIM and Ecrin to simulate the behaviour of oil
reservoirs, calculating oil in situ, and oil and gas production optimisation. As for downstream processes, you can use HYSYS to test
different scenarios to optimise plant designs.
Petroleum Experts Ltd has donated to Teesside University a network system and 10 educational licences for the IPM suite (Integrated
Production Modelling software) which includes Prosper, Gap, Mbal, Pvtp, Reveal and Resolve. This £1,558,000 system and software is
used by our students to design complete field models including the reservoir tanks, all the wells and the surface gathering system.
Laboratory facilities
Petrophysics laboratory
The petrophysics lab allows you to study the properties of rocks, particularly the measurement of porosity and evaluation of permeability.
The lab is equipped with sieve analysis equipment to investigate grain sorting and its effect on permeability and porosity of the rocks.
Atomic and molecular structure of a mineral can also be studied with x-ray diffraction (XRD) in our petrophysics lab.
Drilling laboratory
The drilling lab is equipped with drilling mud measurement equipment including mud density, mud rheology and mud filtration systems,
enabling you to study mud cake and formation damage. The lab highlights the importance of oilfield drilling fluids.
Entry requirements
Applicants are normally expected to have at least a 2.2 UK honours degree or equivalent qualification. A wide range of degree subjects
are acceptable, including petroleum engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, chemical process
engineering, oil and gas engineering.
Students with a degree awarded outside the UK must also meet the University's minimum English language requirements.
International applicants who need a student visa to study in the UK should check our web pages on UKVI-compliant English language
requirements. The University also provides pre-sessional English language courses if you do not meet the minimum English language
requirement.
International applicants can find out what qualifications they need by visiting Your Country
Employability
Career opportunities
These courses provide specialist education tailored to the requirements of both the upstream and downstream petroleum industry. The
relevance of this education combined with careful selection of candidates has encouraged oil and gas companies to target our graduates
for recruitment over the years.
The petroleum industry is subject to dramatic changes of fortune over time, with the oil price capable of very rapid rates of change in
either direction. Petroleum, however, remains the dominant source of energy, with current world production of oil and gas at record rates.
In this environment, companies face increasing technological and commercial challenges to keep their wells flowing and are increasingly
dependent on input from petroleum engineers and geoscientists.
It is widely recognised that a steady influx of fresh people and ideas is vital for the longer-term success and stability of an organisation,
and it is therefore expected that recruitment will continue, especially for those with motivation and the appropriate qualifications.
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