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MSc PG Dip Petroleum Engineering – Dubai

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    MSc/Diploma 1 year (full-time) / 2 years (part-time)

Course Description

The MSc in Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University is a programme of lectures and project work that encompasses a wide range of petroleum engineering fundamentals pertinent to the modern petroleum industry.

The programme allows students to study specific courses as well as undertake a field development project (with other students) and an individual research project. 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 courses are applied in nature and have been designed so that a graduate is technically well prepared for, and has a sound knowledge of, the industry into which they will be recruited.

The programme has the principal objectives of providing specialist, high quality learning and teaching, along with a range of transferable skills, research awareness and improved employability. 

Entry Requirements

 

Entry requirements

Postgraduate MSc

  • Bachelor’s Honours Degree Entrants to the programme will have a good Honours degree (minimum 2:1 or equivalent) in engineering or a relevant science discipline such as physics, chemistry or mathematics.

Postgraduate Diploma

  • Bachelor’s Degree An Ordinary degree in a cognate or semi-cognate discipline plus 2 years of relevant post-qualification work experience.
  • Higher National Diploma HND or equivalent qualification deemed suitable for entry to third year of a cognate Bachelor’s degree, plus four years’ relevant post-qualification work experience.
  • Higher National Certificate HNC or equivalent qualification deemed suitable for entry to second year of a cognate Bachelor’s degree, plus 6 years’ relevant post-qualification work experience.
  • Work experience Eight or more years’ relevant work experience at a suitable level.
  • Candidates must demonstrate that through work experience they have built up the necessary academic background to successfully complete the programme. Admission is at the discretion of the programme director.

Part-time registration

  • For those already employed in the oil industry, it may be possible to study on a part-time basis, including via a distance learning version of the MSc PE degree. Please contact us for further information.
  • Entrants to the programme will normally have a good Honours degree (minimum 2:1 or equivalent) in engineering or a relevant science discipline such as physics, chemistry or mathematics.
  • In addition to academic qualifications, motivation, industrial experience and personality are taken into consideration.

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Fees

https://www.hw.ac.uk/study/fees-funding.htm

Student Destinations

Our programmes are recognised by graduate-recruiting businesses around the world, and many of our graduates are employed at the most senior technical and management levels in international oil and gas companies.

Module Details

 

Semester 1

  • Petroleum Geoscience
  • Reservoir Engineering
  • Formation Evaluation
  • Drilling Engineering

Semester 2

  • Well Test Analysis
  • Production Technology
  • Petroleum Economics
  • Reservoir Simulation

Semester 3

  • Group Design Project
  • Individual Project

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