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What You'll Learn

As a student in the program, you will acquire competency in the following areas:
  • Design and analysis of well systems and procedures for drilling and completing wells.
     
  • Characterization and evaluation of subsurface geological formations and their resources using geo-scientific and engineering methods.
     
  • Design and analysis of systems for producing, injecting, and handling fluids.
     
  • Application of reservoir engineering principles and practices for optimizing resource development and management.
     
  • Use of project economics and resource valuation methods for design and decision making under risky and uncertain conditions.
In addition, Petroleum Engineering graduates must demonstrate a working knowledge of mathematics through differential equations, geoscience, fluid flow, engineering mechanics, thermodynamics, economics, and probability and statistics.

Document last revised Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:27 AM

Copyright 2007 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Department of Petroleum Engineering, Madison Hall Room 126
Post Office Box 44690, Lafayette LA 70504-4690, USA
337/482-6555- 337/482-6848 (fax) -
petroleum@louisiana.edu