Program Overview

Petroleum Engineering (with Advanced Practice) MSc

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.

There are three routes you can select from to gain a postgraduate Master’s award:

• MSc Petroleum Engineering – one year full time
• MSc Petroleum Engineering – two years part time
• MSc Petroleum Engineering (with Advanced Practice) two years full time

The one-year programme is a great option if you want to gain a traditional MSc qualification. The two-year master’s degree with advanced practice enhances your qualification by adding a vocational or research based internship to the one-year master’s programme. A vocational internship is a great way to gain work experience and give your CV a competitive edge. A research internship provides you with the opportunity to develop your analytical, team-working, research and academic skills by working alongside a research team in an academic setting. We guarantee a research internship, but cannot guarantee a vocational internship. We will, however, provide you with practical support and advice on how to find and secure your own vocational internship position should you prefer this type of internship.

Course Structure

Core Modules

• Advanced Practice
• Engineering Research Project
• Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production Engineering
• Petroleum Chemistry
• Petroleum Economics and Simulation
• Petroleum Reservoir Engineering
• Quality, Health, Safety and Environment
• Sustainability in Chemical Engineering

How You Learn

The course is delivered using a series of lectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions.

In addition to the taught sessions, you undertake a substantive MSc research project and the Advanced Practice module. This module enables you to experience and develop employability or research attributes and experiential learning opportunities in either an external workplace, internal research environment or by studying abroad. You also critically engage with either external stakeholders or internal academic staff, and reflect on your own personal development through your Advanced Practice experience.

Our MSc Petroleum Engineering is supported by excellent laboratory and engineering machine workshop facilities including fluid flow measurement, computer modelling laboratories, high-pressure and high-temperature autoclave, PVT cell, hydrate cell, and excellent library and computing facilities. We have invested around £150,000 in laboratory equipment particularly within core analysis and enhanced oil recovery, CCSS and underground hydrogen storage.

Schlumberger, Oilfield UK plc has donated a software package that will further advance the research and educational pursuits of students and faculty in Teesside University. 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 hydrocarbon in place, and oil and gas production optimisation. Additionally, t package can be used to model hydrogen geological storage as well as CO2 underground storage. As for downstream processes, students can use HYSYS to test different scenarios to optimise plant designs.

PE Limited 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 £2.66m 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.

Petroleum Laboratory Facilities

• Hydrogen and CO2 underground storage laboratory
• Enhanced oil recovery and core analysis laboratory
• Petrophysics laboratory
• Surface characterisation laboratory
• Drilling laboratory

How You Are Assessed

Assessments include in-course assignments, design exercises, technical reports, presentations or formal examinations. For your MSc project you prepare a dissertation.

Your Advanced Practice module is assessed by an individual written reflective report together with a study or workplace log, where appropriate, and through a poster presentation.

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.

Employability

This course provides specialist education tailored to the upstream and downstream petroleum industry. The relevance of this education, combined with our 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. As a result, it is expected that recruitment will continue, especially if you have the motivation and appropriate qualifications.

Professional Accreditation

Accredited by the Energy Institute on behalf of the Engineering Council as meeting the requirements for further learning for registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng). When combined with a CEng accredited bachelors honours degree, applicants demonstrate the underpinning knowledge and understanding required for CEng registration.

Full-time

• Length: September enrolment: 20 months, including a summer break; January enrolment: 2 years, including two summer breaks
• Start date: January or September
• Semester dates
• Fee for UK applicants: £5,417.50 a year
• Fee for international applicants: £10,000 a year

Part-time

• Not available part-time

Choose Teesside

• Stand out from other job applicants with your higher level qualification, specialist knowledge and expanded networks.
• Improve your project management, critical thinking, research skills, time management, presentation skills and teamwork.
• The median salary for working-age postgraduates (£45,000) was £6,500 more than for working-age (those aged 16 to 64) graduates (£38,500) in 2022.
• Study in our friendly town-centre campus with £280m of recent investment.
• Study at Europe's first Adobe Creative Campus and develop your creative and digital skills.