Oil and Gas Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering

OIL AND GAS ENGINEERING
Oil and gas engineering involves the training of technologies specific to exploration, development and production of oil and gas in an economical and environmentally sustainable manner.

Oil and gas engineers evaluate reservoirs using reservoir description and modeling techniques; oversee drilling operations; design integrated strategies for primary and improved recovery schemes; and design hydrocarbon production and treatment facilities.

What is the program of study like?
Engineers in this field gain a sound understanding of geological principles and learn to integrate them with the principles of energy and mass conservation, and thermodynamics. Courses in reservoir, petroleum production, drilling, well logging and formation evaluation, well testing, oil field safety and environmental impacts, improved recovery techniques, and oil and gas treating processes, provide the basic technologies associated with oil and gas engineering. Computers play a major role in oil and gas engineering, to understand the past performance and to predict the future performance of a given reservoir.