Petroleum Engineering University of Aberdeen

Overview

Ready yourself for a career as a world-class petroleum engineer.

You can also study this degree full-time on campus.

MSc Petroleum Engineering is accredited by the Energy Institute. It will prepare you for career success in the oil and gas sector. 

You’ll gain the skills you need to deliver viable oil and gas field development plans. You’ll learn to appraise and select the right technologies for safe production recovery of hydrocarbon oil and gas. And you’ll train using industry-standard simulation software.

Studying part-time online, you’ll cover every aspect of petroleum engineering, including:

• the fundamentals of petroleum geoscience

• formation evaluation

• well drilling and production

• reservoir engineering and simulation.

The Petroleum Engineering programme of the University of Aberdeen has been developed by experienced industry professionals. Its content is reviewed and supported by an Industry Advisory Board of energy experts working in the field. This ensures that what you learn here is always current and connected to industry skills needs.

Where will this take me?

Careers

On graduating with an accredited Masters in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Aberdeen, you’ll have acquired one of the most respected degrees of its kind in the UK. Your qualification will be recognised by industry employers around the globe.

You’ll receive exactly the same degree qualification as you would on campus.

Petroleum engineering is an over-arching discipline. You can use your qualification in this field to find work in its more specialised areas, including reservoir engineering and drilling.

You’ll be ready to seek work as a:

• Drilling Engineer

• Operations Engineer

• Piping Specification Engineer

• Production Engineer

• Reservoir Engineer

• Reservoir Simulation Engineer

• Subsurface Engineer

• Wellhead Engineer