Subsea and Pipeline Engineering

Overview

What you’ll study

The Subsea and Pipeline Engineering course from University of Strathclyde consists of three components:

• instructional modules 
• group project
• individual project (MSc only)

Group project

You’ll be part of a group of three to five people in ‘consultant teams’ for 10 weeks addressing a practical engineering problem. You’ll then have the opportunity to present the report to a panel of industrial experts.

This project will enhance your team working and communication skills. It also provides valuable access to industrial contacts.

It'll give you a good understanding of all aspects of research work. In addition, the technological study must be accompanied by a survey of the relevance and applicability of the findings to the maritime industries at large.

You'll learn efficient ways to gather information, to distribute workload and to delegate amongst the group, to analyse their results and to appreciate the broader implications of the whole project. In-depth technological studies will be accompanied by increasingly important competence in managerial skills, quality assurance and a sound appreciation of the economic, political, social and environmental issues crucial to professional success.

Careers

Offshore hydrocarbon activities are moving into area of water depths exceeding 2000m. Subsea drilling, production and control systems are becoming much more important. Therefore, subsea engineers are in great demand world-wide.

Job titles include:

• Drilling Fuel specialist
• I-Drill Engineer
• Junior Riser Engineer
• Subsea Engineer
• Well Engineer
• Project Engineer

Employers include:

• 2H Offshore
• Aker Solutions
• BP
• ENI Saipem
• Subsea7
• Talisman Energy
• Technip
• Schlumberger