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TPG4560

Petroleum Engineering, Specialization Project

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Credits 15
Level Second degree level
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement work

About

About the course

Course content

Academic content must be agreed upon with lecturers within the discipline.

Learning outcome

Ingress: The student will learn to specialize in a specific topic within the discipline.

Knowledge: The student will learn scientific methods through completion of an independent project within the discipline.

Skills: The student will be able to complete a project and write a project report in accordance with established standards and by use of relevant digital tools.

General competence: The student will have a scientific basis for the completion of the master's thesis within the discipline.

Learning methods and activities

The project work is carried out individually or in small groups of students (normally two) under the supervision of a professor/lecturer. Subject-specific digital tools including programming is used where relevant.

Further on evaluation

If the project is performed as group work, the students and supervisor shall make an agreement about individual or joint assessment of the final project report.

Required previous knowledge

Admission to a programme of study is required: Geoscience and Georesources (MSGEOS, specialization within Petroleum Engineering), Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering (MTPETR), Petroleum Engineering (MSG1), or Engineering and ICT (MTING, specialization ICT and Petroleum Engineering). It is provided that the student has completed all courses which are listed as compulsory for the specialization in the programme description, or gets approval from the person with course responsibility.

Course materials

Given at the beginning of the semester.

Subject areas

  • Petroleum Engineering - Production Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering - Drilling Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering - Reservoir Engineering
  • Petrophysics
  • Petroleum Production/Well Technology
  • Deep drilling Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Petroleum Production

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Geoscience