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Petroleum Engineering
Petroleum engineering students perform meaningful research towards the advancement of oil and gas recovery while gaining technical knowledge and weighing ethical considerations.
$4,000 Petroleum Engineering Scholarship
$4,000 Petroleum Engineering Scholarship
A Fall 2025 scholarship available for first-time students and undergraduate initial transfer students. Click to email Donna Arthur for more information.
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Solving For Petroleum's Industry
Your Career in Petroleum Engineering
Petroleum engineers extract oil, gas and other resources from the Earth, and they do it all over the world. They plan and supervise the drilling of wells, evaluate oil and gas production, and predict future production from the Gulf of Mexico to the coasts of Singapore. Aside from everyday gasoline, petroleum is also used in different fuels, and its byproducts are found in everything from car tires to toys.
Career as a petroleum engineer
S&T petroleum engineering grads work all over the world in the areas of drilling, production, and reservoir engineering of oil and gas fields.
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Research
The unique structure of our department benefits our research efforts and provides students with unique opportunities for collaboration and multi-disciplinary understanding.
Research in petroleum engineering focuses on exploring, drilling, and extracting hydrocarbon resources, and explores topics such as mechanical earth modeling, CO2 sequestration, and enhanced oil recovery.
Laboratory-focused research is offered in all of these specialty areas. For more information, check out the following research topics:
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