PETROLEUM ENGINEERING The modern world requires vast amounts of energy and petrochemical products (such as plastics) in order to function on a daily basis. Students in the Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering learn how to use science and engineering principles to fnd and produce the natural gas and oil resources that make everyday life possible.
What Do Petroleum Engineers Do? PERTT Lab
Petroleum engineers design and manage drilling and production LSU Petroleum Engineering graduates are known for being well operations around the world wherever oil and natural gas is trained to solve real-world industry problems. LSU houses the found. This may take place in the Arctic, jungles, oceans, or Petroleum Engineering Research & Technology Transfer Lab even in shale formations here in the United States. Petroleum (PERTT Lab), a one-of-a-kind facility where our students gain engineers thoroughly study geologic and engineering data in hands-on experience to control a potential blowout and engage order to design drilling and production operations that maximize in modern production engineering practices. production rates and reservoir recovery. We believe it’s a really important and unique resource As a petroleum engineer, you might move to feld, district, area, that we have here at LSU. We’re the only school in the staf, and chief petroleum engineering positions. Alternatively, United States that offers and requires hands-on train- you might prefer to advance through such management posts ing in well control and understanding hydrostatics as supervisor, superintendent, manager, and president/CEO. and pressure control in wells using actual wells. Once you acquire industry experience, you might want to work John Rogers Smith, retired LSU faculty member as a consultant or enter the oil business on your own. GRADUATE STARTING SALARIES PROGRAM FACTS Median full-time in feld salary info for graduates of the last three years CAREER OPTIONS 2020–2021 Enrollment: 251 Students Middle 50% Reservoir Engineer Common Minors: Geology, Business $73,500 $77,000 Drilling Engineer Administration, Technical Sales Natural Gas Engineer $75,000 Student Organizations: Median Salary Production Engineer SPE—Society of Petroleum Engineers AADE—American Association of Petrophysicist Drilling Engineers Well Log Analyst SPWLA—Society of Petrophysicists & Undergraduate Advisor: Well Log Analysts Fred Thurber, Instructor ARMA—American Rock Mechanics Email: [email protected] Association Phone: 225-578-6058
LEARN MORE LSU.EDU/ENG/PETE Petroleum Engineering CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 LEGEND
Major-specifc Introduction to Petroleum ENGR Reservoir Rock Properties Reservoir Dynamics Senior Project I Engineering
Other Physics I: Particle Mechanics Reservoir Fluid Properties Drilling Engineering Senior Project II Engineering
Statistics and Data Visualization for Reserve Estimation and General Chemistry I Petroleum Field Operations Science Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Management
Economic Aspects of Computational Methods and Data Prevention of Oil and General Chemistry II Math Petroleum Production Analytics in Petroleum Engineering Gas Well Blowouts
Petroleum ENGR Aspects of General Chemistry Lab Well Logging Drilling Fluids Lab General Education Subsurface Geology
General Geology: Physical Statics Well Performance and Production Reservoir Mechanics Lab
Physical Geology Lab Fluid Mechanics Rock and Fluid Properties Lab Petroleum ENGR Design
Physics II: Fluids, Thermodynamics, Calculus I Thermodynamics Petroleum ENGR Design Waves, and Modern Physics
Physics III: Fields: Gravity, Electricity, Calculus II Mechanics of Materials (Strengths) Petroleum ENGR Design and Magnetism
General Ed: English Comp I Elementary Diferential Equations Geology Elective Technical Elective
General Ed: Life Science Economic Principles General Ed: English Comp II General Ed: Social Sciences
General Ed: Arts General Ed: Humanities
General Ed: Humanities
General Ed: Humanities
Detailed curriculum fow-charts: https://www.lsu.edu/eng/current/resources/fowcharts.php