Master degree program
Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum Engineering

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Engineering Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. identify, formulate and solve complex oil and gas problems in the field of development, drilling, production and preparation of well products in the field;
2. solve the problems of oil and gas production by integrating various types of data used in the oil and gas industry;
3. independently analyze existing theories, methods in oil and gas engineering and work on practical and theoretical issues in this area;
4. use modern production technologies, manage, develop and implement processes in oil and gas production;
5. use the methods, skills and modern tools necessary for engineering practice and applied research in the field of oil and gas engineering;
6. develop a feasibility study for innovative solutions in professional activities;
7. develop projects for drilling and operation of wells, oil and gas production from various types of reservoirs;
8. demonstrate leadership and persuasion skills and function and interact effectively in technical and non- technical communication
9. design and develop new innovative technological processes and equipment for oil and gas production and oil and gas transportation
10. analyze possible innovation risks when introducing new technologies, equipment
11. improve the operation methods and equipment maintenance technologies
12. compare the decisions made aimed at improving the
efficiency of the process of extracting oil from the reservoirs.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Petroleum Engineering
Speciality Code
7M07201
Faculty
Chemistry and Chemical Technology

disciplines

Engineering and Technology of Enhanced Oil Recovery
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of competencies for the development of modern technologies to improve the production capabilities of wells and increase oil production of developed facilities. The course forms the skills of designing technological processes to improve oil recovery, their analysis, management and selection of functional schemes and technologies. The discipline is aimed at studying the main methods of enhanced oil recovery; physical and chemical bases of enhanced oil recovery in the introduction of new methods of enhanced oil recovery, improvement of traditional methods of oil production.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Investigation of oil and gas wells and reservoirs
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline – the formation of systematic knowledge about the laws of underground flows in oil and gas reservoirs, methods of research, methods of processing results, creating mathematical models for design, research, forecasting of technological indicators, regulation and analysis of field development. The discipline forms the fundamental knowledge and skills to study the methods of well research, methods of processing their results, equipment used in well research.

Modern technologies for the collection, preparation and transportation of well products
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying: modern methods of collecting well products; technological schemes for the preparation of oil, gas and water; knowledge of the physical processes occurring in various nodes of the oil industry from the wellhead to the points of collection and pumping and commercial oil and gas and their transportation; study of the technical base of automation systems for technological processes of their symbols on the functional diagrams of automation and application at modern oil and gas producing enterprises.

Offshore development
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is for undergraduates to acquire basic technological processes associated with drilling wells, development and testing of oil and gas offshore fields. When studying the discipline, students will study the following aspects: features of the development of offshore oil and gas fields, offshore drilling rigs, offshore fixed platforms, offshore racks, offshore field development methods, well operation methods, oil treatment schemes on offshore platforms, transportation of well products by offshore pipelines.

Organization and planning of scientific research
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to interpret and summarize the techniques and methods of conducting independent scientific research. The training course forms the basis for understanding the principle, features of the organization, conducting research projects. Discipline is aimed at the study of general scientific research methods, organization, structure, and improving the effectiveness of scientific research, issues of finding sources of information, requirements for the content, structure, design of scientific articles and projects.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to apply practical skills in the organization and planning of scientific research. The discipline studies: forms and methods of planning, organization and design of scientific articles and dissertations; forms of summarizing the results of scientific research in presentations, speeches, projects, articles.

Pedagogy of higher education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to explain the fundamental concepts of management psychology, to identify the prerequisites for the theoretical and practical application of aspects of the management sphere in the process of professional development. The training course forms an understanding of modern ideas about the psychology of managing group phenomena and processes. Discipline is aimed at studying the basic principles of management psychology, personality in management interactions, management of personal behavior.

Psychology of Management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Technology of drilling oil- and gas wells
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline formation of competencies for technological operations for drilling oil and gas wells and improve the efficiency and quality of drilling operations. The course forms the skills of management of drilling and fixing the walls of wells for oil and gas, coordination of work in case of possible complications, accidents, prevention and elimination.

Data for 2022-2025 years

disciplines

Alternative energy sources and process optimization in oil and gas engineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying: alternative energy sources and the possibility of their application in the oil and gas sector; optimization of technical and technological processes in production, preparation and transportation of well products; application of highly efficient lean manufacturing tools in the oil and gas industry.

Chemmotology in oil and gas
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to master the principles of effective use of fuels, oils, lubricants and technical fluids in various machines, mechanisms and industrial equipment. When studying the discipline, students will study the following aspects: classification and quality requirements for fuels, lubricants, composition of petroleum and alternative fuels, basic physical transformations in fuels and lubricants, oxidation and ignition of petroleum fuels and oils, corrosion and protection of metal surfaces, additives for improving the properties of fuels and lubricants.

Construction of Pipelines
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline – the formation of the ability of the organization, design and modeling of construction of oil and gas industry, including oil and gas pipelines, development of technological processes of construction and operation of pipelines. The course forms the skills of design, construction and operation of trunk and field pipeline systems, solving theoretical problems on hydraulic calculations of pipelines, transportation of hydrocarbons, optimal and rational use of modern technologies in the construction and operation of oil and gas pipelines and gas storage facilities.

Corrosion and equipment protection during oil and gas processing
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline – the formation of the ability to conduct corrosion monitoring of oil and gas pipelines, to assess the condition of oil and gas equipment and the choice of ways to combat corrosion. The course forms skills of corrosion monitoring of pipelines and underground equipment of producing wells, interpretation of corrosion monitoring data, selection of corrosion inhibitors.

Corrosion of downhole equipment and methods of combating it
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - When studying the discipline, students will study the following aspects: The discipline is aimed at studying the types of corrosion occurring in downhole equipment during its operation and methods of dealing with it, modern technologies for anti-corrosion protection of oil and gas equipment, pipeline transport, economic aspects of downhole equipment protection.

Designing the development of oil and gas fields by horizontal well systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms a methodological and scientific basis for designing the development of oil and gas fields by horizontal well systems. The discipline is aimed at substantiating the construction system and carrying out calculations of hydrocarbon production from wells by horizontal well systems and their economic feasibility.

Development of oil reservoirs at a late stage
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline forms the methodological foundations for mastering the methods of influencing oil and gas formations at the later stage of operation, taking into account the consequences of man-made impacts on the formation.The discipline is aimed at studying the development systems of oil and gas fields at the latest stage of operation, the improved methods of revision of the primary GIS and GDIS information base are given in order to thin out the determination of initial balance and recoverable reserves, building maps for various purposes and using them in the development of current GTM.

Drilling process fluids
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline formation of competencies in the field of basic technological processes associated with the use of drilling fluids (washing and grouting solutions), to ensure environmental safety and economic efficiency in the construction of wells for oil and gas. The discipline forms the skills of determining the quality of cementing of the annulus, interpretation of data of geophysical studies of wells, rationalization of professional activities in order to ensure the effectiveness of drilling.

Legal and economic justifications for the development of oil and gas fields
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying: legal features of the development of oil and gas fields; economic justifications for the effectiveness of the technologies used in the development, operation and methods of enhanced oil recovery in the fields.

Modern oil and gas transportation and storage systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a system of competencies for the design of storage and transportation of oil and gas. Discipline forms the engineering and technical basis for the design of the tank farm, pumping stations tank farm, the selection of basic technological equipment for the transport and storage of oil and gas.

New technical means and technologies of oil and gas production
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form scientific and technical thinking and the ability to develop and implement modern technologies for the production and treatment of oil and gas, the operation of new machines and equipment that implement these technologies in the fields. The discipline forms the scientific and engineering basis for the skills of construction and operation of wells, collection and preparation for transportation of oil and gas in the fields, energy and material resources and promising areas of development of the industry.

Numerical modeling of processes in the development of oil and gas reservoirs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline is aimed at studying the use of software products such as Eclips, using the example of a radial flow model with a critical coning velocity, modeling liquids of complex composition using the cubic equation of state for mixtures and pressure-dependent values. Modeling principles are necessary to visualize the results.

Production and processing of unconventional hydrocarbon raw materials
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is for undergraduates to acquire the processes of extraction and processing of unconventional hydrocarbon raw materials: heavy oils, natural bitumen, oil sands and gas hydrates. When studying the discipline, students will study the following aspects: methods for developing heavy oils and natural bitumens, technologies for the extraction and processing of heavy oils, problems of processing heavy oils, technologies for extracting natural bitumens from oil sands, the formation of gas hydrate deposits, methods for extracting natural gas from gas hydrate deposits.

Technology of Natural Gas Production
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - to master the theoretical foundations of natural gas production technology, to study the physical properties of gas condensate in the collection and preparation of oil and gas. The discipline forms a methodological basis for the study of the processes of development of gas and gas condensate fields, methods of collection and preparation of oil and gas for transportation, methods of increasing oil recovery of reservoirs and wells, as well as the impact of reservoir zones on the bottom.

Transportation of Oil, Gas, Gas Condensate and Refined Products
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the core competencies aimed at the selection and operation of oil, gas and oil products transportation systems. The discipline forms a methodological basis for the design and construction of transportation systems of hydrocarbons and storage tanks of oil, gas and petroleum products, to select methods and methods of preparation of petroleum products for collection and transport.

Unconventional technologies for oil and gas production and processing
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is for undergraduates to acquire the basic principles of unconventional technologies for the extraction and processing of oil and gas and methods for their implementation. When studying the discipline, students will study the following aspects: acoustic impact on petroleum raw materials, the phenomenon of cavitation, ultrasonic preparation of oil, processes based on the use of microwave radiation, mechanisms and kinetics of radiation-chemical transformations during the processing of heavy petroleum raw materials, ozonolysis, mechanochemical transformations of petroleum hydrocarbons, plasma-chemical processing of oil and gas.

Data for 2022-2025 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2022-2025 years