Thanks to complex knowledge of geology, technics and technology exploitation and storage of hydrocarbons, students will be able to solve operational problems of oil engineering.
In the area of hydrocarbon exploitation and underground gas storage, these include the issues of daily production of wells, the intensification of exploitation and the planning and execution of workover jobs, as well as the liquidation of wells. In the field of deep drilling, it is mainly about practical knowledge of operating individual drilling rig technologies (mud engineering, drilling rig machinery, drilling and casing strings, etc.).
Overview
The Petroleum Engineering study program is a complex study program that includes a number of disciplines such as geology, chemistry, physics, mechanics, mechanical engineering, material engineering, IT technology, also including good language skills (primary English).
The aim of the study is to educate a qualified expert in the field of reservoir and exploitation engineering, respectively an expert for working on a drilling rig (for drilling of deep wells with heavy drilling rigs or workover drilling rigs, eventually for rigs for liquidation or re-liquidation wells).
Course details
Oil and gas deposits are one of the world's key energy sources. Worldwide, the high demand for these minerals is maintained, and thus the complexity of geological exploration and especially the effort to optimize the method of exploitation is logically growing. At present, oil and gas exploitation is at great depths and under more difficult geological and climatological conditions. Drilling exploration and drilling is then one of the key disciplines of this industry. Hand in hand with this is the complexity of exploration and exploitation work itself.
The master's degree program "Petroleum Engineering" is a comprehensive study program that includes a number of disciplines such as geology, chemistry, physics, mechanics, mechanical engineering, materials engineering, IT technology and more, including good language skills. Graduates of this study program are in great demand worldwide and quality education in these disciplines plays a key role.
Hard skills to be gained:
Reading technical documentation
Designing
Knowledge of mining law
Knowledge of mining technology and processing of minerals
Knowledge of the development of plans and documentation related to mining activity or activity carried out in a mining manner
Application of computer design programmes
Project management
Knowledge of raw materials and their use
Knowledge of management
Expert knowledge in the field of power engineering
Entry requirements
The condition for admission to study in the follow-up Master degree programmes is the secondary education with the secondary school leaving examination and the proper completion of studies of any type of degree programme (Bachelor, Master, doctoral) completed by the final state examination. The entrance examination is not part of the verification of the conditions for admission. The medical fitness of the applicant for the study is not assessed in the admission procedure.
Applicants who have obtained the required education elsewhere than in the Czech or the Slovak Republic shall prove that the condition for obtaining it has been met in accordance with the rules set out in the Rector's Directive "Assessment of Applicant’s Foreign Education Study within the Admission Procedure at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava" published on the VSB-TUO website. At the same time, applicants prove their English language knowledge, either by a previous study in the English language in any type of degree programme (Bachelor, Master, doctoral) or by a certificate at the B2 level issued by one of the authorized testing institutions.
Career outcomes
Thanks to his knowledge of geology, oil and gas exploitation and drilling, the graduate will be a qualified expert in the field of hydrocarbon exploitation, underground gas storage and drilling technicians.
Graduates of the master study program "Petroleum Engineering" will be able to:
- independently plan, prepare and manage projects related to exploration geological works, projects to increase the yield of hydrocarbon deposits, or prepare projects for drilling and exploration work;
- as senior operational technicians manage exploitation wells and plan their exploitation regime;
- to manage shift operations on drilling rigs (heavy drilling rigs, workover drilling rigs) in the positions of drillmaster, shiftmaster, mud engineer and operators;
- create and interpret various types of static and dynamic hydrocarbon reservoir models based on theoretical knowledge of reservoir modeling;
- pass a higher level of Well Control test (organized by the International Well Control Forum) of at least level 5 (Level 5).
The level of knowledge at the end of this study program is a senior middle engineer in the position of reservoir engineer, respectively technician in the positions of the drillmaster, shiftmaster and above in drilling operations. The graduate will be able to plan, actively prepare and independently lead projects given by the mining and drilling industry.
