The Ph.D. Degree in Petroleum Engineering usually takes four to five years to complete. It involves course work and a research leading to the PhD Thesis. PhD research within the Petroleum Engineering Department is broad, applying fundamental and applied sciences to investigate some of today's hot topics. Students gain advanced knowledge of petroleum engineering theory and its relationship to real life problems, including reservoir characterization and engineering, enhanced oil recovery and production operations, fluid flow in porous media, modeling of fluid properties of crude oil and natural gas, multiphase flow in wells. PhD graduates will be equipped with the important skills necessary for research and academia.

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