Undergraduate Program in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Research
Faculty in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering program are active in the following areas of research:
- fluid dynamics in pipes
- compositional multi-phase simulation of fluid flow in pipes and in wellbores
- remediation of pipeline contamination
- wellbore-reservoir interactions
- multi-phase flow in porous media
- diffusion in porous media
- fracture-matrix interaction
- reservoir rock characterization
- reservoir engineering
- conventional and numerical well testing
- drilling engineering
- perforations and completions design
- numerical reservoir simulation
- improved oil and gas recovery
- compositional coalbed methane modeling
- secondary migration
- rock mechanics
- environmental issues
- virtual intelligence operations
ABET Accreditation
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, telephone: (410) 347-7700.