Petroleum Engineering (field-based oil and gas gathering, treatment, transportation and storage)

  

Full-time English-taught Bachelor’s program: Petroleum Engineering

Field of study: 21.03.01 Petroleum Engineering.

Relevance of the program:
Petroleum Engineering is one of the priority areas of training highly qualified personnel by leading higher education institutions in the system of oil and gas education in Russia, which indicates its high importance and demand.
The Bachelor’s program “Petroleum Engineering” offered by Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (USPTU) is the only Bachelor's program in Russia for training specialists in a wide range of professional activities, including field-based oil and gas gathering, treatment, transportation and storage.
The fact that the program is taught in English allows the professional training of international students who do not speak Russian and increases the graduates’ competitive advantages.

Graduates’ possible areas of activity:
- Engineering support of oil and gas gathering, treatment, transportation and storage processes;
- Design, construction, operation and repair of field pipelines, oil and gas field equipment and facilities.
Graduates’ possible occupations: design engineer, lead engineer, project chief engineer, manager, specialist, lead specialist, head of the department.

Key possible employers:
- international oil&gas companies,
- research and design institutes,
- field-based oil&gas gathering, treatment, transportation and storage facilities.

Key professional courses:
- design and operation of field facilities;
- oil&gas field equipment reliability assurance;
- engineering support for onshore and offshore oil and gas field gathering and treatment;
- basics of Computer Technology for solving oil and gas field issues;
- field pipeline design and operation;
- oil&gas pipeline development, repairing and reconstruction;
- oil&gas transportation and storage.

Other information on the program:
- education in English;
- practical orientation;
- training is carried out on the basis of a USPTU Department, established jointly with the national research complex “RN-BashNIPIneft”, affiliated with PJSC Rosneft oil company;
- intellectual growth opportunities, individual approach while training.

Bachelor's program "Mechanical Engineering"

  

Bachelor's program "Mechanical Engineering" is implemented in English by the Institute of Oil & Gas Engineering and Digital Technology of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University. Field of study 15.03.01 “Mechanical Engineering”, specialization “Mechanical Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry”. Full-time mode of study.
Period of studies: 4 years. A Bachelor's degree is awarded upon graduation.
Career prospects:
The program graduates are employed in engineering positions at oil and gas refineries, petrochemical and chemical companies, oil depots, oil and gas production, transportation and storage enterprises, research institutes, research & design institutes, laboratories, and control and management bodies.
The professional training objects:
- processes and industrial facilities of the fuel and energy complex;
- process equipment technical condition diagnostics and control, process automation and control, environmental engineering;
- practical skills in developing technological processes of machinery and repair production in order to ensure operability and improve the reliability of oil and gas equipment;
- effective repair and restoration of oil and gas equipment.
Reasons to choose this program:
• Career opportunities: the program opens opportunities to become professionally engaged as engineers, technologists, team management specialists, equipment repair managers, researchers, designers, constructors, etc. in various industry-specific production and service companies, research and design organizations in Russia and worldwide;
• The program opens opportunities for further education and pursuing a Master’s degree in specialized universities around the world;
• Students can be involved in scientific activities during training and obtain additional areas of expertise;
• Integration into world science through participation in international scientific and practical conferences;
• Education is conducted in English improving the competitiveness of graduates at job interviews.
Application fields for graduates’ professional skills:
• engineering facilities, technological equipment and instrumental equipment;
• industrial equipment for mechanical engineering and automation of technological processes;
• production processes and development of new technologies;
• information, metrological, diagnostic and managerial support tools for technological systems to achieve product quality;
• regulatory technical documentation, standardization and certification systems, methods and tools for testing and quality control of engineering products.

bachelor's program "Chemical Engineering"

  

The Bachelor's program "Chemical Engineering" is implemented in English by the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University. Field of study 18.03.01 “Chemical Engineering”, specialization “Process Chemistry of Natural Energy and Carbon Materials”. Full-time mode of study.
Period of studies: 4 years. A Bachelor's degree is awarded upon graduation.
Career prospects:
The program graduates are employed in engineering positions at oil and gas refineries, petrochemical and chemical companies, oil depots, oil and gas production, transportation and storage enterprises, research institutes, research&design institutes, laboratories, and control and management bodies.
The professional training objects:
- processes and industrial facilities of the fuel and energy complex;
- process equipment technical condition diagnostics and control, process automation and control, environmental engineering;
- chemicals and raw materials for the chemical industry; methods and instrumentation for determining the composition and properties of substances and materials.
In the course of training, students learn about theoretical and practical foundations of process chemistry of natural energy and carbon materials, basic chemical processes and equipment and methods of their control, study chemical process modelling and their control systems, gain chemical equipment design skills and ability to work with the software package.
Reasons to choose this program:
• Demand for graduates in the labour market: enterprises of the fuel and energy complex, research institutes, research&design institutes;
• The opportunity to engage in scientific activities during training;
• Participation in international scientific and practical conferences;
• Education in English.
Graduates’ professional skills:
• Technological process control and equipment operation in accordance with regulations;
• Usage of technical means to measure the main parameters of technological processes, properties of raw materials and products;
• Technical decision-making in process engineering;
• Planning and execution of physical and chemical experiments, processing of their results and error estimation;
• Design of chemical production processes.