Welcome
Alaska is the home of Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America. As the only petroleum engineering undergraduate and graduate program in Alaska, a special emphasis is placed on arctic oil and gas development. In petroleum engineering, application of the basic sciences of chemistry, geology and physics are combined with engineering sciences to promote the development and production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources. The Petroleum Engineering program at UAF is a modern and challenging degree and offers a unique look at the problems confronting the petroleum industry. The petroleum engineering curriculum is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Alaska's oil production currently accounts for about 20% of U.S. total production. Alaska also contains over 25% of the entire U.S. proven reserves of oil as well as massive reserves of natural gas, coal and natural gas hydrates. The petroleum engineering curriculum at UAF prepares graduates to apply modern technology to development of these resources while emphasizing, whenever possible, the special problems encountered in Alaska. We offer one of the most modern and challenging degree programs anywhere, and are located in the heart of the nation's Energy Frontier.
The primary areas of petroleum engineering are drilling engineering, well completion, production engineering, reservoir evaluation and reservoir engineering. Undergraduate students take basic courses in all of these disciplines. Graduate work allows the student to focus on one particular area and develop additional expertise. Most of the research in petroleum engineering at UAF is conducted in the Petroleum Development Laboratory and include basic and advanced studies of oil displacement, reservoir rock and fluid properties of Alaskan oil fields, thermal recovery, miscible flooding, improved water flooding, gas hydrates, gas-to-liquids (GTL) conversion and transportation, coalbed methane, drilling and production.
Petroleum Engineering Degrees
At UAF, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science degrees in Petroleum Engineering and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. degrees are available.
A summary of the four year Bachelor of Science degree program is now available as a PDF.
Unique Opportunities
Petroleum engineering students have many advantages at UAF:
- Medium class sizes, with a student to teacher ratio of 20-1
- Computer lab equipped with oil industry standard software
- Field trip to Kenai oil field with American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE)
- Field trip to Prudhoe Bay with Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
- AADE and SPE national poster and paper competitions http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/cem/pete/news/index.xml
- Petroleum engineering graduates earn some of the highest starting salaries in the field of engineering
- Research opportunities for undergraduates
- Campus visit from major energy companies to recruit for internships and full-time employment http://www.uaf.edu/career/
Petroleum Engineering Undergraduate Tutoring
Monday Through Thursday: 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 10:00a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Duckering 416
PETE COURSES
Tutor: Mr Kiran Venepalli
Sponsored by UAF Department of Petroleum Engineering
A printable flyer version of this announcement is available: undergradPETEtutor.pdf
News and Events
- Two CEM Petroleum Engineering students took first and second place at the American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE) National Student Poster competition. Undergraduate Student Kasper Kowalewski and Graduate Student Ekene Chukwu took first and second place respectively in the competition. Full story...
- CEM Petroleum Engineering students win Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) student paper awards at the SPE Western Regional Meeting. Students Rusheet Shah and Sathish Kulathu won first and second place respectively in the MS division and Daniel Clark won second place in the BS division of the student paper contests. Full Story...
- UAF Student Kasper Kowaleski was the third place poster competition award winner at the recent 2008 American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE) Premier Fluids Conference in Houston, Texas. Full Story...
- The University of Alaska Fairbanks had reached a deal with the China University of Petroleum, Beijing to enable Chinese students to finish the final two years of their degrees at UAF. Full Story...
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