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Graduate Certificate in Petroleum Engineering - GradCertPetEng7343 - Petroleum Engineering

Specialisation Structure
36 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 36 UOC.

Disciplinary Knowledge Core Course

Students must take 6 UOC of the following courses.

PTRL5019
6 UOC
Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering A

Advanced Disciplinary Knowledge Courses

Students can take up to a maximum of 6 UOC of the following courses.

PTRL5003
6 UOC
Well Pressure Testing
PTRL5004
6 UOC
Numerical Reservoir Simulation
PTRL5007
6 UOC
Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering B
PTRL5010
6 UOC
Natural Gas Engineering
PTRL5011
6 UOC
Petroleum Production Engineering
PTRL5012
6 UOC
Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery
PTRL5016
6 UOC
Well Completions and Stimulation
PTRL5021
6 UOC
Reservoir Characterisation
PTRL5022
6 UOC
Drilling Systems Design and Optimisation
PTRL5024
6 UOC
Drilling Fluids and Cementing Techniques
PTRL5100
6 UOC
Geomechanics A
PTRL5101
6 UOC
Petroleum Geomechanics B
PTRL6025
6 UOC
Well Control and Blowout Prevention
PTRL6032
6 UOC
Coal Seam Gas Engineering

Disciplinary Knowledge Courses

Students must take at least 12 UOC, up to a maximum of 18 UOC of the following courses.

PTRL5006
6 UOC
Field Development Geology
PTRL5009
6 UOC
Well Drilling Equipment and Operations
PTRL5014
6 UOC
Petroleum Geophysics
PTRL5107
6 UOC
Petrophysics

Foundational Disciplinary Courses

Students must take 12 UOC of postgraduate level PTRL courses as recommended by the program authority, based on work experience and professional background.

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You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.

Additional Information

The Graduate Certificate can be an entry point for obtaining foundational qualifications in Petroleum Engineering, and for articulating to the Graduate Diploma (and subsequently the Masters degree) subject to having a credit average and no fails. Upon completion of this degree, candidates can articulate to the Petroleum Engineering stream of the Graduate Diploma in Engineering - students articulating are required to complete four additional courses (24UOC) to complete that program.

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