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Petroleum Geoscience – (M.Sc.)
Imperial College London
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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 8,695 - ≈ € 26,250 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Imperial College London
The MSc course is a one-year, full-time multidisciplinary programme covering a wide range of earth science and related subjects and their application to the full spectrum of hydrocarbon exploration and production. It is designed for students with some industrial experience, as well as for recent graduates seeking careers in the petroleum and allied service industries. The course, which begins in early October, presents the methods and practices of the modern petroleum industry but considerable emphasis is also placed on developing transferable skills.
Career opportunities
The majority of graduates from this course are employed as petroleum geologists and geophysicists by oil companies. Other first destinations include: geophysical contractors involved in the acquisition, processing and interpretation of seismic data; geological consultancies serving the oil industry; petroleum service divisions of financial institutions; organisations providing IT services to the oil industry and financial institutions; and further higher education.
Contents
Core modules
* Applied sedimentology
* Basin analysis
* Characterisation of fractured reservoirs
* Development geology and reservoir modelling
* Formation evaluation and petrophysics
* Geostatistics
* Modelling of petroleum systems
* Petroleum economics
* Petroleum engineering
* Petroleum structural geology
* Seismic techniques and advanced seismic interpretation
Fieldwork
* Dorset, UK: characterisation of outcrop analogues for subsurface reservoirs; integrated analysis of petroleum systems
* Utah/west Texas, USA: stratigraphic analysis of depositional systems from reservoir scale to basin-scale; comparison of structural styles in extensional and salt basins
Group project I
A major multidisciplinary exercise undertaken jointly by the Petroleum Geoscience, Petroleum Engineering and Petroleum Geophysics MSc groups. Using the latest industry-standard hardware and software, teams undertake the reservoir characterisation and development planning of a hydrocarbon field using a dataset from the UK continental shelf.
Group project II
Exploration and play evaluation projects involving integrated teams of geoscientists. Teams analyse well and seismic data in order to assess the hydrocarbon potential of selected areas from a range of global frontier exploration datasets.
Independent project
Takes place between June and September. Many of these include a placement in oil company offices, which provides an opportunity to gain an insight into current industry practices.
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Requirements
The minimum entrance requirement is an upper second class Honours earth science-based degree from a UK university or its equivalent. Graduates with other closely related earth/environmental science degrees (physical geography or oceanography, for example) will also be considered.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS:
To obtain maximum benefit from studies at Imperial College all students must have a good command of the English Language. College therefore requires applicants to have taken an English Language test and achieved an acceptable grade or score before admission can be confirmed. The College Senate has approved the tests set out below. Please note that the scores or grades indicated are the minimum levels generally acceptable to the College. Departments have the discretion to prescribe higher requirements either for specific courses of study or in specific cases where there are serious doubts as to the abilities of individual students to undertake proposed programmes of study.
Students must make arrangements to take the appropriate test well in advance of the start of their course. Places will not be confirmed and students will not be allowed to register until confirmation of an acceptable result has been received as set out below.
* A first degree taught in English within the following countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Guyana, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, West Indies.
* Candidates whose first degree was not taught in English but who have then successfully completed a one-year MSc (or equivalent) course at a UK university.
* A grade of not less than C in English Language in GCSE, IGCSE, GCE `O´ Level or equivalent.
* A grade of not less than C in the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE).
* A pass in the University Test of English for Speakers of Other Languages (UETESOL).
* British Council IELTS Test
A score of not less than 6.5 including a score of 5.0 or better in the written and spoken English elements of the academic test.
* TOEFL
A score of not less than 90 overall in the internet-based test (iBT), to include 24 in Writing and 20 in Speaking; or 600 in the paper-based test (PBT), or 250 in the computer-based test (CBT), both to include a minimum score of 4.5 in the written English.
Please note: Imperial College's Institution Code for TOEFL is 0891.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 600 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 250 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
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