Resources
Industry Advisory Council
The Petroleum Engineering Degree Program at the University of North Dakota meets twice a year with the Advisory Council committee members.
The Petroleum Engineering Advisory Council was developed to align the education and research efforts of UND’s Petroleum Engineering with industry needs. The vision for the Petroleum Engineering program is to educate future generations of Petroleum Engineers who can contribute to building a better world through professional service and research for safe, reliable, and affordable energy production and environmental protection. The industrial advisory council will provide industry with the ability to invest in the petroleum engineering program by providing program direction, student scholarships, faculty development opportunities, student research opportunities, and forums for review of progress and defining future directions.
The overall goal of the advisory council is to engage petroleum industry in the process of developing the next generation of petroleum engineers. The goal of the program will be met through achieving the following specific objectives:
- Obtain input from industry on educational needs and directions for petroleum engineers
- Undergraduate research funding
- Undergraduate scholarships
- Forums to provide industry, students, and faculty to review program progress
The fall Industry Advisory Council took place September 12-13, 2019 in the Gransburg Community Room of the Gorecki Alumni Center at UND. Companies represented include ConocoPhillips, Continental Resources, CoreLab, Creedence Energy Services, EERC, Emerson, Equinor, Hallburton, Marathon Oil, ND Petroleum Council, NESET, Oasis Petroleum, Rainbow Gas, Schlumberger, SkySkopes, Steffes, Trace Systems, Train ND, and Williston High School. Thank you to our council members for their continued participation and support!
Petroleum Engineering Research
The Department of Petroleum Engineering’s research focus is about the studies of unconventional reservoirs, in particular shale oil and shale gas. The studies cover a wide range of research topics including:
- Hydraulic Fracturing, Wellbore Instability
- Drilling Horizontal & Multilateral Wells
- Geomechanics of Unconventional Reservoirs
- CO2-EOR & Thermal EOR
- Characterization of Unconventional Reservoirs
- Data Mining in Petroleum Engineering
- Unconventional Reserve Evaluation
Research Groups
- Data Mining
- Reservoir Geomechanics
- Reservoir Simulation
- UND Reservoir Dogs
Engineering Scholarships
All engineering scholarship applications (university, college or Harold Hamm School) are to be completed on our online scholarship database system, Scholarship Central.
Additional Petroleum Engineering Resources
For students that plan on traveling to conferences, you would be eligible to apply for funding from the department. To qualify for travel assistance, you would need to be presenting in the conference that you plan on attending. Each student is eligible to apply once for travel assistance and the department will fund up to $250.00. You would be able to submit an additional request to the College of Engineering and Mines, with a potential of a 1:1 match. Before seeking funding from the department, it is your responsibility to seek outside opportunities for funding. The different professional organizations as well as the university may have travel opportunities that you are encouraged to apply for. If you do not take advantage of these opportunities, it may impact the outcome of your funding request. If you are not able to seek outside funding for travel, you should speak with your advisor to determine if they have a fund for travel and if not, then you would be able to send a request to the department.
When submitting your request, please make sure to include the total cost of your trip and purpose. You will also need to state where else have you requested funding. If you fail to provide this information, you will not receive any funding. Also, please make sure you submit your request before your travel, as requests for funds after you have returned will not be considered.
UND and the Petroleum Engineering department would like to acknowledge the generous donation of the “Petroleum Experts” IPM Suite software (amounted at $3,816,620.15), which is used by faculty and students for academic purposes. The software has been used for both teaching and research at UND.
Laboratory Drilling and Completions Research by Sidney Green on November 20, 2019
Geomechanics of Rocks and Reservoirs: A Multiscale Perspective by Dr. Birendra Jha on August 28, 2019