NMT - New Mexico Tech New Mexico Tech Petroleum Engineering

The New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology

Department of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering


New Mexico Tech has over 60 years experience educating petroleum engineers, dating from the 1930's when we were known as the New Mexico School of Mines. Today, with the world's demand for oil still growing, we are at the forefront in petroleum education and technology. The high demand for trained petroleum engineers is projected to remain well into the 21st century. Starting salaries are among the highest for any field of engineering. Recent New Mexico Tech graduates with bachelor's degrees in petroleum engineering reported starting salaries of $70,000 and higher.


The Petroleum Engineering at New Mexico Tech is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 - telephone:(410) 347-7700.
Announcement:

  • Wild Well Control School March 26-28, 2010. Location: MSEC 367 Sponsored by: Bill Marble (Alumnus) and Chevron More information and signups later.
  • FE Exam Registration dead line Friday, February 26,2010; sign up at
    • http://www.ncees.org/Exams/Registration_information/State_exam_registration_pages/New_Mexico.php
  • SPE Regional Student Paper Contest
  • Senior Design Presentations Friday, April 30, 2010
    • Location and Time: TBA
  • SPE Distinguisher Lecture Thursday, march 4, 2010
Mission:

    The mission of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Program is to continue a program of excellence in teaching and research and thus provide students with the necessary skills to achieve success in their future professional careers.

Program Objectives:

  • To educate an individual to be a petroleum engineer who is competent in drilling and completions, production, and reservoir evaluation.
  • To develop the graduate's ability to analyze open-ended problems and design solutions for petroleum engineering and related disciplines, understand the associated uncertainties and to effectively communicate their ideas to others.

- Meeting Tomorrow's Energy Challenges Today -

   As a modern petroleum engineer, you'll be expected to perform interdisciplinary activities in the areas of drilling, production, formation evaluation, and reservoir engineering. Accordingly, we have designed New Mexico Tech's program to train you in many areas: geology, hydraulics, engineering mechanics, thermodynamics, physical chemistry, and economics.

   The Petroleum Engineering department places particular emphasis on giving you "hands-on" experience as well as classroom education. In four modern laboratories, you'll gain practical experience with drilling fluids, well completions, formation evaluation, and reservoir engineering.

   An industry consortium sponsors projects in the area of reservoir characterization and simulation, and our students work and interact directly with industry operations and research staff. In addition, engineers and geoscientists from Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories often work with the Petroleum Engineering department. The Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) is located on campus and is well known in the industry as a research leader in advanced techniques of improved petroleum recovery. Researchers from the PRRC interact extensively with the Petroleum Engineering department.



Webmaster: Jay Geist


Site Design By Rich Clark


Last Updated: 1/11/2010