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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.
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Announcements:
- SPRING 2012 NEWSLETTER
- Commencement. Saturday, May 12, 2012. CONGRATULATIONS to all graduates!
- SPE Distinguished Lecture. Thursday, May 24, 2012, Roswell, NM. Erdal Ozkan will present "Understanding Flow in Shale and Modeling Fractured Horizontal Well Performance in Shale Reservoirs." 11:30am, Kwan Den, 1000 W. 2nd Street. Lunch included. $25 with RSVP by May 21. $30 at the door. Contact Karen Balch.
- Wild Well Control School March 23-25, 2012. Thank you to our Sponsors:
- Bill Marble
- Diane Visser
- Julie Cruse
- The Petroleum Engineering Department is currently seeking a new hire:
tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate professor level. Please read for more information.
- SPE 10th Annual 49ers Gold Rush Golf Scramble, Friday, October 19, 2012.
Information, including sponsorships, will be posted by June 1. We are celebrating 10 years hosting the event.
- All petroleum students will be asked to sign a release form so Karen can release pics and resumes.
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Thank You Message from the Department
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the overwhelming support of all of our
donors and supporters to the Petroleum Engineering program. Due to your generosity we are able to
provide the program with the resources to attract, retain and graduate quality students. Within the past
year we have distributed over $50,000 in scholarships and fellowships to support both our
undergraduate and graduate students. Details of scholarship awardees and sponsors are frequently
posted on this website and newsletters.We have also received funds to improve our facilities and support student activities. As
examples we have supported:
- Professional development: An NMT faculty member presented a talk on assessment at
the ABET Symposium in April, participated in the SPE forum on Petrophysics Meets
Well Testing in June, the Colloquium on Petroleum Engineering Education in August,
and recently presented a talk on the future of petroleum engineering at the
international faculty session at ATCE in September. Participation in these events
provides exposure and recognition to NMT.
- The Wild Well Control School: extremely popular among the students and beneficial as
all students receive well control certification.
- Student travel to provide an SPE paper at a conference and to participate in the SPE
Student Paper/Presentation contest in Lubbock, Texas.
- Collaborating with the SPE and AADE student chapters in sponsoring the widely
popular SPE golf tournaments, the Landon Taylor Banquet, and field trips to drilling
and/or production facilities.
- Purchasing two smartboards™, one in the computer lab and the second in the
conference room. We are the only program outside of CS and DE to have this advanced
technology in the classroom.
The Petroleum Engineering program leads NMT in its support by its alumni, industry and professional
societies, and in developing an effective alumni network. Through our efforts we have provided
information via newsletters and the website, and have alumni participation at the golf tournaments and
banquets. We will continue to do so, but we need to improve and do more. If you have any suggestions
please contact Karen Balch (kmbalch@nmt.edu) or Thomas Engler (engler@nmt.edu).
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Award Recognition:
RPSEA/Strata Production/Bertram H. Murphy Scholarship
Recipients, Eric Preston Angelos (left), Kyle Pettigrew (right), and Kenneth Alexander Malone (middle-right). Middle left-Mark Murphy
![[Scholarship Recipients]](images/RPSEA%20SCHOL%20with%20Mark%20Murphy.jpg)
Eric Preston Angelos is a 2009 graduate of Gateway Christian School, Roswell, New Mexico. He began his studies in the fall of 2009 at New Mexico Tech, pursing a B.S in Petroleum Engineering. Eric is a member of the New Mexico Tech Honor Roll, maintaining an outstanding GPA over 3.00. While at NMT, he has been involved in numerous student activities including NMT Student Association, as well as basketball and volleyball teams. He is active in professional organizations such as SPE and AADE. Eric has summer work experience with Harvard Petroleum in Roswell, NM, and currently works as an assistant researcher at the PRRC on campus.
Kenneth Alexander Malone graduated from High School in Socorro NM, 2009, and began attending New Mexico Tech in the fall of that same year. It wasn't until the following fall of 2010, that Kenneth decided to pursue a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering. Kenneth has worked part time at the PRRC for over a year, and obtained a summer job in 2011, working as a roustabout in Midland, TX. He wants to specialize in drilling.
Kyle Pettigrew is a non-traditional student from Farmington, NM. He received a B.S. in Business Information Technology from Montana Tech in 2004, then moved back to Farmington and worked for a small well servicing company. Wanting to be more involved with the petroleum industry, he actively pursues an engineering degree. Kyle is a junior in the Petroleum Engineering program and is also working on a minor in Mechanical Engineering. He is active in both SPE and ASME; he is the 2011-2012 SPE Secretary. Kyle has a summer internship with Energen in Midland, TX.
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- 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.
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