Program overview

The oil and gas industry is complex and requires expertise in various areas and technical disciplines. To meet this demand, the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science offers a multidisciplinary program in oil and gas engineering (OGE). This course-based program will provide the latest technical knowledge on upstream, production, and downstream aspects of oil and gas engineering. The program will also address serious issues faced by the oil and gas industries, such as sustainable development, environmental protection, risk, reliability and safety. In addition, the program will cover drilling engineering, phase behavior of petroleum fluid, production engineering, compact process equipment design, offshore environmental operations, and natural gas engineering. Many of the courses taught in the program will be supported by field study and laboratory demonstrations. To apply the concepts learned in the classroom and laboratory environments, students will work in teams on an engineering project for two terms.

The program can be completed on a full- or part-time basis. The duration of the full-time program is normally 1-2 years.

Course Requirements

The total credit requirement to complete this course-based program is 30 credit hours and will be taken from the following three groups.

Oil and Gas Engineering Project (six credit hours)
ENGI 910A Oil and Gas Engineering Project Course (zero credit hour)
ENGI 910B Oil and Gas Engineering Project Course (six credit hours)

Five core courses (three credit hours each)
ENGI 9110 Advanced Petroleum Production Engineering
ENGI 9113 Phase Behaviour of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
ENGI 9114 Advanced Reservoir Engineering
ENGI 9118 Advanced Drilling Engineering
ENGI 9121 Advanced Safety, Risk and Reliability Modeling

Three elective courses from the following list (three credit hours each)
ENGI 9002 Ocean Engineering Structures
ENGI 9015 Ocean Engineering Hydrodynamics
ENGI 9111 Well Testing
ENGI 9112 Multiphase Flow
ENGI 9115 Safety and Risk Engineering
ENGI 9116 Reliability Engineering
ENGI 9117 Offshore Petroleum Geology and Technology
ENGI 9119 Compact Process Equipment Design
ENGI 9120 Advanced Natural Gas Engineering
ENGI 9420 Engineering Analysis
ENGI 9609 Environmental Risk Assessment
ENGI 9624 Air Pollution
ENGI 9625 Offshore Environmental Operations
ENGI 9901 Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics
ENGI 99XX Special Topics – Corrosion Principles, Prevention and Control

Students who take more than the required number of core or elective courses of this program will be charged tuition fee as per university policy for each additional course completed.

Admission Requirements

To be considered for admission to this MASc. in oil and gas engineering program, the minimum requirements will normally be a second-class degree in petroleum engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, thermal energy and dynamic engineering, process engineering or a relevant area of study from a university of recognized standing.

Intake: Fall & Winter each year.

Information regarding the application process and procedure can be found here.