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TECHNOLOGIES
FOR THE PRODUCTION
AND TRANSPORTATION
AND OF OIL AND GAS

Field of study
Oil and Gas Engineering

Master's

Full–time

English

TUITION FEE

₽ 341 500

$ 6300 / € 6100

ABOUT THE PROFESSION

Graduates of the Oil and Gas Engineering Program are at the forefront, extracting these valuable resources, applying cutting-edge technological solutions, and transporting oil, oil products and gas to consumers.

Our graduates are highly qualified fuel energy specialist, they deal with field development and hydrocarbons transportation and storage. Their professional goal is to conduct engineering surveys, scientific research and develop fundamentally new technologies for the oil and gas complex. They win government international grants and do commercial projects.

BENEFITS OF THE PROGRAM

Classes in English

International students do not need to study at the preparatory faculty, and Russian students get a profession, improving their foreign language skills.

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Combination of theoretical training with practical work experience

Contracts with oil and gas leading companies give opportunities for students to gain competences in real research and production projects during various internships.

Individual study course

Students choose up to one quarter of the specialized courses on their own. This allows them to master niche domains and gain knowledge in related fields. There are scientific mentors who help student to determine their study course and accompany them in working on projects and conducting research..

Intensive research work

Practical work takes up a fifth of the entire curriculum. Under the mentors’ guidance, students annually take part in various scientific and practical conferences, the International Engineering Championship “CASE-IN” and the International Oil and Gas Youth Forum “Hackathon Oil TATNEFT Challenge” in the field of “Oil and Gas business”, winning national and international prizes.

Academic staff

All teachers have extensive profound knowledge of the taught discipline. Most of them have comprehensive practical experience in leading companies in the oil and gas industry.

STUDY PROCESS

120 ECTS

  • Year 1

  • Year 2

  • Internships

  • State final exams

  • Preparation and defense of the final qualifying paper

DISCIPLINES

Modern aspects of geological and geophysical research in the oil and gas industry, 8 ECTS

  • Development of the oil and gas industry and industrial production of oil and gas.
  • Peculiarities of geological and geophysical research in the development of oil and gas deposits.
  • Importance and place of well log survey methods in the general cycle of geological and geophysical research.
  • Well logging suites in oil and gas fields. Control over field development according to the data of geophysical measurements in production wells.
  • Determination of rocks lithological characteristics. Correlation of well sections, logging diagrams. Allocation of collectors.
  • Study of filtration and reservoir properties of collectors by geological, commercial and geophysical methods.
  • Basic physico-chemical, dynamic, filtration and capacitance characteristics of the deposit. Obtaining and researching operational facilities for development.
  • Geological and geophysical aspects of oil and gas production technology. The influence of various geological and commercial factors on the value of initial and current well flow rates.
  • Field preprocessing of oil and natural gas. Field development control.

Machinery and equipment for field development and transportation of hydrocarbons, 8 ECTS

  • General information about machines and equipment for drilling oil and gas wells. Equipment for fountain oil and gas wells operation. Equipment for gas lift wells operation. Equipment for wells mechanized operation. Equipment for separate and dual well operation. Equipment for isolating production string zones. Equipment for dewatering, desalination of oil and control of oil emulsions. Separators, furnaces, electric dehydrogenators. Natural gas and condensate treatment system in the field. Adsorbers and absorbers. Underground well repair. Equipment for tripping operations. Equipment for technological operations.
  • General information about transport and petroleum products. Pipeline transport. Equipment for oil and gas transportation at pumping and compression stations. Storage tanks for oil and petroleum products. Tank equipment. Classification and composition of natural and artificial gases. Gas pipelines compressor stations. Gas purification. Gas odorization.

Technologies for developing prospective hydrocarbon reserves, 7 ECTS

  • Complicated conditions of oil fields development.
  • Methods of oil and gas fields development in complicated natural and man-made conditions.
    • vThe influence of complicating factors on well productivity and reservoir production.

Technological processes of pipeline transport, 8 ECTS

  • The main technological facilities for pipeline transportation, storage and marketing of oil, petroleum products and natural gas.
  • Hydraulic calculation of the main oil pipeline. Increasing the main oil pipeline capacity. Tapping into the pipeline under pressure.
  • Oil pumping stations. Sequential pumping technology. Losses of oil and petroleum products. Ways to reduce losses of petroleum products.
  • Design and operation of oil depots. Calculation of geometric parameters of vertical steel tanks. Gas compressor stations.
  • Calculation of simple gas pipelines. Hydrocarbons transportation systems. Supply chains. Gas networks. Uneven gas consumption.
  • Classification of gas storage facilities. Classification of underground gas storage facilities. General structure, systems and equipment of underground gas storage facilities. Low-tonnage production of liquefied natural gas.
  • The theory of choice, decision-making on the search for the optimal hydrocarbons transportation technology.

Fundamentals of construction and operation of pipeline transport, 8 ECTS

  • Main pipelines design requirements.
  • Technology of main pipelines construction.
  • Crossings construction and corrosion protection of main pipelines.

DISCIPLINES

Information technologies in the oil and gas industry, 3 ECTS

  • Fundamentals of modeling, methods and software tools for modeling oil and gas production.
  • Use of IT technologies in oil and gas production, gas transportation, oil and gas processing.
  • Smart technologies in the oil and gas industry.

Current development of the production of unconventional hydrocarbon resources in the world, 5 ECTS

  • Types of hydrocarbon raw materials and their sources. Familiarization with the concept of “unconventional hydrocarbon resources”, classification approaches. Stages of studying unconventional sources of gas and oil raw materials, development of demand for unconventional hydrocarbon resources. Assessment of unconventional hydrocarbon resources in Russia and the world. Economic stimulation of these deposits development.
  • Unconventional gas resources. Gas hydrates. Coalbed methane. Shale gas. Dense collector gas and water-dissolved gas.
  • Unconventional oil resources. Oil from low-permeability reservoirs. Heavy and super-heavy oils. Natural bitumen, oil sands. Synthetic oil from kerogen-containing rocks.

Methods of oil production intensification, 5 ECTS

  • Well productivity management.
  • Processes in the bottom hole formation zone.
  • Wells acid treatment.
  • Hydraulic fracturing.
  • Other technologies for increasing well productivity and injection capacity.
  • Methods of enhanced oil recovery.

PRACTICAL TRAINING AND INTERNSHIPS

Practical training in the study process

Contracts with leading oil and gas and oilfield service companies give students opportunities to gain competences in a wide range of real research and production projects while mastering academic disciplines, as well as during various internships.

The program is focused on the integration of education, science, innovation and business. The most effective cooperation is carried out with PJSC Tatneft, Gazprom Geotechnologies LLC, Gazprom Transgaz Moscow LLC, Pipeline Construction Research Institute JSC, Institute of Oil and Gas Problems (Russian Academy of Sciences). Specialists of these organizations conduct seminars, practical and master classes, involving students in real projects and teaching them how to apply their knowledge in practice.

Practical training and internship venues

The curriculum includes research, technological and pre-graduation practical training.

This training is aimed at building competences in the following professional areas: oil, gas and gas condensate production; diagnostics of pipelines and technological equipment of gas industry; diagnostics of facilities of oil and petroleum products trunk pipelines.

Students gain practical skills participating in real projects of PJSC Tatneft, LLC Gazprom Geotechnologies, LLC Gazprom Invest, LLC Gazprom Transgaz Moscow, and PJSC Gazprom Neft.

RESEARCH

Students make full use of all the resources of the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Engineering of the RUDN Academy of Engineering (laboratories of hydrodynamic processes of oil and gas production, rational subsoil use, VR laboratories, etc.), as well as partner companies. An important feature of the learning process is building teamwork skills in difficult conditions of oil and gas wells operation, collection and transportation of oil and gas, participating in real team projects during practical training and internships in leading oil and gas and service companies.

BEST GRADUATION THESES

Alshavka Hani Hussein Shallal

The work is devoted to the study of the composition and structure of productive horizons of oil fields in Iraq, analysis of studies of productive carbonate reservoirs for the application of modern methods to increase the productivity of flowing oil and gas wells at the Badra field. To reduce the negative impact on the equipment and increase the efficiency of geological and technical measures during hydrochloric acid treatment, the most effective additives to the acid composition are proposed.

Shadi Abdullah Mohamed Abdullah Nasr

Research of the production of carbon black from used tires has a dual purpose: firstly, it aims to develop a sustainable and effective method for converting used tires into valuable carbon black, thereby solving environmental issues of tire recycling; secondly, it also aims to assess the economic feasibility and potential applications of recovered carbon black, which allows getting an idea of its commercial value and usage in various industriesи.

PROGRAM SUPERVISOR

Vladimir Kapustin

Professor of the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Business, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, twice laureate of the Russian Government Prize in Science and Technology, laureate of Academician I.M. Gubkin Prize, twice laureate of N.K. Baibakov Prize, laureate of A.N. Kosygin Prize of the Russian Union of Commodity Producers, Honorary Worker of Higher professional education of the Russian Federation, Honorary Petrochemist, Honorary Worker of the fuel and energy complex.

Phone: +7 (495) 952-63-53
E-mail: kapustin-vm@rudn.ru

CURATORS AND TEACHERS

Curator
Mani Momeni
Assistan lecturert of the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Business
Teacher
Alexander Khavkin
Professor of the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Business
Teacher
Pavel Strakhov
Professor of the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Business
Teacher
Maria Berdnik
Associate Professor of the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Business
Teacher
Evgeny Yushin
Associate Professor of the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Business
Teacher
Tcharo Honoré
Senior lecturer of the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Businessа
Teacher
Valentin Pivnov
Senior lecturer at the Department of Subsoil Use and Oil and Gas Businessа

CAREER AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIE

Graduates of the Oil and Gas Production and Transportation Technologies program can further build their careers in one of the following areas:

Continuing education and conducting research in postgraduate school with further defense of a PhD thesis.
Employment in leading Russian and foreign oil and gas companies: (Lukoil, Rosneft, Gazprom, Tatneft, Zarubezhneft, KazMunayGas National Company, Shell, ExxonMobil, etc.).
Work in research institutes.
Work in engineering companies.

FEEDBACKS

The knowledge I gained in the program is an excellent base for starting a career in the oil and gas industry. The teachers interpret the material so that the students can easily understand difficult moments. I would like to note that all the teachers are very friendly people who are ready to meet the students halfway and give the necessary support. They offer all the necessary material for study, and also, importantly, give various creative tasks that require conducting independent in-depth research and drawing conclusions.

My studies at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia gave me the most pleasant memories. As in any other educational institution, there are some organizational issues, but this is not a big problem. I am grateful to sensitive professional teachers who often worked with me individually and expanded my knowledge in the oil and gas industry. I am glad that the master’s degree provoked a desire to continue my studies at the university, now I am studying in postgraduate school in the field of “Geology, exploration and development of minerals”, I hope that I will be a PhD in Engineering!

I am grateful to the teachers of the department for their responsiveness and professionalism, we had a small group of five people, that is we almost had one-to-one classes with our teachers. I would also like to note that among elective disciplines, you can choose not only those related to the extraction and transportation of oil and gas, but also special disciplines dedicated to the processing of petroleum raw materials. For me, such a wide range of choices within my field has become very useful.

Interdisciplinary exam (computer test).

Foreign citizens enroll in the master’s degree program on the basis of competitive selection, taking into account the assessment of the portfolio provided by a foreign citizen.

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