Bachelor in Petroleum Engineering
Olomouc, Czech Republic
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
The primary objectives of petroleum engineering are the safe and environmentally sound exploration, evaluation, development, and recovery of oil, gas, geothermal, and other fluids in the earth. Skills in this branch of engineering are needed to meet the world’s ever-increasing demand for hydrocarbon fuel, thermal energy, and waste and pollution management.
Nowadays, the petroleum industry is evolving into industry working with many energy sources. Besides developing technical competence in petroleum engineering, you will learn how your education can help you contribute to the development of alternative energy sources such as geothermal. Our aim is to prepare students for exciting and rewarding careers in the petroleum industry, and related energy and environmental sectors.
Vocational knowledge and skills
All disciplines within petroleum engineering are covered in great depth at both undergraduate and graduate levels, both in the classroom and laboratory instruction and in research. Specific areas include fundamental fluid and rock behaviour, drilling, formation evaluation, well completions and stimulation, well testing, production operations and artificial lift, reservoir engineering, supplemental and enhanced oil recovery, economic evaluation of petroleum projects, environmental and safety issues, and the computer simulation of most of these topics.
Major Themes
- Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production
- Unconventional Geogenic Energy Sources
- Underground Gas Storage
- Geothermal Energy
Curriculum
Geosciences
- Mineralogy and Petrology
- Dynamic Geology
- Geophysics
- Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- Applied and Structural Geology
- Aquatic Geochemistry
- Economic Geology
- GIS applications
- Geology of Middle East
Natural Sciences
- Chemistry
- Mathematics
- Thermodynamics
- Statistics in Geosciences
Petroleum
- Principles of Petroleum Geology
- Principles of Petroleum Engineering
- Well Log Analysis
- Microscopy of Reservoir Rocks
- Groundwater Hydraulics
- Drilling Engineering
- Well Testing
- Well Completions and Workovers
- Formation Evaluation
- Carbonate Reservoir Characterization
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Reservoir Engineering
- Separation Processes
- Petroleum Economics
... and many more: practical trainings/internships in oil, gas, and geothermal companies/research projects/student exchange programmes/field trips and field labs/workshops...
Graduates will master:
- the theory of geosciences
- processes of petroleum generation and migration
- models of hydrocarbon reservoirs and technical aspects of oil and gas production including formation evaluation
- drilling and well management
- separation processes
- production engineering and enhanced oil recovery methods
The graduates are skilled in technical communication, technical and research report writing and oral presentations.
A focus is given to technical competences, management abilities and multidisciplinary skills.
Graduates will find rewarding jobs as:
- employees of companies dedicated to oil and gas exploration and production
- underground gas storage and geothermal energy
- employees of consultant companies
- field-based or laboratory-based professionals in geological surveys and mapping
- research and development experts in the energy sectors.
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