The petroleum industry is a high tech sector which demands the best skills available in order to solve the challenges it faces. This is so across the entire value chain from exploration, petroleum field development, production and exploitation to the final stage of removal. This high tech dimension is also recognized over time when we see the major achievements obtained during the last 40 years on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The oil and gas industry has had some remarkable results during this period related both to advanced technical solutions as well as in industrial engineering. It has established new enterprises and developed them into internationally competitive companies.
NTNU recognizes the complexity of the petroleum industry, its need to utilize the latest advances in research and development and its need to recruit some of our very best students.
Brief statistics
– Petroleum education at NTNU
established in 1973
first class graduated in 1974 (30-year jubilee in 2004)
Near 2000 graduated sivilingeniørs and M.Sc.’s during 1974-2005
100 graduated Ph.D.´s candidates during 1977-2005
around 80 M.Sc.’s graduate per year
around 10 Ph.D.´s graduate per year
currently around 90 full-time teachers, staff, researchers
around 280 students enrolled at upper B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels
English Language Instruction used for our programs
40% non-Norwegian Students in M.Sc. Program
50% non-Norwegians in Ph.D. Program
VR - lab: High Performance Visualization and Computing
Huge amounts of data and demanding computational tasks are typical for many of the petroleum disciplines. Through a close collaboration with Norsk Hydro, the department has been able to install a floor-to-ceiling Virtual Reality laboratory, with a dedicated 32-processor SGI computer. The laboratory is used primarily for visualization of seismic data and reservoir fluid flow. Other applications are under development. We have close collaboration with other departments at NTNU, such as medicine and computer science.
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Multi-Disciplinary Groups
Considerable resources are invested in modern learning methods and technology over the past few years (PBL, multi-disciplinary groups, webbased learning).
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Research collaboration with industry
In addition to SINTEF - Petroleum and Energy, many prominant oil companies are among our most important partners. We have long-term collaboration agreements with:
Norsk Hydro
Statoil
Shell
TOTAL
Enterprise Oil (Shell)
BP
Individual project
In addition we have individual project agreements with most oil companies.
International Educational Collaboration
Student exchange agreements with European universities
Student exchange agreement with University of Texas,
Texas A&M University, Colorado School of Mines
Student exchange agreement with Univeristy of Campinas, Brazil
Student exchange agreement with University of New South Wales
NORAD-financed petroleum education for students from Asia and Afrika (12 per year)
Government-financed petroleum education for students from
Eastern Europe and developing countries (15 per year)
Educational collaboration with Pomor University, Russia
150 students trained during 1996-2004
Training ageement with NIOC, Iran for education and research.
50 Iranians will get M.Sc. degrees at NTNU 2000-2005
Training agreements with Venezuela og Aserbaijan
Discussion of collaboration with Angola, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia,
