Students have a choice to execute a conventional Master thesis (thesis option) or to complete a comprehensive project (non-thesis option) in order to graduate from the program.

Required courses: 18 hours

PE 5603	Introduction to Natural Gas Engineering & Management
PE 5613	Natural Gas Engineering
PE 5623	Gas Processing
ChE 5643	Gas Utilization
FIN 5113	Advanced Derivative Securities and Markets
FIN 5413	Financial Engineering

Elective courses: 8 hours (Thesis), 18 hours (non thesis)

Petroleum Engineering Courses

PE 5423	Advanced Stimulation
PE 5433	Horizontal Well Technology
PE 6443	Petroleum Production Systems
PE 6643	Advanced Natural Gas Engineering
PE 6743	Advanced Evaluation of Petroleum Properties

Chemical Engineering Courses

CHE 5163	Catalysis
CHE 5183	Engineering Rate Operations
CHE 5843	Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
CHE 6413	Advanced Fluid Mechanics

Other Engineering Courses

AME 5333	Thermodynamics and Combustion
AME 5163	Turbomachinery
CE 5923	Air Pollution Control Engineering
ECE 6113	Generation Resource Scheduling and Portfolio Optimization

Business and Economics Courses

B AD 5023	Management Science
B AD 5033	Statistical Modeling for Decision Making
B AD 5153	Management Info Systems
FIN 5043	Financial Administration of the Firm

*Thesis hours (Thesis only) 4 hours

*Comprehensive Project (Non-thesis only) 0 hours

The Non-thesis Comprehensive Project should normally be conducted during the final semester of course work and will be conducted individually or in teams of students appropriate to the scale of the project (generally 2-4 students). The Project shall represent a real world situation involving multiple aspects of Natural Gas Engineering and Management and can involve an industry-provided or sponsored project. The project shall be clearly defined and approved by the program review committee and a project advisor will be assigned.

Total hours   Non-thesis: 36 hours, Thesis: 30 hours

*Final Oral Comprehensive Examination for Non-thesis Masters

This examination will comprise a defense of the Graduation Project and a general examination over the curriculum. The examination will be conducted by a review committee comprised of members of the regular program faculty. Failure of this examination will require the student to schedule a second and final attempt no later than during the following (Spring or Fall) semester.

Graduates shall demonstrate competencies in natural gas engineering and management covered in the following areas:

• System View of Natural Gas Full Cycle Value Chain
• Natural Gas Policy and Governmental Regulations
• Global Gas Supply and Demand Balance
• Gas Trading, Transportation, Marketing and Distribution
• Project Economics, Commercial Terms and Contracts
• Natural Gas Phase Behavior and Properties
• Natural Gas Reservoir Engineering and Production Optimization
• Gas Processing, Pipeline, and Storage Engineering
• Gas Utilization – Feedstock, Power, CNG, LNG and GTL Conversion

For more information about the curriculum including new additions to the course selections, please contact Bob Hubbard, the program director, at roberth@ou.edu

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