Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering deals with topics related to the exploration, production, transportation, and utilization of petroleum, natural gas, geothermal energy, and groundwater. Technically, petroleum and natural gas engineering is concerned with all kinds of studies required to put naturally occurring or subsequently stored underground energy into service. A petroleum and natural gas engineer operating in the field must know not only engineering concepts but also the environmental and cultural environment they work in, as well as the political and legal concepts required by the job. The rapidly developing petroleum and natural gas industry requires well-trained professional engineers in drilling, well completion, well testing, production techniques, enhanced recovery methods, reservoir modeling, phase behavior and thermodynamics, multiphase flow, well fracturing, well logging and analysis, underground storage of natural gas, reservoir characterization, horizontal wells, offshore technology, and every topic where fluids flow through porous media and energy resources are produced through drilled wells.
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