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TPG4560

Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering, Specialization Project

Credits 15
Level Second degree level
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement work

About

About the course

Course content

Academic content must be agreed upon with lecturers within the discipline.

Learning outcome

Ingress: The student will learn to specialize in a specific topic within the discipline.

Knowledge: The student will learn scientific methods through completion of an independent project within the discipline.

Skills: The student will be able to complete a project and write a project report in accordance with established standards and by use of relevant digital tools.

General competence: The student will have a scientific basis for the completion of the master's thesis within the discipline.

Learning methods and activities

The project work is carried out individually or in small groups of students (normally two) under the supervision of a professor/lecturer. Subject-specific digital tools including programming is used where relevant.

Further on evaluation

If the project is performed as group work, the students and supervisor shall make an agreement about individual or joint assessment of the final project report.

Required previous knowledge

Admission to a programme of study is required: Geoscience and Georesources (MSGEOS), Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering (MTPETR), or Engineering and ICT (MTING, specialization ICT and Petroleum Engineering). It is provided that the student has completed all courses which are listed as compulsory for the specialization in the programme description, or gets approval from the person with course responsibility.

Course materials

Given at the beginning of the semester.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TPG4570 15 sp Autumn 2025
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Petroleum Engineering - Production Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering - Drilling Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering - Reservoir Engineering
  • Petrophysics
  • Petroleum Production/Well Technology
  • Deep drilling Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Petroleum Production

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Geoscience

Timetable

Timetable

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Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: work
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025

work
Weighting 100/100 Date Submission 2025-12-16 Time Submission 14:00 Exam system Inspera Assessment

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