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Research Areas

Petroleum engineering is far more challenging than simply drilling a hole in the ground to recover oil and gas. It requires an understanding of several complex systems, and that kind of knowledge comes from research.

Here we've listed many of the major research areas our faculty and their students investigate and explore while uncovering solutions to problems faced by the oil and gas industry as it meets the energy needs of a growing global population.

 

Petroleum Research Groups

male petroleum engineering student seated at a desk and writing equations with a pencil while reviewing a borehole graphic showing vertical images of color-coded data changes on a computer monitor

Advanced Drilling and Well Completion Technologies

seated male petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University looking at a computer monitor showing a figure with a long black line, representing a well path, intersecting small and thick or long and thin angled planes representing two different types of areas within a reservoir

Advanced Reservoir Simulation

seated male petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University looking at a computer monitor showing four graphs depicting the injection status, temperature, strain and rock displacement a carbon dioxide sample created in a well during a simulation experiment

Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage

Male petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University injecting measured amounts of a sample into the compartments of a testing tray

Conventional Energy Resources Development and Assessment

male petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University using a dropper to add liquid to a glass beaker

Enhanced Oil Recovery

A dozen graduate students and two professors from Texas A&M University standing outdoors on the graveled area of a well site surrounded by fracturing equipment, hoses and tanks

Hydraulic Fracturing, Well Stimulation and Profile Modification

female petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University studying a graph of data analysis results on a computer monitor

Machine Learning and Data Analytics

male petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University connecting a small-diameter metal gas line to a foot-long cylindrical metal and glass gas hydrate testing chamber

Unconventional Energy Resources Development and Assessment

female petroleum engineering student at Texas A&M University checking a clear polymer thread coming from a large cube of clear acrylic-type material approximately 12 inches long on each side with a small metal pipe running through it horizontally

Well Diagnostics