Facilities

The petroleum engineering department is housed in Keplinger Hall, a $15 million facility that is the home for the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences. Petroleum engineering students can expect their studies to be enhanced by access to the following equipment and laboratories:

Instruction 

  • State of the art computer facilities for the utilization of only petroleum engineering students
  • Junior and senior testing laboratories on both the south and north campuses, including a drilling simulator, a multiphase flow facility, and a rock and fluid laboratory

Research 

  • Drilling laboratory with a drilling rig located on TU’s north campus
  • Full-scale cutting transport facility 
  • 2,000 foot well for multiphase and artificial lift experiments Multiphase flow loop for a variety of projects

TU’s Department of Information Services maintains fully computerized information retrieval systems of the petroleum industry and academic community, and publishes the internationally circulated Petroleum Abstracts weekly.