Facilities

The McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering is housed in Stephenson Hall, a $16.1 million facility that serves TU's petroleum and mechanical engineering programs. 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 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.