集成成熟现场管理理学硕士

世界上大部分的碳氢化合物都来自生产资产-所谓的“成熟田”。反过来，它们提供了世界上大部分的能源。因此，管理这些资产是全球能源供应的中心方面，并且随着世界各大领域变得越来越成熟，这一点将变得越来越重要。勘探和生产领域的大多数行业工作都将在这个领域，这需要一支才华横溢的员工队伍来填补未来数十年的工作。因此，赫瑞瓦特石油工程学院（IPE）创建了一个新的硕士课程来解决这一需求。主题内容必定比现有IPE计划更广泛，不仅包括地球科学，油藏和油井工程，还包括地表工程以及它们之间以集成资产管理（IAM）形式的链接。该主题
The bulk of the world's hydrocarbons come from producing assets - so-called 'mature fields'. In turn, these supply the bulk of the world's energy. Managing these assets is therefore a central aspect of global energy supply, and will become more so as the world's giant fields become progressively more mature. Most industry jobs in exploration and production will be in this arena, requiring a talented workforce to fill them for decades to come. Heriot-Watt's GeoEnergy Engineering has therefore created a new Masters degree to address this need. The topical content is necessarily broader than the existing IPE degrees, embracing not only geoscience, reservoir and well engineering but also surface engineering and the linkage between them in the form of integrated asset management (IAM). The subject also demands a grasp of incremental petroleum economics and risk analysis, and a methodology for handling decision-making in assets in which production and data gathering are continuous. This methodology provides the link between the degree components and sits at the core of the group exercise, with Edinburgh's own Forth Bridge as a visual metaphor for the process. Finally the degree deals with the asset endgame. When does production cease, how can field life be extended, how do we decommission - or then recommission and what are the potential uses of these reservoirs in the post-carbon era