All Energy and Petroleum Engineering

Energy and Petroleum Engineering groups the disciplines that design and operate the systems used to extract or release energy from a physical resource and convert it into usable power. Petroleum engineering designs the methods used to locate, drill, extract and process crude oil and natural gas from underground reservoirs, spanning reservoir, drilling and production engineering across onshore and offshore operations. Nuclear engineering designs and operates the systems that release energy from nuclear reactions, chiefly the fission of uranium and plutonium, for electricity generation, naval propulsion and other uses, combining reactor physics, materials science and radiation safety. Energy engineering is the broader, multidisciplinary field that optimizes energy systems, develops renewable energy technology and improves energy efficiency across the same energy conversion and energy harvesting problem petroleum and nuclear engineering each address for one specific resource, drawing on physics, mathematics, chemistry, economics and environmental practice.