The School of Petroleum Engineering offers both undergraduate and postgraduate programs as well as open learning programs on the Internet leading to the award of a graduate diploma degree in Petroleum Engineering.

Petroleum Engineering is a specialised engineering discipline which prepares graduates for a career in the oil and natural gas industries. Its related operations apply physical, mathematical and engineering principles to identify and solve problems associated with exploration, exploitation, drilling, production and all the related economic and management problems associated with recovery of hydrocarbons and geothermal energy from deep beneath the earth’s surface.