Petroleum Geology
Educational and Scientific Institute "Institute of Geology"
            Name
        
        
            Petroleum Geology
        
    
            Program code
        
        
            1522
        
    
            Qualification awarded
        
        
            Master`s Degree of Earth sciences
        
    
            Length of programme
        
        
2 years        
    
            Number of credits
        
        
            120
        
    
            level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework 
        
        
            7
        
    
            Qualification level
        
        
            Second (Master)                                   
        
    
            Discipline
        
        
            Natural sciences
        
    
            Speciality
        
        
KnowledgeField EN        
    
            Specific admission requirements
        
        
The first level of higher education (level 6 NQF) or higher level. 
        
    
            Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning
        
        
            
Admission was based on the results of the entrance exam in a foreign language, exam in the specialty and additional entrance exam for persons who have obtained a bachelor's degree in another specialty
        
    
            Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements
        
        
            Professional qualification is awarded on the basis of professional mastery of competencies provided by the blocks of specialized disciplines and compliance with the minimum necessary criteria, namely: level of mastery of disciplines of the selected block of specialized disciplines with scores of at least 75 points exam in  Petroleum Geology not less than 75 points, as well as the defense of qualifying work with a score of not less than 75 points.
        
    
            Programme learning outcomes
        
        
            -To analyze the features of natural and anthropogenic systems and objects of the Earth's geospheres
-To apply the received knowledge to identify and solve problems and make well-founded decisions in the Earth’s sciences
-To communicate with experts of different levels in other fields of knowledge, including the international context in the global information environment
-To develop and manage projects in the Earth’s sciences to evaluate and ensure the work’s quality of studying oil and gas facilities and territories
-To have skills in planning and embodying scientific experiments, writing research works by specialty
-To realize environmental assessment, audit, licensing, certification of natural resources usage, to predict the development of environmental, technological, economic and social consequences of individual objects of environmental management
-To know modern methods of the Earth and its geospheres, to apply them in manufacturing and researching spheres
-To know the basic management principles of oil and gas industry exploration, their organization, manufacturing and organizational management structure
-To develop and implement the mechanisms of territorial management, geoplanning, providing monitoring of regional development, making plans and programs
-To adapt and act in new situations related to work by the specialty, to generate new ideas in the field of the Earth’s sciences
-To use educational technologies and methods of subject’s material teaching in the Earth’s sciences in educational institutions
-To model geosphere objects and processes using cartographic and mathematical methods and geoinformation technologies
-To identify and classify known objects and register new in the geosphere, including oil and gas, their properties, phenomenas and processes inherent to them
-To evaluate resources, calculate stocks of oil, combustible gases, gas condensate
-To provide geological support for the development of oil and gas fields
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
Full-time form        
    
            Examination regulations and grading scale
        
        
            The final evaluation of learning outcomes at the University is carried out on a single 100-point scale. The assessment of the applicant corresponds to the ratio established of the level of professional and general competencies to the planned learning outcomes (as a percentage). The minimum positive level of assessment is 60 points. According to the results of exams, according to the results of course and diploma works (projects); based on the results of work in practice, the student is also graded on a four-point scale: “Excellent”  (90 – 100%), “Good” (75 – 89%), “Satisfactory” (60 – 74%), “Unsatisfactory” (0 – 59%). If the final exam is not conducted in the disciplines, the results of the applicant’s work are evaluated on a 2-point scale: “Passed” (60 – 100%)  or “Fail” (0 – 59%).
        
    
            Оbligatory or optional mobility windows (if applicable)
        
        
            Work placement
        
        
            Passing of an Assistant Practice (3 ECTS credits), in Pre-graduation Practicе (5 ECTS credits), Research Practice on Specialization (5 ECTS credits) and Research Training on Specialization (5 ECTS credits). 
        
    
            Work-based learning
        
        
                    Director of the course
                
                 
                
                        Oleksiy
                        
                        Karpenko 
                    
                    
                        Petroleum Geology 
Educational and Scientific Institute "Institute of Geology"
                Educational and Scientific Institute "Institute of Geology"
            Occupational profiles of graduates
        
        
            Work in the field of scientific and technical activities "Research and development on natural sciences and engineering."
        
    
            Access to further studies
        
        
            Access to programmes of the Third Cycle of Higher Education
        
    Subjects
As part of the curriculum, students study the following disciplines
                        Oil and gas fields and underground gas storage
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК5,
                        
                    
                
                        Geological basis of hydrocarbon production
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК6,
                        
                    
                
                         Oil and gas fields and underground gas storage
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК8,
                        
                    
                
                        Shale Gas and Oil, Tight gas, coal methan
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК9,
                        
                    
                
                        Pre-graduation Practical Training
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК10,
                        
                    
                
                        Geology of oil and gas basins of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК17,
                        
                    
                
                        Methodology and Organization of Scientific Research with the Basics of Intellectual Property 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК1,
                        
                    
                
                        Mineral deposits modelling 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК16,
                        
                    
                
                        Informational Technology in Geophysics 
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК 1.1,
                        
                    
                
                        Laws and regulations affecting the use of mineral resources 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК3,
                        
                    
                
                        Ecological Assessment of Mining Projects 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК7,
                        
                    
                
                        Industrial geophysics 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК19,
                        
                    
                
                        Professional and corporate ethics 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК2,
                        
                    
                
                        Modeling of oil and gas sedimentary basins 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК4,
                        
                    
                
                        Oil and gas field Geophysics
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК 1.2,
                        
                    
                
                         Geological Methods of Oil and Gas Bearing Complexes Research
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК 3.1.5,
                        
                    
                
                        Oil and Gas Predicting
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК 1.3 ,
                        
                    
                
                        Hydrogeophysics
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК15,
                        
                    
                
                        Geophysical control over the development of oil and gas fields
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК 2.2,
                        
                    
                
                        Actual problems of petroleum geology
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК 3.1.6,
                        
                    
                
                        Oil and gas reserves estimation 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК11,
                        
                    
                
                        Earth's Deep Underground Hydrosphere 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК18,
                        
                    
                
                        Academic Practice
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК12,
                        
                    
                
                        Pedagogy and psychology of higher education 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК14,
                        
                    
                
                        Master`s thesis 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК13,
                        
                    
                
                        Geological basics of reservoir penetration
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК.2.1,
                        
                    
                
                        Geological and industrial research of oil and gas wells
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК 2.3,
                        
                    
                
                        Research Training on  Petroleum Geology
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК1.5,
                        
                    
                
                        Research Practice on specialization
                    
                    
                        Code: ВК1.4,