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The Texas Tech University Department of Petroleum
Engineering was established in 1946 and named the
Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering following
a $15M naming endowment from the Herd family in 2008.
The new 22.8M Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research
Building has helped the department usher in a new era in
petroleum engineering production and operations education
through innovative technology and learning spaces.
One of the largest petroleum engineering
departments in the country, Texas Tech is a leading
producer of industry ready petroleum engineers.
Texas Tech petroleum engineering students
are renowned for a strong work ethic and wellrounded approaches to problems; graduates are ready to
“hit the ground running” and tackle challenging issues.
Historically known for graduating production and operations
engineers, recent advancements in curriculum allow
undergraduate students to specialize in drilling engineering,
reservoir engineering, or production engineering,
helping to fill key niches in the oil and gas industry.
By the Numbers
Enrollments (Fall 2014):
Undergraduate
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Estimated Qualifying Foundational Students
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Master’s
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Faculty Members:
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Endowed Chairs, Professors, and Fellows:
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U.S. News and World Report Ranking
Graduate Program
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Research
The department is uniquely located in the Permian Basin,
where approximately 22 percent of the nation’s petroleum
resources and 68 percent of Texas’ petroleum resources
lie within a 175-mile radius. This proximity provides
unique opportunities to directly interface with industry
and allows first hand observations of oil field operations
in the field and at Red Raider #1, Texas Tech’s own 4000’
test well with a 9 5/8” casing. Students experience
exclusive visualization tools with Check-6’s Well Control
VI systems in the Chevron Well Control Simulation Lab.
Graduate and undergraduate students learn the latest
techniques and perform research in the following areas:
„ Advanced Core Analysis
„ Artificial Lift and System Analysis
„ Casing Design, Cementing, and Rheology Studies
„ Drilling Simulation
„ Enhanced Oil Recovery
„ Petrophysics and Well Log Analysis
„ Pressure Transient Analysis
„ Pressure, Volume, Temperature (PVT) Analysis
„ Property Evaluation and Reserves
„ Reservoir Simulation
„ Surface Operations, Flow Assurance, and Facilities Design
„ Unconventional Reservoir Analysis and Development
Areas of Study
„ Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering
„ Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering
„ Doctor of Philosophy in Petroleum Engineering
Contacts
Dr. Marshall Watson
Department Chair
marshall.watson@ttu.edu
www.pe.ttu.edu
Susan E. Smith
Senior Director, Development and External Relations
susan.e.smith@ttu.edu
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Dr. Habib K. Menouar
Richard Bateman
Associate Professor of Practice
Petrophysics, Well-Log Interpretation
Dr. Hossein Emadibaladehi
Instructor
Wellbore Integrity, Cementing and
Hydraulics in Horizontal Wells, Fracturing
Dr. Amin Ettehadtavakkol
Anadarko Professor in Petroleum
Engineering and Assistant Professor
Reservoir Engineering, Field-scale modeling of
shale reservoirs, CO2-EOR and sequestration
Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor
Reservoir Engineering & Simulation, Production Engineering,
Reservoir Characterization & Formation Damage
Dr. Ekarit Panacharoensawad
Assistant Professor
Multiphase flow assurance, Multiphase fluid
flow and heat transfer, Wax, hydrate, scale,
and asphaltene formation/deposition, High
viscosity oil multiphase flow hydrodynamics
Dr. James Sheng
Associate Professor
Enhanced Oil Recovery, Development of
unconventional resources, Well-Testing Analysis,
Reservoir Simulation, Reservoir Management
Dr. Talal Gamadi
Instructor
Reservoir Engineering, EOR Applications, Reservoir
Production, Reservoir Simulation Modeling,
Rock and Fluid Properties, Hydraulic Fracture
Stimulation Treatments, Data Analysis
Dr. Mohamed Soliman, P.E., N.A.I.
Livermore Chair and Professor
Fracturing, Reservoir Engineering, Well Test
Analysis, Conformance, Numerical Simulation
Dr. Lloyd Heinze, P.E.
Professor
Petroleum Drilling, Production Engineering
Dr. Marshall Watson, P.E.
Dr. Waylon House
Department Chair, Roy Butler Chair,
and Associate Professor
Petroleum Reserves Evaluation and Economics, EOR in
both New Reservoirs and Brownfields, Unconventional
Reservoirs with an Emphasis on Coalbed Methane
Instructor
Mechanisms of Phase Separation: How Molecular
Systems Undergoing Phase Transitions Form
Nano−, Micro−, & Meso−Scale Structures; Gas
Hydrate Formation/Dissolution in Aqueous Systems;
Asphaltene & Paraffin Precipitation in Oil Systems
Open Faculty Positions
Drilling
Geo-mechanics
Production Operations
Reservoir
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