Curtin petroleum engineering students visit Shell learning hub
MIRI: A total of 15 Curtin University Malaysia ( Curtin Malaysia) petroleum engineering students recently visited the Shell Wells Asia Pacific (Integrated Gas) Learning Hub at the Sarawak Shell Berhad headquarters in Lutong.
A press release said the students got an insight into the real-life work environment of professional engineers in the oil and gas industry.
Curtin Malaysia Faculty of Engineering and Science Petroleum Engineering Department head Assoc Prof Hisham Khaled Ben Mahmud said the visit enabled students to learn more about the hydrocarbon production lifecycle such as exploration, formation, and reservoir evaluation, well abandonment, as well as functions and uses of completion and wireline tools.
In addition, they were given the opportunity to visit Sarawak Shell’s well control facility, where they were given demonstrations of the drilling simulator and well intervention control and slickline processes.
“While at the centre, the students attended an International Well Control Forum ( IWCF) Level 1 awareness session facilitated by senior well completion and intervention engineer Stanley Poh. Such courses lead to examination and certification by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP),” he said in the press release yesterday.
Hisham added the course enabled the students to enhance their practical understanding of the oil and gas industry and technicalities of well control, as well as encouraged them to take the free IWCF Level 1 online assessment and receive certificates acknowledging their participation.
“Both the visit and the course, as well as other forms of practical learning are significant in the petroleum engineering course at Curtin Malaysia so that students can easily relate what they learn in classrooms to real-life industry applications. Such activities also complement practical study in fluid and reservoir rock laboratories and geodynamic lab work at the university,” he said.
Curtin Malaysia offers the fouryear Bachelor of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering (Honours), which covers a wide range of subjects that are core to the petroleum engineering field and is recognised by Engineers Australia, Board of Engineers Malaysia, in addition to the Malaysian Qualifications Agency.
It continues to be one of the most popular engineering courses at Curtin Malaysia since it was founded in 2011, and graduates are immediately employable in the industry upon graduation while some are offered jobs even before graduation.
Curtin University is the world’s second- ranked institution for Mineral and Mining Engineering and 35th in the world for Earth and Marine Sciences for the third year in a row according to the recently released 2019 QS World University Rankings by Subject.