Colorado School of Mines - Petroleum Engineering

Join the CSM -SPE Chapter during the Annual Golf Tournament!

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📍Where: The Ridge at Castle Pines North
⏱️ When: April 24th, 2025

According to the 2023-2024 Mines Career Center Annual report, we have one of the most lucrative and successful degree programs at Colorado School of Mines!

Petroleum Engineering Assistant Professor Yilin Fan, has been appointed as the new director of the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage research center. This center is dedicated to developing engineering solutions, focusing on Multiphysics and multidisciplinary approaches toward environmental sustainability!

We sent 6 students to SPE’s North America Student Symposium this year in Southern California!

Professor Linda Battalora presented at the technical session.

Our department head and SPE president Jennifer Miskimins, was able to lead-off the 2025 conference, as well!

Congratulations Tugce Calisgan on a successful PhD Thesis Defense! 🎉

Calisgan’s Thesis study focused on "A Compositional Hindered Transport Model for Primary and Enhanced Oil Recovery from Fractured Wells in Unconventional Tight-Oil Plays".

Coming in at no.7 out of our top 10 accomplishments as a department for 2024:

Two Petroleum PhD Students, Kaveh Amini & Zenitha Aswal won first place and a $5,000 check at the GEFI Inno8x challenge. Their project “Energy for Life” focused on optimizing separator configuration in heater treaters and alternative heating processes. Read more Here: https://www.minesnewsroom.com/news/students-tackle-energy-problems-gefi-innov8x-challenge

Professor Jim Crompton interviews PhD student Balnur Mindygaliyeva on how the energy transition is perceived in her home country of Kazakhstan, a major oil & gas producer, and the critical role that petroleum engineering plays in the energy transition.
What the full interview below!

Ep 7 | What is the Duck Curve, and Does When We Use Energy Matter? In this episode of Energy Transition Talk, we explore a hot topic – the future of oil and gas! First, Paulina leads a lively conversation with Dwayne Purvis ...

Annual Fundraising day is here!

Donate to the Petroleum Engineering department here: https://weare.mines.edu/s/840/dg23/project.aspx?sid=840&gid=1&pgid=8402

We are one day away from the hashtag fundraising event coming up tomorrow the 6th!

Gifts for the Petroleum Engineering Department go directly toward enhancing the student learning experience here at Mines!

Your support of the PE Department helps us provide the hands-on Mines experience through our Field Session courses. Our second Field Session course for juniors takes place in Rangely, Colorado. Students camp out to return to the basics of understanding the earth's natural resources and responsible sequestration. This geology-focused course, provides the hands-on Mines learning experience by enhancing the real-world learning approach!

Pledge Now Here: https://weare.mines.edu/s/840/dg23/interior.aspx?sid=840&gid=1&pgid=8483 .tab=0

The annual fundraising event is coming up this Thursday the 6th!

Gifts for the Petroleum Engineering Department go directly toward enhancing the student learning experience here at Mines!

One way these gifts are utilized is by funding new laboratory technology. Recently, we upgraded our lab equipment for the Rock Properties, Reservoir Fluid Properties, and Drilling courses. These new tools enable more current and practical learning experiences, by providing industry-relevant data points for our students!

Pledge Now Here: https://weare.mines.edu/s/840/dg23/interior.aspx?sid=840&gid=1&pgid=8483 .tab=0

Student Ambassador Highlight: Rylie Ward
Rylie is a Junior this year and is the Vice President of the Alpha Phi sorority. She is also involved in three student organizations, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers, and the American Association of Drilling Engineers.

Rylie’s dream job in the field of Petroleum Engineering is to become a Wellbore Cement- Technical Advisor and she has already interned with Halliburton as a field engineer in their cementing product service line.

What is your favorite part of the program?
Rylie replies - “My favorite part of the program is how involved the faculty are, every professor I have had has taken the time to personally get to know me. My experience in the department would not be the same without the amazing faculty.”

Student Ambassador Highlight: Jack Engler

Jack is a Senior this year and is a student-athlete with the Mines swim team. He also is a part of three student organizations on campus, AADE, SPE & FCA.

Jack’s dream job in the field of Petroleum Engineering is to become a Production Engineer and he has already interned with Chevron twice, once in California and once in Texas.

What is your favorite part of the program?
Jack replies - “Field Session (2) was an incredible experience in a really cool spot. I made a ton of awesome memories with my friends, got to see and learn a lot, and enjoyed rafting in Dinosaur National Monument.”

Why are you passionate about Petroleum Engineering?
Jack replies - “Oil and gas are so critical to our everyday lives, and there are huge numbers of people who don’t get to enjoy the benefits that oil and gas provide. I am really passionate about being a petroleum engineer because I feel like I can make a difference in the world by providing more reliable energy all over the world and can ensure that that is being done the right way. Oil and gas are not going to go away, so it is up to us to continue to safely, reliably and efficiently produce our natural resources.”