Facilities

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The Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering offers state-of-the-art laboratory facilities that support both high-quality instruction and impactful research. Our teaching labs provide students with hands-on experience in core areas such as drilling, production, fluid properties, and rock mechanics, bridging theoretical knowledge with real-world applications.

In addition to instructional facilities, the department houses specialized research laboratories that underpin internationally recognized research in areas including enhanced oil recovery (EOR), carbon capture and storage (CCUS), geothermal energy, reservoir simulation, and well integrity. These laboratories are purpose-built to support advanced experimental and computational studies, enabling innovative solutions to today’s most pressing energy challenges.

The Petroleum Engineering Research, Training, and Testing (PERTT) Laboratory is a unique full-scale industrial facility that enables students and researchers to conduct hands-on experiments under real wellbore conditions, including high-pressure multiphase flow and well control operations.

Featured Labs and Spaces

 

PFT 1329—Geomechanics Lab

Houses an AutoLab 1500 triaxial rock-testing apparatus and a CFS-200 dual core-flooding and pulse-decay permeameter for conducting experimental thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical studies.

PFT 2245—Multiscale Energy Resource Simulation (MERS) Lab

Home to a projector system and high-end computers for facilitating the computationally expensive research conducted in the MERS lab.

PFT 2148—Rock-Fluids Interactions Laboratory

Houses unique experimental facilities and techniques to measure interfacial phenomena in rock-oil-brine and gas-oil-brine systems.

PFT 1331/1331A—Enhanced Oil Recovery Laboratory

Houses experimental research activities in flow through porous media, fluids phase behavior and gas injection enhanced oil recovery.

PFT 2147 - Drilling Fluids Lab

Teaching lab equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to prepare and characterize physical properties of drilling fluids.

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