Petroleum Engineering curriculum (Total credit hours 154)
| FRESHMAN YEAR | ||||||
| First Semester | Cr | Second Semester | Cr | |||
| SOC01301 | Philosophy of Marxism and Leninism | 3 | ENG41301 | English 1 | 3 | |
| MAT11301 | Calculus 1 | 3 | SOC01203 | Scientific socialism | 2 | |
| ELE31201 | Foundations in Engineering 1 (+ Lab) | 2 | MAT11302 | Calculus 2 | 3 | |
| CHE11301 | General Chemistry 1 | 3 | PET11105 | Career Orientation Field Trip | 1 | |
| CHE11101LAB | General Chemistry Lab 1 | 1 | INC31301 | Foundations in Engineering 2 (+ Lab) | 3 | |
| PHY21201 | General Physics 1 | 2 | PHY21202 | General Physics 2 | 2 | |
| PHY21101LAB | General Physics Lab 1 | 1 | PHY21102LAB | General Physics Lab 2 | 1 | |
| PET21201 | Introduction to Oil and Gas Industry | 2 | SOC01205 | History of Vietnamese communist party | 2 | |
| SOC01202 | Political economics of Marxism and Leninism | 2 | SOC01204 | Ho Chi Minh's Ideology | 2 | |
| ENG41000 |
English preparation (120 hrs.*) |
PED11102 | Physical Education 2 (1*) | |||
| PED11101 | Physical Education 1 (1*) | MIE01101 | Military Education (165 hrs*) | |||
| 19 | 19 | |||||
| SOPHOMORE YEAR | ||||||
| First Semester | Cr | Second Semester | Cr | |||
| ENG42302 | English 2 | 3 | ENG42303 | English 3 | 3 | |
| MAT12203 | Calculus 3 | 2 | MAT12305 | Differential Equations | 3 | |
| MEC32303 | Theoretical mechanics | 3 | MEC32304 | Strength of Materials (+ Lab) | 3 | |
| MEC32301 | Thermodynamics | 3 | PET12404 | Reservoir Petrophysics (+ Lab) | 4 | |
| GEO12302 | Physical Geology | 3 | PET12306 | Transport Processes in Petroleum Production Systems | 3 | |
| PET12443 | Petroleum Drilling Systems (+ Lab) | 4 | ELE32202 | Electronics - Electricity (+ Lab) | 2 | |
| SOC02206 | Professional Skills for Engineers | 2 | Elective 2 | 2 | ||
| Elective 1 | 2 | PET12107 | Summer Internship 1 | 1 | ||
| PED12103 | Physical Education 3 (1*) | |||||
| 22 | 21 | |||||
| JUNIOR YEAR | ||||||
| First Semester | Cr | Second Semester | Cr | |||
| ENG43304 | English 4 | 3 | PET13313 | Formation evaluation | 3 | |
| PET13308 | Petroleum Engineering Numerical Methods | 3 | PET13414 | Reservoir Engineering (+ Lab) | 4 | |
| PET13309 | Reservoir Fluids | 3 | PET13315 | Well Testing | 3 | |
| GEO13311 | Petroleum Geology | 3 | PET13116 | Senior Project 1 | 1 | |
| PET13310 | Geomechanics | 3 | ECO13301 | Petroleum Economics | 3 | |
| PET13411 | Petroleum Productions Systems (+ Lab) | 4 | PSE13201 | Health Safety and Environment | 2 | |
| PET13312 | Drilling Engineering | 3 | Elective 4 | 2 | ||
| Elective 3 | 2 | PET13117 | Summer Internship 2 | 1 | ||
| 24 | 19 | |||||
| SENIOR YEAR | ||||||
| First Semester | Cr | Second Semester | Cr | |||
| PET14318 | Reservoir Simulation | 3 | PET14224 | Graduation internship | 2 | |
| PET14319 | Integrated Reservoir Modeling | 3 | PET14825 | Graduation thesis | 8 | |
| PET14320 | Production Engineering | 3 | 10 | |||
| PET14321 | Petroleum Project Evaluation | 3 | ||||
| PET14222 | Enhanced Oil Recovery | 2 | ||||
| PET14123 | Senior Project 2 | 1 | ||||
| Elective 5 | 3 | |||||
| Elective 6 | 1 | |||||
| Elective 7 | 1 | |||||
| 20 | ||||||
| ELECTIVE COURSES | ||||||
| Course | Title | Cr | Course | Title | Cr | |
| Elective 1 (Choose one) | Elective 5 (Choose one) | |||||
| MEC32205 | Hydraulic Equipments | 2 | PET14330 | High Performance Drilling Design and Operational Practices | 3 | |
| MEC33206 | Measurement Engineering | 2 | PET14331 | Solving Common Production Engineering Problems | 3 | |
| GEO12234 | Sedimentology | 2 | PET14333 | Energy and Sustainability | 3 | |
| Elective 2 (Choose one) | Elective 6: Special Topics | |||||
| Choose one from following | ||||||
| GEO12235 | General Geophysics | 2 | PET14141 | Field Decommissioning | 1 | |
| PET13229 | Drilling and Production Facilities and Operation | 2 | PET14140 | Sand production and control | 1 | |
| Elective 3 (Choose one) | PET14138 | Heavy oil production | 1 | |||
| PET13226 | Drilling Fluids (+ Lab) | 2 | PET14134 | Drilling Technology in Complicated Conditions | 1 | |
| PET13232 | Cement (+ Lab) | 2 | Elective 7: Special Topics | |||
| Choose one from following | ||||||
| Elective 4 (Choose one) | PET14136 | Oil and Gas Production Technology at Vietnam Continental Shelf | 1 | |||
| PET12242 | Geostatistics | 2 | PET14135 | Directional and Extensional Drilling | 1 | |
| PET13228 | Processing and Transportation of Oil and Gas | 2 | PET14137 | Oilfield Projects Development | 1 | |
| PET13227 | Well Completion and Stimulation | 2 | PET14139 | Natural Gas production and Processing Engineering | 1 | |
