Energy Geoscience Program

The Professional Science Master's Program at Rice, offers a curriculum with focus on developing a holistic and practical knowledge of the industry. Additionally, Rice University via its collaborative programs in the heart of the Energy Capital, Houston, enables valuable exposure to the oil and gas industry forums, internships and industry mentors. This offers further competitive advantage for its graduates providing them with direct industry insights.

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Overview

The Energy Geoscience (formerly Subsurface Geoscience) program is geared for students who have a geoscience background and would like to become proficient in their area of interest. Students can choose from four focus areas that will prepare them to apply geological knowledge and geophysical methods to find and develop reserves of oil and natural gas; or to hone their skills in manipulating and managing energy-related data, or refit or expand their skill-set to the new areas of the on-going energy transition.

The core requirements for the degree are strong technical courses, management and policy courses, with communication skills training, and include an industrial internship or work experience. Students select a group of elective courses from a focus area (see below), or from a variety of other courses related to their interests.

  • The Energy Data Management focus area prepares students to understand exploration and production as a data-driven business, to become data enabled geoscientists to match demands in the energy industry.
  • The Geology focus area prepares students with strong skills in using seismic and other geophysical methods along with geological principles to find oil and natural gas, including topics addressing the ongoing energy industry transition
  • The Geophysics focus area prepares students to become technical experts in aspects of seismology, with strong skills in other geophysical methods along with geological principles to find oil and natural gas, including topics addressing the ongoing energy industry transition.
  • The Energy Transition and Sustainability focus area addresses geoscience methods that are going to be needed in a successful energy transition, such as geothermal, carbon sequestration and storage, minerals, etc
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Faculty involved in the Energy Geoscience Program:

  • Julia Morgan, Chair, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

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