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  • About
    • What is Petroleum Engineering?
    • What is Geosystems Engineering?
    • Facts and Rankings
    • Vision and Mission
    • Feel the Energy
    • History
      • An Early History of UT PGE
    • Events
    • Contact Us
  • Undergraduate Program
    • Admissions
    • Degree Requirements
    • Advising
    • Sustainable Energy Minor
    • Tuition and Funding
    • Program Outcomes
    • Transfer Students
    • Careers
    • Student Organizations
    • First-Year Experience
      • First-Year Fall Retreat
      • Study Abroad
    • FAQs
  • Graduate Program
    • Admissions
    • Tuition and Funding
    • Degree Requirements
    • Careers
    • Student Organizations
    • FAQs
  • Faculty & Staff
    • Faculty Directory
    • Academic Staff
    • Faculty Openings
  • Research
    • Research Areas
      • Drilling and Completions
      • Enhanced Oil Recovery
      • Formation Evaluation
      • Geologic Carbon Storage
      • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics
      • Integrated Reservoir Characterization
      • Natural Gas Engineering
      • Petrophysics and Pore Scale Processes
      • Production Engineering
      • Reservoir Engineering
      • Reservoir Simulation
      • Unconventional Resources
    • Summer Undergraduate Research Internship
    • Theses and Dissertations
      • Past Theses and Dissertations
  • Connect
    • Hire a UT PGE
    • Giving
    • Distinguished Alumni
      • Distinguished Alumni Honorees
    • Alumni Events
    • External Advisory Committee
    • Alumni Profiles
    • Industry Partners
      • Workforce Initiative
  • News
    • Press Coverage
    • Energy One Magazine
    • Annual Report
    • Communications Resources
  • K–12 Outreach
    • Program Leadership
    • Energy Science and Technology Institute
    • Educator Resources
    • Educator Events
    • Our Impact