Students of The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) will benefit from one of the latest suites of Petroleum Engineering software tools, which will allow them to become industry-ready and equipped for careers in the oil and gas industry. PE Limited (formerly known as Petroleum Experts); a petroleum engineering company with headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland, has developed engineering software which is designed to assist engineers in improving the efficiency of oil and gas production. PE Limited has granted ten (10) licenses to UTT for the use of its Integrated Production Modelling (IPM) software suite, which has a commercial value of £2,662,347.63. In addition, this software suite is currently used by more than three hundred and fifty (350) international oil and gas companies.

Petex engineering models capture the physics, geology, engineering and fluid thermodynamics needed to model full production systems from reservoir and oil and gas wells, to the surface pipeline system and process. These models, once built, are used to optimise production for existing oil and gas fields, and assist with the system design of new fields.

The IPM software suite is used mainly to introduce UTT students to Wellbore Modelling, Production Planning, History Matching with Aquifers, and Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Optimising. Capitalising on this experience ensures that graduates of the Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Petroleum and Energy Engineering are prepared and industry-ready upon graduating from UTT. The IPM software suite is used extensively throughout the academic year, including in the Final Design Project and Reservoir Simulation courses of the previously mentioned programmes.

UTT students will have access to the full Integrated Production Modelling (IPM) software suite which comprises:

1. PVTP - a programme to predict the effect of process conditions on the composition of hydrocarbon mixtures - fluid characterisation
2. MBAL - an analytical reservoir tool commonly used for modelling the fluid dynamic reservoir effects - material balance.
3. REVEAL - aptly designed to study specialised reservoir effects and assess their impact on the injection, production and enhanced oil recovery from the reservoir, capturing the thermal, rock mechanics and chemistry.
4. PROSPER - a design and optimisation programme for modelling most types of oil and gas well configurations.
5. GAP - a multiphase oil and gas optimiser which models the surface gathering pipeline network of field production systems. GAP dynamically integrates the reservoir model (MBAL) and well models (PROSPER).
6. RESOLVE - the field engineering development tool that manages and controls the IPM suite, reservoir simulators and process simulators to vigorously model, optimise and provide production forecasts of field operating scenarios. RESOLVE enables coupling of most major industry reservoirs, process and economics simulation models to better evaluate and operate oil and gas fields.