The Petroleum Technology Development Fund – PTDF list of approved universities and courses span across the United Kingdom to France and Germany.

NOTE: For Germany, any course available in a public institution with no tuition is acceptable by PTDF-DAAD partnership. You can find the link to DAAD international programs on the “moving to Germany via study route” page. Feel free to apply the filter to search out your desired course, in the desired language, start time (Winter or Summer) and Tuition as None.

Here is the list of key universities approved by PTDF and available courses.

No.	University	Country
1	Université de Pau et Pays de l’Adour	France
2	Université de Grenoble Alpes Grenoble INP	France
3	Université de Cergy-Pontoise	France
4	University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France
5	Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA)	France
6	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom
7	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
8	University of Salford	United Kingdom
9	University of Reading	United Kingdom
10	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom
11	University of Paris-Saclay	France
12	University of Oldenburg	Germany
13	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
14	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
15	University of Lyon	France
16	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
17	University of Göttingen	Germany
18	University of Cologne	Germany
19	Ulm University	Germany
20	TUM	Germany
21	Tuebingen University	Germany
22	TU Ilmenau	Germany
23	TU Clausthal	Germany
24	TU Berlin	Germany
25	Trier University	Germany
26	Rostock University	Germany
27	Münster University	Germany
28	Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich	Germany
29	LMU Munich	Germany
30	Kiel University	Germany
31	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
32	Institute of Saarland University	Germany
33	HS Kempten	Germany
34	HS Bremerhaven	Germany
35	RPTU Kaiserslautern	Germany
36	Goethe Universitat Frankfurt	Germany
37	Freie Universitat Berlin	Germany
38	Bremen University	Germany
39	Bayreuth University	Germany
40	Sciences Po Paris (Political Science, Law and Business)	France
41	Skema Business School	France
42	University of Grenoble	France
43	Polytechnique Palaiseau	France
44	Institut Supérieur d’Électronique de Paris (ISEP) (Electronics)	France
45	INSA Toulouse (Engineering)	France
46	IMT Mines Albi	France
47	IFP School (Petroleum Engineering)	France
48	ICSI Toulouse (HSE)	France
49	ESCP Europe (Energy Management)	France
50	ENSIC Nancy	France
51	ENSGTI Pau	France
52	ENSG Lorraine	France
53	EM LYON Business School	France
54	Ecoles Des Mines de Nantes IMT Atlantique (Engineering and Environment)	France
55	Ecole Polytechnique	France
56	Ecole Des Mines D’Ales IMT	France
57	Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Engineering)	France
58	Conservatoire National Des Arts et Metiers (CNAM)	France
59	Arts et Metiers Paris Tech	France
60	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
61	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
62	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
63	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
64	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
65	University College London	United Kingdom
66	Robert Gordon University	United Kingdom
67	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
68	Kings College London	United Kingdom
69	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
70	Heriot Watt Unversity	United Kingdom
71	Cranfield University	United Kingdom
72	Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS	Malaysia
73	Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin	Malaysia
74	Heriot Watt Unversity Malaysia	Malaysia

Approved Courses to Consider in PTDF Universities

The Approved UK Universities and Available Courses for PTDF Postgraduate Scholarship include:

Robert Gordon University:

MSc

1. Oil and Gas Law LLM/MSc.
2. Oil and Gas Engineering.
3. Petroleum Production Engineering.
4. Oil and Gas Finance.
5. Offshore Engineering Systems.
6. Computer Science.
7. I.T. for the Oil & Gas Industry.
8. Drilling and Well Engineering.
9. Purchasing & Supply Chain Management.
10. Data Science.
11. LLM Law and Energy Law.
12. Energy Management.
13. Oil and Gas Accounting.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Well Engineering.
2. Production Optimisation in Unconventional & Complex Reservoirs.
3. Flow Assurance.
4. Produced Water Management.
5. Environmental Sensing and Remediation.
6. Mechanistic Models for Sand Transport.
7. Oil and Gas Law.
8. Predictive maintenance of subsea assets -Operations management.
9. Logistics for oil and gas -Seismic data analytics.

Heriot-Watt University:

M.Sc

1. Renewable Energy.
2. EngineeringPetroleum Engineering.
3. Reservoir Evaluation and Management.Â
4. Water and Environmental Management.
5. MEng Chemical Engineering.
   Oil and Gas Technology).
6. Petroleum Geosciences.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Ph.D. Research Areas at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering.
2. Ph.D. Research Areas at the Energy Academy.
3. Ph.D. Research Areas at Institute of Mechanical, Energy and Process Engineering.
4. Ph.D. Research Areas at Institute of Sensors, Systems, and Signals Systems.

Dundee University:

M.Sc

1. Data Engineering.
2. Renewable Energy and Environmental Modeling.
3. Geotechnical Engineering.
4. Oil & Gas Law and Policy.
5. International Oil and Gas Management.
6. Energy Oil and Gas Economics.
   Energy Finance.
7. Petroleum Taxation and Finance.
8. Managing in the Energy Industries.Â
9. Energy Law and Policy.
10. LLM Mineral Law and Policy.
11. LLM Natural Resources Law and Policy.
12. Energy and the Environment.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Data Systems Engineering.
2. Renewable Energy.
3. Environmental Modeling.
4. Environmental Law.
5. International Oil and Gas Management.

Newcastle University

1. Pipeline Engineering.
2. Subsea Engineering and Management.
3. Offshore Engineering.
4. Petroleum Geochemistry.
5. Civil Engineering.
6. Chemical Engineering with Sustainable Engineering.
7. Environmental Engineering.
8. Geographic Information Science.
9. Chemical Engineering.
10. Chemical Engineering with Process Control.
11. Mechanical Engineering with Bio-Engineering.
12. Marine Technology with Offshore Engineering.
13. Mechanical Engineering.
14. Electrical Power Engineering.
15. Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
16. Electronics & Computer Engineering.
17. Computer Science.
18. Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
19. Renewable Energy, Enterprise and Management (REEM).
20. Subsea Engineering and Management.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters.

1. Geomatics.
2. Marine Technology.
3. Materials Engineering.
4. Geosciences.

University of Manchester

M.Sc

1. Advanced Process Integration and Design.
2. Corrosion Control, Engineering.
3. Petroleum Geoscience for Reservoir Development and Production.
4. Petroleum Exploration Geoscience.
5. Reliability Engineering and Asset Management.
6. Pollution and Environmental Control.
7. Computer Science.
8. Software Engineering.
9. Chemical Engineering.
10. Petroleum Engineering.
11. Computer Systems Engineering.
12. Civil Engineering.
13. Mechanical Engineering.
14. Mechatronic Engineering
15. Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
16. Biotechnology.
17. Operations, Project and Supply Chain Management.
18. Reliability Engineering and Asset. Management.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Petroleum Exploration Geoscience.
2. Petroleum Engineering.
3. Biotechnology.
4. Multi-scale modeling.
5. Composite Materials.
6. Environmental Geochemistry and Geomicrobiology.
7. Structural and Petrological Geoscience.
8. Petroleum geoscience for reservoir development & production.
9. Renewable energy & Clean Technology.

University of Salford:

M.Sc

1. Petroleum and Gas Engineering.
2. Data Science.
3. Business Information System.
4. Safety, Health and Environment.
5. Environmental Public Health.
6. Control Systems & Engineering.
7. Biochemistry.
8. Gas Engineering and Management.
9. Environmental Assessment and Management.Â

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Gas Engineering.
2. Safety, Health and Environment.
3. Business Information System.
4. Petroleum and Gas Engineering.

University of Birmingham:

M.Sc

1. Biochemical Engineering.
2. Air pollution Management and Control.
3. Geotechnical Engineering and Management.
4. Chemical Engineering.
5. Mechanical Engineering.
6. Mechanical & Material Engineering.
7. Materials Engineering.
8. Civil Engineering.
9. Maths & Computer Engineering.
10. Computer & Software Engineering.
11. Geology.
12. Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
13. Environmental Geology.
14. Environmental Science.
15. Biochemistry.
16. Advanced Chemical Engineering.
17. Advanced Computer Science.
18. Biochemical Engineering.
19. Chemistry.
20. Civil Engineering and Management.
21. Electronic and Computer Engineering.
22. Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering.
23. Occupational Health, Safety and Environment.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Hydrogen and Fuel cells.
2. Atmospheric Air Pollution.
3. Environmental Sciences.

University of Portsmouth:

M.Sc

1. Energy and Power System Management.
2. Petroleum Engineering.
3. Energy and Power System Engineering.
4. Mechanical Engineering.
5. Petroleum & Gas Engineering.
6. Engineering Geology.
7. Energy and Power Systems Management.
8. Electronic Engineering.
9. Environmental Geology and Contamination.
10. Geological and Environmental Hazards.
11. Crisis and Disaster Management.
12. Geographical Information Systems.
13. Coastal and Marine Resource Management.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Reservoir Engineering.
2. Formation Evaluation.
3. Engineering geology and Natural Hazards.
4. Environmental processes and impacts.
5. Crustal evolution.
6. Engineering geology group.
7. Geological hazards group.
8. Disaster risk reduction group.
9. Energy and resources group.
10. Ecotoxicology and environmental monitoring group.

University of Southampton:

M.Sc

1. Computational engineering design.
2. Mechatronics.
3. Engineering materials.
4. Sustainable energy technologies.
5. Energy and sustainability with electrical power engineering.
6. Energy and sustainability.
7. Maritime engineering science.
8. Coastal and marine engineering and management.
9. Engineering in the coastal environment.
10. Environmental monitoring and assessment.
11. Environmental pollution control.
12. Integrated environmental studies.
13. Water resources management.
14. Applied GIS and remote sensing.
15. Sustainability.
16. Marine geology and geophysics.
17. Ocean sciencescience.
18. Oceanography.
19. Civil Engineering.
20. Maritime law.
21. Supply Chain Management and Logistics.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Geology and Geophysics.
2. Marine Biogeochemistry.
3. Marine Biology and Ecology.
4. Geochemistry.
5. Engineering Materials.
6. Thermal Energy.

Cranfield University:

M.Sc

1. Advanced Materials.
2. Petroleum Chemistry and Technology.
3. Computational Fluid Dynamics.
4. Gas Turbine Technology.
5. Process Systems Engineering.
6. Environmental Engineering.
7. Energy and Power.
8. Energy Systems and Thermal Processes.
9. Flow Assurance for Oil & Gas Production.
10. Renewable Energy.
11. Offshore and Ocean Technology with Pipeline Engineering.
12. Subsea Oil and Gas Exploitation.
13. Offshore Engineering.
14. Offshore and Ocean Technology with Risk Management.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Risk and Resilience.
2. Energy and Power.
3. Pipeline Engineering.
4. Materials.
5. Corrosion.
6. Pipelines.

University of Liverpool

M.Sc

1. Petroleum Reservoir Geoscience.
2. Telecommunications and Wireless Systems.
3. Biomedical Engineering.
4. Environmental Sciences.
5. Chemistry for Sustainable Energy.
6. Civil Engineering.
7. Computer Science & Electronic Engineering.
8. Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
9. Project Management – Oil and Gas.
10. Energy and Power Systems.
11. Operations and Supply Chain Management.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Earth and Ocean Sciences.
2. Maritime Engineering.
3. Environmental Change.

Imperial College London:

M.Sc

1. Engineering Fluid Mechanics for Offshore, Coastal & Built Environment.
2. Nanomaterials.
3. Petroleum Engineering.
4. Geology & Geophysics.
5. Petroleum Geosciences.
6. Computing.
7. Chemical Engineering.
8. Maths & Computer Science.
9. Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
10. Mechanical Engineering.
11. Materials Science & Engineering.
12. Civil and Environmental Engineering.
13. Environmental Engineering and Business Management.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Petroleum Engineering.
2. Carbonate Sedimentology.Â
3. Basin and Structures.
4. Rock Mechanics.
5. Environmental Quality.Â

King’s College London:

M.Sc

1. Computer System Engineering with Management.
2. Advanced Software Engineering with Management.
3. Environmental Monitoring and Management.
4. Global Air Pollution and Health: Management and Science.
5. Biochemistry.
6. Computer Science.
7. Electronic and Information Engineering.
8. Advanced Computing with Management.
9. Computing and Internet Systems.
10. Computing and Security.
11. Intelligent Systems.
12. Computational Finance.
13. Data Science.
14. Electronic Engineering with Management.
15. Robotics.
16. Telecommunications and Internet Technologies.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Imaging and Biomedical Engineering.
2. Pollution Control.
3. Software Engineering.
4. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
6. Chemistry.
7. Informatics.
8. AI Planning.

University College London:

M.Sc

1. Geophysical Hazards.
2. Energy Systems and Data Analytics.
3. Chemical Process Engineering.
4. Computer Science.
5. Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
6. Mechanical Engineering.
7. Civil Engineering.
8. Biochemical Engineering.
9. Chemical Engineering.
10. Environmental Geosciences.
11. Geology.
12. Global Management of Natural Resources.
13. Energy Systems and Data Analytics.
14. Environmental Systems Engineering.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Chemical Engineering.
2. Environmental Design Engineering.
3. Hazards Mitigation.
4. Environmental Monitoring.

PTDF Postgraduate Scholarship

University of Nottingham:

M.Sc

1. Sustainable Energy Engineering.
2. Energy Process System Engineering.
3. Mechanical Engineering.
4. Civil Engineering.
5. Environmental Engineering.
6. Electrical Engineering & Renewable Energy Systems.
7. Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering.
8. Electrical Engineering.
9. Electronic & Computer Engineering.
10. Chemical Engineering.
11. Environmental Management.
12. Law and Environmental Science.
13. Computer Science.
14. Biotechnology.
15. Supply Chain and Operations Management.
16. LLM Maritime Law.
17. LLM International Commercial Law.

Ph.D. Research Fields/Groups/Clusters

1. Carbon Capture and Storage.
2. Sustainable Engineering Systems.
3. Fluid and Thermal Engineering – Process Optimization.
4. Fluid and Thermal Engineering – Multi-phase Flow.
5. International Law – commercial transactions of the sea
6. Finance and Risk

University of Glasgow

M.Sc

1. Civil Engineering.
2. Civil Engineering and Management.
3. Computer Systems Engineering.
4. Electronics & Electrical Engineering and Management.
5. Sustainable Energy.
6. Mechanical Engineering.
7. Mechanical Engineering and Management.
8. Structural Engineering.
9. Mechatronics.
10. Computer Science.
11. Data Science.
12. Information Security.
13. Information Technology.
14. IT Cyber Security.
15. Sustainable Water Environments.
16. Data Analytics.
17. Environmental Statistics.
18. Statistics.
19. Physics: Nuclear Technology.
20. Mathematics/Applied Mathematics.
21. Physics: Advanced Materials.
22. Physics: Energy & the Environment.

PhD

1. Infrastructure & Environmental Engineering.
2. Systems, Power and Energy.
3. Computing Science.
4. Network Systems.
5. Information, Data and Analysis (IDA).
6. Solid Earth (Critical Geology).
7. Quantitative Geomorphology.
8. Statistics.
9. Mathematics.
10. Physics.
11. Chemistry.
12. Biochemistry and Biotechnology.