PETROLEUM ECONOMICS

AND MANAGEMENT
APPLIED GRADUATE STUDIES

Embrace new international

opportunities in energy
economics
Language: English
Duration:
16 months
Degree:
IFP School's MSc
degree and possibly the partner
university's degree
trategic or geopolitical
dimensions, international
nature, economic and financial
issues, technological adventures,
challenges of sustainable
development: these are a few facets
of the world of energy. To ensure
their development and to penetrate
new markets, the companies in the
energy sector need professionals
with a global vision.

IFP School has thus designed

an excellence program based
on international partnerships that
are unanimously recognized in
the field of energy economics and
management. By joining the
IFP School Petroleum Economics
and Management program, you
enhance your initial training through
a cutting-edge program in oil and
gas economics and management.
At IFP School, you will experience
your studies as a window onto
the world. All our programs have

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an international dimension, but

the Petroleum Economics and
Management program is unique.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

63%
Built on exceptional partnerships
in the United States and Europe,
Petroleum Economics and
Management program offers you
the opportunity of a dual academic
experience. By choosing to do part
of your studies with one of our
partners, you will be sharing a real
international adventure in a program
on a human scale.
At IFP School, we believe in human
values. The diversity of our students
is our strength. Eclectic backgrounds
(economists, engineers, legal
advisors, political scientists, etc.),
profiles (students, active workers)
and nationalities: you will be in a
multicultural context that will make
your everyday life a unique
experience.
IFP School Petroleum Economics
and Management program opens
doors to rich and diverse
international careers. With your
adaptability, your openness of mind
and the incomparable reach of
your network, the world is at your
doorstep.

Energy sector
41%

Economics / marketing
& management

22%
Upstream & downstream
techniques

14%

Consulting

14%

Banking & trading

9%

Others

PARTNER UNIVERSITIES

Colorado School of Mines, Texas A&M

University, Oklahoma University
(USA), Gubkin Russian State
University of Oil and Gas (Russia),
BI Norwegian School of Management
(Norway), University of Dundee (UK),
Essec, ESCP Europe, Audencia
(France).

PETROLEUM ECONOMICS
AND MANAGEMENT
APPLIED GRADUATE STUDIES

There are 30 to 35 students in this

program, some of whom are
sponsored by companies (through
sponsorships or study leave) that
finance their living expenses during
the academic period and contribute
towards their tuition.
Among these companies, the
following were IFP School partners
in recent years (non-exhaustive list):
Axens, Cepsa, GDF Suez, Petrobras,
Petronas, Rasgas, Saudi Aramco,
Schlumberger, SPP, Total, etc.
Sponsored (continuous)

PROGRAM CONTENT

This program in IFP School is divided into

3 major themes:
Business and management

Energy

Business accounting
Organizational behavior
Strategic marketing and management

Energy economics and development

Energy geopolitics
Upstream management
Downstream management
and sustainable development
Commodities markets
and trading
Production and reservoir engineering
Refining

Quantitative tools
Efficiency analysis of
the industrial firms
Linear programming
Advanced econometrics
Management Information Systems

23%

Courses in the partner universities

The program is organized in partnership with another university and
the successful student can be awarded two degrees.

8%
Professionals

61%
8%
Scholarship
recipients
Self-financed

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

The two examples of schedules shown

below correspond to the most
frequently encountered cases for
students in this program: 16-month
program for students with a 4- or 5year engineering degree, with two
semesters on partner premises (CSM,
TAMU, OU, Gubkin) to obtain a doubledegree, or one semester on partner
premises (BI Oslo, Dundee, ESCP
Europe, Essec, Audencia) and an
induction period in a company for
the IFP School degree alone.

Colorado School of Mines (USA)

Courses in economics, for example:
macroeconomics, microeconomics,
corporate finance, energy economics
and regulation, mineral asset valuation.

Texas A&M (USA)

Courses in reservoir engineering, for
example: petroleum reservoir description,
fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs,
enhanced oil recovery methods.

Oklahoma University (USA)

Courses in economics (managerial
economics, the energy outlook,
economics analysis and decision
marketing methods) and management
courses.

Gubkin University (Russia)

Courses in macroeconomics, microeconomics, exploration and drilling,
petroleum economics, gas markets,
in English and in Russian.

In the case of studying for the IFP School's degree only, the students will be able to
attend courses in upstream economics and upstream legal aspects at the CEPMLP of
the University of Dundee, or economics and management courses in the BI Norwegian
School of Management (Oslo), or in ESCP Europe or Essec (Paris), or in Audencia
(Nantes).

CSM, TAMU, OU, Gubkin

BI Oslo, Dundee, ESCP Europe, Essec, Audencia 16 months

IFP School
Company
Partner university

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