World-class education since 1955
DPE’s roots go back to 1955, establishing the first chair ‘Drilling and Oil Production’ followed by ‘Reservoir Physics and Technology’ in 1976. Completing the hydrocarbon trio, ‘Drilling and Completion Engineering’ was added in 2001.
Strength lies in union: Since January 2015, the three chairs of ‘ Drilling and Completion Engineering’, ‘Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Recovery’ and ‘Reservoir Engineering’ are consolidated in the Department Petroleum Engineering (DPE). In June 2016, the new DPE center was opened. These two milestones are key for sharing resources and combining the collective technical and administrative expertise.
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2001
Depart-
ment PE
Department Mineral
Resources and PE
Department Petroleum
Engineering
O.Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.h.c.
Zoltán
Heinemann
Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont.
Peter
Moser
Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont.
Helmut
Flachberger
Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont.
G. Thon-
hauser
Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Phys. Dr.rer.nat.
Holger
Ott
Lehrstuhl für Tiefbohrtechnik
und Erdölgewinnung
Lehrstuhl Production
Engineering
Chair of Petroleum and
Geothermal Energy Recovery
O.Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.h.c.
Gottfried
Prikel
O.Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing.
Manfred
Lorbach
O.Univ.Prof.
B.S. M.S. PhD
Michael J.
Economides
O.Univ.-Prof.
Dr.mont. B.S. M.S.
Keith K.
Millheim
Univ.-Prof.
Bergrat h.c. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont.
Gerhard
Ruthammer
Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont.
Herbert
Hofstätter
1976
Lehrstuhl für Lagerstätten-
physik und -technik
Chair of Reservoir
Engineering
O.Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.h.c.
Zoltán
Heinemann
Univ.-Prof.
DI Dr.mont.
Leonh.
Ganzer
Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Geol. PhD
Stephan
Matthäi
Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Phys. Dr.rer.nat.
Holger
Ott
2001
Lehrstuhl für Tiefbohrtechnik und
Produktionssondenkomplettierung
Chair of Drilling and
Completion Engineering
Univ.-Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont.
Gerhard
Thonhauser
1964
Lehrstuhl für Angewandte
Geophysik und Erdölgeologie
Merged with Department Angewandte
Geowissenschaften und Geophysik
O.Univ.-Prof.
Dr.phil. Dr.h.c.
Franz
Weber