Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme Under PTDF Strategic Partnerships In UK

The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), the Federal Government agency with the mandate of developing indigenous human capacity and petroleum technology to generally meet the wants of the oil and gas industry, invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for Overseas MSc and PhD Scholarships to institutions under its UK strategic partnership initiative. Successful candidates is likely to be awarded scholarships to study in UK commencing in the 2022/2023 academic session.

Overseas Postgraduate PTDF Scholarship Scheme in UK

Under this scheme, candidates are invited to apply through PTDF to specific programmes at the partner institutions in the countries (full listing of sponsored courses is available on our website www.ptdf.gov.ng and scholarship.ptdf.gov.ng ). The award includes the provision of flight tickets, payment of medical insurance, payment of tuition and bench fees (where applicable) along with the provision of allowances to generally meet the expenses of accommodation and living expenses.

Overseas Postgraduate PTDF Scholarship Scheme in UK Application Process

Applications are done online on our Scholarship Management Portal ( scholarship.ptdf.gov.ng ).

Selection Process, Criteria & Requirements

PTDF scholarships are highly competitive and only candidates who are outstanding across board are selected. A selection committee will be constituted to assess applications using the following criteria;

• Academic merit as evidenced by quality of degrees, full academic transcripts, other professional qualifications acquired, and relevant publications to be referenced by applicants

• Membership of professional bodies

• The viability of the study/research plan.

• Applicants are required to make a case for their scholarship by submitting a statement of purpose (maximum 500 words) stating the reason(s) they want to undertake the study, the relevance of the proposed study to the oil & gas industry and its expected impact on national development.

Overseas Postgraduate PTDF Scholarship Scheme in UK Requirements

1. MSc

1. A minimum of Second Class Upper (2.1) qualification in their first degree or a Second Class Lower (2.2) with relevant industry experience

2. Must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service (NYSC)

3. Must be computer literate

4. Possession of 5 O/level credits including Mathematics and English Language.

2. PhD

1. Must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service (NYSC)

2. Must be computer literate

3. A minimum of Second Class Lower (2.2) in their first degree and a good second-degree certificate;

4. Must submit a research proposal relevant to the oil and gas industry (of not more than 5 pages) to include: Topic, introduction, objective, methodology and mode of data collection (sample template of the proposal is available on our Scholarship Management Portal scholarship.ptdf.gov.ng);

5. Applicants must also include their master’s degree project

Overseas Postgraduate PTDF Scholarship Scheme in UK Required Documents

Applicants are advised to scan copies of the following documents and upload to their online application:

1. First Degree Certificate or Statement of Result

2. NYSC discharge certificate

3. WAEC/GCE/SSCE/NECO results

4. Local Government Identification Letter

5. Master’s Degree Certificate (PhD Applicants only)

6. Evidence of membership of professional associations

NOTE:

1. Applicants must have a National Identity Number (NIN) before applying for the scholarship. Applicants are also expected to their NIN before completing the application. (charges may apply).

2. Ongoing PhD Candidates could only apply provided their Universities are among the PTDF Partnership Universities as listed above;

3. Candidates who have benefitted from any of the PTDF scholarships in the past cannot apply for the same type of programme, except a higher programme;

4. Candidates who are in possession of a higher degree cannot apply for the same type of programme;

5. Candidates who are beneficiaries of any other scholarship need not apply;

6. Candidates who successfully scale through the first round of screening will be requested to submit their transcripts; all applicants are therefore advised to prepare their transcripts for submission in anticipation of such a request.

LIST OF UK UNIVERSITIES AND COURSES

 

S/No	University	M.Sc.	Ph.D.Research Fields/Groups/Clusters
1	RobertGordon University	Oil,Gas & Renewable Law Oiland Gas Engineering PetroleumProduction Engineering SolarEnergy Systems ComputerScience I.T.for the Oil & Gas Industry DataScience Drillingand Well Engineering Purchasing& Supply Chain Management LLMLaw and Energy Law EnergyManagement Oiland Gas Accounting & Finance ConstructionProject Management	Drillingand Well Engineering ProductionOptimisation – Unconventional and Complex Reservoirs Marginalfield development SubseaUmbilical, Risers, Flowlines (SURF) – Flow Assurance MechanisticModels for Sand Transport Decommissioning Renewablesand Clean Energy ProducedWater Management EnvironmentalSensing and Remediation Oiland Gas Law Predictivemaintenance of subsea assets – Operations management Logisticsfor oil and gas – Seismic data analytics
2	HeriotWatt University	RenewableEnergy Engineering PetroleumEngineering ReservoirEvaluation and Management Waterand Environmental Management MEngChemical Engineering Oiland Gas Technology) PetroleumGeosciences AppliedPetroleum Geoscience MatureField Management SubsurfaceEnergy Systems	PhDResearch Areas at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering PhDResearch Areas at the Energy Academy PhDResearch Areas at the Institute of Mechanical, Process, andEnergy Engineering PhDResearch Areas at the Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems PhDAppliedGeoscience PhDCarbonateReservoirs PhDCentrefor Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery and CO2 Solutions PhDFlowAssurance And Scale Team (FAST) PhDGeomaterials PhDGeoEnergyGroup PhDHydratesAnd PVT PhDPore-ScaleModelling PhDProductionEngineering and Technology PhDReservoirGeophysics PhDUncertaintyQuantification
3	DundeeUniversity	DataEngineering RenewableEnergy and Environmental Modelling GeotechnicalEngineering Oil& Gas Law and Policy InternationalOil and Gas Management EnergyOil and Gas Economics EnergyFinance PetroleumTaxation and Finance Managingin the Energy Industries EnergyLaw and Policy LLMMineral Law and Policy LLMNatural Resources Law and Policy Energyand the Environment	DataEngineering RenewableEnergy and Environmental Modelling GeotechnicalEngineering Oil& Gas Law and Policy InternationalOil and Gas Management EnergyOil and Gas Economics EnergyFinance PetroleumTaxation and Finance Managingin the Energy Industries EnergyLaw and Policy LLMMineral Law and Policy LLMNatural Resources Law and Policy Energyand the Environment
4	NewcastleUniversity	PipelineEngineering SubseaEngineering and Management OffshoreEngineering PetroleumGeochemistry CivilEngineering ChemicalEngineering with Sustainable Engineering EnvironmentalEngineering GeographicInformation Science ChemicalEngineering ChemicalEngineering with Process Control MechanicalEngineering with Bio-Engineering MarineTechnology with Offshore Engineering MechanicalEngineering ElectricalPower Engineering Electrical/ElectronicEngineering Electronics& Computer Engineering ComputerScience Operations,Logistics and Supply Chain Management RenewableEnergy, Enterprise and Management (REEM) SubseaEngineering and Management	Geomatics MarineTechnology MaterialsEngineering Geosciences
5	Universityof Manchester	AdvancedProcess Integration and Design CorrosionControl, Engineering PetroleumGeoscience for Reservoir Development and Production PetroleumExploration Geoscience ReliabilityEngineering and Asset Management Pollutionand Environmental Control ComputerScience SoftwareEngineering ChemicalEngineering PetroleumEngineering ComputerSystems Engineering CivilEngineering MechanicalEngineering MechatronicEngineering Electrical/ElectronicEngineering Biotechnology Operations,Project and Supply Chain Management ReliabilityEngineering and Asset Management	PetroleumExploration Geoscience PetroleumEngineering Biotechnology Multi-scalemodelling CompositeMaterials EnvironmentalGeochemistry and Geomicrobiology Structuraland Petrological Geoscience Petroleumgeoscience for reservoir development & production Renewableenergy & Clean Technology
6	Universityof Salford	Petroleumand Gas Engineering GasEngineering and Management DataScience CyberSecurity, Threat, Intelligence and Forensics ControlSystem and Engineering Safety,Health and Environment EnvironmentalAssessment and Management EnvironmentalPublic Health Procurement,Logistics and Supply Chain Management HumanResource Management InternationalBusiness	GasEngineering Safety,Health and Environment BusinessInformation System Petroleumand Gas Engineering DataScience CyberSecurity, Threat, Intelligence and Forensics Internetof things BigData SmartCities Decarbonization GasFlaring
7	Universityof Birmingham	BiochemicalEngineering Airpollution Management and Control GeotechnicalEngineering and Management ChemicalEngineering MechanicalEngineering Mechanical& Material Engineering MaterialsEngineering CivilEngineering Maths& Computer Engineering Computer& Software Engineering Geology Electrical/ElectronicEngineering EnvironmentalGeology EnvironmentalScience Biochemistry AdvancedChemical Engineering AdvancedComputer Science BiochemicalEngineering Chemistry CivilEngineering and Management Electronicand Computer Engineering Electronic,Electrical and Systems Engineering OccupationalHealth, Safety and Environment	Hydrogenand Fuel cells AtmosphericAir Pollution EnvironmentalSciences
8	Universityof Portsmouth	Energyand Power System Management PetroleumEngineering Energyand Power System Engineering MechanicalEngineering Petroleum& Gas Engineering EngineeringGeology Energyand Power Systems Management ElectronicEngineering EnvironmentalGeology and Contamination Geologicaland Environmental Hazards Crisisand Disaster Management GeographicalInformation Systems Coastaland Marine Resource Management	ReservoirEngineering FormationEvaluation Engineeringgeology and natural hazards Environmentalprocesses and impacts Crustalevolution Geologicalhazards group Disasterrisk reduction group Energyand resources group Ecotoxicologyand environmental monitoring group
9	Universityof Southampton	Computationalengineering design UnmannedAircraft Systems Design AdvancedChemical Engineering Mechatronics Engineeringmaterials Sustainableenergy technologies Energyand sustainability with electrical power engineering Energyand sustainability Maritimeengineering science (Offshore Engineering) Maritimeengineering science (Advanced Materials) Maritimeengineering science (Maritime Computational Fluid Dynamics) Maritimeengineering science (Naval Architecture) Maritimeengineering science (Marine Engineering) Propulsionand Engine Systems Engineering Environmentalmonitoring and assessment Environmentalpollution control Integratedenvironmental studies Waterresources management AppliedGIS and remote sensing Sustainability Marinegeology and geophysics Oceanscience Oceanography Civilengineering Maritimelaw SupplyChain Management and Logistics	Geologyand Geophysics MarineBiogeochemistry MarineBiology and Ecology Geochemistry EngineeringMaterials ThermalEnergy Geography(GIS and Remote Sensing)
10	CranfieldUniversity	AdvancedMaterials PetroleumChemistry and Technology ComputationalFluid Dynamics GasTurbine Technology ProcessSystems Engineering EnvironmentalEngineering Energyand Power EnergySystems and Thermal Processes FlowAssurance for Oil & Gas Production RenewableEnergy SubseaOil and Gas Exploitation Offshoreand Ocean Technology with Pipeline Engineering OffshoreEngineering Offshoreand Ocean Technology with Risk Management	Riskand Resilience Energyand Power PipelineEngineering Materials Corrosion Pipelines
11	Universityof Liverpool	PetroleumReservoir Geoscience Telecommunicationsand Wireless Systems BiomedicalEngineering EnvironmentalSciences Chemistryfor Sustainable Energy CivilEngineering ComputerScience & Electronic Engineering Electrical/ElectronicEngineering Energyand Power Systems Operationsand Supply Chain Management	Earthand Ocean Sciences MaritimeEngineering EnvironmentalChange
12	ImperialCollege London	EngineeringFluid Mechanics for Offshore, Coastal and Built Environment Nanomaterials PetroleumEngineering Geology& Geophysics PetroleumGeosciences Computing ChemicalEngineering Maths& Computer Science Electrical/ElectronicEngineering MechanicalEngineering MaterialsScience & Engineering Civiland Environmental Engineering EnvironmentalEngineering and Business Management	PetroleumEngineering CarbonateSedimentology Basinand Structures RockMechanics EnvironmentalQuality
13	King’sCollege London	ComputerSystem Engineering with Management AdvancedSoftware Engineering with Management EnvironmentalMonitoring and Management GlobalAir Pollution and Health: Management and Science Biochemistry ComputerScience Electronicand Information Engineering AdvancedComputing with Management Computingand Internet Systems Computingand Security IntelligentSystems ComputationalFinance DataScience ElectronicEngineering with Management Robotics Telecommunicationsand Internet Technologies	Imagingand Biomedical Engineering PollutionControl SoftwareEngineering Physics Mathematics Chemistry Informatics AIPlanning
14	UniversityCollege London	GeophysicalHazards EnergySystems and Data Analytics ChemicalProcess Engineering ComputerScience Electrical/ElectronicEngineering MechanicalEngineering CivilEngineering BiochemicalEngineering ChemicalEngineering EnvironmentalGeosciences Geology GlobalManagement of Natural Resources EnergySystems and Data Analytics EnvironmentalSystems Engineering	ChemicalEngineering EnvironmentalDesign Engineering HazardsMitigation EnvironmentalMonitoring
15	Universityof Nottingham	SustainableEnergy Engineering EnergyProcess System Engineering MechanicalEngineering CivilEngineering EnvironmentalEngineering ElectricalEngineering & Renewable Energy Systems ChemicalEngineering with Environmental Engineering ElectricalEngineering Electronic& Computer Engineering ChemicalEngineering EnvironmentalManagement Lawand Environmental Science ComputerScience Biotechnology SupplyChain and Operations Management LLMMaritime Law LLMInternational Commercial Law	CarbonCapture and Storage SustainableEngineering Systems Fluidand Thermal Engineering – Process Optimization Fluidand Thermal Engineering – Multi-phase Flow InternationalLaw – commercial transactions of thesea https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/law/study/postgraduate-research/supervision-areas.aspx FinanceandRisk https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/programmes/phd/subject-group-finance.aspx
16	Universityof Glasgow	CivilEngineering CivilEngineering and Management ComputerSystems Engineering Electronics& Electrical Engineering and Management SustainableEnergy MechanicalEngineering MechanicalEngineering and Management StructuralEngineering Mechatronics ComputerScience DataScience InformationSecurity InformationTechnology ITCyber Security SustainableWater Environments Land& Hydrographic Surveying Geospatial& Mapping Sciences GeoinformationTechnology & Cartography QuantumTechnology MresHeterogenous Catalysis DataAnalytics EnvironmentalStatistics Statistics Mathematics/AppliedMathematics Nuclear& Environmental Physics AdvancedFunctional Materials Physics:Energy & the Environment	Infrastructure& Environmental Engineering Systems,Power and Energy ComputingScience NetworkSystems Information,Data and Analysis (IDA) SolidEarth (Critical Geology) QuantitativeGeomorphology Statistics Mathematics Physics Chemistry Biochemistryand Biotechnology
17	Universityof Strathclyde	MScOil and Gas Innovation MScAdvanced Chemical & Process Engineering MScSubsea and Pipeline Engineering MScSustainable Engineering: Offshore Renewable Energy MScAdvanced Mechanical Engineering with Energy Systems MScAdvanced Mechanical Engineering with Materials MScAdvanced Mechanical Engineering with Power Plant Technologies MScin Supply Chain and Logistics Management MScin Supply Chain and Procurement Management MScin Supply Chain and Sustainability Management MScGlobal Energy Management	Chemical& Process Engineering Mechanical& Aerospace Engineering NavalArchitecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering
18	Universityof Aberdeen	MScPetroleum Engineering MScAdvanced Chemical Engineering MScOil & Gas Engineering MScRenewable Energy Engineering MScSafety & Reliability Engineering MScSafety & Reliability Engineering for Oil & Gas MScSubsea Engineering MScGlobal Subsea Engineering (Study in Aberdeen AND Perth, WesternAustralia) MScOffshore Engineering MScProcess Safety MScAdvanced Mechanical Engineering MScAdvanced Structural Engineering MScDecommissioning MScTransport Engineering MScOil & Gas Enterprise Management MScIntegrated Petroleum Geoscience MScGeophysics MScPetroleum Data Management MScEnvironmental Partnership Management MScGeographical Information Systems MScPetroleum, Energy Economics & Finance MScStrategic Studies & Energy Security MScLaw & Economics of Oil & Gas MBAEnergy Management LLMOil & Gas Law MScEnergy Politics & Law LLMEnergy & Environmental Law LLMEnergy Law MScAnalytical Chemistry MScEnvironmental Science MScArtificial Intelligence MScData Science	PetroleumEngineering ChemicalEngineering ChemicalProcessing Oil& Gas Exploration & Production Oil& Gas Engineering Subsea SubseaEngineering Unconventionals PetroleumGeology ProductionGeology Sedimentology ReservoirEngineering Petrophysics Oil& Gas Law EnvironmentalLaw Law& Regulation Safety,Reliability & Integrity EnvironmentalMonitoring Decommissioning CarbonCapture & Storage EnergyEconomics PetroleumEconomics RenewableEnergy EnergyDemand & Efficiency Energy,Society and Culture DataScience & Artificial Intelligence