Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum engineer is a qualified engineer who has specialised in the study of oil and natural gas and its various methods of extraction as well as other technicalities related to the field. A petroleum engineer has to deal with several factors including exploration of new oil field and wells. One has to assess the natural characteristics and also the production mechanism. You need to work with geologists, analysts, geophysicists, safety engineers, and environmentalists as well.

To become an engineer you need to take petroleum engineering at undergraduate level and also masters in the same field will give you better placements. But you need to have done science in the plus two levels. People who have done master in chemistry are also eligible to do masters in this petroleum engineering. As a petroleum engineer you can be hired by various refineries, and today natural gas and oil are the key features of an economy. You can also be hired by the Union and state department of Oil and natural gas as well as private and corporate giants can hire you as well. There are several universities that offer engineering in the field of Petroleum. The University of Texas Austin is the best in the whole of US in offering a course in this field. Stanford, University of Tulsa, University of Oklahoma, Colorado school of Mines, are other popular universities in the same field.

After finalising a college you need to apply and sit for entrance examinations to get admissions to reputed institutes. But just admission test will not do your high school grades are very important especially of maths, computer, chemistry, physics, biology etc. Computer engineering is a vast field you can choose a subfield for specialisation like drilling engineering, gas production engineering. This can be done in the final two years or at the master’s level.

Most of the Universities offer a four year undergraduate program and masters can be done in one year only. These Universities generally offer 100% placement. The starting salary of a petroleum engineer is anything around $58,000- $65,000 annually. The job of a petroleum engineer is very demanding  can be in remote refineries with long working hours or at some research centre and thus they are given several perks by the company.

Education these days have become very expensive and especially if it’s engineering or medical. Most of these institutes offer scholarship programs and some bright ones can offer 75 percent scholarship on tuition fee and the fund amount can go up to hundred thousand dollars. But for availing these scholarships you need to have very high SAT scores. Students of the University can get various grants, as well as students’ loan depending on their performance.

To support the high education cost budding engineers can take up summer jobs which would not only enhance their resume and the remuneration would help in bearing expenses. These summer jobs pay $2,000- $5,000 depending on the ability of the student. Petroleum engineering is a demanding field but is among the highest paid engineering jobs.

Petroleum engineering is the course which involves the production cycle of petroleum and natural gas. The course specifies 4 different stages for the production cycle of the natural gas. The stages are mentioned below:

1.     Extraction

2.     Purification

3.     Production

4.     Utilization

Students who wish to make their career in petroleum engineering field should possess the interest to know earth science because the job of the petroleum engineers is to remove the oil and gas reservoirs beneath the earth’s surface.

The petroleum engineering degree involves lot of travelling. Most of the petroleum engineer students travel the world or even live in foreign countries. It depends on the type of work which takes them to the places like deserts, high seas and mountains.

Petroleum engineers play a very important role in common man’s life. They serve people and provide energy to heat their homes, cook their food and fuel their cars. This is the only profession which opens the multiple doors for the students. The students or the petroleum engineers can work at drilling sites or work on a laptop or work indoors in a laboratory.

It is seen that in India there are very limited institutions which offer the petroleum engineering degree to the students. In India there is less awareness in parents about the petroleum engineering course. Few of the Indian institutions are mentioned below:

1.     ISM Dhanbad

2.     Rajiv Gandhi Institute of petroleum technology.

3.     Pandit Deendayal petroleum university.

4.     Maharashtra institute of petroleum engineering.

The course needs lot of hard-work from the students. The applicants, who apply for the degree of petroleum engineering should be ambitious and focused. In this engineering course the main importance is given to two things, oil exploration and processing of crude oils.

Also, the foreign countries have managed to gather more importance to the petroleum engineering colleges. Few of the foreign based petroleum engineering colleges are mentioned below:

1.     West Virginia University

2.     Stanford University

3.     University of Tulsa

4.     Texas Tech University

5.     University of Kansas

The best way to explain the petroleum engineering degree is that, it is a procedure which makes the students capable to give mathematical and scientific means to design, to extract, process and refine the crude petroleum and natural gas. The procedure includes instruments and equipments, mining and drilling systems, processing and refining systems, storage facilities and transportation systems.

Due to the advanced technology, there is the availability of the online engineering courses. These are the degree programs which make an individual eligible for multiple careers. Students apply for the online programs so that they can study as well as work at the same time.

The constant running of the world highly depends on the job of the petroleum engineer. It is studied that the manufacturers make the use of petroleum for the manufacture of the products from medicines and cosmetics to plastics and textiles.

The petroleum engineer colleges also offer full time and the part time courses to the students who wish to make their career in the terrific field of petroleum engineering.

Petroleum engineering is a degree course which involves the extraction of crude oil or natural gas from below the surface of the earth.

Since, petroleum engineering program is not very popular among parents, there are fewer students who apply for the course and also there are fewer schools which offer the course of petroleum engineering especially in India. But it is proved that petroleum engineering is an essential field.

Due to the availability of high competition in the industry people are always ready to face the challenging jobs which include petroleum engineering to be one of them. Normally the petroleum engineering schools educate the students with the bachelor’s degree. But the students who chose to pursue their studies to obtain a master or doctorate degree will be eligible to opt for higher paid jobs in this diverse field.

The graduates who have passed out from the petroleum engineering schools will be eligible for the following jobs:

1.     Civil engineer

2.     Chemical engineer

3.     Environmental engineer

4.     Mechanical engineer

5.     Biomedical engineer

6.     Industrial engineer

It is studied that most of the petroleum engineering schools qualify the students in following four fields:

1.     Mechanical

2.     Electrical

3.     Electronics and

4.     Civil

The engineering schools lay more emphasis on subjects like maths and science. Few schools give importance to the other subjects such as research design and methods, structural designs, general engineering classes and laboratory work.

There are many institutes or schools which offer online petroleum engineering programs. An undergraduate engineering program, prepares the student with a well-rounded education, but the specialization is offered in one particular field. The schools provide proper education about the petroleum engineering that the student is capable enough to face any type of challenges and difficulties involved in this field.

The petroleum engineers get lot of opportunities to prove themselves. The petroleum engineering schools shares a very great responsibility of giving the highly qualified students not only to the student’s parents but also to the industry. The bright future of the industry is completely depended on the education of these engineers.

The petroleum engineering schools educate the students in such a manner that they can move into the other area such as entrepreneurship and consulting. The students can also opt for the field of sales engineering which is considered to be the most developing field. The schools also involve the system of providing scholarships to the students who really come out with flying marks and good percentage.

As the petroleum engineering field is considered to be one of the most challenging one, the schools give job preferences to the students who score the highest percentage. The big companies grasp the students from the schools itself and the institution or the school also supports the desired student in every possible means.

Since, the future of the petroleum engineer is filled with lots of opportunities and challenges, it is considered to be one of the highest paid jobs. Rest, depends fully on the qualification and experience of the petroleum engineers.

Petroleum engineering is a procedure which is related to the activities which includes the production of hydrocarbons which can be either crude oil or natural gas.

The petroleum engineers are offered jobs mainly in three fields which include Drilling engineers, Production engineers and Reservoir engineers. The engineers from this particular field are offered the following jobs:

1.     Exploration and Well Logging

2.     Advanced Drilling

3.     Field sales engineer

4.     Plant Superintendent

5.     Associate Facilities engineer

The job of the petroleum engineers involves lot of stress and hard-work. Sometimes the job involves even the unpredictable factors. Actually the job of the petroleum engineer demands the individual to work directly from the field. Very rare the petroleum engineer is required to report at the desk for the report analysis and recommendations.

Due to the advanced technology and increasing competition, it has become really difficult and challenging to acquire the desired position by the applicants. The candidates should possess the qualities to face the unpredictable changes involved in this field. The proper qualification and the experience of the applicant make it easy for the companies to offer them jobs for the right and perfect positions.

It is a important for petroleum engineer to possess the bachelors degree in the field related to earth sciences. But it is also seen, that the applicants who possess only the bachelors degree, for them it is difficult to get job in some of the companies. So, more and more candidates are applying to pursue their bachelor’s degree on higher level.

The petroleum candidates should also possess special interest in the subjects of physical sciences and mathematics. There is the involvement of the analytical reasoning which proves that the student should possess the knowledge in chemistry and math.

As the petroleum engineer comes to an end of the degree, there is the availability of the wide range of the career options in front of him. The degree and the extreme experience of the students, which is gained at the time of the course, qualify them to be geologists, geophysicists, or energy economists. The petroleum engineer gets the flexibility to remain in the industry and at the same time apply for the posts of petroleum landman, drilling engineer, well-log analyst, chemical engineer or reservoir engineer.

The main job of the petroleum engineer is to find the safest and efficient means for extraction of crude oil and natural gas. As the procedure of the extraction gets over, then it is the responsibility and job of the petroleum engineer to break down the site by disassembling the drills and determining the amount of fossil fuel that rest in the deposits band  also the depth, quality and recoverability of that supply.

With the minimum experience of only two years the petroleum engineers gets the opportunity to become the assistant to the highly educated and experienced petroleum engineers. After two years the assistant petroleum engineers gets the opportunity to and handle sites independently