Many people have been of the opinion that petroleum engineering is not a good course to study again. As at now, it remains the most lucrative engineering job in the world apart from ICT related ones In some countries. On an average, it is. Below are the facts about petroleum engineering and other oil and gas related jobs.

Petroleum engineers design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from deposits below the Earth’s surface. Petroleum engineers also find new ways to extract oil and gas from older wells.

Duties of Petroleum Engineers
Petroleum engineers typically do the following:

Design equipment to extract oil and gas in the most profitable way
Develop ways to inject water, chemicals, gases, or steam into an oil reserve to force out more oil
Develop plans to drill in oil and gas fields, and then to recover the oil and gas
Evaluate the production of wells through testing and surveys
Use computer-controlled drilling or fracturing to connect a larger area of an oil and gas deposit to a single well
Make sure that oil field equipment is installed, operated, and maintained properly
Oil and gas deposits, or reservoirs, are located deep in rock formations underground. These reservoirs can only be accessed by drilling wells, either on land or at sea from offshore oil rigs.

Once oil and gas are discovered, petroleum engineers work with geoscientists and other specialists to understand the geologic formation of the rock containing the reservoir. They then determine the drilling methods, design the drilling equipment, implement the drilling plan, and monitor operations.

The best techniques currently being used recover only a portion of the oil and gas in a reservoir, so petroleum engineers also research and develop new ways to recover more of the oil and gas. This helps to lower the cost of drilling and production.

The following are examples of types of petroleum engineers:

Completions engineers decide the best way to finish building wells so that oil or gas will flow up from underground. They oversee work to complete the building of wells, which might involve the use of tubing, hydraulic fracturing, or pressure-control techniques.

Drilling engineers determine the best way to drill oil or gas wells, taking into account a number of factors, including cost. They also ensure that the drilling process is safe, efficient, and minimally disruptive to the environment.

Production engineers take over wells after drilling is completed. They typically monitor wells’ oil and gas production. If wells are not producing as much as expected, production engineers figure out ways to increase the amount being extracted.

Reservoir engineers estimate how much oil or gas can be recovered from underground deposits, known as reservoirs. They study reservoirs’ characteristics and determine which methods will get the most oil or gas out of them. They also monitor operations to ensure that the optimal levels of these resources are being recovered.

Petroleum engineers held about 35,100 jobs in 2014. The industries that employed the most petroleum engineers were as follows:

Oil and gas extraction 45%
Support activities for mining 16
Management of companies and enterprises 9
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing 9
Engineering services 4

Petroleum engineers generally work in offices or in research laboratories. However, they also must spend time at drilling sites, often for long periods of time. This means they must travel, sometimes with little notice.

Petroleum engineers work around the world; in fact, the best employment opportunities may include some work in other countries. Petroleum engineers also must be able to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, including other oil and gas workers who will carry out the engineers’ drilling plans.

Petroleum Engineer Work Schedules
Petroleum engineers typically work full time. However, about 2 in 5 worked more than 40 hours a week in 2014. Overtime may be necessary when traveling to and from drilling sites to help in their operation or respond to problems when they arise. When they are at a drilling site, it is common for these engineers to work in a rotation: on duty for 84 hours and then off duty for 84 hours.

The median annual wage for petroleum engineers was $130,050 in May 2014. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $73,990, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $187,200.

In May 2014, the median annual wages for petroleum engineers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:

Management of companies and enterprises $154,410
Engineering services 143,940
Oil and gas extraction 142,620
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing 118,190
Support activities for mining 102,370
Petroleum engineers typically work full time. However, about 2 in 5 worked more than 40 hours a week in 2014. Overtime may be necessary when traveling to and from drilling sites to help in their operation or respond to problems when they arise. When they are at a drilling site, it is common for these engineers to work in a rotation: on duty for 84 hours and then off duty for 84 hours.


I wish to reiterate that comparing one engineering course is just show of ignorance of the engineering field. No field is independent of the other. Areas of specialisation does not mean you can work anywhere. In fact, you can only be specialised singly.

No jobs in d oil industry for fresh grads again.. Go and study ICT..

dingbang:
No jobs in d oil industry for fresh grads again.. Go and study ICT..

nah