What is the scope of petroleum engineering in future?

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Mehar Sharma Lovely Professional University | Scholar-Level 16

4 years ago

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Dear Manish, The need for petroleum will always stay and rise even in the future. This means that the top players in the field will also rise higher. Some of the main players in the petroleum sector are ONGC, SHELL, Gas Authority of India Ltd. Hindustan Petroleum Corporate Limited, Reliance Energy, and many more. The subject of petroleum engineering touches upon a variety of topics and domains like Economics, Geochemistry, Geology, geomechanics, geophysics, seismology, plate tectonics, thermodynamics, gas production, oil drilling, and many others. Petroleum engineers are one of the highest-paid engineering disciplines as the demand for oil and gas is very high all over the world. Therefore, they require professionals who can extract maximum oil and gas. The job prospects of a petroleum engineer are very high as compared to others. LPU is the best engineering college in India. LPU becomes the best place to pursue an engineering degree with highly qualified teaching staff, best laboratories, and modern technologies. LPU provides abundant opportunities for students to think out of the box. Highlights of this programme at LPU are - 1) Bridge courses may be offered. 2 ) International Exposure Option - Students may be given an option to go for 4 weeks study tour to the USA/ European countries or any other country as decided by the University subject to conditions. LPU provides placement opportunities to all the deserving candidates, from all courses. It's up to the student's capability to be able to grab the opportunity or not. Till now thousands of students are placed at a very good package all around the world. Some of the alumni are working in the top 10 brands in the world. Over 10,000 offers made in recent years by top recruiters - LPU becomes the favorite landing place for top recruiters like Cognizant Technology Solutions, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini, Amazon, Bosch Engineering, Tata Consultancy Services, Meditab, and many more! Cognizant hires over 2500+ LPU students in recent years - For Cognizant, LPU has been the destination to pick a market-ready workforce as it has selected 2500+ plus engineering students over the years. Good Luck !

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Sunil Soni Management & IT Consultant | Scholar-Level 18

8 years ago

Petroleum engineering is a niche field of engineering concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. India has very well developed Petrochemical Industry including Petroleum & gas both in Government and private sector. It is core sector with lot of Government and big corporate houses support. Petroleum l Engineers have good scope in India and abroad. However, you must take into consideration that Petroleum engineering has historically been one of the highest paid engineering disciplines, although there is a tendency for mass layoffs in private sector worldwide when

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