What is the scope of petroleum engineering in the upcoming years?
Asked by Khaled Ahmed
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Many petroleum and gas companies offer the job to petroleum engineers. Petroleum engineers can also work in drilling sites. Job opportunities for the professionals of this field also exist in foreign countries like the United States. Petroleum engineering degree holders can also start their career in teaching field. If you are looking for best university for petroleum engineering course, I would say Lovely professional University is best University to pursue this course. Lovely Professional University is the best engineering college in India. LPU becomes the best place to pursue an engineering degree with highly qualified teaching staf...more
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Many petroleum and gas companies offer the job to petroleum engineers. Petroleum engineers can also work in drilling sites. Job opportunities for the professionals of this field also exist in foreign countries like the United States. Petroleum engineering degree holders can also start their career in teaching field. 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...more
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There are many good oil & gas companies operating in India and they offer good roles. A lot of companies directly or through consultancies hire Indian for foreign locations. Also, in oil & gas industry one can directly apply to outside India and can expect to be hired if have a good profile. So prospects are not bad. But, as far I have seen it - oil & gas industry doesn't really work the way all other when it comes to picking candidates. Someone, just going to college and finishing with good grades might find it difficult to land a desired job. This industry looks for people with a lot of people and management skill. Proact...more
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Dear Khaleed, 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 fo...more
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The oil & gas industry is a cyclical one. If you can ride through the low tides and cash in during the high ones, petroleum engineering is the right choice for you.
Having said that, PE can get placed in PSUs (in India via GATE) and other private companies like Schlumberger, Shell, Cairn, etc. The post of a petroleum engineer is a lucrative one, considering the humongous packages that they earn.
Once you go for a higher degree and with relevant experience, you will become indispensable to the industry as it is slowly facing manpower shortage and a generation gap in its workforce.
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