Petroleum Engineering

Career prospects are quite attractive in petroleum sector as petroleum companies have great influence and offer attractive salaries to employees. The demand for petroleum and petroleum products is only expected to increase and the increase would lead to creation of new jobs. In fact, there is great demand of efficient petroleum engineers and almost every young graduate in petroleum engineering gets a job offer from petrol and gas companies from India and overseas. Besides getting jobs in Indian petroleum companies, candidates with qualification in petroleum engineering get jobs in Reliance Industries Ltd, ONGC, Schlumberger, British Gas, Halliburton Services, Essar Oil, GSPC, Shell, OIL, Gas Authority of India Ltd, Cairn Energy, IOCL, Essar Oil Ltd, NIKO Resources, GEOENPRO, M.Com Ltd, Baker Hughes, Reliance Energy, etc. Amongst many others. Top Institutes
The following institutes offer academic qualification in petroleum engineering:Bharathisadan Institute of Engineering and TechnologyBR Ambedkar Technological UniversityIndian School of MinesMaharashtra Institute of TechnologyInstitute of Petroleum Studies and Chemical EngineeringNowrosjee Wadia CollegeUniversity of Petroleum StudiesInstitute of Cheminformatics StudiesDr. Harising Gour University
Students interested in pursuing courses in petroleum engineering can do the following:BE Petroleum EngineeringB.Tech Applied Petroleum EngineeringB.Tech Petrochemical EngineeringB.Tech Petroleum EngineeringB.Tech Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals EngineeringB.Tech Petroleum Refining EngineeringB.Tech Petroleum Reservoir And Production EngineeringME Petroleum EngineeringM.Tech Petroleum EngineeringM.Tech Petroleum ExplorationM.Tech Petroleum Refinery EngineeringM.Tech Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Engineering

I personally don't recommend petroleum engineering as your Bachelor's degree. Always pursue your Bachelor's degree in core sector, so that you can have a strong backup. Moreover, as this sector is cyclic in nature, it does't assure you jobs in odd times. Petroleum engineering very specialised and streamlined course. It is better to choose such courses at Master's level. If you pursue your degree in mechanical, chemical, civil or any other core branch, the basic fundamentals will remain same. As petroleum engineering is applied branch, fundamentals from your Bachelor will be useful. Anyone can enter in Petroleum engineering but vice versa may not be possible. Today 70 % petroleum graduates in India struggling to get the job in Petroleum sector. They end up with no option other than going for MS or working with small companies. Don't go behind fancy packages they show it as the survey. I know good engineers working for peanuts (2500 month salary provided by one of the rig contractors). People may criticize me but this is reality and one has to accept it (I am talking about Indian point of view where energy sector is still emerging). Now, it's up to you.