Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum Engineering:
- Drilling
- Reservoir
- Production
- Formation Evaluation/ Well Logging
- Exploration of Oil and Gas
In short, every techniques from exploring oil and gas to producing it and sending it to Refineries.
Petrochemical Engineering:
Processing the received oil and gas to get end products mainly the petrochemicals.
The principal end-use products are
• Synthetic Elastomers
• Plastics and Resins
• Synthetic Fibres and Films
• Detergents, Solvents, Paint, Varnishes and Plasticizers
• Agricultural Chemicals such as Fertilizers, Pesticides and Herbicides
• Automotive Chemicals Including Antifreeze Agents
• Pharmaceuticals
• Specialty chemicals like cosmetics, perfumery etc. for production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API), Coating, etc.
• New generation petrochemicals like emulsifier, floating agents.

Hi Saurav,
Petroleum engineers are employed in jobs which are mainly concentrated in oil and gas extraction, professional, scientific and technical services and petroleum refining.
One can also entail the option of working as a scientist/researcher to carry out the R&D processes. Employment is rest assured for graduates in this sector as the number of graduates passing out is always less than the number of jobs available.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, MECOM 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 Technology
• BR Ambedkar Technological University
• Indian School of Mines
• Maharashtra Institute of Technology
• Institute of Petroleum Studies and Chemical Engineering
• Nowrosjee Wadia College
• University of Petroleum Studies
• Institute of Cheminformatics Studies
• Dr. Harising Gour University
Students interested in pursuing courses in petroleum engineering can do the following:
• BE Petroleum Engineering
• BTech Applied Petroleum Engineering
• BTech Petrochemical Engineering
• BTech Petroleum Engineering
• BTech Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals Engineering
• BTech Petroleum Refining Engineering
• BTech Petroleum Reservoir And Production Engineering
• ME Petroleum Engineering
• MTech Petroleum Engineering
• MTech Petroleum Exploration
• MTech Petroleum Refinery Engineering
• MTech Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Engineering
Hope this information helps. Please feel free to revert.
Wish you luck.