Petroleum engineers help find oil and gas for the country's energy needs. 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.
Personal Competencies
You like to assemble things
You like to do experiments
You like Science and Maths
You like working outdoors
Entry Pathway
1. Complete 10 + 2 in the Science stream (Physics, Chemistry and Biology)
2. Complete Bachelor's degree (B.E/B.Tech/B.Sc) in Petroleum Engineering
OR
Complete a Diploma in Petroleum Engineering OR Complete a Bachelor's degree followed by a Master's degree (M.E/M.Tech/MSc) in the same or allied field.
For admissions, you must qualify entrance examination conducted at national level ( JEE Main, JEE Advanced etc.) or state level (WBJEE, AP EAMCET etc.) or institute level (VET, IP etc.)
Please check the duration of the course during enrolment
Where will you study?
This course is offered by the Department of Chemical Engineering. This list of institutes is indicative only
Government Institutes 1. MBM University, Jodhpur 2. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering, Kakinada 3. IIT Dhanbad, Jharkhand 4. Alagappa College of Technology, Chennai 5. Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh 6. Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam 7. Government Polytechnic College, Jodhpur (Diploma) 8. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi
Private Institutes (Please check if institute is affiliated and accredited with UGC and AICTE before applying) 1. Presidency University, Bangalore 2. University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 3 .Manipal University, Jaipur 4. MIT WPU Faculty of Engineering, Pune 5. Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur 6. Aditya Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh 7. OPJS University, Rajgarh 8. NIMS University, Jaipur
* NPTEL- National Programme in Technology Enhanced Learning. It is by the Government of India and offers a variety of courses in an audio-video form
Fees
• The approx. course fee ranges between INR 15,000-3,00,000 *
*(The above mentioned figures are approximate numbers. This will vary from Institute to Institute)
Scholarships & Loans
Scholarships
• Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Scholarship - This scholarship is provided to students enrolled in the first year of their engineering undergraduate course. Eligibility includes an aptitude test. It is awarded by the Government of India for economically backward students who have a strong aptitude for scientific research.*
• Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship - About 20,000 such engineering scholarships are awarded by the Ministry of Minority Affairs every year. The full course fees of awardees is directly paid to their institutions under this scheme.*
• Indian Oil Educational Scholarship - The IOC Ltd offers 300 scholarships every year to eligible students. Students need to be enrolled in an undergraduate course. The scholarship particularly focuses on students with physical disabilities, women and students from North East and J&K.*
• National Scholarship Portal - Visit http://www.scholarships.gov.in the National Scholarship Portal. Under this portal there are central government schemes offered by different departments, UGC/AICTE Schemes and State Schemes.*
• Scholarships are made available by institutes themselves based on merit.*
*(Availability of these scholarships vary from time to time)
Loans
• VidyaLakshmi, http://www.vidyalakshmi.co.in, is a portal for students seeking education loan. This portal has been developed under the guidance of the Department of Financial Services, (Ministry of Finance), Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Human Resource Development) and Indian Banks Association (IBA).
• Some states have student credit cards with low interest rates, for instance, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, etc.
• All banks give education loans.
Where will you work?
Places of Work: Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas Companies, Petroleum and Petrol Refining Companies etc
Work Environment: You will work in an office set up. Local travel is part of the job profile. You are likely to work in a team. You are likely to work 5 to 6 days a week, 9 to 10 hours every day.
Opportunities for work exist for the differently abled in this field
Expected Growth Path
Associate Chemical Engineer → Petroleum Engineer → Senior Chemical Engineer, Petroleum
Expected Income
The approx. salary of a Petroleum Engineer ranges between INR 16,750-3,34,000* per month
Sanchita Banerjee, is the first woman engineer of Oil India Ltd. An alumnus of Calcutta University, where she studied engineering, she joined Oil India Limited in 1985 and started working as a shift engineer at the extraction plant of LPG from Natural Gas through cryogenic process in Assam. Within the organization, she has been instrumental in bringing about policies on maternity leave, child care leave and worked on issues of foreign training and foreign posting for women employees, management training for junior employees, and so on. She is now a retired executive director at Oil India Ltd.*
Petroleum Engineer
NCS Code: 2145.0500 | E0241. Complete 10 + 2 in the Science stream (Physics, Chemistry and Biology)
2. Complete Bachelor's degree (B.E/B.Tech/B.Sc) in Petroleum Engineering
OR
Complete a Diploma in Petroleum Engineering OR Complete a Bachelor's degree followed by a Master's degree (M.E/M.Tech/MSc) in the same or allied field.
For admissions, you must qualify entrance examination conducted at national level ( JEE Main, JEE Advanced etc.) or state level (WBJEE, AP EAMCET etc.) or institute level (VET, IP etc.)
Please check the duration of the course during enrolment
This course is offered by the Department of Chemical Engineering.
This list of institutes is indicative only
Government Institutes
1. MBM University, Jodhpur
2. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering, Kakinada
3. IIT Dhanbad, Jharkhand
4. Alagappa College of Technology, Chennai
5. Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh
6. Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam
7. Government Polytechnic College, Jodhpur (Diploma)
8. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi
Private Institutes
(Please check if institute is affiliated and accredited with UGC and AICTE before applying)
1. Presidency University, Bangalore
2. University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun
3 .Manipal University, Jaipur
4. MIT WPU Faculty of Engineering, Pune
5. Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur
6. Aditya Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh
7. OPJS University, Rajgarh
8. NIMS University, Jaipur
Information on the institute rankings can be found at - https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/Ranking.html
Distance learning Institute
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
Online courses
• NPTEL* Swayam - onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_ch24/preview
• Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=petroleum%20engineering
* NPTEL- National Programme in Technology Enhanced Learning. It is by the Government of India and offers a variety of courses in an audio-video form
• The approx. course fee ranges between INR 15,000-3,00,000 *
*(The above mentioned figures are approximate numbers. This will vary from Institute to Institute)
Scholarships
• Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Scholarship - This scholarship is provided to students enrolled in the first year of their engineering undergraduate course. Eligibility includes an aptitude test. It is awarded by the Government of India for economically backward students who have a strong aptitude for scientific research.*
• Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship - About 20,000 such engineering scholarships are awarded by the Ministry of Minority Affairs every year. The full course fees of awardees is directly paid to their institutions under this scheme.*
• Indian Oil Educational Scholarship - The IOC Ltd offers 300 scholarships every year to eligible students. Students need to be enrolled in an undergraduate course. The scholarship particularly focuses on students with physical disabilities, women and students from North East and J&K.*
• National Scholarship Portal - Visit http://www.scholarships.gov.in the National Scholarship Portal. Under this portal there are central government schemes offered by different departments, UGC/AICTE Schemes and State Schemes.*
• Visit http://www.buddy4study.com a gateway to scholarships starting from Class XI.*
• Scholarships are made available by institutes themselves based on merit.*
*(Availability of these scholarships vary from time to time)
Loans
• VidyaLakshmi, http://www.vidyalakshmi.co.in, is a portal for students seeking education loan. This portal has been developed under the guidance of the Department of Financial Services, (Ministry of Finance), Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Human Resource Development) and Indian Banks Association (IBA).
• Some states have student credit cards with low interest rates, for instance, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, etc.
• All banks give education loans.
Places of Work: Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas Companies, Petroleum and Petrol Refining Companies etc
Work Environment: You will work in an office set up. Local travel is part of the job profile. You are likely to work in a team. You are likely to work 5 to 6 days a week, 9 to 10 hours every day.
Opportunities for work exist for the differently abled in this field
Associate Chemical Engineer → Petroleum Engineer → Senior Chemical Engineer, Petroleum
The approx. salary of a Petroleum Engineer ranges between INR 16,750-3,34,000* per month
Source: https://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Job=Petroleum_Engineer/Salary
*These figures are indicative and subject to change
Experts from the field
Sanchita Banerjee, is the first woman engineer of Oil India Ltd. An alumnus of Calcutta University, where she studied engineering, she joined Oil India Limited in 1985 and started working as a shift engineer at the extraction plant of LPG from Natural Gas through cryogenic process in Assam. Within the organization, she has been instrumental in bringing about policies on maternity leave, child care leave and worked on issues of foreign training and foreign posting for women employees, management training for junior employees, and so on. She is now a retired executive director at Oil India Ltd.*
Source: https://www.accenture.com/in-en/about/inclusion-diversity/vaahini-sanchita-banerjee
*The above information is for training purposes only and will not be used for any commercial gains
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