The importance of petroleum in overturning the modern world is beyond description.The fact that main wars fought in the twenteeth century were for oil reveals the importance of it in the human life.
Since new offshore oil deposits have been explored and oil fields are developed, there is a a huge demand for professionals in this industry.To get a job in this industry, you got to study petroleum engineering or petrochemical engineering.Petroleum Engineering deals with oil search & exploration of presence of oil in the ocean or below the atmospheric level.Mining, land preparation and survey and reservoir engineering etc are a part of it.A petrochemical engineer is responsible for purification or refining of crude oil in to different products ready to hit the market.
Due to lack of qualified guys in this field,companies do induct Mechanical and Chemical Engineers and give them proper training.Degree programs in Petroleum Engineering are offered by many universities namely, Indian School of Mines University (ISMU) Dhanbad and School of Petroleum Technology and Gandhinagar.Courses like Integrated Btech (Applied Petroleum Management), MBA (Oil and Gas Management), Integrated BTech (Gas Engineering), MBA (Upstream Asset Management) are offered by University of Petroleum and Energy Studies at Dehradun.
