Chemical Engineering

Petroleum Engineering

The skills from it and the best universities around the world to study it

By: Anmol Shankhi, Journalist

October 24, 2024

According to Britannica and indeed.com in related stories, Petroleum Engineering is a branch of engineering that allows the development and exploitation of crude oil gas and natural gas. Experts in this field evaluate oil and gas reservoirs to determine profitability and ensure that the drilling process will be safer and more efficient. Avanse.com, in related stories, describes Petroleum Engineering as the science of engineering related to hydrocarbons in liquefied crude oil. It holds tremendous potential in the oil/gas sector. According to pge.texas.edu, in related stories, petroleum engineering can also be described as mechanical, civil, and chemical engineering.

Education and Skills for Petroleum Engineering

According to related stories on Avanse.com, Petroleum engineering usually requires understanding Geophysics, Petroleum Geology, Formation Evaluation, Drilling, Reservoir Simulation, Reservoir Engineering, Well Engineering, Gas Facilities Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, and Chemistry. Other skills required are tech skills.

According to Avanse.com in related stories, The best universities in the globe for Petroleum Engineering are the National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore, The University of Texas at Austin in the US, Technical University of Denmark in Denmark, Stanford University in the US, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Imperial College London in the UK, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies(UPES) in India, University of Alberta in Canada, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, University of Adelaide in Australia, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in India, Middle East Technical University in Turkey, Politecnico di Torino in Italy, Khalifa University in UAE, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) in Malaysia.

According to indeed.com in related stories, the branches of petroleum engineering are Drilling engineering which designs and implements techniques to drill into the earth to oversee the drilling process, Production and surface facilities engineering in which engineers implement various controls and equipment to extrude oil and gas from wells and might also measure and control the fluids produced, Reservoir Engineering which focuses on how gas and oil flow through porous rock and the distribution process of these energy sources, engineers get an in-depth understanding of geology along with their knowledge of their engineering training and use technology to produce images of drilling sites, and Petrophysical Engineering which focuses on the creation of tools and techniques to analyze the characteristics of energy sources this helps understand the reservoir rock-fluid system, Petrophysical Engineers then define the properties of the rock and soil and collect samples from the project site they chose. This was also proven by petroleum.louisiana.edu in related stories, which said, “You have many career options as a petroleum engineer” and listed the branches of Petroleum Engineering, including Production Engineering, Drilling Engineering, and Reservoir Engineering.

black flat screen computer monitor — Petrophysical Engineering

In conclusion, Petroleum Engineering is a branch of engineering that exploits crude oil gas and natural gas that requires many types of Engineering and knowledge like Geophysics, Petroleum Geology, Formation Evaluation, Drilling, Reservoir Simulation, Reservoir Engineering, Well Engineering, Gas Facilities Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Chemistry, and Tech skills. The types of engineering that we must know are Drilling Engineering, Production and Surface Facilities Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, and Petrophysical Engineering. There are also many universities worldwide where you may study petroleum engineering.