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Q: What should i choose between mechanical engineering or petroleum engineering?
I am attending Texas A & M next year and i can’t decide between majoring in mechanical or petroleum engineering. I know mechanical is a more broader major and i would have plenty of opportunities and such but i heard in petroleum you PAID.. So i can’t decide. Please don’t give me anything about what I like and my passion because I honestly don’t care, they’re both engineering anyways. So if someone could just give me useful advice, it would be great!
A: I have a degree in mechanical engineering and I worked for a major oil company for 35 years. They paid me just as well as they did the petroleum engineers. In fact I was so well paid that I retired before I was 60 years old. I also had a really interesting, challenging and rewarding career.
It really isn’t the degree you have that determines your success but doing what you enjoy and how you apply yourself to the opportunities you have.
Q: What Canadian University is the best for studying Petroleum Engineering?
I am going to start in Lassonde Mineral Engineering program at University of Toronto from september, 2008, if God willing. However, I want a more specific engineering program at a Canadian university that offers Petroleum Engineering. Can anyone please tell me which Canadian university would be the best for studying undergraduate Petroleum Engineering? Beside, does anyone have idea about the field/job prospect of mineral mining and petroleum engineering?
A: You might want to check out Cape Breton University (CBU) in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Last year I had the opportunity to meet some students from other countries who are studying petroleum engineering there. See below for their website.
If you call CBU’s admissions office, they should be able to set up an interview for you to speak with someone in the engineering department. You might also consider calling their career planning and placement office to see if you can discuss career options with a graduate of their program. Good luck!
Q: Is the University of Missouri of Science and Technology a good petroleum engineering school?
I’m going to school to be a petroleum engineer and am planning on transferring to Missouri S&T. Do you think their petroleum engineering department is good? I know schools in Texas are probably better, but what do you think about mst?
A: I think it is a fine school. The Petroleum Engineering program is not very large, however. There are over 100 in the degree program, but it looks like they only graduated 9 from the undergrad program in that field last year. You might want to call them and ask for more info or visit. If you visit, see if it’s possible to meet with a faculty member. You’ll get a better feel for what the school is like.
A school like University of Tulsa might be a bigger program. See stats from ASEE (link below).
Q: Will I find a job in Petroleum Engineering?
I know a lot of Petroleum engineers are about to retire so there will be more openings, but there is not a lot of expected employment growth. When I graduate in three years, do you think I will be able to find a job in petroleum engineering. Percent wise, what are my chances?
A: It depends on several different things.
1. the area that you are looking at applying– location has a lot to do with employment
2. how well you do in school- three years is a long time and you haven’t gotten through the hardest part
3. if you have done or will do an internship or co-op with a firm or company
4. Other things that you put on your resume to build your marketability to companies
There will be jobs available when you graduate, we are not going to get off oil anytime soon and oil is not the only things that Petroleum Engineers can do.
Short Answer is Yes you will find a job.
Q: Can I achieve my Masters in Petroleum Engineering?
If I have a BS in Geology, can I go on to get a Masters in Petroleum Engineering. Im about to graduate with a BS in Geology and want to become a Petroleum Engineer. My school didnt offer a BS in Petroleum Engineering so I decided to do Geology. So, can I achieve a Masters in Petroleum Engineering?
A: Generally Engineering graduate schools require an undergraduate degree in Engineering. The few exceptions they allow are usually required to complete a series of bridging courses.
Q: Majoring in petroleum engineering the right choice?
Hi all. I’m planning to become a petroleum engineer in about 2 or 3 years and work in Texas or Louisiana after I graduate with a degree in BS. I’m just wondering if I have made the right choice because I’ve heard that oil in the US will be running out in the future which would leave petroleum engineers jobless. How long do you think the oil reserves in the US will last? I don’t want to get laid off in a few decades. Replies appreciated.
A: The oil market will be fine for the next few years, but I would not be surprised if the job market for petroleum and pharmacy starts to get much more competitive.
There is still plenty of oil, but be warned.. petroleum is not exactly a walk in the park. I know a few people at UT Austin in petroleum who absolutely hated it and decided to switch either to business or a different engineering field. If you do not have an interest in the topics studied in petroleum then you will hate it, even if your job years down the line does pay well.
Oil and oil refinement are not going away in our lifetimes, petroleum is necessary for many precursors like plastics and many synthetic chemicals.
If you are still 2-3 years from starting your BS than keep an open mind and do your research. Alternative energy is definitely going to grow as well, so that might be an option too (not sure how that fits in degree-wise, but it is an emergent field)
As for trends in a few decades, obviously no one can say for sure, but petroleum is gonna be involved one way or another ^_^
Q: What is average entry level salary for undergraduate petroleum engineering in Canada.?
The 2009 average starting salary for undergraduate petroleum engineers in the USA is about $ 82,000 per year.
What is the comparative pay for students who graduated from Canadian petroleum engineering schools in 2008/9?
A: Since there are no ABET certified petroleum programs in Canada it will most likely be less than the US average after being converted into Canadian dollars
Q: what’s the difference between oil&gas and petroleum engineering?
i’m about to choose my major, but i’m curious about the difference between oil &gas and petroleum engineering?
A: I believe the petroleum engineering is more based on refinery operations and the oil and gas is a field engineer working on oil and gas production from the ground or ocean
Q: Petroleum Engineering, what kind of life do these people live?
For the most part, I know what PEs do, but I don’t know how they do it. Are PEs constantly moving from home to home, or are they settled in one city, but travel every once and a while. Do they get to enjoy a social life. What about family, do they get to see their families and even have a family of their own. I would really like to know what it is like to be a Petroleum Engineer.
A: Petroleum engineers work much like other engineers. Many more spend their time working in an office at their home base with occasional trips to the field. They don’t go out and drill the wells in person or turn the valves on production equipment.
Q: What are the basics of Petroleum Engineering?
I’m about getting into the university to study petroleum engineering i want to be extra prepared please send me a website i can learn Petroleum Engineering more like the definitions and basics.
A: Here are several links to petroleum engineering studies>
Q: What are the basic equations used for petroleum engineering?
I know about permeability, porosity, formation factors, ..but I can’t seem to put it all together! How do the constants work? How are they found? Are there any sample ‘question-answer’s ?
A: I think you need to speak to a petroleum engineer or at least a geologist. You might try reading up at the Web site of the Society of Petroleum Engineers at the link below.
Good luck!
Q: what is better to choose between a career in Petroleum engineering and one in Natural Gas engineering?
The reason I am asking is because very few school offer natural gas engineering degree. And also I wonder about the job opportunity of Natural gas engineers
A: Go with natural gas. It has a brighther future as petro is not our future option.
Q: Which schools have the top petroleum engineering programs in Texas?
What are the ups and downs?
I just recently discovered about it..it seems really interesting.
But I don’t want to contribute to global warming.
Someone said Texas Tech has a really good one but that school is inferior to UT Austin and Texas A&M. which ones are better?
A: I go to A&M and our engineering school is excellent. People come here for mainly engineering, and a few agriculture majors. I am not in engineering so I can’t help you one what its like. UT also has a good engineering program. you can’t go wrong with either.
Q: What do you thing of the future for petroleum engineering or petroleum geologist?
im talking about the world oil supply and people trying to replace oil with some other product.
A: There will be a need for petroleum engineers for a long time.
We may eventually replace most of our oil use in cars, but we still use a lot of it for other things such as plastics, etc.
As oil becomes scarcer, the need to extract more of it from dead or existing formations and wells becomes even more important, so if anything…the future scarcity of oil will do nothing but increase the pay and demand for petroleum engineers
Q: can you tell me about petroleum engineering and which universities should i go?
i just finish my spm and in two days i have to go to utp for an interview. its for the scholarship.
A: Petroleum Engineering is a branch of engineering that deals with petroleum. They are responsible for exploration, disturbing and production of petroleum. A petroleum engineering student studies a great deal of mathematics, physics,chemistry, organic chem.,thermodynamic,geophysics, and oil drilling. And petroleum engineer will usually work at oil drilling company.
School you should consider?
Well, that depends. If you what a school with a good program there are UTexas and TexasTech. I must note that this is a very rare and specific major. That’s why a lot of schools that have this rare program are located in the southwest region like Texas and b/c that’s where all the oil is in the US.
P.S. Petroleum Engineering is not major that studies chemical processes, plant design, and creation of new energy sources. If you think that this major deal with this then you might confused it with Chemical Engineering(a much more broad field) as Chemical Engineer you could work with petroleum but not the same way as petroleum engineer. And there are much more school to choose from and ChE.start with one of the highest salary straight out of undergrad. and I’m including all majors here.
Hope this help.
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