Petroleum Drilling Engineering Jobs
Exploration, by earth scientists, and petroleum engineering are the
oil and gas industry's two main subsurface disciplines, which aims on
exploiting profitable upturn of hydrocarbons from subsurface reservoirs.
Petroleum engineering is a field of engineering related with the
functions related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude
oil or natural gas.
Petroleum engineers support to locate natural reservoirs of
petroleum deposits. Exploration and Production are considered to come within
the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry.
There are three categories of petroleum engineers which vary only
by the phase of the drilling process that they are involved in:-
Reservoir engineers observe the geological pattern for the best
planned method of extraction.
Drilling engineers makes computer simulated models of the drilling
configuration and equipment to make sure they use the best means for the most
efficient method of extraction.
Production engineers handle the interface between drilling and
extraction by managing machinery and production expenditures.
The joint attempts of geologists and petroleum engineers all over
the life of a hydrocarbon amassing resolve the procedure in which a reservoir
is build up and used up, and usually they have the highest effect on oil and
gas field financially viable.
Petroleum geology and geophysics aims on stipulation of a static
explanation of the hydrocarbon reservoir rock, while petroleum engineering aims
on evaluation of the recoverable volume of this resource by means of a
comprehensive understanding of the physical behavior of oil, water and gas
within porous rock at very high pressure.
Petroleum engineering requires a good knowledge of many other
related disciplines, such as petroleum geology, geophysics, formation
evaluation (well logging), drilling, economics, reservoir model, well
engineering, reservoir engineering, artificial lift systems, completions and
oil and gas facilities engineering.
Petroleum engineering has traditionally been one of the highest
paid engineering disciplines, although there is a trend for heap layoffs when
oil prices falls. Petroleum engineers are the highest paid engineering
graduates at an average $125,220 annual remuneration.
For Petroleum engineers with experience, wages may rise from
$170,000 to $260,000 annually. They make about $53.75 per hour and an average
of $112,000 per annum.
