Should I do petroleum engineering from Australia or Pakistan?
Australian Universities are all pretty good, they'll tend to focus on unconventional oil, conventional gas and unconventional gas mainly due to the resources found in Australia. Cost of living is quite high in Australia and we currently have a fairly high exchange rate against most currencies, It really comes down to your circumstances and honestly if you're an international student it might be worth sitting down and calculating total costs, there's a lot of cost of living calculators for Australia if you google them, maybe think about comparing this to America and England (Aberdeen and Houston both have top teir programs) not to mention the many other universities with a lower cost of living. Wherever you get your degree you should be highly employable though an Australian degree may give you access to more countries more easily.
What are the prospects for Petroleum engineering in Australia?
Do u know that Australia pays a handsome salary to the Petroleum engineers? U are very lucky to have made the choice to take up the Petroleum Engineering cousre.Petroleum Engineering is the NO.1 degree with highest paid potential as reported by a survey by Forbes…If u talk about USA the BUerau Of labour Statistics asserteed that Petroleum, Engineers eatned the highest in the last fiscal year.. So dont worry about ur income… Just get into the field and study hard.. mind it the stream is very tough to study but once u score a good CGPA there will be shower of lucrative offers in ur life..All d best dear.
Petroleum engineering vs medicine?
Petroleum eng is divided in to 2 parts Exploration and refining, in refining there is not much money but in exploration , you being a female and would able travel in remote areas of africa and interiors of india, pl answer that questuin , you will get your answer . In india Petroleum eng salary is 6 lakhs Rs and goes upt o 10 lakhs yearly
Can a mechanical engineer work as a petroleum engineer?
I did my undergrad in Mechanical engineering, and was hired as a petroleum engineer upon graduation. I still work as a petroleum engineer today. I also have multiple petroleum engineer colleagues that graduated in mechanical engineering. My brother, who is currently studying mechanical engineering, just finished his 3rd petroleum engineering internship. So the answer is, yes, you can work as a petroleum engineer with a mechanical engineering degree.The oil and gas industry tends to give more weight to work experience than formal education. In my case, I worked a couple summers in the oil feild, which lead to a petroleum engineering internship, then a full time job. No one really cared that I didn't study petroleum engineering. All they saw was that I was studying some type of engineering and that I had I bunch of work experience in the oil field. That included companies like Shell, Exxon, and BP. I even beat out kids from top petroleum engineering programs. I got my foot in the door with my field experience, then I just had to interview better than they did. To tell you the truth, my formation as a mechanical engineer has helped me immensely in my career. Oil feild operations are all about pumps, pipelines, tubing, fluid flow, and pressures. Right up my alley. All you need to know for the rest is that fluid flows from high pressure to low pressure, how to calculate hydraulic head, and PV=nRT.My advice to you, if you really want a career as a petroleum engineer, is to find some type of summer work in the oil field and work your way up from there.
How difficult is it to become a Petroleum Engineer in college?
It is very difficult, but it is manageable. At my school, The University of Oklahoma (top petroleum engineering program in the world), it was the hardest major at the school. There are long hours and lots of studying, and you have to do summer internships each summer. If calculus and physics were manageable for you, then you should be fine. You just need to keep focused from day one, which is hard to do with all of the fun going on around you. My freshmen class started with 150 people, and only 75 graduated. Only 5 people had over a 3.5 GPA. But as long as you have over a 3.0, you are going to get a job. Many people will tell you to do chemical or mechanical engineering. You can still get a job as a petroleum engineer, but there is one major drawback to that. Money! The average starting salary for a mech eng is 60k, chem eng is 70k .... Pet Engr is 100k! That is with a bachelors a degree. And guess what, they pay you based on your other offers. So, if we hire a mech eng, they start at 70k, that way we are their highest offer, but if we want a pet Engr for the same position, we have to offer ~110k or they will take another offer. I work with several mech & chem engrs doing the same thing, but I make $40k more a year than they do. Masters degree average is 103k, it is not worth getting a masters. The reason is that this is an experienced based industry, what you learn in school is just a foundation to really Learn once you start working. That's why a pet Engr, who has studied pet engineering for 2 years and has 9 months experience (3 summer internships) is worth more than a mech or chem Engr who graduates with no idea where oil even comes from. Also, those intern ships for pet engrs pay $20-40 per hour! We also have more scholarsip money than the rest of the university combine, and we are only 1% of the population. I actually got paid to go to school. You will miss plenty of parties, but when you graduate, you will be able to afford all the fun you want while everyone else is trying to find a $40k a year job so they can pay down their $80k student loan over the next 10 years.
How hard is petroleum engineering?
I am currently in my first year of petroleum engineering and in my opinion, it is darn hard! At my uni, you won't believe the amount of students that failed first year courses. You have to like math and phys and you have to be able to do them and understand their concepts because they will be important in your future years of study. But when you get into the field, the years spent at uni will seem like baby work and you will realise that you know close to nothing so everyday in the industry is a day where you keep learning and everything that you would have learnt in university will be a sort of platform to guide you (but the real knowledge comes with experience). The study is hard but if you keep that end goal in mind (to be an engineer) then nothing can stop you. Just enjoy it and embrace it and when the times get tough, just keep going and remember why you started in the first place:) GOODLUCK!!
Petroleum Engineer vs. Civil Engineer?
I am glad I found this question. I'm actually a Civil Engineering graduate and I think I know the cons and pros of the fields pretty well now. Something really general, a simple rule of thumb in engineering is if you can work hard and get good grades you can get hired in a good company and you will be paid good money. As simple as that, engineering is really about the effort you put in, I actually got an interview with an oil field services company for next week and my major had nothing to do with oil, gas, or even petroleum. Generally though, petroleum engineers are more in demand, despite your grade. Civil engineers need grades and connections to land a good job in a design office or the field, mostly the field though. I know some of my friends got in the petroleum industry with very little grades and that's surprising. With petroleum engineering, you can get to travel around the world as your career progresses, you will work in harsh environments and you will know a lot about the industry. Whereas, a civil engineer is such a general term starting from the word civil, you can work in any of over a 100 fields, environment, bridges, roads, dams, buildings, wells, canals, hydraulics, programming, earthquake effects (seismic engineers), winds analysis (wind engineers), water treatment, sewage treatment, water supplies, irrigation, etc...it is very vast. So your BA in Civil Engineering will not be as special as a BA in Petroleum Engineering. If you specialize and get at MA in Civil Engineering maybe you will have a bit more value because you will be considered as a "Master" or specialist in that department. But as an advice, I would basically tell you to choose what you like... and then work your *** off in college, get that 4.0 GPA, it's engineering so your work will not go unrewarded.