How much a petroleum engineer?
Petroleum engineers can be field engineers, design engineers, mechanical engineers, environmental engineers, process engineers, chemical engineers, industrial (make believe) engineers, or civil engineers, or any mix of the list. Typically they should be strongest in process/chemical engineering, and mechanical engineering, but good foundation in civil engineering is helpful also. Field engineers are typically responsible for anything from drilling, well services, tool design and implementation, etc etc. The up side is that if you get an off shore job as a field engineer, you’re set. You’ll be getting paid a great salary and you’ll be working too much to use any of it! ha ha. Design engineers would work on anything from well services, reservoir profiling, tool design, process or refinery engineering, plant operations, etc etc. They could also be responsible for product quality control. I’m not a fan of petroleum engineering as a degree choice. It somewhat locks you in to one industry. I
