What Makes a Great Petroleum Engineer? Qualifications, Salary, and What’s New in the Field

Petroleum engineers are professionals who specialize in creating, designing and developing various methods of oil and gas extraction from the reservoirs beneath the ground. They also focus on exploration and estimation of extractable oil from new reservoirs. Petroleum engineers have made oil extraction easy, cost-effective and lessened its harmful impact on the environment.
Petroleum engineering is one of the two main subsurface disciplines in the oil and gas industry. It is a field of engineering concerned with activities in the hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) sector.
All the vertical and horizontal sectors of petroleum industry from drilling to processing and transportation are part of this field. Petroleum engineering focuses on the recovery of oil and gas from a reservoir.
Petroleum engineers collaborate with geologists to develop and apply cost-effective methods of recovery. They are also concerned with drilling, reservoir engineering, economics and petroleum production engineering.