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By siliconindia  |   Thursday, 20 February 2014, 02:28 IST
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#7. Petroleum Engineering



Petroleum engineering degree assists an individual to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge required to design and develop innovative methods that can be used for the extraction of fossil fuel deposits beneath the Earth’s surface or from older wells.



The increased dependence of the human race on the fossil fuels has created huge employment opportunities for a grad with this degree.



Grads with a degree in petroleum engineering can opt to work as petroleum geologist, reservoir engineer, production engineer or drilling engineer. Grads employed in this field use their expertise in nearly all stages of oil and gas evaluation, development and production.



The pay packages for a grad with a petroleum engineering degree is approximately in the range of 1.37 lakhs to 23.29 lakhs, as listed on the PayScale website. The projected pay and job growth in field is 58 percent and 17 percent respectively.   



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