Mining or Petroleum Engineering: Deciding a Career Path

[suspenc3]

I'm currently in 3'rd year mining engineering at a Canadian university, there is no actual "Petroleum Engineering" program here, it is done as a Mining degree with a petroleum option. I'm more interested in the petroleum side of the industry, but with the current situation concerning the oil and gas sector, I'm kind of worried. Whichever road I choose, it shouldn't be too difficult to get a job upon graduation, but I'm unsure about the industries future due to the "green" shift among other things. What are other people's thoughts on the future of the industry?

 

[stewartcs]

I'm currently in 3'rd year mining engineering at a Canadian university, there is no actual "Petroleum Engineering" program here, it is done as a Mining degree with a petroleum option. I'm more interested in the petroleum side of the industry, but with the current situation concerning the oil and gas sector, I'm kind of worried. Whichever road I choose, it shouldn't be too difficult to get a job upon graduation, but I'm unsure about the industries future due to the "green" shift among other things. What are other people's thoughts on the future of the industry?

No worries...at least for the next 50 years. The world may certainly shift toward the green but the need for oil and gas isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

CS

 

[mgb_phys]

And as petroleum reserves are used up it gets harder to find new ones - so more R+D and more demand for experts.
We are seeing that in the North Sea, even as major fields are running down the investment in high tech (ROVs, sonar, modelling etc ) is going up.

 

[stewartcs]

And as petroleum reserves are used up it gets harder to find new ones - so more R+D and more demand for experts.
We are seeing that in the North Sea, even as major fields are running down the investment in high tech (ROVs, sonar, modelling etc ) is going up.

Yeah we just spent about 70,000 USD last year on a software program to model deepsea drilling risers. My company actual has a hard time finding good help in our industry.

CS