Is Petroleum Engineer (India) right for you?

Find, drill, complete, and produce oil and natural gas safely and economically across Indian onshore basins (Krishna-Godavari, Cauvery, Cambay, Assam, Rajasthan, Vindhyan), offshore fields (Mumbai High, KG offshore), and the smaller acreages awarded under the OALP rounds. The work is split across reservoir engineering (volumetric estimates, decline-curve analysis, reservoir simulation in Eclipse / CMG, well-test interpretation, IOR / EOR studies), drilling engineering (well design, casing and cementing programmes, mud and fluids design, directional and ERD planning, rig operations supervision), completions and production engineering (perforation strategy, artificial lift design with ESPs / gas lift / SRPs, sand control, water and gas handling), and the surface side (separators, compression, pipelines, OISD-led process safety, regulatory liaison with the DGH, MoPNG, and PNGRB). In India the role lives at a small, concentrated set of employers — ONGC and Oil India on the PSU side, Reliance KG-D6 and Reliance E&P, Cairn Oil & Gas (Vedanta), HOEC, Selan Exploration, Adani's joint ventures, the BP-merged former Reliance-BP partnership, and a handful of OFS / oilfield-services majors operating in India (Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Weatherford, Shell India). The Indian Institute of Mines (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad is the country's premier petroleum-engineering institute, with Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) Gandhinagar, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) Jais, IIT Madras, and IIT Bombay also feeding the field.