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Overview of Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum engineering involves locating and accessing reserves of natural gas and oil. The field includes subjects like thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and process control bridged with petrochemical processes and refinery operations. Petrochemical engineers plan and improve all petrochemical production operations from exploration to abandonment. They also apply knowledge of geology, drilling, economics, and engineering to optimize oil and gas extraction and production. Graduates can work in drilling, production engineering, management, consulting, teaching, or environmental and safety specializations.

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Overview of Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum engineering involves locating and accessing reserves of natural gas and oil. The field includes subjects like thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and process control bridged with petrochemical processes and refinery operations. Petrochemical engineers plan and improve all petrochemical production operations from exploration to abandonment. They also apply knowledge of geology, drilling, economics, and engineering to optimize oil and gas extraction and production. Graduates can work in drilling, production engineering, management, consulting, teaching, or environmental and safety specializations.

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Petroleum engineering

Petroleum engineering is the field of engineering science that involves locating


and accessing reserves of natural gas. Its course includes subjects like Reaction
Engineering, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics,
Transport Phenomena are bridged with special subjects like Petrochemical Processes,
Refinery operations with due weight-age on Numerical Computation Process Control,
Modeling & Simulation. The Course contents, professional training program, projects
and other assignments are designed. Petrochemical engineers plan, supervise and
improve all Petrochemical-producing operations, from exploration, exploitation and
development to abandonment.
Petrochemical engineering is the branch of Chemical Engineering which deals
with the operations of refining and petrochemical technology. It requires a good
knowledge of many other related disciplines, such as geophysics, petroleum geology,
formation evaluation, well logging, drilling, economics, reservoir simulation, reservoir
engineering, well engineering, artificial lift systems, completions and oil and gas
facilities engineering. Petrochemical generally refers to the chemicals which are
obtained from crude petroleum. It mainly deals with, petrochemical products, using
crude oil/oil as raw material.

Basically, the petrochemical engineering industry is one that takes crude oil
and/or petroleum out of the ground and refines it into usable products. Some of these
products are motor oil, gasoline, and petroleum jelly.

The whole oil and gas industry is divided into three streams. Upstream that
deals with the extraction of oil. Midstream which is related to transportation logistics
etc. Downstream which is specifically known as petrochemical stream. It deals with
refining of oil, distillation, cracking, production of upper cuts and lower cuts which are
small chain hydrocarbons that can be used especially as fuels. It also includes
production of various petrochemicals as polymers, feed stocks for industries as
ethylene, propylene, paints etc.
Petrochemical Engineers might focus on economics, helping a team determine
the optimum number of wells appropriate for a given operation. After completing the
course they may focus on safety issues, or maintenance support, identifying and
planning upgrades of equipment or systems. A Petrochemical engineer may choose to
teach, or to serve as a consultant to investors, banks, or other financial services firms.
Graduates could become drilling engineers, working with geologists and contractors in
designing and supervising drilling operations, or could become production engineers,
developing processes and equipment to optimize oil and gas production. Graduates
could also find themselves working as managers, entrepreneurs, economists,
seismologists, oil and gas analysts, or environmental/safety specialists.

Biotechnology: is the use of biological processes, organisms, or systems to


manufacture products intended to improve the quality of human life.

Biopharmaceutical: a biological macromolecule or cellular component, such as a blood


product, used as a pharmaceutical.

Microbial: relating to or characteristic of a microorganism, especially a bacterium


causing disease or fermentation.

Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster


microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryotes such as fungi and protists and
prokaryotes such as bacteria and certain algae.

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