What do petroleum engineering graduates do?

Petroleum engineering graduates from Missouri S&T work in the areas of drilling, production, and reservoir engineering.

• If you go into production, you will be responsible for daily monitoring of production and injection wells and designing remedial treatments to maintain oil and gas production. Production engineers maintain wells that are already drilled and find ways to improve the current production levels and the ultimate oil and gas recovery.

• If you become a reservoir engineer, you'll be responsible for making long-term decisions and solutions for hydrocarbon production including location of new wells and evaluation of future production. Reservoir engineers determine how much oil exists in a reservoir and how much of it can be recovered.

• If you go into the area of drilling, you'll supervise the drilling and completion of new wells to produce oil and gas to the surface.

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