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Petrochemical Engineering Course in Engineering

category: Engineering , Science

duration: 4 years

mode: offline

course ID: CT-102

reviews: 287

About Petrochemical Engineering Course

Petrochemical Engineering Course 2023 Petrochemical engineering is a branch of Chemical Engineering which deals with operations involved in refining petroleum or crude oil by the use of advanced technology. The course also includes extraction of crude petroleum obtained from the core of earth.

Students learn about the mechanism and techniques involved in activities like exploration, production and exploitation of oil or natural gases. After the completion of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in petroleum engineering, students can work in job profiles like petroleum geologists, drilling engineers, reservoir engineers and production engineers.

The work of the petrochemical engineers in daily lives include refining of crude petroleum to process various products such as petrol, diesel and kerosene oil. The engineers will have to work in petroleum exploration, drilling (to find and extract petroleum from the rocks underneath earth's surface), extraction and processing. Their job is to plan, supervise and improve all Petrochemical-producing operations, from exploration, exploitation and development to abandonment.

Everything related with the activities related to the production of Hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Of course, these engineers work in the petrochemical industry. The industry that produces chemicals using oil and natural gas as its raw materials is the one where they work. Petrochemicals are manufactured into thousands of industrial and consumer products including rubber, plastics, detergents, textiles and food preservatives. 

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Job Profiles 

  • Operations Manager - Rs. 7-10 lakhs p.a. (Approx.)
  • Geoscientist - Rs. 15-20 lakhs p.a. (Approx.)
  • Petroleum Technician - Rs. 7-12 lakhs p.a. (Approx.)
  • Mechanical Engineer - Rs. 4-6 lakhs p.a. (Approx.)
  • Civil engineer - Rs. 4-6 lakhs p.a. (Approx.)
  • Chemical engineer - Rs. 5-10 lakhs p.a. (Approx.)
  • Chief Petroleum engineer - Rs. 8.5-10 lakhs p.a. (Approx.)

Recruiters 

  • Essar Oil Limited
  • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
  • Oil India Ltd
  • Reliance Petrochemicals
  • Shell
  • Essar Oil
  • Halliburton
  • Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)
  • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
  • Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL)
  • Haldia Petrochemicals
  • Hindustan Oil Exploration Company Ltd (HOEC)
  • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)
  • Derrick Petroleum
  • GAIL
  • Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)
  • Schlumberger
  • Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
  • Shell Technology

Skills Required:

  1. Team Working
  2. Data Interpretation 
  3. Analytical and numerical skills
  4. Effective Communication skills

Petrochemical Engineering Scope 

  • The collaboration of government and private firms with international investors and oil companies in gulf countries has increased employment opportunities for pass outs in petrochemical engineering.
  • There are multinational companies based in UAE offering good salary packages to experienced employees in job profiles of petroleum geologists, drilling engineers, reservoir engineers and production engineers   

Petrochemical Engineering Subjects 

  • Acoustics and Noise control
  • Advanced Marine Structures
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Computational Engineering/ Thermodynamics
  • Concept of Engineering Design
  • Flow Induced Vibration
  • Guidance and control of Marine Vehicles
  • Ocean Mining and Dredging
  • Port and Harbour Structures
  • Random Vibration
  • Chemical Engineering Laboratory
  • Heat Transfer Operations
  • Optimization Techniques
  • Introduction to Petrochemical Engineering
  • Advances in Petroleum Refining
  • Advanced Process Control
  • Principles of Green Technologies
  • Petroleum Exploration
  • Multiphase Reactor Design
  • Gasification Technology
  • Novel Separation Techniques
  • Energy Engineering
  • Petroleum Geology
  • Engineering Graphics
  • Process Equipment Design and Drawing
  • Fluid & Solid-fluid Operations

Petrochemical Engineering Eligibility 

  • For UG: Candidates must be Class XII passed out from a recognised board.
  • For PG: Candidates must have completed B.Tech in Petrochemical Engineering from a recognised AICTE institute.
  • The students also need to state level and national level exams like JEE Main, JEE Advanced, BITSAT, and UPSEE. 

  • Chemical and Polymer Engineering

Petrochemical Engineering Course Level

Degree Offered in UG
  • B.E /Btech
  • B.Sc.
Degree Offered in PG
  • M.E /Mtech.
  • M.Sc.

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