<p>I am going to start college next year, and i want to become a petroleum engineer, but i dont want to be all my life on offshore rigs
so i am thinking on doing a BS on industrial engineering and then a master in petroleum engineering
is this combination good? ,or should i better study mechanical engineering?
studying mecanical engineering is it necessary to do a masters in petroleum or you can work as a petroleum engineer only with the degree in mecanical engineering?
Thanks</p>
<p>The best majors, if you want to work as a petroleum engineer, are petroleum engineering or chemical engineering. If you don’t want to spend your life on a rig, then don’t take a job that requires it. There are plenty of petroleum engineers who spend their time in the office, and few who spend much time on rigs, but that has more to do with the job they choose than the degrees they have.</p>
<p>But is the IE and PetrE combination possible?
When i finish will i be hired easily as a petroleum engineer?
Doing the master will i have the skills to be a petroleum engineer?</p>
<p>I dont think IE is good for Petroleum. Its really hard to get an internship in O&G with as an IE major and experience is everything in the petroleum world (i.e. get internships during undergrad). Go for petE, mechE, or chemE</p>
<p>and if i do a bs in ME and then the master in PetrE, will i be like a bachelor in petroleum engineering, or is it considered better by the companies?
One more thing, how is the work schedule ussualy for a PertE? 28/28 days on/off, one week on/off rotation?, when do you stop having this schedules? and do you earn moreworking like this?</p>
<p>I would definitely stay away from the IE/Petro combo. I’ve talked to heads of petroleum engineering departments at colleges and they’ve said that if you’re gonna double major or get a minor, do it in geology, or if you wanna stay in engineering, chemical or mechanical. You don’t want experience in 2 branches that are completely different from one another. But chemical and Petro and a lot alike, as are mechanical and Petro. </p>
<p>As for what it’d be considered as, I have no idea. But for the in and off schedules, I’ve heard 7/7, 28/28 for remote locations like the middle east (if you live in America) or the gulf. I’ve also heard that the smaller the company you work for, the longer you’ll be on the rig since they have a shorter supply of Petro engineers, but I don’t know how accurate that is.</p>