petroleum engineer
Code 2146.10
Petroleum engineers evaluate gas and oil fields. They design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from underneath the earth's surface. They maximise the recovery of hydrocarbon at a minimum cost, pursuing minimal impact on the environment.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- geology
- well testing operations
- chemistry
Skills and competences
- liaise with mine professionals
- monitor extraction logging operations
- design well flow systems
- manage well interaction
- manage fluid production in gas
- manage production fluid in oil production
- report well results
- determine flow rate enhancement
- prepare scientific reports
- compile reservoir performance plans
- prepare well formation evaluation programmes
- prepare extraction proposals
- provide petroleum engineering support
- troubleshoot
- select well equipment
- supervise staff
- liaise with well test engineers
- use reservoir surveillance
Transversal competences
- address problems critically
- interpret extraction data
- mathematics
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences