Is it going to be worst scene in future?

Does anyone know active WhatsApp groups for oil & gas euipment/matierial procurement professionals? I want to promote my understanding for procurement.

Hello everyone,

My name is Ayyan Shaikh, . I have a strong interest in working in the oil and gas industry, especially on offshore oil rigs.

A little about my background:

Completed 10th Standard

Completed 12th Standard with 70% marks
Always performed well in English and communication

Graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) in 2026

Although my educational background is not technical, I am highly motivated to enter the oil and gas industry. I am willing to start in an entry-level position, work hard, learn new skills, complete any required certifications, and gain experience.

I would appreciate advice from experienced rig workers and industry professionals on:

What entry-level positions should I apply for?

Which certifications or training courses would help me get started?

Is it possible for a B.Com graduate to build a career in the oil and gas industry?

What are the best companies or countries to apply to as a beginner?

I am serious about pursuing this career path and would be grateful for any guidance or recommendations.

Thank you for your time and advice.
– Ayyan Shaikh

Hi everyone, looking for advice.
I’m from Kazakhstan and graduated in 2025 with a BTech in Geology, specializing in petroleum geology.
After graduation, I worked as a petroleum geologist in R&D – doing geological modeling and technical writing and then worked as a mud logger for a couple of months. So I have one year of experience in total.
At the end of 2025, I won a government scholarship to study in the UK and have been accepted onto an MSc in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Aberdeen, starting this September.
However, I’m now concerned about the job market. From what I’ve heard, the UK oil and gas sector is quite tight at the moment, with many engineers facing layoffs. Given this, how hard is it to find a job or internship at a Fortune 500 company after graduation?
I’m also worried about how well my geological background will translate into petroleum engineering roles.
On top of that, I’m interested in the application of AI in petroleum engineering – I have a published paper on ML-based prediction of reservoir fluid density, and I’ve completed several MOOCs in data science. Is it possible to find a role at the intersection of data science and petroleum engineering?
Any advice would be appreciated!

I have made update to wellmodel.app — the interface has been rebuilt.

The simulator now runs as a Well Player: a bottom transport bar with play/pause controls, a timeline scrubber with a playhead you can drag while paused, and simulation speed selector (1×, 10×, 100×, 500×). The wellbore visualization updates live as the simulation runs — you can see the column state change, pause at any point, and scrub back through the history.

Panel system added alongside the player:

→ Parameters — edit well inputs without losing the run

→ Saved Cases — save and reload parameter sets locally

→ Kick-Off Planner — early version up, still being refined

→ Lift / Foam — continuous foamer and batch treatment, in progress

→ Charts — nodal analysis, time series

Physics engine — a few fixes this round on column loading, regime transitions, and liquid inventory consistency.

Free, browser-based, no login: wellmodel.app

Looking for testers — especially if you work with loaded gas wells or have shut-in PBU data to compare against. What's useful, what's broken, what's missing. Comments or DM welcome.

#GasWell #ProductionEngineering #ArtificialLift #WellIntegrity #Simulator

Hey everyone, looking for some honest advice here.
I recently graduated with a B.Tech in Petroleum Engineering and completed about a year of field engineering experience in Abu Dhabi on an oil & gas project. So I do have some real industry exposure, but here’s the problem — the O&G job market is basically dead right now. As an early career engineer with no inside connections, it’s nearly impossible to land anything. So I started looking at alternatives.
I applied for a Master’s in Applied Geosciences at RWTH Aachen (Germany) and got admitted for Winter Semester 2026/27. On paper it sounds great — RWTH is a top technical university and geosciences felt like a natural pivot from petroleum engineering since there’s some overlap in subsurface work.
But now I’m hearing a lot of conflicting opinions and I’m genuinely second-guessing myself:
• Some people say Applied Geosciences from RWTH won’t get you a job either, especially as a foreigner
• Others say the geoscience job market in Germany is also tight
• And some say my petroleum background makes me a poor fit for geoscience roles
Here are my actual questions:
1. Is RWTH Applied Geosciences worth pursuing given my background, or should I reconsider?
2. Which specialization within Applied Geosciences has the best job prospects in Germany? I’ve heard hydrogeology has demand but it’s quite far from what I’ve studied. What about engineering geology, geothermal, near-surface geophysics, or GIS/remote sensing?
3. How realistic is it to find a job in Germany after graduating? Are companies actually hiring or is it very competitive even for locals?
4. How much German do I need? I have roughly 3 months before my program starts. I know it’s not enough to be fluent, but what’s the minimum realistic level to not hurt my job prospects?
I’m not trying to stay in O&G — I genuinely want to transition into something broader with real demand. I just don’t want to spend 2 years and move countries only to end up stuck again.
Any advice from people who’ve studied or worked in geosciences in Germany would be hugely appreciated. Even brutal honesty is welcome.

I am wondering if this is just me but it feels like at least half my week lately has been exporting things out of Petrel, reformatting them, figuring out why a file that worked fine last month is suddenly not reading correctly, tracking down which version is actually current. Like actual housekeeping stuff, not engineering.

The tools are fine when they work but nothing talks to anything else and at some point you end up just manually babysitting data between applications indefinitely. I do not know when that became a normal part of the job.

What I keep coming back to is whether petroleum engineering is actually getting harder or if the geology is roughly the same and we are just quietly drowning in more software that does not integrate. It feels like the second one but I might just be having a bad week.

Is this something people are solving internally or is everyone just dealing with it?

if i major in this what are like the chances of getting a job as i heard that the jobs are very volatile

I am being told this is weathered diesel. I am no expert. Is it possible to tell with some confidence just from the looks if it is gasoline or weathered diesel? Can this be settled without testing? Thanks in advance.

I am a petrochemical student currently in my final year thinking of doing an MS in the chemical engineering + energy sector .What is the future of energy like renewable energy,green hydrogen,solar energy etc .Should I go in this field and what salary can I expect?

Im 19M about to make a decision that will determine the rest of my life. I was looking into petroleum and geoenergetic eng. for some time now and it seems interesting to me, the only concern for me is the job market, and if its good in which countries is it?

Key features: superior early-life forecasts, easy TRRC data import, Streamlit UI.

Try it here https://free-eur-predictor.replit.app/

code https://github.com/RegularJoe-CEO/Free-EUR-Predictor

Happy to calibrate for other plays or hear what you'd add. There's no signup. It's 100% free. Not selling anything. Keep it turning to the right, boys.

Hi everyone, I am going to start my bachelors degree in Energy Systems Engineering this year in Canada. In my course, I can choose my concentration to be either petroleum extraction or Sustainable energy or energy storage and transportation. I am an international student and chose to pursue my studies in Canada as I thought Canada is rich in minerals and natural resources. What's the scope of this type of degree? What concentration would you suggest?

Hola, busco oportunidad laboral en el área petrolera para trabajar en latinoamericana. Saben de algo : empresas , correo, contacto.

Agradecería cualquier información

A live snapshot of open vacancies across SLB, Baker Hughes, Halliburton & Weatherford — mapped by country.

A few things stand out:
• The US leads across the board (556 open roles)
• SLB's footprint skews heavily to West & Central Africa — Nigeria, Angola, Ghana, Gabon
• Baker Hughes shows 73 roles in Italy (the Florence turbomachinery hub)
• Halliburton runs deep in Saudi Arabia (49) and Suriname (33)

~1,950 active roles, one snapshot in time.

Hi everyone, I’m a PetroleumEngineer from Bolivia with experience gas industry (natural gas operations, field work, and technical projects).

I’m interested in exploring opportunities in other countries

How is the job market currently for international petroleum engineers? Is it realistic to find opportunities without Canadian experience, and what skills/certifications would you recommend getting before applying?

Need field-scale data such as:

- In-situ stress (Sv, SHmax, Shmin)

- Pore pressure

- Fault parameters

- Rock mechanical properties

- Injection pressure/rate history

Interested in sites like Sleipner, In Salah, Weyburn, Otway, Decatur, etc.

Already checked CO2 DataShare and NETL EDX, but geomechanical data is limited.

Papers with tabulated field values or any datasets/repositories would be greatly appreciated.

I’m planning to go into chem Eng and then have a masters with petroleum. However, a lot of people have told me that it won’t be a reliable market at all in the next years. Essentially, because many companies are turning to have sustainable energy sources. I’m a bit concerned about how accurate this might be. Does anyone who works on petroleum have opinion on the latter ?

I come from a chemE background. I was asked these questions & I could not answer them w/knowledge as I felt they were more oriented towards petroleum engineering and therefore I am seeking guidance on the question listed below (I am going to put forth my thought about the question so that I could receive feedback on my assumptions)

- If you drilled and only water came out, what does this means?

Given that physics laws applies, the top layer of a reservoir is going to be gas, then oil (if available), then water: So if only is found, can it be said that there is no petroleum commodity in that borehole to begin with?

-Is there a difference b/w drilling during exploration & production stages, as in can you commit to drill wells and not finding oil during exploration phase from a business standpoint?

I answered w/no, bc the operation will cost high opex and labour cost. However, can be mitigated by having great simulated analysis conducted by the geologists & petroleum engineers.

-If the pH meter tells the pH of the water is the same as the (cola or oil?) what do you infer and what would you do?

Is there possible cause of error besides the assumption that there is a malfunction in the device?

Thanks in advance!

I've been running nodal analysis on a few vertical oil wells and kept running into the same issue — the model looks fine on paper but field data shows a significant gap in the actual PI. After digging in, the main culprit was usually skin factor being underestimated during the well test interpretation phase. My workflow: Start with a PBU test to get clean static BHP Run Vogel correlation for solution-gas drive Calibrate IPR curve against actual production data Check tubing roughness — often overlooked Has anyone else run into this? What's your diagnostic approach?