Employment
According
to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, petroleum engineers held about 33,400 jobs in 2019. The largest employers of petroleum engineers were as follows:
| Oil and gas extraction |
34% |
| Management of companies and enterprises |
18 |
| Support activities for mining |
14 |
| Petroleum and coal products manufacturing |
7 |
| Engineering services |
7 |
Large oil and gas companies maintain operations around the world; therefore, petroleum engineers have global career options. Petroleum engineers also must be able to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, including other types of engineers, scientists, and oil and gas field workers.
Petroleum engineers work
mostly in oil and gas extraction, professional, scientific and technical
services, and petroleum refining. Employers include major oil companies
and hundreds of smaller, independent oil exploration, production,
research institutes, and service companies.
Most petroleum engineers work where oil and gas are found. Large numbers
are employed in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alaska, and California,
including offshore sites. Many American petroleum engineers also work
overseas in oil-producing countries.
The following is a partial
list of employers of petroleum engineers:
|
Oil/Gas Producing
Companies and Equipment Manufacturers
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U.S. Federal Government
Research Institutes
Other Employers
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Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US Department
of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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