Hello Waseem,

Before talking about the institutions I would like to provide you some information about Petroleum Engineering which one should know if he has to opt for this program.

WHAT IS PETROLEUM ENGINEERING?

• Petroleum Engineering is a branch of Engineering that deals with the study of the production of hydrocarbons such as crude oil or natural gas.
• Petroleum engineers are involved in the production and exploration of oil and gas.
• They also work with geo-scientists and other specialties.
• Petroleum engineering needs knowledge of many other disciplines such as geophysics, petroleum geology, drilling, economics, reservoir simulation, reservoir engineering, well engineering, artificial lift systems, etc.

TYPES OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS

• Reservoir Engineers: They enhances the production of oil and gas.

• Drilling Engineers: They deals with the technical aspects of drilling.

• Production Engineers: They handles the interface between reservoirs and wells.

SCOPE OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

There are a whole lot of job opportunities after Petroleum engineering, both global and domestic levels. Opportunities in the oil and gas sector are in ample with high annual income packages. Higher education opportunities are also good in this field.

Some Core Companies who hire Petroleum Engineers:

• Reliance Industries Ltd.
• ONGC
• Shell OIL
• Gas Authority of India Ltd.
• GSPC
• IOCL
• Essar Oil Ltd.
• Reliance Energy
• NIKO Resources

Average salaries offered to beginners: 4-5 lacks annual

Some of the top colleges that offer Petroleum Engineering are:

• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
• University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun
• Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar

As you can see PANDIT DEEN DAYAL PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY is one of the top institutions of INDIA. It is undoubtedly good but we even have better ones as listed above.

• The fees for B.tech in petroleum program is 2.30Lakh in this University
• Its Ranking is 24th and it has a rating of AAA+
• PDPU has a well-built infrastructure with the peaceful green environment.
• Here placements are not upto one's expectations but there are fair chances for everyone to get placed in a private firm.

Hopefully, this information will help you in getting a more clearer picture about the field and resolve your doubt. For further queries, you can get back to us on careers360.

Thank you.

Hey aspirant,

So, there are many courses in pdpu form management to engineering , from medical to liberal arts. The PDPU is know for his new technology is machineries they have I'm there respective labs.

So coming back to your question. Yes, pdpu is not only good but it's best college for the petroleum branch, this college started with only one branch and it was the petroleum dept. Now there lot of branches but let's focus on particularly on petroleum branch.

Firstly I would like tell you that great buisness personality Mr Mukesh Ambani owns this college and he have the Asia's biggest petroleum refinery situated near Jamnagar,Gujarat.

As I said you that this college is know for its new modern technology that is been used in their respective labs , so the students gets updated with technology comes in the market and also don't feel uncomfortable or  has less technical skills.

The technology which they uses in there labs, particularly if say about the petroleum branch than , the machineries related the branch is so new that only 3 colleges have such facility in the country.

The atmosphere of the college is so soothing, it's situated in gandhinagar capital of Gujarat. The city is so decent, but  you have not ve worried because the inside vibes of college gonna make refreshing everytime.

Now the main thing for what the engineer's wait for 4 whole years, it's placement, I'll share some of the companies here

• Reliance industries, Jamnagar, Gujarat

• Essar oil ltd, Jamnagar, Gujarat

• Oil limited india, jodhpur, rajasthan
• Tide water oil company, Gaziabad, UP
• Gulf oil india ltd, Pune, Maharashtra
• ONGC, Baroda, Gujarat
• IRM energy, Ahemdabad, Gujarat
• Xonn mobil, Irrving,Texas,US
• Infosys, Pune , Maharashtra
• L&T infotech Ahemdabad, Maharashtra

I would like to share placement packages here

―> Highest package: 17.80 laks/anum

―> Lowest package: 7.91 laks/anum

So, if you want to choose petroleum branch in pdpu then please go and I'm sure your future would be bright as sun

So you can apply here through jee score and they also count board result

If you have around 95 score in jee mains and around 75-80% in boards you can easily get admission there

And if you are for lateral entry then it's compulsory that you diploma must be in chemical branch or petroleum because no other branch can apply in lateral entry in petroleum.

The recent fee structure is 2,20,000 per anum

And hostel facilities is also there for girls and boys both

Boys/Girls hostel fees : 70,000 for non ac rooms and 75000 for ac room per year

Mess facility is also provided there firstly at time of admission you have pay 41500/- and every year for mess 27,000/- per year.

So this was from my side , hope you got the complete information about pdpu petroleum.

All the best for carrer it's gonna shine bright like sun.

Hi Waseem. Thank you for choosing Career360.

Yes, it is one of the best colleges forPetroleum Engineering. The infrastructure of the college is very good and the faculties are also very helpful. If you do your best and remain in the Top 15-20 of your batch, you can get a job with very handsome salaries such as 17 l.p.a.

Hope this helps!

Hello Waseem,



The Pandit Deendyal Petroleum University is one of the good institute offering this course and Careers 360 rates it as 3.73 out of 5.



For some more information about this college please visit following link,



http://www.careers360.com/university/pandit-deendayal-petroleum-university-gandhinagar



All the Best:-)