Introduction: Chemical Petro Engineering is a sub discipline or more specialized stream chemical engineering. Oil technology related issues especially the processing and yield of production is being taught in this subject. Comparatively, this is narrower stream and recruitments are also confined to some specific petrochemical industries.
This is an emerging discipline in Engineering with very a few institutions are offering courses in India. Andhra University, Visakhapatnam is one of the leading institutes in this list. The programme is mainly inter – disciplinary in nature.
Scope in India and abroad:
Recruitments are mainly in the petrochemical industries. Companies such as Haldia Petrochem, Bharat Petroleum, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC, and Reliance petroleum ltd, Tata Petrodyne, Essar Oil Limited, Gas Authority of India, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Aban are having recruits for the professionals of this stream. Some of the abroad Universities such as University of Calgary are having courses for this very specialized stream.