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Overview
Drilling engineers design drilling programmes, well paths and well-head equipment, monitor operations, costs and safety, and coordinate specialist contractors and drilling teams.
In job descriptions, look for well design, drilling programmes, offshore or land sites, well data sheets, contractor management, safety monitoring, cost control and troubleshooting.
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Drilling engineers work around well design, drilling teams and live site constraints. Plans must connect geology, equipment, contractors, costs and safety before and during drilling on land or offshore platforms.
Skills and specializations
Core skills include designing well paths, drill programmes and well-head equipment, analysing drilling engineering, preparing well data sheets, monitoring well operations and troubleshooting with contractors.
Salary context
Pay context depends on site responsibility, offshore or land rotation, contract management, cost control, safety authority, depth and complexity of wells, and whether the engineer supervises drilling teams.
Career paths
People may enter from petroleum, mining, mechanical or geotechnical engineering. Development can lead toward senior drilling engineering, well operations management, drilling contracts, safety leadership or broader subsurface project roles.
Good to know
Check whether vacancies name the well type, drilling phase, site location, contractor interface, reporting duties and safety authority. A useful advert shows if the role designs programmes, supervises operations or does both.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for drilling engineer work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Engineering activities and related technical consultancy
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include mineral processing engineer, mine health and safety engineer and mine planning engineer.
Explore this activityExtraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Another occupation there is petroleum engineer.
Explore this activitySupport activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
Another possibility is this activity. Other occupations there include petroleum engineer, explosives engineer and liquid fuel engineer.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 1
Petroleum Engineers
17-2171.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
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These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
71.12Engineering activities and related technical consultancy09.1Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction06Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas43.13Test drilling and boring09.9Support activities for other mining and quarrying42.21Construction of utility projects for fluids
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Mining engineers, metallurgists and related professionals (2146)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/3f863faa-c045-4f05-a419-b19182aea866 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2146.2 |
| ISCO group | 2146 |
| Concept type | Occupation |