Petroleum Engineering curriculum covers a wide area of topics like Geophysics, Petroleum Geology, Formation evaluation, Drilling, Economics, Reservoir Simulation, Reservoir Engineering, Well Engineering, Artificial lift systems, etc, If you look at these disciplines they are all field profiles which means they require you to be on site during the project. One of the exciting careers that you can have is that of a Geophysicist. Apart from that various PSUs like ONGC, HPCL, BPCL, IOCL, CPCL, GAIL, HOEC and Essar Oil hire Petroleum Engineers. The profiles that complement your studies might be Drilling Engineer, Production Engineer, Chief Petroleum Engineer, Offshore Drilling Engineer, Reservoir Engineer, etc. As a fresher you might expect atleast 5-7 lakhs per annum and the salary increases as you put on experience.