Petroleum Engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil, or natural gas. Exploration, production, refinement, and distribution to a market are the industries related to this highly technical engineering profession.

Petroleum Engineering requires a good knowledge of many other related disciplines, such as geophysics, petroleum geology, formation evaluation (well logging), drilling, economics, reservoir simulation, well engineering, artificial lift systems, and oil and gas facilities engineering.
Petroleum engineering education is available at very few universities in Egypt outside Future University.