Essentially, a Drilling Engineer is in charge of drilling the well to produce oil or gas. Drilling Engineers also develop, plan, cost and supervise operations necessary for drilling oil and gas wells. They are involved from the initial stages of designing the well, through to testing, completion and eventually, abandonment. Drilling Engineers work in office and field environments including well sites, which can be on land, offshore or on mobile drilling units. They are employed either by the operating oil company, specialist drilling contractors or a service company. The Structure of the Diploma in Drilling Engineering:

• Occupational Health and Safety
• Theory Exploratory Drilling
• Drilling machinery
• Research Project, Technical writing
• Maintenance Basics
• Quality Assurance
• Drilling Machinery Practical
• Human Factors Engineering
• Rig Site Operations Practice
• Oil Well Drilling and Well Completion
• Production and Well Control
• Project Design, Implementation and Evaluation