About Us

The oil industry in India has been passing through an active phase of growth. Since 1970's the oil industry has seen a phenomenal rise in all sectors of exploration and exploitation. The demand for Petroleum Products is escalating; this has increased the need for finding better and more efficient ways of exploration and exploitation of Hydrocarbons. Policy decisions in the recent past have thrown open the government-run industries to the private sector, thereby increasing the need for trained man power. Envisaging this need for specialised man power, the Department Of Geology of Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune, launched a Post-Graduate Diploma course in Petroleum Technology in the year 1987.

This was launched as an extension to the existing graduate course in Geology. The initial success of the diploma course, coupled with interaction with ONGC and different oil companies, encouraged us to expand the course to a two year post-graduate (Applied) course since 1989. This is one of the few courses in India which leads to a full-fledged post-graduate degree in Petroleum Technology (Applied) under the University Of Pune.The essence of the course is the blend of Technology with Geology.