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Petroleum Engineer
OFO Code: 214607
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 214607
- Occupation
- Petroleum Engineer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2146 · Mining Engineers, Metallurgists and Related Professionals
Official description
Mining engineers, metallurgists and related professionals conduct research on and , design and develop and maintain commercial-scale methods of extracting metals from their ores, or minerals, water, oil or gas from the earth and of developing new alloys, ceramic and other materials, or study and advise on mining or metallurgical aspects of particular materials, products or processes.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Oil Refinery Engineer, Petrophysical Engineer, Petroleum Engineering Technologist, Biofuels Engineer, Mud Engineer, Gas Engineer, Natural Gas Engineer, Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers
- Determining drilling site and devising methods of controlling the flow of water, oil or gas from wells
- Maintaining technical liaison and consultancy with other relevant specialists such as geologists and geophysicists
- Establishing safety standards and procedures and first-aid facilities, especially underground
- Planning and directing storage, initial treatment and transportation of water, oil or gas
- Determining most suitable methods of efficient mining and extraction, types of machinery to be used, planning layout and directing construction of shafts and tunnels
- Examining deposits or mines to evaluate profitability
- Determining the location and planning the extraction of coal, metallic ores, non-metallic minerals, and building materials, such as stone and gravel
- Investigating properties of metals and alloys, developing new alloys and advising on and supervising technical aspects of metal and alloy manufacture and processing
- Conducting research, developing methods of extracting metals from their ores and advising on their application
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.