GATE Petroleum Engineering Syllabus

GATE Petroleum Engineering covers 11 subjects: Engineering Mathematics, Petroleum Exploration, Oil and Gas Well Drilling Technology, Reservoir Engineering, Petroleum Production Operations, Offshore Drilling and Production Practices, Petroleum Formation Evaluation: Evaluation of petrophysical of sub-surface formations and Oil and Gas Well Testing, and 3 more. Together they contain 87 chapters and 101 named topics.

The full GATE Petroleum Engineering outline breaks down into 87 chapters, 101 topics and 23 sub-topics. Engineering Mathematics is the largest single subject with 35 topics across 6 chapters.

Roughly 80 hours for one full pass. That estimate allows about 45 minutes per topic plus 12 minutes per sub-topic, so it is first-pass coverage — revision, past papers and mock tests sit on top of it. At 3 hours a day that is about 4 weeks.

Yes — 567 question-and-answer flashcards across 11 decks, one per subject, written against this syllabus. A sample of every deck is readable on this site for free, and the complete decks are in the Examius app.

Yes. Every page here is free to read, and importing the GATE Petroleum Engineering syllabus into the Examius app to tick off topics as you finish them is free too, in India and everywhere else. No account is needed to start.