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Petro Eng is really specialized actually. Its main focus is recovering oil from ground wells.
Three possibilities:
1. Geology, believe it or not. Oil companies hire geologists to analyze and locate the oil. Pay is phenomenal currently...however, who knows if the good times will continue to last. Geology will allow you to work in the currently more lucrative "upstream" divisions of oil companies...Upstream refers to production of the raw oil.
2. Chemical engineering. However, chemical engineering is mainly focused on the "downstream" portions of the oil business...i.e. oil refining.
3. Mechanical engineering. Mechanical engineers are the jacks-of-all-trades. You can be hired by oil companies to work on all equipment related problems/issues...drilling equipment, especially.
All three of these majors are in high demand from the oil industry.
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Quoted for truth. I work upstream as an ME. I'm not sure I've seen of any technical majors other than PetE/ChemE/ME/Geology at my current company.