I have a question for petroleum geologist or any other geologist?

Question

is petroleum geology a good field to go in...do i need to have a undergrad degree in geology, because i want to get a B.S in geography and get a master in geology or minning geology or something related...and get a PH.D...is this ok??

Answer 1

There were too many pet geos on the market when I was in school in the 80s.  The focus at the time was to generate more environmental geos.  Now there's a glut of those.  It may have cycled back to needing pet geos again, but I don't know for certain.

While not critical to obtain a BS in geology, you may have to go a semester or year as a post-bach to get all of your required undergrad classwork before you get into grad school (sed ped, ig pet, mineralogy, structural geo, geophysics, invert paleo, etc).