I am about to obtain a petroleum engineering degree from a prestigious school. After that I decide to do my masters in Norway. How easy would it then be for me to work as a petroleum engineer in Norway?

I should disagree with previous replies. First of all, oil and gas are both categorized as fossil fuels. So not sure what does Aurun mean by saying petroleum is died so fossil fuels are done and now everything is about gas! Secondly, the predictions and company plans show oil and gas industry will be active in Norway for decades. Simply search about new discoveries in Barents Sea, or new field developments in Johan castberg and Johan sverdrup fields in North Sea. Yes, it is true that the market is under huge amount of pressure now. This is due to very low oil price. So not a good time for getting into the job market. However this is no way due to disappearance of oil. Quite opposite it is due to too much oil available in the market. And the other reply talks about learning norsk is not accurate as well. If you are in this industry then English is the language. Of course knowing norsk is a bonus but not necessary.

What, no! Who gets into petroleum these days? It's well clear that we need to stop most of the drilling as soon as possible, and now even the market is helping with that. More than 20 000 fossil jobs have disappeared only the last six months in Norway—that's a lot for a country of five million people! What's more, we don't even have that much petroleum left. Most of the fossil fuel from Norway these days is gas. I'm going to be direct and say that going into fossil at this point is morally wrong, but even disregarding that, it's looking less and less a promising career move. Learn about wind and solar, quickly.