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Career Opportunities

Petroleum engineering isn't just one job. You can be a:
  • Drilling engineer, working with geologists and contractors in designing and supervising drilling operations, many of which are multi-million-dollar ventures.
     
  • Production engineer, developing processes and equipment to optimize oil and gas production.
     
  • Reservoir engineer, helping to determine ideal recovery processes, estimate the number of wells that can be economically drilled, and simulate future performance using sophisticated computer models.
Make the World Your Marketplace
  • Explore the high seas, remote jungles, vast deserts, and mountain ranges, developing oil and gas reserves where no one has drilled before.
     
  • Help boost energy production (and perhaps the entire economy) of countries around the globe.
     
  • Live and work in many countries.
     
  • Understand other cultures.
The demand for safe, affordable, clean energy has never been greater. And you can help meet this need. If you want to make a difference in the world — and if you are looking for challenge, adventure, choices, and excellent financial rewards — consider a career in petroleum engineering.

Document last revised Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:33 AM

Copyright 2007 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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