Petroleum+Engineer

=Petroleum Engineer= By: Justin

Oil and gas in today's economy is very valuble.It powers automobiles,terrain vehicles and even heats our houses in the winter.Their also used to make paint, plastic etc. Petroleum engineers can ethier work out in the feild on an oil rig or in an office. Petroleum engineers mostly take surveys of the rock material and see if it has a good sign of quality oil. Once the engineers drill down into the oil bed all the decisions are to be made by the petroleum engineerist on what way they should recover the oil, an example of this would be pressure and extraction through pipes. Some Petroleum engineers work to make the right pressure for oil to flow from the pipes to straight to the refineries and a constant fluid motion.

=Some pictures of oil and on site petroleum engineerists.= = =



=Earnings and Salary=

Petroleum engineers have a good work schedual, they work 5 days out of the week and work 40 hours. Earnings for a petroleum engineer very greatly, they make up to 30,000 to 50,000 dollars a year. Good petroleum engineers and senior petroleum engineers can make from 50,000 to 200,000 dollars a year.



=Education needed=

There are many ways and paths a young eager individual can take on the road to become a petroleum engineer. Many of these programs are at colleges and university's.Subjects that you should take are geology,drilling,Production and resovoir engineering technology. You will need a bachelor's degree or a PHD as well as an MBA degree ( Managers of buisness adminisrative degree).In order to practice in the feild of an engineer you must pass the exam as well as 2 to 4 years of work supervision of a senior engineer.

Courses needed that can be helpful for becoming an engineer are as followed:


 * __Grade 10__**


 * English
 * Mathematics
 * science
 * Social studies
 * Career Development
 * Computers


 * __Grade 11__**
 * English
 * Mathematics
 * Probability and statistics
 * Biology
 * Chemistry
 * Earth and envirmomental science
 * Physics
 * Social studies
 * Geography
 * Computer Science


 * __Grade 12__**


 * Algebra and Equations
 * Math
 * Biology
 * Chemistry
 * Earth & Environmental Science
 * Physics
 * Social Studies
 * Geography
 * Computer Science
 * Remember to check with your counsellor at your local school to see if these courses are valid since most courses at other schools vary greatly*

=Working conditions in the oil industry= = = Alot of engineers work for Oil and natural gas companies scattered throughout North America and even throughout the entire world ! Most Oil industry jobs tend to have alot of trevellign involved, most of the jobs in the oil industry involve travelling to exotic parts of the world.However, in Canada there are a variety of people working at home in canada. A prime example is in Alberta, more opportunity's are arising in other provinces today , such as Newfoundland and their discovery of their great oil bed. Engineers do alot of off shore working on oil rigs, even though they work on oil rigs they have shifts and switch up back and fourth oftebn being exposed to dirt and noise although some engineers have desk jobs.

=Work Opportunity's= = = Work oppurtunity's that are related to petroleum engineering are chemical and civil engineering, enviromental tech , enviromental engineer,Geologist,hydologist,Industrial engineer,Mining engineer etc.

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