Research Paper

One of the cons for Petroleum Engineers is that in the early years of working it is very
demanding in the physical department. On top of that sometimes they get put in places with
harsh conditions and maybe some groups of people who dislike you and what you are doing.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are many petroleum engineers working much
more than 40 hours a week, some people working for 50 or 60 hours a week. The harsh
conditions are mostly in the early years and if you have a field job (which pays more from at the
medium salary) plus over time you can get promoted to a manager overseeing younger people
who just got into the job just like you did in the beginning. Some people move to a place called
Environmental Protection Agency or some other regulators or they just quit the job and do
something else. The typical entry-level engineer needs a bachelors degree and thats it, no earlier
experience in the job or a related occupation, no in job training, nothing which is a good thing
about a job if you only want to do four years in college with no earlier experience and get right
into the job. The real work you do there is as the following: design machines/equipment to
extract gas and oil from the ground in the most profitable way, develop ways to inject things like
chemicals, water, steam or gases into an oil reserve to push out more oil. Another thing you do
in your typical daily routine is to make sure that the oil field equipment is installed, maintained
and operated properly. Starting in high school people who want to become a petroleum engineer
will benefit from taking classes like algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus .Taking
classes in physics, biology chemistry, ecology and earth sciences. Plus studying english, a
foreign language, and social sciences will greatly benefit you from your job later on.
As a petroleum engineer you can have some travel involved you can be sent to places like
the Middle East, Alaska or off shores. As I said before there are some places where you get

moved to where the conditions are harsh or horrible. There arent many safety concerns involved
in this job right off the bat. There are jobs for petroleum engineers all over the world (well all
over the where there is oil). Petroleum engineers that work in the field earn the same starting
salary as someone in an office setting but the field engineers have larger spikes of income later
on than people in the office do.
There are 35,100 jobs in petroleum engineering as of 2014. The growth of jobs in
petroleum engineering is projected to grow 26 percent from 2012 to 2022. Another con for
petroleum engineering is there is a lot of competition involved. By that I mean there are plenty of
people going for the same job which is petroleum engineering, and the requirements involved for
the jobs are not much. All you need for the job is a Bachelors Degree which is only 4 years of
college, which is not that much compared to what some other professions require you to get. On
top of that there are many professions that need you to have earlier experience in something
either related to the job or the job itself from a different company, and you sometimes also need
to take an entry test to get the job you want. The Bachelors degree programs include classes like
laboratory work, field studies in places such as engineering principles, also geology, and finally
thermodynamics. Many colleges and or universities offer cooperative programs in which
students gain practical experience while completing their education. There are some possibilities
that you will be moved up in this job but there arent many things you can be moved up into. You
can be promoted to a manager which can be promoted to a state manager and regional manager
and things like that so basically you can be promoted to a managerial position in the company.
There are different things you can do as a petroleum engineer like working in an office
environment or working at extraction and reservoir facilities. The people in the offices review
reports, design plans and extraction facilities, and they also make presentations about their

projects and potential sites. The average annual salary an entry-level petroleum engineer makes
is around $100,000 to 110,000 as of 2016. Typical benefits packages include generous paid time
off, matching retirement plan contributions and full health, disability and life insurance coverage.
Oh and another benefit is that petroleum engineers have high pay. Major employers are in this
field are Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Occidental, and Chevron. All of these 5 employers extract and sell
oil to the common person. They sell the gas and oil at gas stations all over the United States.
Their employees work in the United States and places in the middle east and off shores.
Some future prospects of this job are the pay might increase do to the demand of oil and
the demand of petroleum engineers. Some bad things that could happen are that the demand for
petroleum engineers can drop drastically by the time I will be done with school. On article says
that petroleum engineers are left with no job after finishing college due to dropping oil prices
that article is called Falling Oil Prices Leave Petroleum Engineering Students Out In The Cold.
Another article says that petroleum engineering degrees are seen going from boom to bust, and in
that article it states that this year, 21 U.S. colleges and universities are expected to graduate over
11 petroleum engineering majors, this research is by a Texas Tech professor of petroleum
engineering named Lloyd Heinze. Most likely that will not happen to where oil prices drop down
to $25 a barrel most likely it will drop down to a minimum of $40 dollars and that still will not
be that bad, petroleum engineers will still make a fairly large amount of money a year.
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