Oil and Gas Jobs, Occupations and Careers
Oil and Gas
Oil and gas companies engage in or support upstream oil and
gas activities, such as the exploration, development and
production of crude petroleum and/or natural gas.
Oil and gas occupations include exploration engineers,
drilling engineers, drillers, roughnecks, derrickmen, roustabouts, reservoir engineers,
pipeline engineers, petroleum engineers and
chemists, crude oil marketing analysts, gas marketing
specialists, oil and gas traders, gas plant personnel and
wellhead operators
Oil and gas companies search the world for reservoirs
containing oil or natural gas. Once these resources are
discovered, oil and gas companies work with petroleum
engineers, geologists and other specialists to understand the
geologic formation and properties of the rock containing the
reservoir, determine the drilling methods to be used, and
monitor drilling and production operations.
Oil and gas companies design equipment and processes to
achieve the maximum profitable recovery of oil and gas.
Oil and gas companies rely heavily on computer models to
simulate reservoir performance using different recovery
techniques. Oil / gas companies also use computer models for
simulations of the effects of various drilling options.
Because only a small proportion of oil and gas in a
reservoir will flow out under natural forces, oil and gas
companies develop and use various enhanced recovery methods.
These include injecting water, chemicals, gases or steam into
an oil reservoir to force out more of the oil, and
computer-controlled drilling or fracturing to connect a larger
area of a reservoir to a single well.
Because even the best techniques in use today recover only a
portion of the oil and gas in a reservoir, oil and gas
companies research and develop technology and methods to
increase recovery and lower the cost of drilling and production
operations.
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