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Returning to Petroleum Engineering

02/11/2008 9:19 AM

I am A petroleum Engineer, Graduated for the University about 7 years Ago. I have been working with a company for 5 years, not in this area( Petroleum Engineering). How do i go back to Petroleum Engineering. I want Quit the present job which does not give me joy anymore and go back to my profession(Petroleum Engineering) I need Help and Suggestions

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Re: Returning to Petroleum Engineering

02/11/2008 5:31 PM

Send out some resume's, especially to service companies. There are also many jobs posted on the internet.

Go to the web sites for each of the major oil companies and post your resume on their open position web sites.

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Re: Returning to Petroleum Engineering

02/11/2008 11:12 PM

Do like me, change your career. Me as well after working 18 years in the pharmaceutical industries at 53 years of age I choose to leave back on school bench for three more years.

good luck body

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Re: Returning to Petroleum Engineering

02/12/2008 9:03 AM

Apply on Halliburton.com put my name as a referral, and contact me once you are hired. Chris Hoelscher - Carrollton

You'll find that Pet. Eng. are in great demand.

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Re: Returning to Petroleum Engineering

02/15/2008 7:38 PM

Demand for all engineers in general is very high, though compensation doesn't seem to follow the demand. The relative demand for petroleum engineers is likely to decline in the future, as demand for new reserves declines, in comparison to chemical engineers and some other engineering fields. So keep you option broad, their is likely to be a change in atitude regarding and demand for chemical engineers in the western US, with the expansion of ethanol production and other alternative fuels. A number of alternative fuel facilities I have been involved with developing have had large oil conglomerates invested as somewhat silent partners. So I believe that while they make efforts to resist market change, they also see the changes coming and are really just trying to slow the transition enough to gain a vested interest in a large portion of the market share before others get to deeply entrenched. And, of course they will not tell their workers of this long-term strategy, just transition those workers out who haven't foreseen this on their own and transitioned their skills, slowly replacing some petroleum personnel with organic chemical engineers.

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