Petroleum engineering practitioners
Those who have practiced petroleum engineering fro its inception to the present have come from three sources:
- those who received formal petroleum engineering education;
- those who were trained in other fields;
- those who were unschooled and learned through experience.
A 1995 SPE count of its members showed that 58.7% of its USA members with a degree in engineering held one in petroleum engineering, and Bureau of Labor statistical reports for 1978-93 indicate that 65.5% of the engineering work force in oil and gas extraction was in the field of petroleum engineering. Petroleum engineering is now practiced worldwide as a sophisticated and mature technology.
Petroleum engineering is a part of the overall technology spectrum that has produced the world of today, molding our way of living and impacting our future. Within the spectrum, this profession can claim at least two major unique contributions. The first is its major contribution to the provision of the energy and chemicals needed to underpin technological society. The second is its creation of technological methods for exploring Earth’s inner space and the resources there. Although the human race has relied on energy and chemicals from many sources, it has found no other source as cheap and as available over the past 2 centuries as Earth’s fossil organic residues. The petroleum engineering profession has brought all available engineering knowledge and methods to bear on the acquisition and development of these resources in fluid form; has embraced and extended their underlying sciences; and has developed techniques of measurement, analysis, synthesis and management for their understanding and control.
In the broadest sense, what petroleum engineering has is a technology for the general exploration and development of the Earth’s subsurface.
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