foreveryoung writes:
Why are you calling Petroleum Geologists and Environmental Geologists Engineers?
As a person with a degree in geological engineering, I have no idea why you think anyone working in the field would confuse petroleum or environmental geologists with petroleum or environmental engineers. In general, one deals with evidence for hypotheses to formulate theories, the other ultimately uses those hypotheses and theories (along with some short cuts and rules of thumb) to design new methods or facilities to maximize profit.
Everything Coragyps said is dead-on fact. I know as we are both in the Permian Basin, which to my knowledge is once again the largest oil producing field in the USA. Try renting, my daughter can't rent a cardboard box in Odessa for less than $100 a day. Also, why would you think anything is somehow preventing you from becoming a petroleum engineer? Tuition at my Alma Mater, New Mexico Tech, was $2500 a year in-state and $7500 a year out-of-state just last year -- compare that to Ivy League. They have a doctorate program in petroleum engineering as well as geology, geophysics, geochemistry and hydrology. {ABE - and environmental engineering, should you prefer more stability in possible future demand}.
I recently read an article that stated due to the shortage, petroleum engineers with a few year's experience working offshore in Australia were pulling 500k a year. Timed right, seems a degree would be a good investment. Timed wrong, as in my case back in 1982, you get to be a soldier, journalist, librarian, then college dean.
Considering the momentary high demand which could last awhile, I think the only thing preventing you from becoming a petroleum engineer is you.
Edited by anglagard, : No reason given.
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