petroleum engineer
Drilling industry professional
A petroleum engineer specializes in extracting oil and natural gas from underground reservoirs.
The work spans exploration, drilling, and production—figuring out where deposits are, how to reach them, and how to get the most out of them efficiently.
Petroleum engineers work for oil companies, drilling contractors, and consulting firms: She started as a petroleum engineer in the Permian Basin.
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- drill bitRotating hole-cutting attachment
- oil rigOffshore petroleum extraction structure
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- offshoreAway from land
reservoir · crude · black gold · wellhead · extraction · refinery · pipeline · oilfield · boom town · fracking · mud · casing · derrick · oil well · barrel · seismic · subsurface · hydrocarbons
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