<p>Is now a good time to enter the petroleum industry? I plan on attending Texas A&M as a petroleum engineering major. In my lifetime, will the oil industry remain stable enough to pick this career path. Most of my teachers at my High School and people I asked at TAMU say that in my lifetime, petroleum engineering will be fine. I just worry about running out of oil or something.</p>
<p>You are going to get 100 different answers with so-called data to back it up… that is a really hard question to answer.</p>
<p>The only thing I’m certain of is that as of right now, our society isn’t remotely ready to be off oil. Alternative energy should really be called supplemental energy because that’s all it’s ever going to do. I can’t imagine with a degree from A&M you are going to have a hard time staying employed, but I suppose there could be some miraculous breakthrough that allows you to run your car off of garbage…</p>
<p>Some people will say yes and some will say no. Nobody really knows for sure. A lot can change in 20 years; just look at where we were in 1990.</p>
<p>What we do know for sure is that oil won’t disappear overnight.</p>
<p>Oil is not going away anytime soon. Especially with all the potential oil reserves in the Arctic that are still being explored. Texas A&M was actually my second choice school after Alaska for Petroleum engineering. It is an excellent college for Petrolum engineering. They have many PE fascilities and laboratories. It is also well recruited from Oil companies. You will not be dissapointed by A&M.</p>
<p>Don’t buy what the media tells you. The United States has 21.3 billion barrels of oil and 593.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas waiting to be extracted. The petroleum industry is so vast, I wouldn’t worry one bit!</p>
<p>The only thing to worry about would be too many petroleum engineering majors for too few jobs. </p>
<p>I would also guess that even as oil supplies dwindle, the demand for petroleum engineers will remain strong. More scientists will be needed as oil will be more difficult to find and reach.</p>
<p>Oil is a dying field and there are soon going to be no jobs in it. Look at this quote from President Obama:</p>
<p>“Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, … the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving.”</p>
<p>OOPS, my bad. This quote was said by President Richard Nixon in 1974. </p>
<p>Is oil going away? You tell me…</p>