<p>how is it like working in the oil industry? lots of travel opportunities? overseas? high pay?</p>
<p>It depends upon which company you work for. If you work for a very large company, then there is a good chance that you'll get plenty of travel opportunities. Smaller companies are going to be more domestic, and I wouldn't call Lousiana, Texas, or Alaska a vacation spot.</p>
<p>As far as pay is concerned, there is no profession that makes more, assuming we're talking about petro or reservoir engineering. 5 years ago, you needed at the very least a Master's and that would fetch you about $60k your first year. Now, they'll accept you with a Bachelor's in just Geology, not even engineering. And that pay starts off around $70 to 80k your first year. Master's are fetching 100k. Good reservoir engineers with experience can make $1500 to $2,000 a day. This pay will continue its high rate of increase. The average engineer is about 47, and there will be a mass exodus as retirement comes. It won't be too long before they are the best paying job (pretty much tied now with physicians and surgeons).</p>
<p>dang, that's a lot of money</p>
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Now, they'll accept you with a Bachelor's in just Geology, not even engineering. And that pay starts off around $70 to 80k your first year.
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Yep, they were recruiting geology majors at Duke during the career fair (~$90K starting salary!!!).</p>
<p>are you kidding me!!</p>
<p>90k?</p>
<p>Why is the demand in the Oil Industry so high now?
and isn't it (oil's demand) possible to decrease if some other source instead of Oil is found?</p>
<p>I suspect it's because there are so few geology majors being produced (less than 10 a year at most schools), and a lot of professional geologists are retiring. A lot of money is being put into alternative energy research, an increasingly important aspect of geology.</p>
<p>maybe i should give chemistry another chance lol</p>
<p>i guess Chem E and Mat E in Eng majors seem pretty good for this kind of fields...</p>
<p>"I suspect it's because there are so few geology majors being produced (less than 10 a year at most schools), and a lot of professional geologists are retiring. A lot of money is being put into alternative energy research, an increasingly important aspect of geology."</p>
<p>i guess the Chem E: Energy & Fuels Engineering Option (EFE) is also good for "alternative energy research"</p>
<p>"The aim of this degree Option in Energy and Fuels Engineering is to provide students with the technical skills needed to address national and global issues facing society arising from the complexities of assuring an abundant and efficient energy supply while responsibly preserving and managing the quality of the environment. The Option is designed to build on the solid core of Chemical Engineering training with specialized courses in fuel and energy science and technology. Because of building on the "core" Chemical Engineering curriculum, graduates of this Option are fully qualified chemical engineers. However, graduates of the Energy and Fuels Engineering Option will have specialized expertise and training in the areas of:</p>
<p>the chemical processing issues associated with energy production and use;
the chemical processes of fuel refining, conversion, and utilization, including those which may lead to potential emissions of undesirable by-products;
the choice of equipment and processes for efficient utilization of fuels, as well as conversion, refining, and upgrading of fuels to maximize efficient conversion or energy release and to minimize the impact of fuel utilization on the quality of the environment;
the design of equipment used for fuel processing, energy release from fuels, and for controlling undesirable emissions associated with fuel utilization.
To be able to identify and solve the energy problems of tomorrow, the graduates of this program will integrate knowledge that is traditionally acquired primarily in Fuel Science and Chemical Engineering. The Energy and Fuels Engineering Option is designed to address major imperatives emerging as key components of national and global agendas for preservation of the environment and enhancement of economic vitality. It is very likely that significant changes in clean air regulations and limitations of carbon dioxide emissions will have major impacts on the energy industries, and the chemical process industries that make heavy use of energy, affecting Pennsylvania and the rest of the nation. Both industry and government will need assistance in coping with the complexities of establishing and maintaining an environmentally acceptable energy technology'</p>
<p>^what's with your ChemE trolling?</p>
<p>Yes, ChemE's do pretty well in the job market, but the fact is, most people will flunk out of it because the curriculum is both extremely challenging, and extremely DRY.</p>
<p>Yep...you Are A 100% Right.</p>
<p>I've Met Atleast 10 People Who Got A B.s. In Chem E And Work In A Completely Different Field.</p>
<p>SO WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR ENGINEERING MAJOR?</p>
<p>OH, and what do you exactly mean by "DRY"?</p>
<p>tom's trolling chemE b/c he is jewish and afraid of the environments (-the middle east-, although the middle east isn't the only place with oil) PetrolE's work in.</p>
<p>wow, i am jewish?</p>
<p>never got that before.
that must be a Texan thing?</p>
<p>It is boring. I doubt many people find balancing chemical equations to be all that interesting. It is not as "fun" as civil engineering or say bioengineering.</p>
<p>Oh sorry Tom, I got you confused with someone else in the thread below (topic was sort of the same, see post 14)</p>
<p>"It is boring. I doubt many people find balancing chemical equations to be all that interesting. It is not as "fun" as civil engineering or say bioengineering."</p>
<p>oh, really.</p>
<p>i dunno...nothing about bioengineering sounds fun to me at all</p>
<p>do you mean bioengineering as biological/agricultural engineering...</p>
<p>or do you mean Bio-medical eng.?</p>
<p>^^There is no difference along those lines. bio engineering = applying engineering principles to biological systems, a better divide would be bioE with Mech background, EE background, ChemE background, ComputerE or biochem background.</p>