Why a career in Petroleum Engineering?
Every credible energy expert believes that the foreseeable national and global energy future, like the present, will be shaped predominantly by fossil energy. In spite of public perception, fossil fuels are, in fact, a blessing. Imagine a world without airplanes, automobiles, trucks to deliver goods, tractors to plow fields, factories to make goods, asphalt highways on which to deliver goods, plastics, cosmetics, clean-burning energy delivered to the home in pipes. Petroleum engineering plays a major role in shaping the modern society by providing advanced technology to keep the supply and demand of crude oil met at the national and at the global level. (See “Wanted: Oil Workers” or “A Gusher for Oil Grads” for further details) Petroleum industry has always enjoyed a powerful status in shaping societies in the past and is expected to do so in foreseeable future. The history behind goes back to more than one-and-half century. In Titusville, Pennsylvania, using the same technology as the
