Petroleum Engineering

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Petroleum engineers search the world for reservoirs containing oil or natural gas. Once these resources are discovered, petroleum engineers work with geologists and other specialists to understand the geologic formation and properties of the rock containing the reservoir, determine the drilling methods to be used, and monitor drilling and production operations. They design equipment and processes to achieve the maximum profitable recovery of oil and gas. Because only a small proportion of oil and gas in a reservoir flows out under natural forces, petroleum engineers develop and use various enhanced recovery methods. These include injecting water, chemicals, gases, or steam into an oil reservoir to force out more of the oil and doing computer-controlled drilling or fracturing to connect a larger area of a reservoir to a single well. Because even the best techniques in use today recover only a portion of the oil and gas in a reservoir, petroleum engineers research and develop technology and methods to increase recovery and lower the cost of drilling and production operations.

Employment Picture: Petroleum engineers are expected to have 5 percent employment growth over the projections decade. Even though most of the potential petroleum-producing areas in the United States already have been explored, petroleum engineers will increasingly be needed to develop new methods of extracting more resources from existing sources. Favorable opportunities are expected for petroleum engineers because the number of job openings is likely to exceed the relatively small number of graduates. Petroleum engineers work around the world and, in fact, the best employment opportunities may include some work in other countries.

RECRUITING COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES Petroleum Engineering Department STARTING SALARY OFFERS 2008-2009 Low B.S. $40,000 M.S. $85,000 PhD No Report High $110,000 $115,000 No Report Average $81,947 $97,909 $97,000 (2008)

Employers who have recruited at CSM during the last 3 years for full-time entry-level BS Petroleum Majors
(BOLD indicates on-campus recruiting; Plain indicates Job Postings in DiggerNet; companies also recruiting for Internships noted with *.)

Petroleum
ABS Aera Energy LLC * American Cast Iron Pipe Company Anadarko Petroleum * Anvil Corporation * Ascend Analytics * Ashmin ATLAS COPCO CONSTRUCTION MINING Atkinson Const. LLC * Baker Hughes Inc. Bechtel National * Bentek Energy BG GROUP BHP Billiton * Bill Barrett Corporation * BJ SERVICES Black Hills Corporation * Black Hills Energy Blue Sky Energy BOART LONGYEAR COMPANY BP * Bureau of Land Management - Wyoming Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation * Calfrac Well Services Corp. * Cannon * Central Operating Inc CH2M HILL * Chesapeake Energy Corporation * CHEVRON * Cimarex Energy Co. * Comstock Resources * ConocoPhillips * Cudd Energy Services Dart Energy Corporation * DCP Midstream * Denbury Resources Devon Energy * DJ Resources, Inc. * DOE - Environmental Management Dominion Power * El Paso Corporation * EnCana Oil & Gas * Energy Corporation of America * Energy Future Holdings * Enerplus Resources * Enogex * ENSCO INTERNATIONAL ENSR EOG Resources * Epic SYSTEMS EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel * ExxonMobil * Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Federal Highway Administration * Fidelity E & P Company * FLUOR FORERUNNER * Forest Oil Corporation Gas Technology Institute * global industries offshore * Gustavson Associates, LLC * Halliburton * Heartland Energy Development Corp Helmerich & Payne, Inc. * Hess Corporation * HighMount E & P * HUNT PETROLEUM IHS Inc. * Intela Intellection

Intelligentsia International, Inc. * J Mar & Associates * J. T. Thorpe & Son, Inc. * J.R. Simplot Company Kaye Bassman International Corporation KBC Advanced Technologies, Inc. KINDER MORGAN * Lesair Environmental Liberty Pressure Pumping LT Environmental, Inc * Nalco Company * National Renewable ENERGY Lab * Newfield Exploration * Newmont Mining Corporation * Noble Energy * Nolte Associates * Norwest Corporation NuStar Energy Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Occidental Oil & Gas (OXY) * Olsson Associates * ORICA USA, INC. P2 Energy Solutions PA Consulting Group PATHFINDER PEARL DEVELOPMENT Peace Corps * Petro-Canada Resources (USA) Inc. Petroleum Development Corp * Petroleum Field Services, LLC * Petrolog Pioneer Natural Resources * Professional Directional Questar Exploration & Production * Questar Gas Company *

Repsol USA * Rosetta Resources, Inc. * SAIC * SandRidge Energy * Schlumberger * Seis-Strat Sempra LNG Shell * Southwestern Energy Company * St. Mary Land & Exploration * StatoilHydro * Sundyne Corporation Superior Well Services * Talisman Energy Inc. * Technip USA, Inc TICORA Geosciences Total E&P Trane * Transocean Offshore Deepwater Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., LLC U.S. Bank U.S. DOI Minerals Management U.S. DOI -Bureau of Reclamation U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) URS Washington Division * Vectren Corporation Venoco Inc. * Victaulic Vista GeoSciences LLC Ward Petroleum * W-H Energy Services Whiting Petroleum Corporation * Williams COMPANY* Wood Mackenzie XTO ENERGY*