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Branches of the job

• Drilling engineer

  Plan and supervise the well being drilled. The most field-based and the most urgent.

• Reservoir engineer

  Model how much is down there and how fast it can be produced. Heavy on math and software.

• Production engineer

  Keep existing wells flowing and fix the ones that stop. Steady work even in a downturn.

• Completions and hydraulic fracturing

  Design how the rock is opened up. The core skill behind United States shale.

• Carbon storage and geothermal

  The same subsurface skills applied to storing carbon dioxide or producing heat. The exit ramp a lot of engineers are taking.