Career Details
Petroleum Technicians
Design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from deposits below the earth’s surface.
Overview
Design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from deposits below the earth's surface.
What you'll do
- Design equipment to extract oil and gas in the most profitable way
- Develop plans to drill in oil and gas fields, and then to recover the oil and gas
- Make sure that wells, well testing, and well surveys are completed and evaluated
- Use computer-controlled drilling or fracturing to connect a larger area of an oil and gas deposit to a single well