Oil Comp Engr
38 Years Experience
Houston, TX
Female, 60
I recently retired from a major integrated oil company after 38 years. I have degrees in Civil and Petroleum Engineering. I worked with safety, health and environmental management systems and operations in the upstream (finding and producing oil and gas) and downstream (refining, chemicals and distributions) areas. I travelled all over world, enduring good & bad business cycles and good and bad managers.
It depends on where you live. In the United States, the entry level salary for a petroleum engineer is nearly $100,000 per year. It is one of the highest salaries for an engineering degree and provides quite a comfortable living - enough to save for a house, drive a nice car and have a good budget for entertainment and travel.
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Sorry but without a photo it’s going to be a bit too tough for me to answer. Generally, one can just pump the oil out of the tank with a traditional commercial pump. I’m not familiar with anything more specialized than that.
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You can get a degree in petroleum engineering if offered by your university. It is not a “ standard “ option however at many universities. There are probably about 20 or 30 universities in the USA that offer this degree. Most practicing petroleum engineers with other degrees are mechanical or chemical engineers with a few civil and electrical engineers out there. I have answered many similar questions on the pros and cons of majoring in petroleum engineering so I suggest you read through some of my earlier posts on this website.
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Your best chance with that degree is gong to be one of the larger oil companies or a consulting engineering company. There is not a ton of environmental work relative to the main petroleum engineering work., but it is there. The large oil companies tend to do large projects in frontier areas which require detailed environmental studies. The small oil companies don’t tend to have much, if any, environmental staff because they do smaller projects and stuck to developed areas. (They don’t have the capital budgets to do the billion dollar projects). They either outsource the work or rely on their experienced engineers to do the environmental work.
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suggest you go back and read my earlier posts as I have answered most of your questions. Regarding salary, your best bet is to be a US or Canadian citizen and get hired for an overseas assignment in Africa or the Middle East. The expat salaries and benefits are great but it is a hardship assignment. If you are not a US citizen it will be hard to get a job in the USA because most companies don’t sponsor you for a work permit
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The demand really depends on where you live and whether you are willing to locate. In general, however, CAD drafting is generally in pretty good demand. You might consider starting with that and looking for a company that would reimburse your tuition to pursue an engineering degree part time at night. If you live in a large city (NYC, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, LA) you should be able to find an engineering school that has night classes. With your background, I would look into mechanical engineering. Another great fit, if available is safety engineering / aka Process Safety aka Fire Safety engineering. Having background as a firefighter is EXTREMELY valuable in my opinion because you know how things work and how bad things can get during an emergency. You could really boost your earning potential with an engineering degree. I wouldn't worry at all about mobility. There is a ton of engineering design work that doesn't require mobility. I have several colleagues at work who are in wheelchairs.
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It's not quite that simple but if there is an oil and gas processing site that is flaring gas that has H2S in it, there is a hazard if the flare goes out. However, a properly designed system has an alarm that immediately alerts the operator if the flare goes out and should be set up to shut in the wells to avoid allowing uncombusted natural gas and H2S to exit the flare for an extended period of time. Also, there should be an H2S detector at the site that would either sound an alarm or display flashing lights to warn those in the area that H2S has been detected. This would allow the operators to don breathing gear before entering the site to address the situation.
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