What is a petroleum engineer?

A petroleum engineer is the person who has the capaties to do jobs about the
exploration, extraction, and production of oil, with the application of knowlogedes
about differentes topics like geology, topography, and other ones.

It also increasingly deals with the production of natural gas, not only petroleum, and
this kind of engineering lets work in this area too.

A petroleum engineer (also known as a gas engineer) determines the most efficient
way to drill and extract oil and natural gas at a well.

They have to oversee drilling operations and resolve any operating problems,
because they are capacited to decide how to stimulate an well in difficult conditions
and continuing to finish the job in the well.

They develop new drilling tools and techniques, and find new ways to extract
remaining oil and gas from older wells, because many wells, have oil rest and we
are in the necesity of researching how explot the must minimun resource.

What does a petroleum engineer do?

Petroleum engineers evaluate oil and gas reservoirs to determine their

profitability. They examine the geology of future drilling sites to plan the safest and
most efficient method of drilling and recovering oil. They manage the installation,
maintenance, and operation of equipment. They also manage the completion of
wells. During production they monitor yield and develop modifications and
stimulation programs to enhance it. They're also responsible for solving operational
problems that may arise.

Since current extraction techniques only recover part of the available oil or
gas in a reservoir, petroleum engineers also develop new drilling and extraction
methods.
 Petroleum engineers usually specialize in a particular aspect of drilling
operations. For example, reservoir engineers determine the best way to recover the
most oil or gas from a particular deposit, and estimate how much that will be. Drilling
engineers figure out the best way to drill a particular well so that it's economically
efficient and safe for people and the environment. Completions engineers decide the
best way to finish building a well so that the oil or gas flows upwards from the ground.
Production engineers monitor production and figure out how to coax more out of an
under-producing well.

Petroleum engineers are vital to today's economies. They make the drilling
process safer for people, communities, wildlife, and the environment. They also
make it more efficient, and prices more affordable for customers. They ensure
compliance with best practices, industry standards, and environmental and safety
regulations, and contribute to energy independence.

its impossible to ignore the fact that the petroleum cannot be substituted for
other kind of alternative energy in just 10 or 15 years, because daily the world has
more wells and more production and more technology that the petroleum engineers
need to keep working and developing ways to take advantge all products derivated