Thursday, April 16, 2015

Petroleum Geologist Help Energize Our World

Another field that geologist play a very huge role in is the development of natural resources. For oil and natural gas these type of geologist are called petroleum geologist. Just like I explained earlier in one of my previous post a petroleum geologist works closely with petroleum engineers. The petroleum geologist explores for oil and natural gas reserves. Then they analysis with the engineers if these reserves are large enough to be economical for drilling. If so they work closely with the three stages of a petroleum engineer. The four different types of petroleum engineers include are drilling engineering, reservoir engineer, production engineer, and completion engineer. All of them work together on developing an economical plan on how to access the oil and natural gas reserves. Petroleum geologist are extremely important in today’s world. With the demand for energy on the rise in many different countries. With China and India becoming a huge part of the global energy demand. It’s important to have petroleum geologist find the resources and help the petroleum engineers and other specialist to develop these resources with minimum environmental impact as much as possible. I find that petroleum geologist are extremely crucial on finding these vital resources because mostly everything in society right now runs mainly on oil or natural gas. While we move our planet to a green energy global economy it is extremely important to have oil and natural gas still be a part of the big energy picture. To find out more about a petroleum geologist and petroleum engineer visit the Bureau of Statistics website. One nice thing I find about geology is how the geologist finds these resources, figures out ways to extract them with other experts, and most of all restore and protect the environment. This is why I find so may fields in geology to be so very fascinating. 

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