Essays on Petroleum Engineering

Nowadays, as the world continues to embark in the transitioning from the industrial era to the information era, more and more fields of practice and study have emerged to address the different needs of the society. One of the fields that has definitely established its importance in society, is the field of Engineering. Upon hearing the word “Engineering”, it cannot be denied that one of the most common ideas and perceptions that come to mind, is that they are responsible for building things. However, it is important for people to recognize that Engineering is one unique field for it ...

- Academic goal: Improve my mathematics, geology, physics, and chemistry scores in order to apply for a petroleum engineering course in my top three universities by May I have done my research on the current international job markets and realized that, there is an increasing need for the petroleum engineers in the extraction and other processes in oil drilling. Coupled with my interest in engineering, I have learnt that I need to develop my mathematics, geology, physics, and chemistry grades as well as improve my GPA to at 3.7 in order to successfully apply for the petroleum engineering in ...

Selecting a career is one of the challenges that students face, especially when they are joining higher learning institutions. The choice of a career usually poses a challenge to the learners. Students are always looking for the careers that will satisfy their professional needs as well as offer them jobs that pay them well. According to parents, one of the reasons for taking their children to school is ensuring that these children give back to the society. Some of the factors to consider when choosing a career include passion for the career, the capacity or ability to cope with the chosen career, creativity ...

Introduction

Petroleum is a field of engineering that is deals with activities that are related to hydrocarbon production. The gist of petroleum engineering is the production and the exploration of crude oil; it places a lot of attention on the recoverable volume of the resources to understand the physical behavior of oil, gas and water. The profession of petroleum engineering started in the year 1914 and the first degree in the field was conferred by University of Pittsburgh in 1915. Since its inception, the degree has undergone evolution. The profession has been enhanced probability analysis, application of statistics and the emergence of ...

I am currently serving my country in the Horn of Africa. In 2007, I graduated from Langham Creek High School. Unfortunately, I graduated at the bottom of my class because I never took school seriously and was not planning to go to college. It took several years for me to realize that I was, actually, wrong. I started to work full time early in my life, since my parents have left my brothers and me soon after I graduated. My only aim during that time was to work 40-plus hours a week to put a better roof over our head and ...

I am SONAGNON A. DABLI from Benin (West Africa) and now I live in New York. I am a transfer student at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM. Right now I would like to pursue graduate study from this institution in Petroleum Engineering. When I was undergraduate student in Civil Engineering, I got opportunity to work as intern in two good organizations. During one of my summer internship I got exposure in petroleum industry. At that time I worked on a gas station in a construction project and since then a strong interest was developed in me to pursue my ...

Introduction

As a field of engineering, petroleum engineering puts much emphasis on production of hydrocarbons in form of either natural gas or crude oil. Production and exploration of these hydrocarbons is a difficult task which presents various challenges to the technologists. To handle this problem, a number of tools and softwares have been created o ensure the task is easy. Although there are many softwares that are used in this industry, some of them are more basic. These may include the ArcGIS, Goggle Earth, he Petra, excel and PHDWin. This paper discusses these softwares and the role they play in the petroleum engineering ...

Personal Statement

It is always normal for parents to tell their children what they them to become when they grow up and my parents were not different. My father was particularly determined to see me become an engineer. At first he was reluctant to tell anyone why he really wanted me to pursue a career in engineering. For most of us, including my mother, we were opinionative that probably it was due to the stipendiary nature of the engineering profession but as it would later turn out, his stance had nothing to do with the high paying nature of the profession, but ...

I have nursed a key interest in engineering since my earlier days as a juvenile. As an apprentice of my father, a petroleum engineer, I was fascinated by his exposes on advances in technology, especially in the petroleum engineering field. When narrating his stories, he would always attach a societal perspective to the many inventions and innovations he told of. According to him, advancements in technology were solutions to problems that dogged the society. He painted engineers as supremely endearing people who had the interests of the society at heart. As a curious child growing up, I was consumed with the notion of making ...