Petroleum Engineering Internships for 2011

FuGeeS
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:58:50 +0000

petroleum23 - I am honestly surprised as well. Without going into the details of which school is ranked higher than the other, I am just surprised that many people in your school are finding it difficult to get a job in the oil industry when oil prices are relatively high and also have been stable for a long time. But as klparker312 mentioned, maybe many recruiters come to us because we’re in the Permian Basin, where 20% of the US oil production comes from, and where more than 65% of Texas onshore oil production comes from.

I remember last semester we had more than 50 oil companies coming on campus. These included majors, independent, private and service companies. Each one of them was at least hiring 2 or 3 interns (some of them hired up to 5 interns).