Field Engineering Career Progression

I hope and pray to land a job when I graduate in May 2018. Currently I am actively seeking job with service companies, like Halliburton, Weatherford, FTS International, etc. Most of the service companies have great training program for recent graduates. With service companies, recent graduates start as field engineers. A field engineer is very hands on position. Field engineers are expected to work 84 to 100+ hours a week in not so ideal, outdoor condition. While some of my peers are deterred by the long hours, hard work and not so great pay, it doesn’t bother me at all. I believe as a field engineer I can learn a lot in a little time because of the hands on nature of the work. I see a lot more opportunity to learn, the more time I spend in the field. That’s also a big factor for me for choosing my location. If I get to pick my location, I would choose Permian basin, simply because that’s where all the activates are. The opportunity of learning and progressing is limitless around that region with the amount of oil and gas activities going on in that region. …show more content…
Fracking the change, the oil and gas production dramatically and put U.S oil and gas production in world map. According to CNN Money, “U.S. Fracking now accounts for more than half of all U.S. oil output, according to the Energy Information Administration. It's a stunning feat considering fracking made up less than 2% of American oil production in 2000 (Egan)”. To put it to prospective, “back in 2000, there were just 23,000 fracking wells pumping about 102,000 barrels of oil a day. Now there are 300,000 fracking wells, churning out 4.3 million barrels per day