From liquid fuel engineer to petroleum engineer
17 of the 24 essential skills of a petroleum engineer are already essential for a liquid fuel engineer — about 71% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from liquid fuel engineer in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 17
- skills carry over
- 7
- would be new
- 71%
- of the target job covered
- 24
- essential skills of a petroleum engineer
What a petroleum engineer does
Petroleum engineers evaluate gas and oil fields. They design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from underneath the earth's surface. They maximise the recovery of hydrocarbon at a minimum cost, pursuing minimal impact on the environment.
What carries over
17 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- address problems critically
- chemistry
- design well flow systems
- determine flow rate enhancement
- interpret extraction data
- liaise with well test engineers
- manage fluid production in gas
- manage production fluid in oil production
- manage well interaction
- mathematics
- monitor extraction logging operations
- prepare extraction proposals
- prepare scientific reports
- report well results
- select well equipment
- troubleshoot
- well testing operations
What would be new
7 skillsEssential for a petroleum engineer and not for a liquid fuel engineer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
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