Oil and gas is heading out soon, sorry boi’s I’m a petrolhead but all electric future is upon us

I don't think electric future is near as close as some think.

My Wife has an Art History degree. She says 'My basic rate is $250.00 an hour and I'll need a retainer of $10,000.00 to take your case'.

If this was true, and it's not, how do you figure all that electricity would be generated?

cyber security engineering, software engineering and computer engineering would be some of the top choices if I was going back to school, or my kids or grandkids (if their math skills were top notch)

I get it, techy jobs are the future. The problem is you have to stare at a computer all day. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, much less my kids/grandkids.

If you knew what our robotic, AI and automation is currently capable of... you would rethink that.

Military and medical are perfect example.

In the future we will depend on nuclear power. Nuclear chemist will be a decent paying job.

Anyone that thinks fossil fuels are going away is kidding themselves. It makes the world go round and round.

They aren’t going away but the process is become less human labor intensive.

I am hoping what my daughter is majoring in; Business and Marketing with a minor in Communications

Meteorologist. They only have to be right 50% of the time.

Actually my wife was a teacher and she put in more hours a week than I did for about 1/2 the pay. She left about the same time I did in the morning and if we did not have a turnaround or a major problem I would get home an hour or two before and have dinner cooked when she got home. She usually brought home two to three hours of papers to grade or worked making lessons for her and the other teachers. She went to the school on Saturday and Sunday to work with other teachers to build "Centers" and "Work Stations" and do the lesson plans for the week. It did pay an extra stipend which helped out on her retirement calculation. My base salary before overtime and bonuses was higher than my electrical engineer son. That said I had numerous years with 500 to 900 hours of overtime which was used to pay off the house and save for college. We were debt free by the time I was 46 so we both maxed out our 401K's and put the rest into CD's, school bonds and other investments. Moved from the CD's when the bottom fell out.

Do you mean Tridium “AX” programming? That is a HVAC/BMS control programming platform for the Niagara Frameworks and there are thousands of open opportunities for 6 figure jobs in that field. Knowing Java helps but you really don’t even have to know how to write any code. I have done Tridium R2, AX and N4 for 18 years. Building automation programming is a desperately understaffed occupation.

Most likely Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP platform, but yes automation is a where it’s at, whole departs have been automated out.

Lots of truth to that....most engineers I know retired early or are on the way.

I thought the other guy was talking about electric cars. That is what I was referring to at lest. I still think we are a long ways out on that. Also petroleum products are used to make so much more that we use every day, not just fuel.

No it isn't. We are hiring more people now than 20 years ago.

The fossil fuel companies have invested billions in renewable energy, just in case...to satisfy their stakeholders, which i am part of it.

Pure barrel produced, you aren’t, even when you add new additional production crews like fracing. Hess, Chevron and Hailburton etc are spending millions on automation and equipment to limit employees. Employees are the number one liability. Think what you want. Drilling etc is about to be all AI

We literally have three times the workforce we had in 1997 when we started this cracker up. We make about 30% more product now than we did then. Each new cracker that comes online has more and more technology and still requires more manpower than 20 or 30 years ago. O&G doesn't end at the well head.

I understand that, again per “barrel” produced you are less overall man power now then ever before, it’s going to continue to be less. Same way in ever industry,

Maybe my math skills are week but a 300% increase in manpower and a 30% increase in production leads me to believe we have more employees per "barrel" produced.

Per Texas rail road commission
Crude Oil Production (Mbbl)

2018 1,274,569
2000- 398,678

30% increase increase in production? That’s 400%

You have to go back to the 70’s to match today’s production.

Anyway production and down stream are investing a lot of money to limit human liabilities.

I am from Dallas and did not have any connections to this company whatsoever. I went a carrier fair, hit it off with one of the recruiters, and now I’m working in Rogers, AR. I do agree connections are a great thing, but I wanted to learn the whole thing on my own. Didn’t want anything “handed” to me.