If you go back to the old 'Beverly Hillbillies' show, you dig a hole in the ground and oil pops up. Those days are gone. We recruit as many as we can possibly handle. |
Students, for about 20 years, chose other fields to study. [This] left a hole in the industry of about two decades. |
The average age of petroleum engineers is 49. It won't be very long until all our engineers, geologists and tech people are ready to retire. |
The oil and natural gas we're exploring for and producing today is a lot harder to get at than oil and natural gas was 20 years ago. That takes pretty smart people and pretty high technology. |
We [recruit at] about 20 campuses in North America. |
We recruit as many as we can possibly handle. |