Being a production engineer becomes fun and important: With fewer wells being drilled, production engineers will be the heroes of the future

摘要

A few months ago, I was visiting with a group of operator customers at their office in the Northeast US. A young production engineer met me at reception, and we chatted as we made our way to the conference room where our meeting was taking place. I asked him how he liked his job, to which he replied, "I like the company a lot, but I'm trying to get transferred over to drilling."