Petroleum Engineering Quotes

Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer.

When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.

I didn't understand anything about fracking or horizontal drilling until about 2010, when I first learned about the Eagle Ford.

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.

A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

I wanted to study to be a petroleum engineer and get my engineering degree and fight in the UFC at the same time. But unfortunately, to be the best I can be at the UFC, I needed all focus to be there, and more focus, also.

This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.