Why did you leave the lucrative field of oil & gas/petroleum engineering to work in real estate?
Just curious.....I’ve been dying to get back in ever since I quit my landman job.
“Why did you leave the lucrative field of oil & gas/petroleum engineering to work in real estate?
Just curious.....I’ve been dying to get back in ever since I quit my landman job.”
I left oil exploration and production engineering (Signal Oil & Gas. Co.) for the energy engineering and construction business (Fluor). I’m a business/finace major, not engineer.
I left that when that company underwent tough times; got into real estate, and have stayed since.
Both industries are cyclical. It is near impossible to craft solid business plans when oil swings from $150 to $50 per barrel in six months time.
Obama plans to make policy aimed at higher energy prices.
Landman is sort of like oilfield real estate, right? Buy, lease, royalties, etc?
I’m a little advanced to start from scratch, but the idea of getting back into energy is attractive. Yesterday I met a PhD, who recently retired from the National Renewable Energy Labs at Golden CO.
He is 67 and working for a Solar Panel company. He said Bush did more for solar than anybody gives him credit for. Maybe for Pickens?