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The Future Need for Petroleum Geoscientists

Presented by Don W. Lewis
to the AAPG House of Delegates, March 10, 2002

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Will the Gap Be Filled?

The geoscientist demand/year is taken from the previous slide with the additional assumption that 2/3 of U.S. petroleum geoscientists belong to the AAPG or SEG, i.e., the gap is 50 % larger than that based on members only. The number of Earth Science graduates entering the industry is taken from two different 1999 studies which had different criteria but which show that the number hired by the industry was roughly the same as the predicted need for the coming years. So, yes, there likely will be enough graduates to fill the gap. This slide is for the U.S. only. Not enough is known about non-U.S. non-membership or graduate numbers to make more than a rough guess at the worldwide gap (see second "Will There Be Jobs?" slide).