Petroleum Engineering

1. Make a new folder called Petroleum Engineering and put it in your student ID#

Make a 10 Frame Prezi file.

Frame 1:

1.  Make a title Frame with the title: Petroleum Engineering

2.  Put your name below the title: Your Name, Date

Frame 2:

Write one or two sentences defining Petroleum Engineering (Wikipedia):

1. Petroleum Engineering –

Frame 3:

Write a one sentence each defining the three main branches of Petroleum Engineering (Wikipedia):

1. Reservoir engineers -

2. Drilling engineers -

3. Production engineers -

Frame 4:

1.  Considered the birth of the oil industry and an event that changed the world, where was generally considered the first commercial oil well in United States drilled? (hint: it wasn’t in Texas) -

2.  When was it drilled? -

3.  Who drilled it? -

4.  How deep was it? -

5.  Show a picture of it.

Frame 5:

1.  The rise in the importance of petroleum was mostly due to the invention of what one machine? –

2.  Show a picture this device.

Frame 6:

1.  According to Wikipedia, what are the top 10 countries in the world with the largest oil reserves as of 2008?-

2.  Show a pie chart of the World Oil Reserves by Region (Wikipedia) -

Frame 7:

1. Where is the world’s deepest land based oil well? -

2. How deep is it? -

3. What company drilled it? –

Frame 8:

Old oil wells consisted of drilling a hole straight down underneath the drilling platform to get to the oil. As the oil became harder to get to, Petroleum engineers developed a new way to get oil that did not go straight down.

1. What was this new type of well drilling called? -

2. Show a picture of this new type of drilling.

Frame 9:

Howard Hughes Jr.’s (the developer of the airplane with the world’s largest wingspan, Spruce Goose) father, Howard Hughes Sr., developed one of the most important petroleum engineering inventions that the oil industry has ever known.

1.  What did he invent that wound up making his son very rich? –

2.  Show a picture of this invention.

Frame 10:

A company called Geophysical Service Incorporated developed machines that helped petroleum engineers find oil all over the world (Wikipedia).

1.  In 1951, the company was renamed. What is the current name of that company? –

2.  What product do they make that is in most high school math classes today? –

3.  Show a picture of this product.

Frame 11:

Show the median salary for a beginning Petroleum Engineer. Find it on Salary.com