Industry Careers

Thinking about a career in the oil and natural gas industry?
Thinking about a career in the oil and natural gas industry? Whether you have a high school diploma, possess a college degree or are in the middle of a career transition, America’s oil and natural gas industry needs you. There is no better time to join an America’s oil and natural gas industry than right now. Increasing demand for energy and current employees nearing retirement has created an unprecedented opportunity. One out of four current engineers, geoscientists, multi-skilled maintenance professionals, process and production operators, and health and safety professionals are eligible for retirement by 2009. There are many opportunities to advance to other exciting, challenging, and responsible positions. America’s oil and natural gas industry needs your skills, your spirit, and your commitment to meet America’s demand for energy.

Women of the Oil and Gas Industry
Women of the oil and natural gas industry took their message to Capitol Hill this week when API hosted the inaugural fly-in of the Women in Oil and Natural Gas group in Washington, D.C. During their two days on the Hill, these women shared with senators, representatives and senior staffers their concerns about legislation now being debated that would affect their jobs, their families and their communities.

Returning Veterans
America’s oil and natural gas industry has great opportunities for returning veterans. Companies have an immediate need for entry-level and experienced workers such as welders, engineers, technicians, geologists, electricians, and many other professionals. Please visit http://www.veteranstoenergy.org/ and begin your search for the perfect job and transition into an exciting career in America's oil and natural gas industry.

High Schools and College
API provides information to inform high school and college students about the tremendous opportunities in the oil and natural gas industry, particularly for students with a two and four-year degrees. The oil and natural gas industry will experience significant change with the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation. America’s oil and gas industry is so concerned about attracting the best and the brightest that, in 2007, API partnered with Monster.com to reach out to students across the country through www.makingitcount.com/energyapi.

Oilfield Training Program
The API Oilfield Training Program is a unique educational partnership between America’s oil and natural gas industry and the Carville Job Corps Academy in Carville, Louisiana. The program trains students in the basics of the oil and natural gas industry and prepares them for entry-level positions.

Rockies Energy Workforce
The Rockies Energy Workforce Collaborative - a task force that meets quarterly to identify and link common interests and goals of the energy industry, education, workforce systems, and business/economic development and collectively generate deliverables to support workforce needs in the Rocky Mountain West.

Industry Careers Research
API publishes research on important workforce issues and trends. In 2005, API published a study to identify certain positions which employers anticipated demand would exceed supply. The eight positions were petroleum engineering, geosciences and geophysics, engineering analysts, multi-skilled maintenance crafts, geoscience analysts, process/ production operators, and mechanical engineering.