Types of Oil Field Jobs
Oil field jobs are some of the most lucrative paying jobs in any career field. Even the most simple jobs that need to be done around an oil field work environment pay well. This makes working in the oil field industry very enticing to people of all backgrounds.
Types of Oil Field Jobs Requiring No Experience
- While the most technical jobs in the oil field industry require various degrees and other experience, there are many jobs that people with no experience can work. In fact, some oil companies will help their newer workers who have had no other oil industry experience obtain schooling and other work experience so that they can further their careers.
- Offshore and onshore oil drilling practices need positions filled such as cooks, janitors, maintenance and others that usually require no sort of degree. If a person is truly interested in working in the oil field industry and has no experience, one of these types of positions may just be what they are looking for to get their foot in the industry door, so to speak.
- Some companies are looking for people who wish to be hired and go into fire and medical training classes in case of emergencies around drilling sites both offshore and onshore.
Types of Oil Field Jobs Requiring Degrees or Experience
- Oil field industry work requires educated people of all types. For instance, individuals are needed to work the business and financial end of the oil field industry just as much as individuals are needed to work the more labor oriented jobs in this field. Of course, most of the business and financial oriented jobs associated with oil field work will require at least a bachelor's or associate's degree in business or accounting.
- Many of the jobs that revolve around working the large machinery used to drill into the earth require degrees or experience as well as the jobs that revolve around designing those types of machinery.
- Other degree and experience requiring oil field industry jobs are as follows: seismic exploration and geological data collection, petroleum refinement and engineering, and oil and gas pipeline construction and maintenance.