Keith Moon, Safety International Inc.
The petroleum industry today is faced with an acute shortage of technical personnel. If this trend continues, the industry will suffer economically as well as technologically. The United States" petroleum industry has always been a leader in the world in technological achievements and in all facets of oil and gas drilling and production techniques. Oil, gas and service company personnel have traveled the world over aiding many countries in their oil and gas development. Without this technological aid of engineers and service company personnel, our nation and many other countries would not have advanced as rapidly in the industrialized world we live in. This paper is directed toward a major problem which faces the petroleum industry, this being a shortage of technical people to supply this industries critical need.