Paper: The Petroleum Paratechnologist and Untapped Reservoir For The Petroleum Industry

The most efficient use of the skills of a petroleum engineer allow him to devote the majority of his time and talents to analysis and interpretation of data, multidisciplinary activities such as economic evaluations, creative and research-level thinking. A petroleum engineer's skills may be used more efficiently if he is not required to perform mechanical or data-gathering tasks. Petroleum paratechnologists can absorb most of the mechanical, data gathering, field interpretation and analysis tasks for petroleum engineers. The two (2) year Junior College Petroleum Technology training program yields skills to accomplish these tasks.