1.   Petroleum engineers plan and manage the extraction of oil.

2.   As a petroleum engineer, Doug Harrison knew about tapping the Earth for natural resources.

3.   As a young man, L. Lowry Mays bet his future on oil, becoming a petroleum engineer.

4.   Companies could face a shortage of workers, particularly geologists, geophysicists and petroleum engineers, primarily because fewer college students are entering those fields, Burk said.

5.   Even Howell, a petroleum engineer turned boatman, said he has succumbed to the birding bug.

6.   For all the hard work that Janice Rego put into becoming a petroleum engineer, she is all but lost to the industry now.

7.   Janice Rego, a former petroleum engineer from Dubai in the Persian Gulf, left the industry to become a junior oil analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Manhattan.

8.   Just ask William Turner, a retired petroleum engineer.

9.   Oil companies need geophysicists, geologists and petroleum engineers to use that technology and interpret its complex data.

10.   The company plans to focus more on geologists and petroleum engineers, who are critical to the core business.