There are several different areas in the oil and natural gas industry. The industry itself can be broken up into three separate sections; upstream, midstream and downstream. Within each of those sections there are a multitude of jobs unique to that piece.
The upstream sector is the part of the industry that searches for, collects and then sells the oil or natural gas. There are plenty of jobs for scientists who test soil content, jobs for people who create the machines that dig and lay pipe, there are jobs for the people that build the equipment and there are jobs for people who sell the oil to the midstream market.
The midstream sector of the oil industry deals with processing the oil and natural gas, the storage of the resources and the transportation of materials. This sector involves a variety of jobs such as the processing of mass amounts of information, shippers who will physically ship materials. The shipping of these materials can involve anything from physical ships to truckers as well as via pipelines.
The downstream sector is the part of the industry that refines oil and natural gas and then sells it directly to consumers. This sector employs technicians who work in the refinery process, marketers who target the consumers, as well as a large number of franchised gas stations.
The energy industry is massive and it requires a huge range of workers with a variety of skills. There is not only a wide variety of workers there is also an enormously large workforce behind the energy industry alone. From the managers to the truckers every job in this industry is necessary for it to function properly.
-Tom Langevin
Azelton, Aaron. Fisher Investments on Energy. Hoboken New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Non-Fiction.
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