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The Battalion
Friday, October 13,1S|
Oil industry snatching grads
Petroleum engineering students in high demand
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By Holly Becka
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Of The Battalion Staff
Those who have just entered the
petroleum engineering field can
look forward to more job offers
when they graduate because of im
provements within the petroleum in
dustry.
Thirty-six of 39 spring graduates
with petroleum engineering degrees
had jobs when they walked across
the stage to receive their diplomas,
said Dr. Doug Von Gonten, head of
the petroleum engineering depart
ment.
“In the last three or four years
prior to this, the number (of grad
uates with jobs) has been in about
the 50-percent range,” Von Gonten
said. “So this is a considerable im
provement over what it has been.
“It appears that with the econom
ics of the petroleum industry defi
nitely improving, the job situation is
going to get better for petroleum en
gineering graduates.
“Each graduate will have a job of
fer before he graduates and a num
ber of graduates will have multiple
job offers,” Von Gonten said.
Von Gonten said stability within
the petroleum market accounts for
the increase in job offers.
“The stability with the price of oil
has put oil companies in positions
where they can make plans for the
future and in making those plans,
obviously they need people,” he said.
“That is what has stabilized the job
situtation.
“Also, most people feel the price
of gas is probably going to be in
creasing within the next year or so,
which is going to create additional
activity with the petroleum compa
nies in the area of natural gas.
They’re starting to drill a number of
additional gas wells these days,
continued.
He said the number of petroleum
engineering majors has decreased
significantly over the past five years
and still is low compared to what it
was before the recession.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
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Von Gonten, however, said
number of jobs is increasing.
Enrollment in the petroleum en
gineering department’s bachelor of
science program was at its highest in
1982, according to department re
cords.
Enrollment dropped significant!
gmticantly
decline af
ter that and has been at a low since.
A&M’s total number of students
seeking B.S. degrees in petroleum
engineering during the past nine
years, however, is similar to national
enrollment figures.
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Although the number of those en
rolled in A&M’s petroleum engi
neering department has decreased
in past years, the number of women
has stayed relatively the same during
the last five years, Von Gonten said.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
TAMU B.S. ENROLLMENT
2000
ENROLLMENT
During 1988 to 1989, the depart
ment had 12 percent minority, 15
percent women and six percent for
eign students enrolled in the bache
lor’s program.
Von Gonten said he is confident
more students will enroll in the de
partment in upcoming years.
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1000 -
The starting salary for petroleum
engineering graduates is still the
highest of any graduates on campus,
he said.
The average beginning yearly sal
ary for a petroleum engineer is
about $34,000.
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Letter claims superiors lied about nuke plant
DALLAS (AP) — Federal regulators have ac
cused their bosses of manipulating reports to cre
ate the “false impression” the Comanche Peak
nuclear plant is almost ready to load nuclear fuel.
Some Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspec
tors allege in an unsigned letter that a pending
NRG report of the 13 months before Aug. 31
gives the misimpression that plant owner Texas
Utilities performed well during the period.
The twin-reactor power plant near Glen Rose
won’t be ready for at least six months, the inspec
tors say.
The allegations were sent in a two-page mem
orandum to the NRG chairman on Oct. 4. The
memo was released Wednesday.
David Fiorelli, a spokesman for TU Electric,
said the utility believes that the plant isn’t yet re
ady to load fuel but that it is making progress.
The memo criticizes the Sept. 19 vote of NRG
managers who gave the plant a passing grade of
“2” in a report considered to be one of several in
dicators that NRG managers will use to decide
whether the facility is ready to load fuel.
A “3” on the three-step report would indicate
serious problems and require increased utility
and NRC management attention. A “1” is consid
ered excellent.
The “2” rating the plant received is “neither
accurate nor complete” and was the product of
“manipulation and the exclusion of factual infor
mation,” according to the memo.
The memo also charges that five of the 10
NRC managers didn’t nave direct knowledge
about Comanche Peak. The managers who were
most familiar with the plant had no vote,
memo says.
Upper-level NRC managers requested am
vestigation by the inspector general’s office alt
they received the memo. A routine NRC oi
tional readiness review is scheduled to t
Monday.
The top NRC supervisor at the Comanc
Peak site said he was surprised and discourap
by the memo
“Nobody hesitates to say negative things,at
nobody hesitates to say some things different
said Robert Warnick. “It’s been a very open,gin ff lcer
and-take atmosphere. So when I see thisraei
say, ‘Gee, things just don’t add up/SoInu:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Here
is how Texans voted in the 371-
43 roll call Thursday by which the
House approved a statuatory ban
on burning and defacing the
American flag.
A “yes” vote is a vote to ban
flag-burning by statute.
Voting yes were 217 Demo
crats and 154 Republicans.
Voting no were 25 Democrats
and 18 Republicans.
X denotes those not voting.
There are two vacancies in the
435-member House.
Texas Democrats — Andrews,
Y; Brooks, Y; Bryant, X; Busta
mante, Y; Chapman, Y; Cole
man, Y; de la Garza, Y; Frost, Y;
Geren, Y; Gonzalez, Y; Hall, Y;
Laughlin, Y; Leath, Y; Ortiz, Y;
Pickle, Y; Sarpalius, Y; Stenholm,
Y; Wilson, Y.
Texas Republicans — Archer,
Y; Armey, Y; Bartlett, Y; Barton,
Y; Combest, Y; DeLay, Y; Fields,
Y; Smith, Y.
Top 3 USA Today academic teams
will be featured in national paper
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By Julie Myers
Of The Battalion Staff
the nomination torm and having a dean sign it. Inal:
tion, students must include at least one, but nol
Applications for the Today ALL-USA Academic
Team are now available from the College of Liberal
Arts.
than three, letters of recommendation from facii estify
members who are familiar with the student’s individi
academic endeavor.
Students selected to the first, second and third teams,
strictly honorary in nature, will be featured in a USA
Today special section planned for mid-January. No
contest occurs between the teams once chosen. The 20
first-team members will be invited to receive their
awards at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Academic Team coordinator Carol Skalski said:
ulty recommendations and student essays are crititai
the nomination. The student essay should demonsK
the personal significance of the individual academics Vednes
deavor such as a research or science project.
Although any full-time undergraduate is eligible for
consideration, nominees will be judged on outstanding
individual academic endeavor, grade point average,
community/campus activities and leadership roles
therein, awards, honors and demonstrations of initia
tive.
Students may nominate themselves by completing
Criteria for the team were developed by USA M
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