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Your life, Your career, Your choice

Your life, Your career, Your choice. By Richard Hardman Geologist. What do you want from life? What are you prepared to put into life?. WANT and PUT INTO Happiness or Achievement? Can you have both? Or can you have one without the other? Couch potato or Hiper -driven?.

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Your life, Your career, Your choice

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  1. Your life, Your career,Your choice By Richard Hardman Geologist

  2. What do you want from life? What are you prepared to put into life?

  3. WANT and PUT INTO Happiness or Achievement? Can you have both? Or can you have one without the other? Couch potato or Hiper-driven?

  4. What do you need to be happy? • Food/shelter warmth= MONEY • Love • Self fulfilment/achievement • Fame • Money • Power

  5. Can a career in Earth Sciences give you what you want?

  6. Richard Hardman • Born Amlwch Wales on the Carmel Head Thrust and near the Parys Mountain copper mine • Studied Geology at Oxford on a whim • Joined BP in 1959 and worked Libya, Kuwait and Colombia • In 1969 started on North Sea Exploration with Amoco, Superior and then Amerada Hess to discover over 2 billion barrels oil • President of Geological Society 1996-1998 • CBE 1998 • Awarded William Smith Medal 2003

  7. Is it moral to explore for and produce oil and gas when the world is experiencing global warming from burning fossil fuels?

  8. Is it moral to explore for and produce oil and gas? To obtain the same energy as 1 litre of petrol from a watermill 70 tons of water would have to fall 10metres Food production relies on oil In 2000 nearly 20% OF ALL VALUE CREATED IN Britain was connected with North Sea oil and gas

  9. And slavery

  10. In Victorian England many children were little more than slaves

  11. Horse drawn ploughs in 1939 The difference oil makes! Today one man can farm 1500 acres thanks to oil powered tractors

  12. A favela in Rio de Janeiro Some of those most vulnerable to energy price increases. Cheap energy is transforming their lives

  13. Cheap Energy – Is the party over? (Or do fossil fuels still point to the future)

  14. Coal production peaked in Britain in 1913 Oil started to replace coal in 1930- a liquid easier to use than a solid. GDP tied to energy use!

  15. World Oil Production

  16. Why is the oil price so high today? Average oil price dollars per barrel since 1981 Oil price today $125 per barrel (1Barrel = 36gals)

  17. International Energy Agency – World Energy Supply Forecast until 2030 Note fossil fuels predominate- over 75% in 2030

  18. Oil and Gas Exploration and Production- An exciting well-rewarded job?

  19. Field work to understand the rocks. The best geologist – the one who has seen the most rocks!

  20. World Heritage geological section at Joggins, Nova Scotia where in 1844 Lyell found the earliest land snail

  21. A fossilised tree – there is a whole forest of them!

  22. USE/DEVELOP THE BEST SCIENCE

  23. Acquire seismic data to map the subsurface

  24. Map the subsurface using high speed computers and state-of-the-art computer programs

  25. Locate a well. It could be your choice. How are your nerves feeling now when your company spends millions on your say-so?

  26. Map made at the work station using seismic data

  27. The Erik Raude Deep-water Drilling rig – costs $500,000/day. Can you stand the strain of spending£20-100 million on a single well?

  28. A North Sea Production Platform- The Scott Field Development cost £1.4billion

  29. Fracturing a tight formation in a well

  30. The method to produce gas from shale- Lancashire could hold 200tcf according to Lord Browne

  31. Shale gas- a whole new world opens up

  32. Thousands of pounds per year Oil Geologists Doctors Start 10years 20years Illustrative average salary expectations

  33. Your Choice OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION But how long will the job last?

  34. In 2060 oil and gas are predicted to be 30% of the energy mix – only 20% less than today The future according to JD Edwards 1997 2010 2060

  35. What commitment must I make and for how long UNTIL PAY OFF?

  36. To become a successful Explorer? • Good A-levels (Maths, Physics, Biology and Chemistry ideal) • First degree in Geology or Earth Science • Post graduate qualification (in specialist subject such as Sedimentology, Geophysics or Petroleum Geoscience , law or MBA. • Work in oil and gas exploration – become one of the stars of the industry • Start to finish 20-25 years

  37. Can I become very rich? And if so how? What ‘s the downside?

  38. Can I become very rich? And if so how? Five Easy Steps Enter the industry and develop reputation for excellence Think of an unfashionable exploration province which could work Borrow money to set up a company and obtain concessions Find oil and or gas Sell the company and pocket your share

  39. Can I become very rich? And if so how? Start a company and find oil or gas and sell it to someone else. Cove Directors have become very rich.

  40. SUMMARY For an exciting well-paid job choose oil and gas exploration It will take +7 years to qualify (2 years Sixth form, 4 years undergraduate, 1-3 years post graduate) Good grades lead to a well paid job more than repaying the training years Your success will benefit all human kind

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