Journal Entry: Becoming a Drilling Engineer in the Oil and Gas Industry

This journal entry discusses the career path of becoming a drilling engineer in the oil and gas industry. It covers the qualifications and skills required for this job, as well as the job prospects and opportunities. The entry also mentions the Total S.A. company as a potential employer. The author also discusses the STAR method for job interviews and provides a sample CV for a drilling engineer. References and appendices are included.

Journal Entry

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Table of Contents
Journal Entry 1............................................................................................................................................2
Journal entry 2.............................................................................................................................................3
Journal entry 3.............................................................................................................................................4
References...................................................................................................................................................6
Appendices..................................................................................................................................................7

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Journal Entry 1
After doing proper research the job suitable for me after completing BSc in Oil and Gas
Management is to become a drilling engineer. A drilling engineer is one that plans, develop,
costs as well as supervise the functional operations that are necessary for drilling the oil and gas
wells (Jones, Lieberknecht and Qiu, 2016). The drilling engineer is also involved in the well
designed for completion, testing, and abandonment (Thompson, 2017). For this job, the
company that should be chosen will be based Oil and Gas Company, and therefore the company
selected by me is the Total S.A. of France. This company is a multinational oil and gas company
of France and consider to be one of the seven “supermajor” oil and gas firm in the world
(Ramazani and Jergeas, 2015). The main reason for choosing this company is that the business
covers all the entire gas and oil chain including natural gas exploration and crude oil to power
generation, petroleum, and refining (Shuen, Feiler and Teece, 2014). Therefore the presence of
all sector will thereby help me to be a drilling engineer in this chosen firm.
According to the author Halvorsen and Sarangi, (2015), to become a drilling engineer a student
has to earn some degree and thereby possess great skill in physics, chemistry, geology and math
and also a strong IT skill. Therefore, the professional qualification of becoming a drilling
engineer is to pass class 12 in science stream and then completed their Bachelor’s Degree in
engineering or management including Petroleum, mechanical, Civil or minerals engineering,
Chemical engineering, Oil and gas management and Petroleum Engineering (Raufflet, Cruz and
Bres, 2014). Among all these qualifications if the students can pass in a single qualification, then
they are eligible for drilling engineer (Ablo, 2015). Therefore after completing the BSc in Oil
and Gas management, drilling engineer is the excellent job that can gain help to achieve my
goals.
Both the CV and LinkedIn profile demonstrate my essential and desirable skills as in the CV I
have explained my educational qualifications, certificates and also my strengths of doing this
particular drilling engineer job. The CV explained that I had completed my BSc in Oil and Gas
management and I have done training in International Well control Forum, Well productivity and
Well design forum too. All these essential skills are regarded as my strengths that describe my
desirable and essential skills for choosing this job. In addition, all these skills are also described
in my LinkedIn profile where I have also demonstrated my experience as a former trainee in the

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Elf Aquitaine as a drilling engineer in the previous year. Hence it is quite evident that both my
CV and LinkedIn profile easily demonstrate the desirable and essential skills that should be
needed for the drilling engineer job.
Journal entry 2
After reviewing various articles, I came to know that the STAR method is a technique by which
a student can easily select for the respective job. The STAR method stands for Situation, Task,
Action, and Result and applying this technique help to provide a concise and clear response by
using real-life examples (Sharma, 2015). After studying the interview procedure, I have gained
that to become a drilling engineer in this repudiated firm of France I have to apply this STAR
method at the time of interview. During the interview process, all questions should be related to
the drilling procedure therefore for answering these questions I will use this method and give
examples from my past job experiences as a drilling engineer. For example, if the interview
conductor asked me about some difficulties that I have faced during my previous work, then I
will just give them the answer with certain examples. I will answer them the procedure by which
I have managed the situation such as I have helped the workers and provide them with a solution
by which they can easily overcome the challenges. Hence I can say that by using this technique I
can easily apply the STAR method and thereby can get the job in this selected Oil and Gas
Company of France.

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Journal entry 3
Answer a)

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Answer b)
Current Professional CV
Name: John Smith
Mail ID: [e-mail]
Phone Number: 0225978945
Career summary
Highly Knowledgeable and solution focused drilling engineer with a professional experience of 2
years on both offshore and onshore oil and gas field — expertise in planning and executing the
drilling operations to extract gas and oil from both land and water surface. Takes the initiative to
investigate and resolve difficult or complex issues takes place in the field.
Skills
 Proper training in operating drilling functions
 Well integrity, planning, design, drilling optimizations, and management skills
 The efficient team working skills with advising proper solutions to the workers regarding
any drilling-related issue
Proven performance areas
 Construction and project management
 Leadership and team building
 Problem-solving and progress monitoring

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References
Ablo, A.D., 2015. Local content and participation in Ghana's oil and gas industry: Can enterprise
development make a difference?. The Extractive Industries and Society, 2(2), pp.320-327.
Halvorsen, K. and Sarangi, S., 2015. Team decision-making in workplace meetings: The
interplay of activity roles and discourse roles. Journal of Pragmatics, 76, pp.1-14.
Jones, P.J., Lieberknecht, L.M. and Qiu, W., 2016. Marine spatial planning in reality:
Introduction to case studies and discussion of findings. Marine Policy, 71, pp.256-264.
Ramazani, J. and Jergeas, G., 2015. Project managers and the journey from good to great: The
benefits of investment in project management training and education. International Journal of
Project Management, 33(1), pp.41-52.
Raufflet, E., Cruz, L.B. and Bres, L., 2014. An assessment of corporate social responsibility
practices in the mining and oil and gas industries. Journal of Cleaner Production, 84, pp.256-
270.
Sharma, H.K., 2015. Role of ICT in Improving the Excellence of Education. International
Journal on Computer Science and Engineering, 7(8), p.78.
Shuen, A., Feiler, P.F., and Teece, D.J., 2014. Dynamic capabilities in the upstream oil and gas
sector: Managing next-generation competition. Energy Strategy Reviews, 3, pp.5-13.
Thompson, D.F., 2017. Designing responsibility: the problem of many hands in complex
organizations. Designing Ethics, pp.32-56.

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Appendices
Figure 3: Drilling procedures on underground water surfaces
(Source: Raufflet, Cruz and Bres, 2014)
Figure 4: Drilling procedure on the underground land surface

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(Source: Raufflet, Cruz and Bres, 2014)