Here the GEP-AFTP introduces you to all of the professions in the oil and gas sector. This section gives details of the different job categories. New items will be added regularly to this section.

Geologist

The geologist’s job consists of scrupulously observing, searching for and noting signs that could suggest that the sub-soil contains hydrocarbons. This is a field operator and natural scientist…

Driller

Geologists and geophysicists have detected the existence of a “prospect”, a potential deposit. To confirm if there are hydrocarbons trapped in the rock, the driller has to drill a well to reach it…

Upstream production operator

Oil and gas deposits are extracted by means of production and storage facilities situated at sea or on land, run by operating personnel as soon as they are installed…

Geophysicist

A geophysicist studies the physical properties of the sub-soil. Several methods are used for this, the collation of which will add to the work of the geologist…

Useful links / Job offers

This section points to web sites of universities specialising in courses for the oil sector…